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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1912 



Variety Records From a 

 New York Garden 



A FINE display of roses is not difficult to have 

 if their requirements are properly attended 

 to. The soil in which they are planted must be fed 

 well; the plants must be sprayed regularly during 

 the summer, trimmed close in spring and shortened 

 in the fall. When cutting blossoms, take good long 

 stems. Pansies and bachelor buttons grow well 

 among the roses and keep the beds from looking 

 forlorn when the roses are gone, and one of my rose 

 beds is a golden and silvery mass with California 

 poppies, self sown after the first year. 



Each year I dally in making up my flower beds 

 until the self sowers have peeped above ground. 

 Seedlings self sown are so vigorous; and each spring 

 after the first year you will find the beds full of 

 poppies, alyssum, larkspur, perennial phlox, 

 aquilegia, etc. 



The veranda of my bungalow is always a delight 

 to me during the summer. On the east corner is a 

 Madame Plantier rose and a honeysuckle vine 

 which wander all over the rail. Next is a dainty 

 small-clustered pink rambler, close to a yellow 

 rambler in the south corner; both run up to the 

 roof and bloom profusely every year. On the front 

 of the veranda are a white rambler and a climbing 

 La France rose which also bloom to the porch roof. 

 Between these is a tamarack bush which is a 

 feathery pink mass of bloom in May and a mass 

 of green feathery foliage in June. These roses are 

 planted on the edge of an asparagus bed which is 

 heavily manured each spring and fall, feeding 

 generously the roots of the ramblers. In the early 

 spring they are cleared of all dead wood and in- 

 truding honeysuckle vines, but care is taken to 

 allow the long runners to hang to the ground. 

 These make a glorious mass of bloom in June and 

 heavy, glossy foliage all summer. 



The climbing La France was laid down and cov- 

 ered the first winter, but the second winter we 

 decided to leave it on its wires as it had been all 

 summer. As we found no difference in the bloom- 

 ing, we have decided that it is not necessary to 

 lay down the vines but simply to mulch well in the 

 fall. They do not need heavy pruning, only 

 enough to cut away the dead wood and keep the 

 vines well trained. The dark green foliage of a 

 hazel bush at the south corner of the piazza sets 

 off the blooming roses to advantage. 



Sweet William forms a ground cover beneath the 

 roses and chrysanthemums at the back make a 

 continuous bloom from May to November, with 

 the narcissus at the edge followed by a white candy- 

 tuft border. - 



A very successful and ever-blooming fence cover 

 I have found by planting Crimson Rambler and 

 honeysuckle vines alternating on and between the 

 fence posts with white Baby Ramblers just in front, 

 snapdragon between the Baby Ramblers and sweet 

 alyssum at the edge. The white rambler blooms all 

 summer until a severe frost appears. 



The standard Hiawatha rambler has been a great 

 joy in my formal garden, which is sunken at the 

 foot of great rocks, blooming as it does after all 

 June roses have finished. The single flower has a 

 crimson edge and a white centre, with a large cluster 

 of golden stamens. The branches droop from the 



main stem and are a glorious ball of bloom for two 

 weeks. All the ramblers I have found to be free 

 from disease and insects, and this one is the only 

 standard rose with which I have had any success. 

 I trim it to shape in the spring as well as fall, and 

 take particular care to cut away the Manetti stock 

 suckers, as they often run three feet away from the 

 centre stalk. A standard Paul Neyron was beau- 

 tiful for many years, but a severe winter killed it, 

 much to my regret. 



The William Allen Richardson rose has given me 

 great pleasure. I have seen it in only one other 

 garden and do not understand why it is not more 

 generally grown. It is entirely free from attacks 

 of diseases and insects, is perfectly hardy, is semi- 

 running and therefore trimmed only to eliminate 

 the dead wood in spring. It grows best if given a 

 trellis such as I have invented for my bushes — 

 a very simple one made by sticking in the ground at 

 an angle slight bamboo canes about six feet long 





Is there anything quite so decorative as a climbing 

 rose in full bloom ? This is a climbing Egan 



and then crossing with other similar canes. By 

 fall the bushes have covered the canes, which are 

 then invisible. The roses bloom on both sides of 

 the trellis. 



The flowers of the W. A. Richardson rose are 

 very "sporty" both as to shade and number, some- 

 times a single bloom, but more often the flowers 

 appearing in clusters. As to color, it varies from a 

 true salmon to a white edge with orange centre, 

 giving the whole gamut of salmon shading. The 

 buds are an exquisite, dainty shape of medium size; 

 the foliage is always clean and fresh-looking with 

 the tender ends of the branches red-tipped. It 

 blooms from May until frost and I have often 

 covered the bunches of buds with a muslin bag on 

 cold nights so as to be able to pick roses in Nov- 

 ember. It is a Hybrid Tea and although a low- 

 budded Holland stock, I have not found much 

 annoyance with the running of the stock under the 

 ground. 



I have four different moss roses, which are easily 

 grown: The crested moss, a short, thick, pink 

 bud, almost covered with short, mossy sepals and 

 thornless; the old-fashioned delicate, long-pointed 

 pink bud with long, mossy sepals often extending 

 far beyond the bud, which has a prickly stem; then 

 the beautiful Louise, a white moss bud with shorter, 

 hairy sepals and sticky, prickly stems; and lastly, 

 the scarlet short bud with short, mossy sepals, which 

 is a profuse bloomer. All these are very hardy 

 and grow quite tall. They need trimming only to 

 keep them in shape; and spraying to keep away rust. 

 They require plenty of feeding. 



My real rose beds are laid out just below a wall 

 three feet high which separates them from the 

 formal garden. The central walk runs from the 

 sundial down three steps, through the centre of the 

 rose beds. And in these beds the most satisfactory 

 roses have been General Jacqueminot, Madame 

 Gabrille Luizet, Frau Karl Druschki, Baroness 

 Rothschild, Soleil d'Or, Gruss an Teplitz, Mrs. 

 John Laing, Persian Yellow, Ulrich Brunner, M. 

 Boncenne, and the four moss roses. The riot of 

 color is gorgeous, as I always buy ten of a kind so 

 that there will be enough of one variety for mass 

 effects. 



Each spring or fall I plant some new variety to 

 enlarge my scheme. Last spring I put in Mrs. R. 

 G. Sharman-Crawford, which is a delicate pink; 

 also White Clio, White Killarney, Liberty, and the 

 gorgeous low-growing Austrian Copper. 



New York. A. Van Gelder. 



A Standard Frau Karl Druschki 



TO THE south of my garden is a brick wall 

 eight feet high which in summer shades a 

 strip of ground several feet wide, except for a part 

 of each day. Finding that the Frau Karl Druschki 

 roses did not stand the heat well, I concluded to 

 put one of them two feet to the north of this wall 

 and then to let one stem come up and to trim off 

 all the lower branches, making a tall plant, with a 

 head near the top, that would get the sunshine 

 while the roots would be shaded. 



My plant throve and to hold it up I got a piece 

 of old gas pipe, three quarters of an inch in diameter 

 and seven feet high. This I drove into the ground 

 for a foot and then tied my rose bush to it. The 

 rusty pipe was not noticeable and I had many 

 beautiful roses at the top of my bush while the 

 roots were in the shade nearly all day long. One 

 branch had seven immense blooms upon it at one 

 time. 



South Carolina. George S. Holmes. 



A Word of Appreciation 



IF YOU have never grown the American pillar 

 rose, try it in your garden this year. Its leaves 

 are very glossy and are not attacked by insects. 

 In our opinion, the plant is of great beauty. The 

 blossoms are like a single wild rose, but with white 

 centres, however, and deep pink petals. The 

 stamens are yellow. The roses appear in great 

 profusion, six or seven on one spray, and make a 

 mass of color when seen at a distance. Those in 

 my garden grow upon a trellis. 



New Jersey. Elizabeth W. White. 



