WATERING. — Should the spring and summer prove dry, syringing over- 
head and watering is necessary, and all fresh-planted roses will require to be well 
saturated once a week, and syringed overhead daily, with water which has been 
exposed to the action of the air. If larger flowers are required, water estab- 
lished plants with diluted liquid manure. Plants on walls must be watered 
twice weekly. 
MILDEW is sometimes very troublesome to the grower of roses during rapid 
variations of temperature from heat to cold, and also during long periods of dry 
weather. To prevent and cure this troublesome pest, we sell a mixture in 1 lb. 
packets, post free, 3/-. 1 oz. to the gallon, dissolve in a pint of warm rain 
water ; then add the required quantity of rain water, and syringe or spray the 
foliage on the plants affected . Users are specially reminded to see the quan- 
tity is carefully weighed, also water used as per quantities stated. 
INSECTS are troublesome to the rose grower. In spring, as soon as the 
plants begin to grow, the young leaves curl and stick together, they must be un- 
folded and inside will be found a small maggot, which must be destroyed . After 
this the green fly will appear, and for the destruction of this pest we sell a con- 
centrated mixture which is certain death to aphis, and does not injure the foliage. 
Price 7/6 per £ gallon. Quantity £ pint of concentrated mixture ; put into 3 
pints of rain water, well mix by rapid stirring, and then add 5 to 6 gallons of rain 
water. This mixture being perfectly harmless to young tender foliage, the rose 
shoots may be dipped in or syringed with it. 
STOCKS FOR ROSES. — For Standards and Half-Standards we use the 
Dog Briar; for Dwarf H.P. 's the Briar Cutting, Seedling Briar, and the Manetti 
Stocks ; for Dwarf Teas and Noisettes the Briar Cutting and Seedling Briar 
Stocks ; when the selection is left to us, we send Roses budded on the stock on 
which we have found from long experience and careful observation each variety 
succeeds best . 
PRUNING. — The middle of March, or later, as may be necessary according 
to the lateness or earliness of vegetation , is the time to prune roses . It must not 
be forgotten there are two objects in view — one to produce large perfect flowers 
with which to win prizes at exhibitions, and the other to produce quantities of 
good flowers, either for the embellishment of the garden, or for the decoration of 
the house. It is quite impossible to lay down any hard and fast rule for pruning ; 
because the method must necessarily vary according to the variety . For instance 
Ulrich Brunner and Victor Hugo cannot be treated alike in the method of prun- 
ing ; the former being much the strongergrowing, should not be pruned so hard 
as the latter, the shoots of which should be reduced to within three or four ' 'eyes’ ’ 
of the base when required for exhibition purposes. 
We advise those who grow Roses , either as standards or half-standards, or as 
bushes in beds, for the decoration of their garden and not for exhibiting, to prune 
sparingly, merely cutting away any dead or unripe (pithy) wood, and slightly 
reduce in length the stronger and longer shoots, always of course thinning out the 
centre of the plants, so as to admit light and air. 
When ordering Standard, Half- Standard, or Dwarf Standard Roses, 
please state what height they are wanted. 
Standards vary in height from 3ft. to 4Jft. high. 
Half-Standards vary in height from ljft. to 2ft. 9in. high. 
Dwarf Standards vary in height from 1ft. to 15ins. high. 
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