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stakes. Remove the covering about May ist. Good 

 varieties are: Caroline Testout, bright rose color; 

 Gruss an Teplitz, scarlet ; Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, 

 creamy white ; Killarney, one of the most beautiful 

 pink roses in existence ; La France, silvery pink, 

 very attractive. 



Tea roses are very free-flowering, but are almost 

 too tender for growing outdoors in the North, even 

 if protected with straw. In the greenhouse or in the 

 South, they are fine. 



Then there are those old favorites, the moss 

 roses and the sweetbriars. The Rugosa roses, of 

 Japanese origin, are hardy and interesting; the seed- 

 pods are quite ornamental. Wichuriana is a low- 

 trailing species producing white flowers in July after 

 the June roses are through blooming (Dorothy Per- 

 kins is of the same species, but the flowers are pink). 

 The dwarf Polyantha roses bear pleasing clusters of 

 dainty small flowers. 



Pruning, culture and rose-bugs : Cut off the 

 upper one-third of each main shoot in the spring; 

 cut out all dead or diseased wood at any time ; ever- 

 blooming roses may be cut back again after the June 

 flowering, which induces further bloom. Keep the 

 ground well stirred all through the growing season ; 

 spade deeply before planting; set plants about two 

 feet apart (more or less according to variety) ; re- 

 member that roses like a very rich clay-loam soil 

 with sufficient moisture. Rose-bugs are the worst 

 pest, generally, and no very good remedies are known. 

 Cover the bushes with mosquito-netting, or knock 

 the bugs into a pan of kerosene twice a day, or spray 

 with arsenate of lead as suggested in Chapter V. 

 (For other enemies, see general remarks and hints on 

 pages i66 and 167.) 



