The Portland daily press., 1879-04-16
AGRICULTURAL.
Roses.
Mrs. M. D. W., Yarmouth, Me-, in vck's MONTH.
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Mrs. M. D. W., Yarmouth, Me-, in vick's Monthly
Magazine.]
/ have for several years cultivated few
choice roses. Last spring added twenty to
the number, and nearly all of them set out
n three or four inch pots. In June plunged
these into the soil of my flower garden; two
of my older roses and three of my new ones,
however, we're planted directly in the soil.
ALI thes roses were of the ever-blooming sort.
One OF the three new roses that were set in
the ground, and only one, grew more luXuri-
emily and bloomed more abundantly than
those in the pots; it was that charming rose,
Ben Slene. 1t gave me six roses in mid
summer, and then new shoot spraug up
from the roots, grew very rapidly and put
forth three buds, and branch put forth two
more; SO in the autumn I had five roses,
eleven 10 all on that tiny bush. After pot
ting and removing 10 the house in October, I
let it rest few weeks and then cut off near
ly all of its leaves-from the shoot referred to
removed every one. Now, two weeks later
there are vigorous shoots more than an inch
long, with three buds already peeping forth,
where cut off the leaves.
Several years ago was forced to strip my
bushes OF their leaves, not knowing how 9TH
erwise to get rid of the Aphis, Though have
since proved the virtue of hellebore.) Soon
ssAseA ShHo uSoPShA3 VIC pldat IL WOulu repay
my harshness by putting forth new shoots at
the leatjoint, crowned with buds. Some
people will be so careful of their barren rose
plants that not leaf must be cut off, not
branch pruned: so they have naught but the
unsighty bush to care for, whereas, if they
would cut down the old they might be re-
warded by new growth. But a good rich
soil is quite as essential as pruning-also
moisture and sunshine. I have seen people
who became discouraged because their new
rose plants dropped their leaves. No matter
how green the stalk, "My rose bush is dead,'
they exclaim. land by neglect they soon kill 1t.
If had done SO several OF my choice plants,
that have yielded lovely roses two months
after setting out, would have been failure.
So long as there is life in the stalk there is
hope that it will put forth and bud.
"You have excellent luck with roses"
is often said to me. Yes, 1 rarely lost one,
and 1t is because care for them daily Tea
roses, in their fist years growth, cannot be
long neglected and thrive. What Joy they
have been for the past season, coming one
after another with their varied tints and de-
licious fragrance SO rapidly that from the
time when the outdoor June roses bloomed
until the frosts of October came there were
few days when did not have this Queen of
Flowers to grace my vase. Mad. Planter
gave me more than two hundred pure white
and fragrant blooms in June; Devoniensis,
creamy, white with rosy center, was in bloom
from June till Jack Frost nipped four of her
buds; Alne Sisley yielded her first-born al
most equal in size to the parent bush, color,
a rare shade of violet.red, frightened with a
crimsoned maroon; Aurora blushed with rosy
pink; Rueen of the Bourbons was brilliant
with carmine edged with white; Bougere. a
deep rosy bronze; Mad. Rivoy, a rich Grim
son scarlet; Lefty Coles, splendid, and others
we will not stop to name. have derived so
much pleasure from my collection of roses
that do want everybody to have them. The
pot grown plants can be obtained so cheap,
and come in such fresh state to our homes
it is strange that flower lovers do not cult
vale them more largely.