CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. T3 



CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. 



THE following Calendar foj the management of the Rose, during 

 each month of the year, is designed for the central parts of the United 

 States, including the temperate regions of Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, 

 Kentucky, ]jidiana, Missouri, and Illinois. The season of spring com- 

 mences in the middle latitudes of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and 

 of Texas, and the northern part of Louisiana, and the southern part 

 of Arkansas, about one month earlier ; and a month or five weeks 

 later in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and in the central latitudes of 

 New York, Wisconsin, and of Michigan. The period of sowing, how- 

 ever, will admit of some latitude, on account of the degree of dryness 

 of the soil, and of its exposure to cold or moist winds, and to the solar 

 warmth. 



It has long been observed that Nature, in her operations, is so uni- 

 form, that the forwardness of trees, in unfolding their flowers and 

 leaves, is an unerring indication of the forwardness of spring; and 

 that the period at which the shrub red bud (Oercis canadensis) puts 

 forth, is the proper time to plant Indian corn, and sow in open cul- 

 ture the seeds of the Rose. 



Look well to all standard roses ; see that their stakes are firmly m 

 the ground,, and the stocks or trunks are well fastened to them. If the 

 heads of standards are very large, compared with the hold they have 

 upon the stock, it is necessary that the stock to which the tree is fast- 

 ened should reach partly through the head, and be fastened to the 

 head itself. It is also desirable, when very large growth has been 

 made, to shorten, though not properly prune, all the longest branches, 

 to lessen the head, that the wind may not have too much power. I 

 you have not provided yourself with stocks before this month, lose no 

 time, and when procured, prune the roots into moderate form, for they 

 will frequently be found straggling and awkward. Besides planting 

 out a number in rows, to be worked in the open ground, pot some of 

 the most compact-rooted in pots, and plunge them, making a post-and- 

 rail sort of frame along them to fasten the stocks to, and prevent them 



