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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1909 



MAULE'S 



Seeds 



ONCE GROWN ALWAYS GROWN 



Is the reason why for many 

 years past I have done such 

 an enormous seed business. 

 63,242 customers in Penn- 

 sylvania alone, with almost 

 half a million the world over 



My New Seed Book 



for 1909 is a wonder 



It contains everything in seeds, 

 bulbs and plants worth growing. 

 Weighs 10 ounces, costs 5 cents to 

 7?ztfz7, contains over 600 illustrations. 

 First edition 350,000 copies. Any 

 gardener can have it for the asking 



Address 



Wm. Henry Maule 



1711 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



If you mention Gardei Magazine I will enclose a 

 packet of pansy illustrated herewith free of charge 



Roses For Flowers This Year 



YOU can pick roses from June until late fall 

 if you now plant the right kinds in the 

 proper way in the right soil. 



The Hybrid Perpetual roses are the hardiest, 

 giving large blooms beginning, in the open ground, 

 in June, and continuing until well into July; and in 

 some few cases, a few flowers appear off . and on 

 throughout the rest of the season. Hybrid Teas 

 and Teas are more tender, but continue blooming 

 from about the end of June until the weather condi- 

 tions in late fall stop them. These three groups em- 

 brace all the large-flowered roses grown for cutting. 



All roses require much the same kind of soil and 

 location. Plant where they will get sunlight, in rich, 

 deep, well-drained soil, and if the soil is not already 

 rich, make it so by digging in a layer, two or three 

 inches in depth, of manure from the cow barn. 

 This is the best kind of manure, because of its 

 superiority in furnishing nutriment, and also for 

 its retention of moisture and cooling properties. If 

 the place is much exposed provide some protection — 

 a hedge of privet or Japanese barberry planted 

 far enough from the roses to prevent the roots of 

 the hedge plants encroaching on the feeding ground 

 of the roses, will answer very well. 



If, when the roses are received, the soil is too 

 wet or through any other cause they cannot be 

 planted immediately, they should be unpacked, 

 on arrival, and if the roots are bare of soil, laid in a 

 trench, covering the roots with soil, and watered, 

 sprinkling the wood also. Pot plants should be 

 unpacked and set in some cool, sheltered place 

 indoors or out, and watered. 



Hybrid Perpetual roses produce larger flowers 

 if last year's wood is well cut back. Wood 

 that is weakly should be cut back to within two 

 or three inches of the older wood; strong growths 

 can be left a foot long. Hybrid Teas need only 

 have decayed wood cut away. Most roses are 

 either budded or grafted on stocks of common or 

 wild roses, and unless care is taken shoots will 

 develop from the stock to the ultimate destruction 

 of the good rose. To prevent this plant so that 

 the union is about two inches below the surface. 



Set the plants eighteen inches apart in holes 

 dug with a spade or garden trowel, first cutting off 

 all broken roots just behind the point of injury, 

 evenly spreading out the remaining roots, and cov- 

 ering firmly with soil. It is not necessary to break 

 up the ball of earth around roots of pot-grown 

 plants, but it is most important to firm the soil 

 around it. After growth starts water freely, espe- 

 cially the Hybrid Perpetuals just before coming 

 into bloom — you can hardly give too much water. 



The easiest to apply and most satisfactory preven- 

 tive of insect attacks is hellebore powder dusted on 

 the foliage at frequent intervals throughout the 

 summer. Do it in the early morning, or when 

 the foliage is damp. 



Roses from the following lists can be planted early 

 in April with the assurance of obtaining beautiful 

 flowers this year. 



HYBRID PERPETUALS 



Alfred Colomb, red; Captain Christy, tinted 

 white; Captain Haywood, carmine; Duke of Edin- 

 burgh, vermillion; Victor Verdier, rose; Mrs. John 

 Laing, pink; Prince Camille de Rohan, velvety 

 crimson; Frau Karl Druschki, pure white; Gen. 

 Jacqueminot, scarlet; Paul Neyron, dark rose; 

 Baroness Rothschild, pale rose; Anna de Diesbach, 

 carmine pink; Ulrich Brunner, cherry red; Mabel 

 Morrison, white; Magna Charta, bright pink; Mme. 

 Gabriel Luizet, pink; Margaret Dickson, white; 

 Gloire de Margottin, red; Clio, flesh color; Hugh 

 Dickson, brilliant crimson; Mrs. Sharman Craw- 

 ford, rosy pink; Marie Bauman, crimson. 



HYBRID TEAS 



Bessie Brown, cherry crimson; Caroline Testout, 

 bright rose; Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, white; Kil- 

 larney, brilliant pink; Mildred Grant, blush white; 

 Irish Elegance, orange red; Antoine Rivoire, rose 

 on yellow ground; Betty, ruddy gold; Gruss an 

 Teplitz, brilliant red; Souvenir du President Carnot, 

 rose and white; Belle Siebrecht, satiny rose; Etoile 

 de France, crimson; Dean Hole, silvery carmine; 

 Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, flesh color; Maman 

 Cochet, pink; Maman Cochet, white. 



New York. D. McIntosh. 



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