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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 14 
Ruralisms 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Ruby Queen in California.—D. A., 
Geyserville, Cal., mails us perfect buds 
of the Ruby Queen rose and ^sks: 
“What other corner of our broad land 
can produce the Ruby Queen on January 
17?” AVe know of none other having the 
necessary conditions. Ruby Queen is 
about two weeks earlier than its trailing 
parent, R. Wichuraiana, and comes in 
with the Hybrid Perpetuals and other 
June roses. It is very profuse, but is so 
well furnished with glossy foliage that 
it never appears overcrowded like varie¬ 
ties of the Rambler type. It is in good 
condition a long time, as the blooms 
bold their clear color without fading 
until the petals fall. A fair crop of 
bright red fruits usually follow and 
holds on until freezing weather. A few 
flower buds started on our Ruby Queen 
plants last October, which was unusual¬ 
ly warm and rainy, but they did not de¬ 
velop enough to open before Winter set 
in. This shows a slight tendency to¬ 
ward autumnal blooming, a feature like¬ 
ly to become more frequent in Wichu¬ 
raiana hybrids as new crosses with ever- 
blooming roses come in. Seedlings of 
Ruby Queen pollinated with Queen’s 
Scarlet, its own pollen parent, are quite 
constant Summer bloomers, but are too 
flimsy in texture to be of value. We 
have other hardy climbers from seeds of 
Helene, of the Crimson Rambler type, 
crossed with Lucullus, a dark free- 
blooming Bourbon, that freely produce 
large richly-colored blooms in clusters 
of five to seven the entire growing sea¬ 
son. They appear quite valuable, but 
several years of growth will be needed 
to determine just how high they will 
climb, as the tendency for each new 
.shoot to break quickly into bloom may 
prevent them from gaining sufficient 
size for pillar and veranda planting. 
Training Ruby Queen. —Methods of 
])runing and training roses of the Ruby 
Queen and Rambler types are still un¬ 
settled, but it is well to avoid tying the 
canes stiffly against flat supports. They 
show to best advantage when loosely 
looped to a slender pillar, so they may 
be viewed from more than one stand- 
l)oint. Ruby Queens sent out two and 
three years ago are now getting strong 
enough to throw up tall new growths, 
and any errors in training the early 
shoots are easily rectified. It is best to 
cut out all wood over two years old, as 
well as weak and straggling canes or 
branches, and shorten in the new 
growths to plump sound Aiuds. They 
may then be moved into position and 
tied with strong soft cords, or if very 
rigid, with sections of old rubber hose 
strung on galvanized wire. Such un¬ 
sightly supports will be quickly covered 
when growth starts, and may not be 
neeeded another season if a little atten¬ 
tion is given to directing the new 
breaks. The main point to be consid¬ 
ered is that strong-growing roses need 
liberal feeding. Ground bones and wood 
ashes with a semi-annual dressing of old 
manure are all that is required, but are 
rarely given with sufficient regularity. 
The ashes and bone meal may be applied 
together, about half a pound of the bone 
to a peck of the ashes in early Spring 
or late Summer, and lightly chopped in 
with a hoe or rake. The manure, either 
from the poultry house or barnyard, 
may be put on soon after and lightly 
worked in. Pew roses get such generous 
treatment, but a prompt response is 
then certain with every healthy plant. 
Manure alone as a top-dressing will 
keep most climbing roses in fair condi¬ 
tion, but an excess of phosphorus and 
potash, as found in bones and wood 
ashes, is of the highest value. A skimpy 
rose standing in dry, starved soil is not 
a thing to be enjoyed. 
A.s A Weeping St.vndard. —Now that 
we have handsome, vigorous new roses 
with foliage adapted to our climate it 
would be well to test them as “weeping 
standards,” a mode of training long in 
favor abroad. It essentially consists in 
planting a strong-growing running rose 
in deeply trenched, highly fertilized soil 
and training three or four shoots spiral¬ 
ly around a strong, small support, such 
as a piece of iron tubing deeply driven 
in the ground to form an artificial trunk. 
This support should be four or five feet 
high when properly fixed, and when the 
shoots arrive at the top the tips are 
pinched to cause them to branch and 
eventually droop over in umbrella form 
like the twigs of a weeping tree. This 
makes an effective object when well 
done, and may be grown in two or three 
seasons if strong plants are used at the 
beginning. We have started a five-year- 
old plant tins way, digging out the hard- 
pan in a graded terrace corner in a cir¬ 
cle about three feet in diameter and two 
feet deep. Six inches of cobble stones, 
old bones and sods were thrown in, 
after the bottom and sides had been well 
loosened, and ground bones and ashes 
well mixed in. The excavation was then 
filled with a compost of one-fourth old 
manure and three-fourths garden loam, 
with a few shovels of burned clay, which 
has been found remarkably acceptable 
to most roses. As the filling progressed 
the rose roots were carefully placed in 
position about a li^-inch iron tube seven 
feet long so driven in the hard soil as 
to stand four feet high when the filling 
was brought up to grade. The compost 
was very firmly packed about the rose 
roots, and well trampled over them. 
Roses grow best in a firm soil, other 
things being equal, and should never be 
loosely planted. Four young canes were 
selected, carefully bound to the support, 
and cut off a foot above the top. All 
other growths were pruned away. We 
hope to get a fair specimen in one sea¬ 
son’s favorable growth, but naturally 
cannot expect blooms of any consequence 
the coming year. Ruby Queen should be 
highly suitable for this purpose on ac¬ 
count of the fine contrast of its brilliant 
carmine roses against the glossy and en¬ 
during foliage. It is advised by foreign 
growers to trench the soil three feet 
deep and four feet across for each plant 
when grown this way, but weaker-grow¬ 
ing varieties have generally been select¬ 
ed heretofore. We shall report the de¬ 
velopment of this specimen from time to 
time. 
Imfortei) Tree Roses. —Every year 
thousands of Hybrid Perpetual roses 
budded high on strong Manetti or Dutch 
brier canes are imported and hawked 
about the streets of large ciiies. They 
are sold at any price from |2 each down 
to a few cents as the season advances. 
They are the wonderful tree roses of 
the street fakirs, and latterly of certain 
depai’tmeut stores. They are seldom of¬ 
fered by reputable dealers, as they abso¬ 
lutely refuse to thrive in this country, 
though often well grown and of excel¬ 
lent varieties. If carefully planted they 
sometimes make a good showing as they 
break into first growth and bloom, but 
the Summer heat is quite certain to har¬ 
den the tall stock so that further devel¬ 
opment of top is checked, and a linger¬ 
ing death ensues. If the stems are 
wrapped with moss or otherwise shaded 
they may be kept several seasons by the 
aid of high culture, but the desired 
formal tree-like appearance is too much 
obscured by such treatment to make it 
worth while. w. v. f. 
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