ROSE NOTES 
Hyacinthus grown in a garden, that flower should be the Rose, and this 
not only on account of its beauty and scent, but because 
many kinds are hardly without flower for six months, and a few 
can be counted on for eight. The saving of labour and expense, 
too, may be considerable. If beds are well filled with Roses, there 
will be no need to grow annuals, or the more troublesome 
biennials, or the bedding-out plants, which require a greenhouse 
to winter them. Once Roses are properly planted, very little 
labour is needed: in spring, only the digging of the bed and 
pruning; in summer, relieving them of dead flowers and 
straggling shoots, and possibly the administration of a dose or 
two of liquid manure or bone dust ; in autumn, the covering with 
manure to protect them through the winter. But, even without 
such care, in what kindly fashion they will grow year after 
year! If time can be given, many another flower can be 
effectively bedded with them. The sketch suggests a very 
easy way by which a wealth of bloom may be secured in 
August, when Roses are resting. The Hyacinthus bulbs 
can be planted in February, if the weather is open, or in March, 
and are particularly pretty among rather tall old Teas, either set 
singly all over the bed, or in clumps wherever there is room. 
In August their graceful white bells rise above the Rose foliage 
and last for some weeks, and if the plants are well fed, second 
or even third spikes of bloom will be sent up. As they are too 
greedy, it is not wise to mix them with young Roses, Another 
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Rose and he ago gardeners decided that, if only one flower could be 
