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care must be taken that suckers from the roots do not grow up and take the 

 place of the variety which has been budded. Among some particularly good 

 sorts are mentioned, Baron Prevost, Comtesse, Cecile de Chabrillant, General 

 Jacqueminot, Mrs. John Laing, M. P. Wilder, Xavier Olibo, Captam Christy, 

 Paul Neyron, Cabriel Luizet, Achille Gounod, Mabel Morrison, Madame 

 Plantier, White Crested Moss, Gem of the Prairie, and the Japanese roses, 

 rugosa-rubra and alba. 



Winter protection is wise, even with hardy varieties, and this may be accom- 

 plished by covering with strawy manure or evergreen boughs. 



The best time for pruning roses is in March. Strong growers like Ciencral 

 Jacqueminot, Magna Charta, and Mrs. John Laing, need the lea.st pruning 

 simply cutting the last season's growth about one-third to one half an inch 

 together with a little thinning, being all that is necessary. Weak growing kinds, 

 such as Baroness Rothschild, Captain Christy, and Xavier Olibo, which arc- 

 usually budded on other stocks than their own, should be cut back more 

 severely removing as much as two-thirds of the previous year's growth, together 

 with the weaker canes. 



Nitrate ok Soda, — A writer in Garden Work, an English publication, 

 speaks of the strikingly stimulating effects of the use of nitrate of soda on garden 

 crops. The crops which had been dressed were extremely luxuriant, and the 

 observer could tell to an inch how far the dressing had gone. Peas, potatoes 

 and other crops to which the nitrate was applied were in remarkable health 

 and color. The amount applied to the farm and garden crops was at the rate 

 of 175 pounds to an acre. 



Moss Roses are highly commended in the same journal. These are coming 

 into fashion now, and everyone, in making up an order for roses, ought to 

 include a half dozen mosses. Many people are ignorant of the fact that there 

 are several varieties of moss roses and among them the most commendable are ; 

 Old Moss, blush pink and well mossed ; Little Gem, a diminutive moss rose, 

 and one that should be grown by all ; it forms thick bushes which are covered 

 with beautiful crimson flowers ; White Bath, no collection would be comi)lete 

 without a white variety and this is the best : Crested Moss, pink, with exquisitely 

 crested buds, a fine grower. 



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