The daily gazette., 1879-06-13


their shade Ms-nOw is the time to plant
for next year. In the autumn one has
grown rather tired OF the garden and il
Is altogether too damp to be lOng OH the
ground. In the spring there is never time
fJr everything. 30 now choose where
you will have your rose bed. X, ses had
better be grown by themselves. They
are easily Overrun by cOarser plants and
they Will not thrive without plenty Ot
sun and air. II is useless tO make rose
bed, however, unless you have a place
which 10 tree roots invade. 1t is not the
shade of trees which spoils the garden;
IL Is the roots of the trees, which SOON
find out every bit OF rich soil and take
possession OF IL and starve out the feebler
plants. The best possible place for the
bed would be on the south side Of all
evergreen hedge or clump, which would
protect 1t from the winter wind without
The strong, hot reflection Of wall. You
must have sun and you must have
proper sOil. The proper soil is made
from the top soil of pasture field. The
vegetable fibre furnished by the roots Of
grass keeps the ground open and adds to
its fertility. Heavy, compact clay will
not do, nor will sand alone. The proper
liam feels smooth when rubbed in the
hand. If it have no vegetable fibre de-
cAyed leaves will answer to keep the
ground open. To make the bed properl,
the whole space should be dug out to a
depth Of loot; another foot deep should
be turned over with the spade, and then
the whule filled up with the loam de-
scribed.
But when you decide on the size of
the bed you must decide also upon how
you will protect the rose plants in the
winter, and the best plan is to make a
frame like hot-bed frame, higher at the
back than the front. Let is slope tow
ards the south if practicable, and provide
roof of boards, some of which are left
loose. 1t is wet more than cold which
kills the plants in winter. II the water
is thrown OFT the bed, and if in mild
weather, when the plants are not frozen,
air and light are given to the plants,
most of them will safely get through the
winter with only the loss Of thin, young,
unripened twigs. This plan is better
and easier to do than any other. Make
your frame when you make your bed or
1t will not get made in time. The large
rose-growers now furnish plants in pots
at any time Of the year, and at such low
rates that you may make your rose bed
at once, but it will require great deal
of watering through July and August.
However, you may be repaid by the au-
tumn Towering, which, if sparse, is quite
as beautiful and more precious than that
of June. The plants will be very small,
however, and will not do much before
next year, and even then they will not
be very large, but the year after-the
year after the new President comes in
you will have something to be proud of.
That is, if you have obeyed The Time,
about sunshine and soil and have never
, forgotten to water the plants when they
| were really dry. Plants which are well
| established in the ground do not need
water except when the weather is really
dry-a little sprinkle on the ground is
of no advantage. When they need wa
ter they should have soaking.
THE ROSES TO PLANT.
What are called tea roses are best for
small garden, and they are much the
most beautiful. There is now a deep red
tea rose, the Duchess of Edinburgh.
There is every shade of pink, of yellow
| anu al dluuOot puiO WhltCs hO idi 80
double ones are superb, but are not 81
| good for the garden, as they mature
their flowers slowly apd the buds are
liable to accident during their prolong ed
growth. The best plan is to begin with
a few varieties of established WORTH
When their habits have been well learn
ed the variety may be enlarged. In rose
growing. as in everything else, Jestano
tente. hasten slowly, Is the best advice
aud we are all more likely to ,persevere
If we are not too heavily weightt d.
If the new bed is to contain twenty
four plants, let it be four feet by nine
planting in three rows, a foot apart each
way, This is much the most convenient
way though not so picturesque. Six
kind of roses will be enough to begin
with, and fortunately one may find those
which are unexceptiOnabls in every
way moderately hardy, all of them good
growers, free bloomers and with suffi
cient variety of color, and the names are
these:
1. Bon Silene, probably the best ROSE
or general purpose now grown; it u
pink and very fragrant. 2. SAT. ano, i
buff, and when half open is most lovely
3. Agrippina, bright red and very Col
stanJ bloomer. but not fragr mt, being ;
Bourbon rose. 4. Isabelli Sprunt is on
of the few roses which originated ii
America. lb was prOuuCeu ny new Ode
Sprunt, Of Georgia, and named afte
his daughter. 1t il pale yellow and yer.
beautiful in 5ud.E5. Dutfess of Braban
Is alnew pink rose, rather small but of Al
exquisite delicacy, both of COLOR an
shape. 6. Madame Bravy l add to thu
lit because II is white or nearly whit
q d i very beautiful, but does not grow
OF bloom so freely ~ the others. Their
Is, however, no white rose which is en-
iirely satisfactory
Is 1t not delightful to think of the nun
Der of people who in this charming jun
weather are going every morning an
evening to look at their roses? HOY
beautiful they find the young red shoot
with the little green buds atop; the buds
grown older, showing a little pink
tip; the haif-open bud, with its deliciou
mysterious, glowing heart, and the full
opened beauties, all their loveliness di
played. But-their worm dieth not an
the bug and the slrg and spider and mi
dew and canker and scall are all read
to seiz. their beautiful prey All thes
have to be guarded against and bus
person will probably find that two do7
en- plants are as many as can well be Il
ken care of. e. Z. l..
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