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ROSE CULTURE. 



'OU can succeed with roses as with other shrubs, giving but httle 

 lime to their care, but that care must be in the line of the needs of 

 the plant. Three "plenties'' are absolutely essential to success in 

 growing roses — plenty of sunshine, plenty of water, and plenty of 

 manure. They will not flourish in gravelly soil, nor in its opposite, 

 clayey soil. Good loam is the thing. If the soil be already poor, 

 spade in barn manure about it, then cover a place as large round as 

 a wash tub, with the manure three or four inches deep about each rose bush ; a 

 half wheelbarrow load to a bush is none too much. This mulching is better 

 done in the fall than spring, but it will do good now. In dry seasons, the bush 

 must be watered freely ; wash water is good. Except with yellow roses, it is the 

 new growth that blossoms, so cut your bushes back to within a foot of the ground, 

 that will give the new growth a better chance. Rose bushes should set where 

 the sun can cast his rays freely upon them. Persian insect powder, used with a 

 little blower, such as are sold at the stores, and blown over and under the 

 leaves, will kill the white lice; white hellebore, such as is used on currant bushes, 

 will kill the slugs (worms). Three or four applications in the season usually 

 sufifices. Your eyes and heart will be delighted with the result. — Connecticut 

 Farmer. ^^^ 



BUDDED ROSES— SOME GOOD KINDS. 



At a recent meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, President 

 Spooner said that he is a strong advocate for budded roses, if they are budded 

 in the right place and properly grown. They should be planted so as to have 

 the stock three or four inches beneath the surface, and the bark should be raised 

 a little on each side to enable them to emit roots more readily ; you will then 

 get a better plant in one year than in three or four years if they are on their own 

 roots. The Manetti stock is the best for light .soils ; the brier sends up too 

 many suckers. All the best roses that come to our shows are from budded 

 stocks. He does not want to wait four or five years to get a strong plant. 



Among the best summer roses are La France, and, for later, Fisher Holmes 

 or Prince Arthur (the last named a seedling from General Jacqueminot), Hein- 

 rich Schultheis, and Lady Helen Stewart. For white, Merveille de Lyon and 

 Mabel Morrison. Gloire de Lyonnaise throws up fine shoots. Madame \'ictor 

 Verdier is a grand garden rose. Alfred Colomb is of globular form and high 

 scented. Mme. Isaac Pereire, a Hybrid Bourbon, is a good climbing variety. 

 Earl Dufferin has a full flower and is destined to be one of the best. Marshal 

 P. Wilder is too much like Alfred Colomb. Mme. Montet is a free flowering 

 variety, and of very fine color. Mme. Gabriel Luizet is very desirable for this 

 purpose. Mrs. John Laing is almost as free flowering as General Jacqueminot. 

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