THE FLORISTS MANUAL. 



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View through a. Range of Connected Rose Houses, with Raised Benches. 



from the original type as any devia- 

 tion from nature in the vegetable 

 kingdom. Yet; a few of the original 

 species are in cultivation and are most 

 useful plants. 



Noisette Roses. 



These were much oftener seen in 

 our northern greenhouses thirty years 

 ago. Since the introduction of the 

 beautiful Tea varieties! little attention 

 is paid to them, but in the private 

 conservatory they are fine plants for 

 pillars and rafters. They are useless 

 to us outside but where they do not 

 get more than 15 degrees of frost they 

 must be grand plants^ as they are in 

 our southern) states. A well known 

 nurseryman, Mr. Smith, of Geneva, N. 

 Y., who knows what a rose is, and 

 does not talk wildly, as many tourists 

 do, told me that he believed Northern 

 Texas was the most favored locality 

 on this continent for the rose, and 

 that the Tea, Bourbon, and Noisette 

 classes grew there to the greatest per- 

 fection. 



The Noisette roses are easily propa- 

 gated by cuttings from the half ripened 

 wood at, any time tof year, either July 

 or January. They should be always 

 planted out in a well drained border, 

 for you don't get their real beauty 

 and worth till they are a few years 

 old. After making a strong growth 

 they should be rested by less water 

 and less syringing, and before starting 

 up again have the weak shoots cut off 

 and the side shoots of the leading 

 stems cut back to two or three eyes. 

 Winter, of course, would be the natural 

 time for them to rest, but by starting 



into growth early in spring and resting 

 in August and September you can get 

 flowers during winter. Keeping these 

 roses clean off aphis and red spider by 

 syringing is the principal care. 



Well known varieties of this class 

 are Marechal Niel, the magnificent 

 golden yellow rose; Solfaterre, a grand 

 sulphur yellow; Ophirie, a fine copper 

 yellow; Gloire de Dijon, a beautiful 

 creamy amber; and old La Marque, the 

 old white rose that came in clusters 

 with such luxuriant dark green foliage. 

 Where these beautiful plants will do 

 out of doors there are many fine vari- 

 eties. 



Moss Roses. 



Everyone is fond of a Moss rose. 

 There are now many fine varieties, 

 and being hardy they will thrive 

 wherever the Hybrid Perpetual class 

 will do well. For propagation refer to 

 the Hybrid Perpetuals. 



Lord Penzance's Sweet Briars. 



This is a new section, but they have 

 proved themselves the past winter per- 

 fectly hardy. They are as sweet scent- 

 ed as the old English Sweet Briar and 

 showy flowers. They are a great ad- 

 dition to our hardy flowering shrubs, 

 and will doubtless be much planted. 

 Like the H. P's, they can be propa- 

 gated from the half ripened wood in 

 sand, or from the matured wood in 

 autumn and winter. 



Rosa Rugosa. 



Rosa Rugosa is a distinct species 

 (from Japan) that is perfectly hardy. 

 They have thick wrinkled or curly 



foliage, very distinct, with large showy 

 single flowers of white and pink, and 

 are covered in the autumn with large 

 conspicuous red fruit. Immense masses 

 of these are now planted and they 

 make splendid low plantations to the 

 margins of taller shrubberies. Easily 

 propagated from young or matured 

 wood. 



Hardy Climbing Roses. 



While in the more temperate parts 

 of our country the Noisette roses can 

 be planted, we must confine ourselves 

 to the hardy varieties. They are too 

 well known to need any comment. 

 They, propagate easily, and when 

 planting them out they should be pro- 

 tected for the first few years or till 

 they get a good start. 



Some of the ibest of them are: Balti- 

 more Belle, blush white; Bennett's 

 Seedling, pure white; Gem of the 

 Prairies, rosy carmine; Dundee Ram- 

 bler, pure white; Allister Stella Gray, 

 orange; and several others. 



For this purpose too we have the 

 magnificent Ramblers, of which the 

 Crimson Rambler was the forerunner. 

 There are now yellow, pink and white 

 forms of it, and as hardy climbing 

 roses they are unequalled. 



The hardy climbers have a fine burst 

 of bloom in June, but do not flower 

 again that season. 



Wichuraiana Roses. 



This is a very new and distinct 

 strain, and produced by crossing the 

 Wichuraiana with many of our culti- 

 vated roses, including some of the well 

 known Teas. Some of them will take 



