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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
February 1. 1908 
To Agricultural Machinists, 
Farmers, Country Storekeepers, 
re) 
Ironmongers, &c., &c. 
UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE LIQUIDATOR OF MESSRS. 
JAMES MARTIN & CO. LTD., GAWLER: 
Sh 
THEODORE BRUCE & CO. 
Haye been favored with instructions to sell as above, ON THE PREMISES, on 
FEBRUARY 18th, at 11 a,m., and starting daily at the same time until 900 
lots are disposed of— . 
A Large Assorted Collection 
of First-class Agricultural 
Implements, Harvesters, Strippers, Winnowers, Cultivators, 
Ploughs (fixed, disc, and stump-jump), Seed Drills, Harrows, 
Waggons, Horseworks and Chaffcutters, Cultivator Plough 
and Scarifier Shares of all sizes, and a host of Sundries, 
in Lots to suit Purchasers 
to) 
Full particulars will be given in 
daily and weekly papers. Catalogues may uow be 
obtained from the 
_ Auctioneers’ Offices: 28 Old Exchange, Pirie Street. 
The Forcing of Roses. 
(Concluded), 
In nearly all cases where r.ised beds 
are used, it is customary to throw out 
the plants after cropping them for one 
season, but if they have been planted late 
and have not been forced, some of the 
smaller sorts may be dried off and rested, 
and after a few weeks taken up, placed in 
small pots and kept in a shaded place 
until the roots have filled the pots, when 
they may be repotted, or at once planted 
out in fresh soil. upon the beds. As a 
rule, it will be better to replant with well- 
grown young plants. 
When grown in solid beds, the same 
result is secured without taking them 
from the bed. The plants are dried off, 
so that they will rest, but not enough so 
that they will shrivel, and kept in this 
condition for six weeks or two months. 
The small wood should then be cut out, 
and the remaining branches headed back. 
A little of the surface soil can then be 
removed, if it can be done without dis- 
turbing the roots, aud a rich mulch ap- 
plied to the bed. Water should then be 
applied, but rather sparingly at first, so 
as to avoid saturating the soil before the 
growth has started. If properly handled, 
a heavy cut should be secured, and the 
results for the season will oftentimes be 
as great as could ba obtained from new 
plants, while there will be quite a saving 
in the expense for the plants and for 
renewing the soil. Some of the most 
successful growers make a practice of 
carrying over about one-half of the plants 
each year, 
If they are to be replaced, as soon as 
they are past the period of profitable 
flowering, or when the beds are needed 
for replanting. the plants should be re- 
moved and burned and the soil taken 
from the table. The benches should at 
once be repaired and made ready for new 
plants. It is well to paint all the wood- 
work of the benches and walls each year 
with a hot wash composed of eqnal: parts 
of lime and cement, to which a smell 
quantity of salt has heen added. This 
can be applied rapidly with a whitewash 
brush, and will help to. preserve the 
lumber and destroy insects, besides im- 
proving the interior ot the house. If 
the plants have been troubled with fungi 
and insects, it will be well to.burn a 
small quantity of sulphur, but it should 
not be done while there are plants in the 
adjoining houses, as it will prove fbtal to 
them as well as to the insects and the 
germs of the diseases. Nearly as good 
results can be obtained, however, without 
injury to the plants if the sulphur is 
slowly evaporated over an oil stove. 
When the plants have been in the beds 
for six weeks or two months, the growth 
will generally be sufficient to require 
staking, Most growers still tie with 
raffia to stakes of wood or bamboo and 
by an occasional re-tying keep the shoats 
in place. The use of wire is, however, 
becoming quite common, and rose growers 
have devised a variety of trellises for the 
purpose. One of the simplest of these 
consists of a No. 12 wire stretched about 
three feet above the bed over each row of 
plants to support stakes of No. 6 or No. 
8 wire, to which the plants can be tied. 
Sometimes another wire is run lengthwise 
of the house along each row of plants, 
near the soil, and a smaller wire, fastened 
to this at the bottom and to the other 
wire at the top, can be used as a support 
for each plant. Still.a third method is to 
run about three wires (No, 12 galvanized) 
lengthwise of each row and one above:the 
‘other at intervals of about one foot, the 
lower wire being about the same distance 
from the soil. The wires will need to be 
stretched and fastened at each end to a’ 
gas pipe framework, and supported at 
intervals of twenty-five feet with a lighter 
framework. 
Although there is considerable expense 
at first for the wires, it will be found very 
satisfactory, and in the end perhaps less 
expensive than any of the old methods. 
If desired, it will be a simple matter to 
so arrange the long wires that, when re- 
filling the beds, they can be drawn up 
out of the way. 
The care required in forcing hybrid 
perpetual roses is different than for teas 
and for most hybrid teas, as the plants 
make thtir growth and have a period of 
rest before flowering. They are generally 
grown in solid beds, but sometimes boxes 
or pots are used When grown in beds 
they should have thorough drainage with 
tiles. stones, or broken brick, arranged in 
the saine way as described for tea roses, 
and provided with eight or nine inches of 
rich compost. Although cuttings are often 
used, the largest blooms can be obtained 
when they are e:ther budded, or grafted, 
upon Manetti stocks. : 
The plants should be set early. They 
should be ripened off by gradually with- 
holding water, and enly giving them 
enough to keep the plants trom wilting 
and shrivelling. By syringing morning 
and evening, the plants can often be kept 
from wilting without wetting the soil. 
During rains the beds should be kept dry, 
as, if the soil becomes saturated, rest will 
be prevented and the crop will be a failure. 
If in pots or boxes, they should be turned 
upon their sides during rains. From four 
to six weeks will generally be rest enough, 
and when growth has stopped and the 
shoots have taken on a lighter color, they 
should be pruned, removing the weak 
shoots and cutting the strong onos back 
to sound wood and plump buds, After a 
few a few days, scrape off the top soil and 
replace with a fresh compost of equal 
parts of rotten sods and cow inanure. 
Water thoroughly, and repeat when the 
soil becomes-dry, Syringe every pleasan ¢ 
Mrs. Anna Porter, 
7 Arcade, Rundle Street, 
(GRENFELL STREET ENTRANCE), 
ADELAIDE. 
Choice Works of Art and’ Novelties. 
Inspection invited, 
