The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-07-11

India at the present day the rose In
grown In fields OF hundreds Of acres for
the extraction of the altar. The rose
fields of Bengal are described OCCASION
ally by modern writer's in terms as glow
ing as the colors exhibited on the broad
fields. Here the rose bushes are grown
as trees "full fourteen feet high. laden
with thousands of flowers in all states
OF expansion and filing the air with ex-
quisite perfume. In the noted Valley
Of Cashmere the people hold feast of
roses at the most abundant season of
the flowers, when they dance upon the
ground, strewn with roses, amid great
mounds of them, upon which they re-
cline when weary.
At the present day roses are culti-
waited all over the world, but the gardens
of Italy, Spain and France excel in their
culture. The moist, cool climate of En-
gland favors their growth. and standard
roses are grown there to perfection in
many a cottager's humble garden as
well as in the broad grounds of the
wealthy people. In America, the rose
has been too much neglected, but it is
becoming more popular, partly through
The enterprise of the florists and partly
through the iberality of the wealthy
citizens, who spend thousands of dollars
for the flowers. To complain of this
expenditure as wicked waste and
reckless extravaganza is foolish and
mistaken. If any complaint is due it is
because of the possession rather than the
spending of the money, for it is then
scattered usefully among the laborers
who have planted and tended the
roses and the workmen who
have built the rose-houses. Money
so spent is like ''the gentle rain from
heaven; it blesses him who gives and
him who takes. In this way man Of
wealth Is mere agent for the circula-
ton of money, for he can not enjoy q
dollar of his wealth without sharing its
enjoyment with some fellow-creature.
This constantly increasing demand for
flowers encourages their production, and
thus cheapens them,g and enables the
florists to offer whole dozen of rooted
plants, packed ready to go safely by
mail, for a single dollar to every person
who can find the dollar, and what
industrious person can nota And this
business has of late years increased so
enormously that there are several rose
growers who have dozens, and some
more than hundred, propagating
houses, which they fill with the newest
varieties from the growers who make a
specially of producing seedlings and
new kinds, and so spread them broad
cast in the mail-bags from Oregon to
Florida and from Maine to California.
There are now in cultivation hundreds
of named varieties from the purest white
to q deep dark crimson almost black in its
velvety shading. We have even striped
rose and q pure green one, and Others
with shaded eolors and mixed tints and
pure yellows and reds, with every inter
vening shade and mixture of colors, as
saffron, dreamy yellows and whites,
pinks, blush, and fesh-color. A selec-
ton of q hundred varieties costing but
eight dollars offers one Of the most ex-
qmsite delights of the garden for mere
trife; while in few years, by little
pains in propagating by layers or by
cuttings, q large stock may be accum-
ulated sufficient to plant large beds and
fill the whole space around the home
stead with hardy roses, which are grown
as easily as currant bush or a raspber-
~ or grapevine. And, considering the
beauty and delightful fragrance of the
rose and its easy culture, who would moi
wish to have his premises overfowing
with them?-M T. Tunes.