ROSES AND ROSE GARDENS. 



throughout the spring, if 

 transferred from pots. Pre- 

 pare the "round a month 

 before planting. 



As regards stocks, use 

 for dw arfs the seedling Briar, 

 hut tile cutting Briar is also 

 a good stock, and both the 

 De la Grifferaie and Polyantha 

 are also employed. To 

 simplify matters use 

 the seedling Briar and avoid 

 the Manetti, which makes a 

 bad unmn. Much depends 

 upon the stuck' used, and 

 frequently failure may be 

 attributed only to the wrong 

 kind. Where possible, always, 



r J GLOIKE DE DIJON ROSE. 



however, procure own root 



plants, i.e., plants upon no stock' whatever. When forming Standards, use, of course, as a stock' 

 the familiar Dog Rose. Tea Roses make buxom Standards, which, unfortunately, are subject to 

 annihilation by frost. A hard winter will kill them wholesale, even when protected by sticking 

 fern amongst the branches. Standards should be frequently transplanted, or laid in under a 

 north wall each autumn until spring. This practice will naturally retard them somewhat, but 

 this is better than an ugly crippled stick, an apology for a Standard Rose. 



The way to protect Tea Roses is, in the case of dwarf or low plants, to mould them 

 up each autumn with burnt garden refuse or soil, which should be removed in the following 

 April. Unless the climate and situation are very favourable, movable glass copings are advisable 

 on walls of Tea Roses, and bracken amongst the shoots, too, if severe weather is anticipated. 



If the border be made as advised, very little feeding will be needful until the plants have 

 been in their present position more than three years. An excellent fertiliser is night soil, 

 which may be poured on in May and June into drills drawn in the centre of the rows and 

 covered up. Rains w ill wash it down to the roots. A safer liquid manure is made with 

 cow dung, sheep's dung, wood ashes, and bone meal, but always remember that weak doses 

 given often are more effective than a few very strong applications. 



Special Treatment of Various Kinds. — Many kinds, such as La Boule d'Or, 

 Souvenir d'Elise Vardon, Medea, and Cleopatra, are best grown at the foot of a wall. 

 Make a shallow, saucer-like cavity around each plant, and give good doses of liquid 

 manure during the growing period. Remarkable blooms may be obtained in this way, 

 and one wants high-class flowers for exhibition. Certain kinds of poor growth, of which 

 Ethel Brownlow, Corinna, etc., may be instanced, require to be well thinned. It will be 

 well to lay slates down on the soil when the plants are on low walls, to throw off superfluous 

 moisture in wet seasons. Hoeing is a useful operation, and much better than applying too 

 much water in a hot year. If the plants are watered there must be no stmt, then hoe 

 freely afterwards and mulch with strawy manure. 



To induce the Roses to bloom as freely as possible, cut some of the flowers before 

 they expand, as this will enable the shoot to ripen more quickly and commence another growth. 

 Tea-scented Roses require abundance of moisture in hot weather, if the drainage be 

 good, and this will keep them growing and also flowering freely. If movable lights were 

 placed over some beds of Tea Roses in September the buds would develop better and 

 continue to expand until Christmas. 



