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THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
ROSES IN SEPTEMBER. 
Here, in Mid-Sussex, we started the 
month well with a most welcome and steady 
lain of about twenty-four hours’ diiratioin. 
With roots and other growing crops sadly 
in want of water, and the corn almost all 
carried, there has seldom been a more pi'o- 
mising outlook than the present, providing 
we do not get a return of the mid-August 
experiences, when we had more than one 
frost, followed by excessive heat in the day. 
Favourable as the general prospect now 
is, I do not think any crop can be more 
happens they remain in blossom all through 
the present mopth, and even later, a& the 
succession of young buds develops. 
Make a note of the varieties that do 
well in your district, and procure some of 
these for any space that can be spared. 
There is much force in selecting roses suit- 
aide for certain districts, but the following 
are almost certain to do well wherever roses 
can be grown at all, and be particularly 
useful in the autumn months : Frau Karl 
Druschki, Mrs. R. G. Sharman Ci'awford, 
A BEAUTIFUL BOWL OF ROSES, 
For which Mrs. Courteney Page, Enfield, was awarded the first prize at the N.R.S. 
Metropolitan Show. The variety is Kaiserin A. Victoria. 
so than our roses for late autumn flowering. 
Those who have kept the hoe going freely, 
and either mulched or fed their growing 
roses with artificial manures, should now 
reap extra benefit from showers that fall. 
It is too late to feed to any advantage 
now, unless it be by applying some liquid 
manures that would be assimilated at once. 
Keep a sharp look-out for mildew, now we 
are having such sudden changes’of tern- 
perature, and so much young growth is 
in evidence. It is quite useless to delay 
and then take strong measures which 
cannot be in time to stop the ravages of 
the disease, nor used without injury to the 
foliage. The splendidly spreading trusses 
of some late bloomers will produce a grand 
and continuous show of flower, and it often 
and Victor Hugo from the hybrid peri>e- 
tuals; Augustine Guinoisseau, Betty, 
Caroline Testout, Countess of Derby, 
Duchess of Welliington, Edu Meyer, General 
MacArthur, Gustave Regis, Jacques Vin¬ 
cent, La Tosca, Lady Ashtown, Lady Bat¬ 
tersea, Madame Ravary. Mrs. A. R. AVad- 
dell, Pharisaer, and Wliite Killarney from 
the hybrid teas; aiid Corallina, Mrs. B. R. 
Cant, G. Nabonnand, Peace, Lady Roberts, 
Madame Antoine Mari, Madame Charles, 
Madame Jean Dupuy, Marie Van Hoiitte, 
Molly Sharman Crawrford, Souvenir de 
Pierre Netting, and Rubens from the tea- 
scented section. 
Then w'e have Arthur R. Goodwin and 
Rayon d’Or from the newer class of per- 
nettianas, also the dwarf and thoroughly 
September 27. Vr 
perpetual-bloofaihg polyanthas. mor.-. - 
cially the three, varieties Jessie Phvll** 
Mrs. AV. H. Cutbush. ’ • 
Have readers noticed the lengtln-nod. 
play of blossom upon many of our hn 
AVichuraiaiias? In my own . 
quite a show of such as Dorothy Pwk 
Christian Curie, Hiaw^atha, and\si«. , 
Delight and Minnehaha are simply d . 
ing, and promise to remain so fnr . 
time. A climbing or pillar lo-r t)m k.. 
much longer than most i.s Americiui V " 
I am much pleased with the all-n. i!, ' 
haviour of this grand single, with its .• 
green and massive foliage, that has i. 
given me any anxiety jis regard, m ! . 
red rust, or other disea.ses. From tii • 
last it is invariably clean and healtliv i 
ing, while the immense tru-it ke j* > 
succession of bloom for a long time, wh 
wdll soon be followed by small, bright ^ 
heps. 
The rugosas generally are already 
showy with their medlar-like hej>s, tW 
Rosa riigosa atropiirpnrea being ])ar:, 
larly prominent and bright. The Impi a 
autumn-tinted foliage of this st'ctioa j,.. 
them well w^ortb growing indejjeiKh ni \ 
their extreme hardiness and early hl. rri :i 
I would advise the careful exaniinati": 
buds inserted last summer. The jt.- 
rains will encourage prolonged and \ . 
rous growth that is apt to result in a 11 
than iisiial sw-elling of the stock, <'n 
quently some slight loosening of th<* t’** > 
be necessary. This is very quickb i 
effectively done by passing the point 
sharp knife down the tying inateriai an t 
opposite side of the rosebud. Only jtiFt r 
through the tie, and when there 
danger of constriction. 
Those who contemplate grafting any p 
during the coming wdnter months m ■ 
lift and pot up some stocks ready for t 
purpose. Use small pots, goo<l comp ¬ 
and plunge in ashes or suitable 
three or four inches al>ove tlie stem. ^ 
will not only keep all free from 
drought, but will s^ure a hi'althv i. 
softer bark upon w^hich to put the > 
or graft, with the effect of quickei 
and junction. 
Send in your orders for rases. J 
better for both vendor and 
make early arra,ngeinenfii. One has a • * 
advantage of trying 
cially-desired variety should . 
not have it, or be already 
A BOWL OF ROSES. 
t the National Rose ^<**^’**7 
Exhibition, held at 
y 4, the numerous classes tor 
display of roses formed a ver> i. ^ 
^resting feature. The sec lo ^ ^ ^ 
Y to ladies, and it was all . ^ 
?sting, because the idea kep , 
arrangement of rases . 
i of the home. One 
« was for a bowl of bit ^* J- 
competitors admiiaoly denu _ 
t, eo often set out 
ibition flowers of - r ' 
y be disposed ^ Cije firs*, b 
ibits w^ere set up, i ■ 
1 was especially ®“ j^ision 
5 cavilled because Orir-f 
ping or ixaisera „ 
rate herewith. ^ ^ 
in the same elass 
nie Sonpert and fori'■* 
lilting these varieties purB«“ 
„ hv Mrs. e- 
