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CA iVA DJA X If OR TIC UL TURIS T. 



LTHOUGH a fair 



success may often attend 



/-\ success may often attend the 

 ^ ■*- fall planting of roses, I would 

 not advise it to be followed as a general 

 practice. Winter is, in this climate, 

 the most trying season on rose plants, 

 and as they will not, at the best, make 

 any growth at this season, it is unwise 

 to incur the added risk of loss for no 

 balancing advantage. 



Do not plant budded plants if the 

 variety can be procured on its own 

 roots. I have not yet been able to 

 discover any added vigor to weakly 

 growing kinds when budded in other 

 stocks. Such poor growers as Louis 

 Van Houtti keep up the family failings 

 no matter what stocks I may have them 

 on. And in so much as hardiness is 

 concerned there is nothing gained, as 

 the roots are more protected, and nat- 

 urally bear the winter frosts far bet- 

 ter than the shoots which are above 

 ground. The only legitimate excuse 

 that nurserymen can have for sending 

 out budded rose plants is that some 

 varieties are very difficult to root from 

 cuttings. The objections to budded 

 plants are in the foreign or wild suck- 

 ers which they frequently send up, and 

 another and worse one is (as often pur- 

 chased at least), the large, old, bare roots 

 of the stock ; so large and old that they 

 never fully recover the shock of ti-ans- 

 planting. 



There is an age and size at which 

 i-oses can be transplanted most success- 

 fully, the same as other plants, or 

 vines, or trees, .llthoucfh it is certain- 



ROSES FOR THE GARDEN. 



HV K. MITCHELL, INNERKIP, ONT. 



measure of ly a great mistake to 



plant out very 

 small and tender rose plants, it is none 

 the less so to plant very large and old 

 ones. Plants which are too young and 

 small are, I suppose, generally chosen 

 because they can be procured at little 

 cost; and the other mistake is often coui- 

 mitted by a wish and expectation to 

 have a display of roses almost immedi- 

 ately after planting. I hud the fallacy 

 is a very common one, that a display of 

 roses can be had almost at once, if 

 large enough plants are procured. I 

 do not kilow why this is ; no one plants 

 extremely large currant or goose-berry 

 bushes with the idea of receiving h 

 full crop at once. Large and old rose 

 plants may possibly make a weak im- 

 perfect display of bloom the first 

 spring after planting, but in many 

 cases it is followed by a stunted, dis- 

 eased condition f roin which the plant 

 never recovers. I have met with the 

 best success with plants taken from four 

 inch pots (or thereabouts), and whicli 

 had not received a shift for perhaps six 

 weeks or two months. Plants of this 

 description sliould have the pots pretty 

 well hlled with roots, and be i^eady for 

 more room. It is not necessary that 

 such plants as these be planted so very 

 early in the spring. Any time in May, 

 or even early in June will do. If 

 these are Hybrid Perpetuals they will 

 generally give a few blooms to each 

 plant in the later summer and fall, and 

 be tine strong bushes at the coming of 

 winter, and the following summer will 

 make a grand display. 



NOTES OF FOREIGN TRAVEL. 



BY .1. IIOYKS 1-A.NTON, H..A 



-In accordance 



ith youi- de- 

 a few lines 



Sir 



sire, I am sending you 

 which may be of interest to the read- 

 ers of the Horticulturist. Informa 

 tion which I gleaned from visits to the 



Botanic Gaidens of Edinburgh, Lon- 

 don and Liver[)ool, I shall refer to at 

 some futuie day, if time permits, but 

 will, in this short communication, con- 

 tine niy remarks to some things I ob- 



