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THE FLORISTS' MANUAL. 



between the suckers of the stock and 

 the rose. But when on their own roots 

 danger of that trouble is impossible. 



The so-called tree roses are not to 

 be recommended for our climate. They 

 are called standard roses in Great 

 Britain, and in that form countless 

 thousands are grown. Here they look 

 very charming the first season per- 

 haps, and perhaps the next, but the 

 third usually finishes them. They are 

 budded on the wild briar. The briar 

 stalks are collected from the hedge- 

 rows and thickets, and are sold to the 

 nurseryman tied up in bundles like an 

 English tourist transports his walking 

 sticks; and there is little more ap- 

 parent life about them than a bundle 

 of golf sticks, yet they grow, and on a 

 side shoot near the top the bud is 

 inserted the following June or July 

 and in another year they are sold. 

 But don't buy them if you live north 

 of Washington, D. C., unless you live 

 in the Northern Pacific States, where 

 many plants flourish that won't in our 

 eastern states. The dwarf or bush 

 roses are much better for us. 



After a rose is well established there 

 is not much use in strawing up the 

 tops (you need to cut them quite 

 severely every year if you want good 

 flowers), but four or five inches of 

 stable manure laid around the roots 

 is a great help to them, and it need 

 not be done till end of November. 



Among the Hybrid Perpetual roses 

 that do well on their own roots are: 



Gen. Jacqueminot, crimson; Ulrich 

 Brunner, deep pink; Mme. Laffay, red; 

 Alfred Colomb, cherry red; Anna 

 Alexieff, rose; Baron de Bonstettin, 

 very dark crimson; Clio, blush; Coun- 

 tess of Oxford, carmine; Duke of Ed- 

 inburgh, crimson maroon; John Hop- 

 per, bright rose; Mme. Gabriel Luizet, 

 fine pink; Marshall P. Wilder, cherry 

 rose; Mrs. Laxton, velvety red; Presi- 

 dent Thiers, large red; Roger Lambe- 

 lin, crimson, edges of petals white; 

 Sir Garnet Wolsley, bright red. There 

 are many other fine varieties but the 

 above list contains some splendid 

 sorts. 



Among the finest of those that do 

 better when budded on the Manetti or 

 Briar stocks are: Baroness Rothschild, 

 a beautiful light pink; Captain Christy, 

 flesh pink; Fisher Ho}mes, dark crim- 

 son; Mabel Morrison, fine white; Mar- 

 garet Dickson, white with pale pink 

 center; Marie Baumann, crimson; 

 Magna Charta, dark pink, very fine; 

 Paul Neyron, dark pink, immense size; 

 Prince Camille de Rohan, crimson 

 maroon. In this short list will be 

 found some of the finest roses in culti- 

 vation. 



Hybrid Perpetual roses can be pro- 

 pagated as follows, and this includes 

 the hardy climbers or any of the de- 

 ciduous kinds. When the current year's 

 growth is about in that condition that 

 the flower is fully developed it is called 

 about half ripe. This is usually about 

 middle of June. Prepare a frame in 



which you have trod in eighteen inches 

 or two feet of stable manure; in fact 

 make a mild hotbed with the slope 

 facing north. Put three inches of soil 

 on the manure and on that two inches 

 of sand, and insert your cuttings. Two 

 eyes are enough, one above and one 

 below the surface of the sand. Keep 

 the sand moist and as cool as possible 

 by shading, letting in only air enough 

 to prevent too much moisture. By 

 degrees they will endure more air, 

 and in three or four weeks will be well 

 rooted and; can be soon potted into 

 2 1-2 or 3-inch pots and stood in a cold- 

 frame, but they must be carefully 

 watered and shaded till they get hold 

 of the soil. These plants could be 

 planted out the following October, but 

 1 would prefer to keep them plunged 

 in a cold-frame and planted out the 

 following April, when they will make 

 fine plants. 



Another plan is by using the dor- 

 mant wood in the fall. Before very 

 hard frost, say middle of November. 

 cut off the well ripened growths of 

 the previous summer and cut them in- 

 to lengths of two> or three eyes. Tie 

 them in bunches of 25 or 50, and wrap 

 some moist sphagnum around the ends, 

 and store these bunches away in flats 

 under a bench in a cool house. In two 

 months the ends will be well calloused 

 and then they can be placed in a few 

 inches of sand that is a little warmer 

 than the house, and 50 degrees for the 

 house will do well. They will soon 



House pf Voting American Beauty Roses, 



