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Rose Beauty of Waltham. 
This old favorite is now in its forty-fifth year, and is still to be found amongst the 
prize-winners, It blossoms freely in the Spring, and is bright cherry red in color, 
passing to rosy-carmine, and the fragrance is very sweet. 
imbricated, the centres characteristically folded over each other. 
The petals are somewhat 
Beauty of Waltham 
is a first-rate kind to grow as.a standard, either outdoors or as a pot plant for the 
rose-house ; it is also good in bush form. 
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ROSES AS POPULAR HOME FLOWERS. 
How They Are Grown. 
[Extracts from a paper read by Mr. George D. Leedle, of Springfield, Ohio, before the 
American Rose Sosiety in Convention at Buffalo, N.Y.,, March 17 to 19, 1909 | 
In Springfield and its suburbs, the 
annual crops of small rose plants con- 
siderably exceeds 4,000,000, and in a 
season of liberal planting and favorable ~ 
conditions for propagating, the aggregate 
would probably approximate 5,000,000. 
Quite a large percentage of this product 
is consumed by the firms issuing mail 
order catalogues which go to the homes 
of the people, the remainder going to 
florists and nurserymen throughout the 
land for the various purposes of retailing 
in the market as pot plants, benching for 
cut blooms, bedding for ornamental pur- 
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poses and landscape gardening, and for 
lining out in the nursery row to become 
field-grown bushes. 
= Method of Propagation. — 
To accomplish this result, 400,000 or 
more young plants from 1} to 2} inch 
pots are planted on the benches in rows 
five to six inches apart during the period 
from about January to April, depending 
‘upon the ability of the sales department 
to make room by early shipments of 
‘stock, _ Pretty high temperatures até 
‘then maintained, the sunshine being 
largely depended upon for daytime heat, 
and ‘from perhaps May to August, the 
wood is cut as it happens to come into 
just the proper state of ripeness accord- 
ing to the judgment of the grower it 
charge, the number, of successive growths 
‘and cuts varying from one to three 
according to the variety, season and 
demand for each particular sort. Occa 
sionally, a belated lot of stock plants 
remain on the benches and propagation 
in the opposite season is resorted to, but 
this is only an emergency measure, the 
preference here being to adhere closely *° 
Summer propagation, 
The wood is made up into cuttings of 
from one to a half-doven eyes, according 
to variety, rarity, condition, abundance 
demand, season, and various other 
governing circumstances, usually in the 
Summer months but occasionally +h@ 
work is prolonged into the Fall. Th? 
rooting is accomplished in hotbeds and 
requires from two to six or more weeks 
according to variety and weather com 
ditions, the percentage of the + strike 
depending largely upon the skill and 
experience of the grower and hig ability 
to master adverse weather and othe? 
conditions, but some percentage of Jost 
is inevitable under the most favorable 
circumstances, 
Potting of the rooted cuttings 18 the 
next step, these going into 1} or 2 ine 
pots, thea set down on the benches 
watered and carefully shaded for some 
daysfuntil strong enough to endure the 
direct. rays. of the sun. During the 
Autumn sunshine, substantial roots 4? 
tops are made until the nutriment 12 the 
potful of soil is practically exhaust? 
then a shift is made to a 2 or 24 inch ie 
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