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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
HINTS ON PLANTING ROSES. 
The conditions necessary to have good roses and plenty of 
blooms in the right season, are proper varieties, rich soil, moisture 
and clean culture. 
The varieties best adapted for out-door culture in the northeast 
are the ramblers and the hybrid perpetuals. Among the ramblers 
the varieties especially to be recommended are Dorothy Perkins and 
Crimson Rambler. Among the hydrid perpetuals we mention as 
especially valuable Madame Plantier, Marshall P. Wilder, Margaret 
Dickson, Magna Charta, Madame Gabriel Luizet, Clio, General 
Jacqueminot, -Caprice, Coquette des Blanches, Paul Neyron and 
Prince Camille de Rohan. These are all hardy out-door roses in 
New York State, if partially covered in winter. 
The best time to set roses is in early spring, but they can be set 
in autumn, if well covered. We prefer to get strong, well rooted 
two years old plants, on their own roots, if possible. We have no 
use for the small weak job lots of rose plants that are offered by the 
5 and io cent stores in the great cities. These are the culled-out 
plants of the great rose nurseries, who gladly sell them to the depart¬ 
ment stores for a song, if they take the entire surplus. These strong 
two-year plants should be cut back quite close to the main stem, say, 
two-thirds of the young green wood that grew the year before. 
They should then be set in the soil which has been previously well 
enriched with manure about an inch deeper than they grew in the 
nursery. They may be set in rows about three or four feet apart 
and, the plants should be about two feet apart in the row, if we 
desire to grow them on the nursery plan. 
After the plants are set, they should be well cultivated along 
with the other garden crops near them and hoed as often as it is 
necessary to keep the land in good condition and the weeds from 
growing about them. Some of the plants will bear roses the first 
year. These should be cut when they open nicely, for if allowed to 
remain too long and to drop their petals, it tends to exhaust the 
plant. The ramblers can be trained over porches or unsightly 
objects, or they can be kept close pruned like other roses. In the 
latter form they are fully as effective as when allowed to have full 
sweep. High-grade commercial fertilizers, rich in nitrogen to 
induce a healthy, vigorous growth and also in potash and phosphoric 
acid to iruluce the production of a large crop of bloom may be used. 
We use a grade analyzing four per cent, ammonia, io per cent, 
potash and io per cent, phosphoric acid. At each application we 
put on a good sized spoonful to each plant, spreading it well about 
the roots, say a foot each way from the main stem, digging it into 
the soil with the hoe. Dressings or mulchings of well rotted manure 
or leaf mold are excellent. 
The hybrid perpetuals will bloom in June and first part of July 
and a few blooms will be produced in late fall. 
The rose slug is very destructive to the plants by devouring the 
leaves just as the plants are coming into blossom. If left to itself, 
the crop of roses will be a failure. The slug.and the plant lice are 
best kept in check by using soap suds from the wash tub, or by an 
application of kerosene emulsion. One must try to get this on the 
under side of the leaves, as much as possible in order to catch all the 
slugs. For this purpose the autospray pump is very convenient and 
does the work most effectively. 
Roses should be protected in some way in order to endure the 
hard winters of New York State. One plan is to heap earth about 
the stems, another is to wind them with straw. We have had very 
good results by standing empty boxes or barrels over them. A long 
tree box will often cover several plants, if they are in a continuous 
row. Climbers should be taken from their perches and lain gently 
down and held in place with stones or earth and well covered with 
leaves, straw and earth, not too deeply, but just so as to hide them 
from the sun and sudden changes of winter and spring. Roses must 
be uncovered before they start in spring, or the blossom buds will 
slough off and. there will be no blooms. There is some work and 
care necessary to produce nice roses, but they are the finest of all 
flowers and well worth the effort. 
L. J. Farmer, 
fJotc and Comment. 
STERILIZING TANK FOR SOIL. 
The Iowa Experiment Station has reported the cost and speci¬ 
fications of a sterilizing tank for the purpose of sterilizing green¬ 
house soils, as follows: 
2 4J barrels cement. $4-95 
2 % yards gravel. .55 
Four 16-foot planks. 3 85 
23 feet 46-inch woven wire fencing. .65 
135 feet 1 J^-inch wrought iron pipe. 14-85 
Three feet 2-inch wrought iron pipe. .60 
Six, 1 J^-inch tee connections. .66 
Two, 1 l / 2 -inch tee connections. .22 
One, 1 J^-inch tee connections . .22 
17, 1 J^-inch plugs .. .85 
Nine, 2-inch caps. .90 
$28.30 
The figures are for a tank 14x4x4 feet. 
The Nematode Worm is an insect which is exceedingly injurious 
to various types of crops in the South. It attacks cow peas, field- 
grown tomatoes and occasionally fruit stocks. In the North, how¬ 
ever, it is only destructive to green-house crops. In such cases, soil 
sterilization is not only possible but very feasible, and the tank 
described by Prof. A. T. Erwin is an efficient means of ridding the 
soil of these very undesirable tenants. 
APPLE SHIPPERS WARNED. 
Albany, N. Y., Sept. 8. 
The State Department of Agriculture has sent out a circular 
calling attention to the law relating to the requirements as to the 
dimensions of barrels used in the sale of apples, pears or quinces. 
These requirements are as follows: 
Head diameter, 17 kg inches; length of stave, 28 _K inches; bulge 
not less than 64 inches, outside measurement, but if the barrel be 
made straight these dimensions must be altered as may be necessary 
to still provide the same capacity. 
Any person who makes or causes to be made barrels for use in 
the purchase or sale of apples, pears or quinces, or any person who 
packs apples, pears or quinces in barrels for sale, or sells apples, 
pears or quinces in barrels which contain a less quantity than the 
barrel above described, shall brand said barrels upon each end and 
upon the outside conspciuously in letters i ]/ 2 inches in length with 
the words “short barrel.” 
Section 37 of the agricultural law provides: Every person 
violating any of the provisions of the agricultural law shall forfeit 
to the people of the State of New York the sum of not less than $50 
nor more than $100 for the first violation, and not less than $100 nor 
more than $200 for the second and each subsequent violation. 
FIRMS INCORPORATED. 
Castle Haynes, N- C.—The Horticultural Company; capital 
$25,000; subscribed by Andrian Van Lauwen, H. H. Dewildt, and 
others. 
Rochester, N. Y.—The Co-operative Nurseries’ Company; 
capital $25,000; directors, James A. Ryan, Jacob G. Feist, and John 
E. Kaveney. 
Tippecanoe City, Ohio.—Farmers’ Nfirsery Co.; capital in¬ 
creased from $20,000 to $200,000; T. J. Dinsmore, president; S R. 
Fergus, secretary. 
Portland, Ore.— Riverside Orchards’ Co. Capital stock $40,000. 
Incorporators; Fred A. Jacobs, L. J. Barber and Harry M. Hillis. 
Spokane, Wash.—Spokane Floral Association; capital stock 
$10,000. Incorporators: Mrs. J. W. Gilson, Miss Frances Burchett, 
Mrs. E. Axelson, Mrs. Josephine Blinkeroff, Mrs. Hary A. Hutton. 
Pulaski, N. Y. 
