ROSES SSS 



Winter. Let us then prepare our soil by digging deeply in the 

 Autumn and wait till Spring to set the plants. 



Summer Treatment 



The Rose always appreciates a loose layer of soil above its roots 

 so that throughout the whole season the hoe should be diligently 

 used. Mulching in mid-Summer with grass clippings or well decayed 

 manure will also be of value. Those varieties which have been 

 budded upon the Manetti, or wild Rose, stock, are very apt to pro- 

 duce suckers from the roots. The suckers are usually very strong 

 and will soon crowd out the growth from the desired variety. The 

 Manetti can be distinguished by a greater number of leaflets than 

 the Hybrid Teas, Tea or Hybrid Perpetuals; at the same time the 

 foliage usually presents a differently toothed and duUer appearance. 

 Perhaps the best fertilizer for Roses is well decayed manure supple- 

 mented by an application of bonemeal which can be applied at any 

 time during the growing season. If one will start early in the Spring 

 to syringe the Roses, the foliage can be kept clean of some insects 

 and much dust. In order that syringing of this sort be the most 

 useful, it is necessary to apply the water with good force. This 

 will dislodge the plant lice and red spider. 



Winter Protection 



The main injury from cold is due to the sun which causes an 

 alternate freezing and thawing of the branches. A sunshade 

 should be given rather than an overcoat. The best method of pro- 

 tecting the plants of the more tender groups is by mounding soil 

 about them a foot deep. When the warm days of Spring have 

 surely arrived this can be easily removed. The tops are protected 

 either with a wrapping of paper and straw or covered by some sort 

 of box. Empty orange boxes prove rather useful in some cases. 

 The dwarf Roses are nicely protected by using evergreen boughs. 

 The Briar Roses, the Damask and the Moss need no protection. But 

 in order to be safe it is better to protect the Hybrid Perpetuals. The 

 Hybrid Teas and Teas should never be allowed to remain through 

 the Winter without some protection. 



Pruning 



If one notes the habit of growth of the Rose, the pruning will 

 prove a much simpler problem than it would seem at first sight. 

 The flowering stems of a Rose are produced from wood of the cur- 



