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spring, and plant these out in beds in May, 
and there they bloom all summer long. 
Get Roses on Their Own Roots.— Bud¬ 
ded or grafted roses grow well and bloom 
well the first year, but after that time suckers 
from the stocks begin to assert themselves, 
and if at all n°glected the rose-bed will soon 
contain more thorns than roses. But when the 
roses are all on their own roots they may 
sucker and spread as they please, and we can 
rest assured that every sprout is that of a 
“tame” rose. Budded roses are more apt to 
be winter killed than are roses on their own 
roots. 
Rosa Alpina and its varieties, Glandulosa 
and Pubescens, all very pretty, single, with 
rose-colored flowers, are the earliest to bloom 
of all our roses. Sometimes it is nip and tuck 
between them and R. rugosa. 
Rosa foliolosa, from Texas, is the last to 
come into bloom, but it is rare in cultivation. 
Among well-known roses the wild prairie 
rose (R. setigera) is the latest to come into 
flower. By the way, Baltimore Belle, Queen 
of the Prairies, and the like, are capital run¬ 
ning roses, but as the wild prairie rose comes 
in right after the double ones, it is worth a 
place in any garden. 
In Waste Fields by the wayside, and par¬ 
ticularly by the margin of woods in moist, 
grassy places where are growing old plants of 
wild roses, we often find young seedlings two 
to six inches high in great quantity. If we 
dig up a lot of these, bring them home, and 
plant them thickly in rows in our garden, be¬ 
fore a year from now they will make nice 
plants. Then plant them out by the roadside 
or in some wild place around your home, 
which you wish to beautify with dowel’s. 
Garden roses would be out of place in such a 
position, even more so than wild roses would 
be in the garden. 
Rosa rubrifolia has glaucous claret-pur¬ 
ple wood and leaves, and is made a fuss about 
on that account as a fine-foliaged shrub. 
Well, it is pretty enough, and keeps its color 
moderately well during the summer months, 
but towards the tall its foliage gets pretty 
thin. I now regard it with less favor than I 
did a few years ago. It fruits in great quan¬ 
tity, and reproduces itself from seed most 
easily. 
The Cherokee and Banksian Roses, so 
common in the South, are not hardy in the 
North. 
Raising Roses from seed is very interest¬ 
ing work, but if among ten thousand seedlings 
you find anything superior to the best kinds 
of the same sort now in cultivation you will 
be very fortunate. 
There is nothing smart in having five or 
twenty-five kinds of roses all growing on one 
bush; any child who can bud and wants to 
can have that. Our finest flowers are invari¬ 
ably obtained from bushes each of which has 
but one variety growing on it. 
Single-flowered roses are pretty and 
useful in their way, but the hearts of the peo¬ 
ple are set on the double ones. 
We nAVE a bed of sweet briar roses near 
the roadside at one of our gates. In spring 
and early summer the fragrance is quite pro¬ 
nounced a good many yards away. It is 
pleasant to see the people as they ride by, sniff 
the air and look over the fence in search of 
the fragrant posies. They overlook the mass 
of thorny bushes by the gate. 
The best fertilizer for roses is farm 
yard manure, with a considerable leaning to 
the cow stable. 
Roses love a rich, heavy, loamy soil. To 
prevent its becoming very dry in summer 
and the surface from baking and cracking, 
mulch the ground two to three inches deep 
with farm yard manure. 
But Roses will also do very well in light, 
sandy soil, providing you cover the ground 
three inches deep in summer with cow man¬ 
ure. But keep the manure away from close 
around the necks of the plants. We have 400 
plants in such a bed and treated in this way, 
and they bloom beautifully but don’t produce 
such big, strong shoots as do the roses that 
are grown in loam. w. f. 
THE BENNETT (WILLIAM FRANCIS). 
H. E. CHITTY. 
A fall and winter Jacq .; not a feeble grower 
when on its own roots ; buds sometimes 2)4 
inches long ; the Bennett improves ivith age ; 
one of the most profitable grown. 
The Bennett Rose is undoubtedly one of the 
most valuable introductions of recent times. 
Its advent was a real triumph, and its intro¬ 
ducers are entitled to considerations of the 
most substantial character, as well as to all the 
lasting pleasure that such an achievement 
must confer. In fact, I regard the introdu¬ 
cers of this truly magnificent rose’asjbenefac- 
tors to the horticultural world, as they gave 
us a real fall and winter-flowering Jacquemi¬ 
not: a perfectly reliable continuous flower, 
with the rich crimson scarlet color so much 
admired in the old favorite. This rose is by 
no means a feeble grower, for where proper 
soil and suitable conditions are met with it 
will throw up strong, healthy shoots from one 
to three feet in length. These are often ter¬ 
minated with'three, four or five buds. But 
the buds so produced are generally short¬ 
stemmed, as they develop and mature one at 
a time. The finest buds are from shoots 12 to 
18 inches in length, and terminated by'a sin¬ 
gle bud. Such buds are often from 1)4 to 2% 
inches in length and of the most vivid crim¬ 
son scarlet color. 
pseony look. The buds are immense, round, 
obscurely conical, but there is little delicacy 
about them. It is a coarse rose. We should 
class this among roses where the Kieffer 
belongs among pears. The plant is a wonder¬ 
fully vigorous grower. June 21, we measured 
several roses that were five inches in diameter. 
The peduncle is thick, thornless and long 
enough for bouquets. The color is rose. 
Magna Chart a is a Hybrid China x’ose 
originated by Paul in 1876. The buds are 
large, conical and of a pink color. They un¬ 
fold beautifully with unusually foliaceous 
calyx sepals. 
Alfred Colomb and the new rose Marshall 
P. Wilder are very nearly alike. We can not 
tell one from the other except that the Wilder 
PRINCESS BEATRICE. Fig. 88. 
(See page 280.) 
A bed of this rose the full length of one of 
my rose houses is now flowering for the second 
winter. The plants appear to gather strength, 
and the buds size and brilliancy from age; 
while the splendid foliage seems to increase in 
size and color also. I must say, however, that 
these plants are growing upon their own roots. 
I think it a great mistake to bud this rose, es¬ 
pecially on the Manetti stock. Last spring I 
thought to plant another bed, and I bought at 
auction some plants which were budded on 
the Manetti stock. They were set out and 
treated in every particular in the same way 
as the old bed: but their growth is very slow, 
and they have always presented a woebegone 
appearance, and every once in a while the 
stock throws up a strong sucker, which tends 
still further to demoralize and enfeeble the 
struggling plant. I have a few plants of this 
rose budded on the Catharine Mermet, which 
seem to do well, and I have no doubt there 
are other strong-growing Tea roses on which 
the Bennett may be worked to advantage; but 
as far as my experience goes, I would say 
shun the Manetti stock: the buds produced on 
the latter are quite small, and very poor com¬ 
pared with buds produced by plants od their 
own roots; at least such is the case with me. 
I shall pull up and throw away all Bennetts 
budded on Manetti just as soon as the room 
is needed, and hereafter confine myself to 
plants on their own roots,which are quite good 
enough for me. 1 am of the opinion that this 
rose under favorable circumstances is one of 
the most profitable grown because it is con¬ 
tinuous. Its flowers or buds always command 
a good price. In regard to the soil, the Ben¬ 
nett does not seem to be in any way fastidious; 
good rotten sods, such as suit other roses, will 
grow it to perfection. 
Passaic Co., N. J. 
ROSE NOTES. 
Paul Neyron has many admirers both as 
a hardy rose in the garden and also for forcing. 
The flowers are very large but they have a 
may give a greater number of flowers. They 
are large, very double, somewhat cupped, of 
a crimson color. Before the buds open the 
outer petals recurve. We have often seen 
five to seven roses on a single stalk of the 
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