ROSES AND ROSE GARDENS. 



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FIG. G. 



warm enough to work easily, when a large number of wounds 

 can be made secure in a short time. If fumigation be used, let 

 the fumes of tobacco be weak, but continued for a couple of 

 hours, in preference to a very strong application. 



Insecticides. — Boil 21b. of soft soap in two gallons 



of water; while still on the boil, and immediately it has been 

 removed from the fire, add half a pint of paraffin nil and a 

 quarter of a pound of flowers of sulphur. The black' sulphur 

 is less unsightly than the yellow, but not quite so destructive. 

 Stir the w hole together and bottle off when cool. Before using, 

 shake the bottle well, and then add half a pint of the 

 solution to a gallon of soft water, applying with a syringe, 

 and at a temperature of 7odeg. to 75deg. This is suitable to. 

 all washes, 

 but if red- 

 spider and 

 thrips are 

 very preva- 

 lent it may 

 The sulphur 



be used a little stronger, 

 deposit is left upon the foliage in a far 

 more uniform manner, both above and 

 below the foliage, than can possibly be the case by dusting, 

 while the combination of these ingredients is deadly to all 

 insects and mildew germs. For scale, the solution should be 

 used direct from the bottle, but this must only be applied 

 with the point of a stick or a small brush, letting a little come 

 into contact with each full-grown insect. 



PRUNING. — No matter how well the Roses may 

 have been grown during the previous summer and winter, 

 satisfactory results cannot be expected if bad pruning is 

 allowed. To prune all Roses upon one 



system would 

 obviously be a 



to 



A? 



A 



11 



fig 



mistake, when 

 one remembers 

 the vast 

 difference in habit and growth. The little Fairy or 

 Lawrenceana Roses seldom grow more than 15m. high; 

 whilst Marechal Niel and Reve d'Or, with others, often 

 exceed 15ft. In many sections we find these extremes 

 of growth. Then, again, one must give a little considera- 

 tion to the object in view when pruning. Is it to obtain 

 a quantity of bloom or a few flowers of the highest quality ? 

 Only a few general rules can be laid dow n here, and in order 

 to simplify this part of the subject the question of classes 

 w ill be almost ignored. 



Fig. 6 is a representativeof a medium-growing dwarf Rose, 

 about two years old. Not all of these will be as clean in growth 

 as the one represented, but the same system of pruning may be 

 adopted where a good display of blossom is wanted. The cross 



