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Gardening for Amateurs 



Rose Souvenir de Gustave Prat (Hybrid Tei 

 sulphur yellow. 



the above-mentioned procedure should be 

 adopted both there and in the Midlands and 

 in Scotland in due course, when the flower- 

 ing period is at an end ; this refers to those 

 Roses only that have not a second period 

 of flowering. The pruning of climbers that 

 do flower a second time must, of course, be 

 left until later in the season, together with 

 pruning that may be necessary in the case 

 of perpetual flowering sorts such as Trier, 

 Moonlight and Danae, none of which can 

 be legitimately described as a climber ; they 



are really pillar, bush or " semi- 

 climbing " Roses, to use a descrip- 

 tion that is now coming into vogue. 

 Indeed, Danae is, I believe, 

 often looked upon as almost a dwarf 

 polyantha. 



July, August and September are 

 flowering months in which we reap 

 more or less as we have sown. In 

 July and August liquid or other 

 manure should be given to back- 

 ward climbing Roses, those which 

 have not already made sufficiently 

 long shoots or not enough of them 

 to cover the desired space. It is 

 important to get a number of 

 these of good length in time to allow 

 of their maturing thoroughly before 

 the winter. Wood that is made 

 late often is " pithy," and is then 

 easily damaged by frost, and at the 

 best is seldom worth keeping. 



Hoeing should be done regularly, 

 at any rate until the end of August ; 

 later it becomes less important, as if 

 growth ceases the new wood matures 

 most rapidly. It is difficult to 

 over-value the good effect of hoe- 

 ing ; it assists growth and keeps 

 down disease. If any Rose plant 

 be found to be badly attacked 

 by black spot, orange fungus, 

 or any such disease, it is best at 

 once to cut all the foliage off very 

 carefully with scissors or shears, 

 and to burn the leaves cut off 

 immediately. The bush itself should 

 be treated w^ith commercial formal- 

 dehyde or sulphate of copper as 

 directed in the section treating 

 specially of insects and diseases. If 

 only one plant be attacked, and the attack 

 be really serious, unless the plant is very 

 valuable it might be best and safest to dig 

 the bush up and burn it forthwith. After- 

 wards the soil where it has grown and the 

 other Rose bushes near the spot should be 

 well sprayed with one of the disinfecting 

 fluids already mentioned. This is admit- 

 tedly a drastic step to take, but desperate 

 diseases need desperate remedies, and it 

 might turn out both cheaper and more 

 satisfactory in the end. 



