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Hardy Roses 



Their Culture 



The classification of the various types of garden Roses occasionally confuses the amateur grower, 

 and a word of explanation may prove helpful in the selection of an assortment of hardy Roses. 



The more important classes are the Hybrid Tea, Tea, Hybrid Remontant or Perpetual, Dwarf 

 Polyantha, CHmbing Polyantha, and Hybrid Wichuraiana Roses. 



The Hybrid Tea class is, without question, the most desirable from which to select garden Roses, 

 their free and continuous-blooming tendencies making it easily possible, with a careful selection of 

 varieties, to cut flowers from early June until frost. 



Tea Roses, with a few exceptions, are of a more delicate nature, and while they are also extremely 

 free flowering, they are not seen at their very best until the cool autumn evenings. They require a 

 little more care in protecting for winter, but such ^•aricties as the Pink and the W hite Maman Cochet, 

 Wm. R. Smith, and Lady Hillingdon not only flower profusely through the entire summer, but are 

 hardy enough to carry through the winter with the same protection afforded Hybrid Tea Roses. 



Hybrid Remontant Roses make a magnificent display during June and July; certain varieties flower 

 again in a lesser way during autumn, producing at this time their best flowers on strong stems that 

 are particularly useful for cutting purposes. On account of their hardiness they are desirable 

 not only for the Rose-garden, but for grouping on the lawn or in the shrub border. 



Dwarf or Bedding Polyanthas, pop- 

 ularly called Baby Ramblers, flower 

 freely during the entire season and 

 are attractive massed or for edging 

 the stronger-growing types. 



The Climbing Polyantha and Hy- 

 brid Wichuraiana sections include 

 practically all of the desirable Hardy 

 Climbing Roses, such as Crimson 

 Rambler, Sodenia, Excelsa, Dorothy 

 Perkins, etc., and arc useful for 

 covering walls, stumps, arches, or 

 for screening unsightly objects. 

 Christine Wright, Tauscndschon, 

 Sodenia, or American Pillar are effec- 

 tive grown on pillars or spurred posts. 



Preparing the Rose-bed. Roses 

 will give good results in any well- 

 drained, mellow soil, but when plant- 

 ing a new bed it is advis- 

 able to prepare it thor- 

 oughly. An open location 

 should be selected, al- 

 though a little shade dur- 

 ing the early afternoon or 

 hot part of the day is ap- 

 l^reciatcd by the Tea and 

 Hybrid Tea Roses. The 

 bed should be excavated 

 to a depth of not less than 

 2 feet, and refilled with an 

 ixture of turfy loam, turf and 

 ell-rotted cow manure in equal 

 parts. A sprinkling of coarse bone 

 meal in addition is recommended. 



Planting. Roses may be planted 

 in fall or spring if dormant plants are 

 used, but this is attended with some 

 risk, especially in the hands of an 

 inexperienced planter. Dormant 

 plants, particularly the soft, heavy- 

 wooded, Holland -grown stock, wiU 

 often go back even with the best of 

 Mrs. Belmont Tiffany (see page 44) care in planting. Two-year-old 



