The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-28
Roses.

ton for thousands of years, and every
pains has been taken to improve it
and yet, strange to say, some of the
greatest Improvements have been made
within the last five years; for instance,
good color, hardness, endurance, fra
gran ce, size, and some other good quail
ties of rose, have been combined in a
climber, thus giving rs at once all that
could be asked for in any flower.
1t is one of the most difficult things
to do in arranging lists of stock for
house and garden to make out and OBJ
tain lists of roses; for when you ask
for an extra kind, the chances are that
the dealer is just out of that kind,
and that this kind will do just as we'll,
or that he will put in an inferior kind
under the name called for, trusting to
luck about detection.
There are three general classes of roses,
as follows:
First, The common hardy June roses,
that bloom but once year, and are
we'll known to all.
Second, The hybrid perpet uals or re-
montants. These are yearly hardy like
the first class, but will bloom during
the season if the flowers are cut off as
fast as they come out.
Third, The monthly. This compris-
es four sub-classes-the noisette, tea,
bengal, bourbon. All of this class are
tender, and need great care and pro-
lection to carry them through the winter
out Of doors. The best way to cover
for the winter is to dig trench, three
or four inches deep, by the side of the
bush, and bend the bush over into it
and fasten it down by pegs. and cover it
all over with sods, green side upward ;
but it is no use to do this if the bush
does not stand in soil naturally dry or
well drained. This covering should be
delayed just as long as possible, or
till December, at least; the ground may
be covered earlier in the season with
leaves or straw, to keepit from freezing
till that time. Early in the spring un-
cover, raise up, and prune closely.
Roses are easily propagated by cut
tings, using hard soft wood. Hard wood
cuttings should be put in the fall, and
they require low temperature and a
long time: but with soft wood cuttings
made from growing shoots or
flower stalks good plants are formed
in two or three weeks. Cuttings
rooted in the fall will usually be
large enough to bed out in the spring,
and those rooted in March and kept in
pots, with one or two shifts during the
season, and otherwise well cared for,
will be in good order for winter flower
ing. The pots should be put in sunny
place and kept we'll watered and when
removed in the fall to the house, prune
closely.
If roses are we'll grown and cared for,
they are almost exempt from any disease
unless it may be mildew. In the house
this can usually he cured by exposing
the plants to the fumes of melted sui
phur, and in the border out of doors by
busting the leaves with flour of sui
phur.
The four principal insect enemies of
the rose are the green fly, the rose slug,
the thrips, and last, but not least, the
rosebug; he is really hard customer to
deal with, defies sulphur, tobacco, lime,
soap, and the best way to get rid of
him is to crush or burn him. The other
insects are easily destroyed by fumigat-
ing with tobacco, or showering the
leaves with a detection of tobacco, or
solution of whaleoil soap.
In answer to the question, "What
kind OF roses shall plants" Peter
Henderson (about the best practical
authority in the country answers: Al
invariably recommend the monthly"
The rose hourishes best in stiff,
loamy soil, and demands high culture.
Parkman, in his Book of Roses" says,
at is scarcely possible to enrich too
highly" He thinks one-fOurth old we'll
rotted stable manure to three-fourths
good soil is not an excessive proportion.
can say, from personal experience, that
roses grown on ground thus enriched,
frequently stirred, and kept free from
weeds, are larger, more perfectly formed,
and freer from diseases or insects.
|. The following are given AS standard
kinds to plant:
Clim6ers-Madam d. Arblay, Gem of
the Prairies, Baltimore Belle, Queen of
the Prairies.
Perpetuals-Giant of Batsilles, Gen.
Washington, Mad. Rivers, Lord Raglan.
Noisette-Lamargue, Solfaterre, Mar
shall Neil.
Bourbon Hermoss, Souvenir de la
Malmaison, Vulcan.
7ea-Safrano; Bon Silene.
Bengal-Agrippina, Louis PHILIPPE.
If you cannot get what you want, get
the best you can afford, and propagate
only the best, and you will soon have a
stock of roses.-IH inois Teacher.
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