THE FLORISTS' MANUAL. 



House of American Beauty Roses in Full Bearing. 



root and can be potted off and grown 

 on to be planted out in April or May. 

 Always remember that although these 

 roses are hardy any growth that is 

 made under glass is tender and will 

 not stand a frost, so they should not 

 go out till danger of frost is past. 

 This is the simplest and surest way 

 of propagating any of the deciduous 

 roses. 



Forcing Hybrid Perpetuals. 



Since the American Beauty has been 

 grown in such quantity there are much 

 fewer of the H. P. roses grown for 

 their flowers, but they are wanted in 

 pots, and such sorts as Jacqueminot, 

 Brunner, Magna Charta, Anna de 

 Diesbach and Mme. Gabriel Luizet 

 force well, and if properly prepared 

 make fine pot plants, or their blooms 

 can be cut. The fall importations of 

 these roses are not satisfactory for 

 this purpose. The long journey and 

 the length of time is a poor prepara- 

 tion for spring forcing, so strong 

 plants with good stems should be ob- 

 tained of our American nurserymen. 



The wood sliould be well ripened be- 

 fore lifting and they should be potted 

 as soon as possible and the stems cut 

 down to three good eyes on each stem. 

 The fewer shoots you have the finer 

 they will be, and the more you have 

 the poorer they will be. If the wood 



of these roses has been well ripened, 

 there is no good in letting hard frost 

 touch them again, but they should be 

 in a cold-frame till at least New Year's 

 and then removed to a house where it 

 is not over 40 degrees at night. They 

 will endure nothing like forcing for 

 the first six weeks after being brought 

 in. 



The idea is to begin as low as pos- 

 sible with fire heat and slowly increase, 

 which at flowering time, which may 

 be the 1st to 15th of April, they will 

 want 55 to 60 degrees at night. If you 

 don't want them as early as April then 

 leave them longer in the frame and 

 they will come on all the better. It 

 is useless to try and force these roses 

 too fast because they have no working 

 roots, but will make roots as top 

 growth develops. 



If you want any of these roses as 

 early as January you must use plants 

 that are in quite a different condition. 

 For those it is best to lift in the fall, 

 or purchase, and pot and treat as you 

 do those above described, only they 

 should be left out till March and then 

 brought in and started growing. They 

 should be encouraged to make a strong 

 healthy growth. Thin out the shoots 

 to four of five of the strongest. By 

 July they will have made some long 

 stout shoots which should not have 

 been cut off with the flowers; it would 



be better to pinch off the flowers and 

 let the strength go into wood. 



In July they can be placed outside 

 and plunged and mulched, but not over 

 watered or the eyes may break and 

 grow, and that is what you don't want. 

 By end of August lay them on their 

 sides so that they don't get the rain, 

 and endeavor to dry them off, but not 

 too rapidly or the wood will shrivel. 

 Till the first of October the best place 

 would be in a frame where you could 

 cover them in case of rains. After the 

 first frost or two there is no danger of 

 their buds starting. ., 



Now, these roses are in a fit state 

 to ibe forced at any time and could if 

 wanted be had in flower by the holi- 

 days. They will not want any shifting, 

 but as the growth starts and the roots 

 are feeding they can be mulched and 

 surfaced with loam and cow manure. 

 The forcing of these plants is much 

 easier than those lifted the same fall. 

 The pots are full of roots ready to 

 begin active growth directly the top 

 starts. It is not advisable to start 

 them too warm at first or you will get 

 a weak growth, but they are much 

 less liable to injury than the others. 



I did not mention it, but of course 

 when starting into heat you must 

 again shorten back the shoots to two 

 or three .stout eyes. These roses are 

 sometimes forced for several years. 



