The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-08-27
The Culture of Roses.
Mrs. T. W. Dewing. in Harper's Bazaar.

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give roses too much rich feeding, and you
cannot keep them too clean. They must
be thoroughly watered, and the plants
syringed with whale-oil soap dissolved in
lukewarm water once week at first, and
later once month if there are no bugs.
Instantly when you see single bug
those small green parasites-thoroughly
syringe with whale-oil soap. Water once
a week with a watering potful of lukewarm
water in which table spoonful of nitrite
of soda has been dissolved. This can be
bought in crude form at any druggist S at
ten cents pound. This enriches the
plant and improves the flowers. Let no
rose remain on the plant when 1t Is full
blown. 1t exhausts the plant very much
If your climate is mild, you may have
wide choice of roses. If a New England
climate, do not waste your time on many
roses but the hybrid remOntants. They
will usually winter with some protection,
and they give lavish bloom, and the robust
growth of the plant, with its solid leaves,
is to my mind handsomer than any other
rose but Il few teas. 1t is well to have
some teas for perpetual blooming and the
beauty of the flowers, but they must be
taken into the house in winter.
The Sombreui is a very foriferous tea
rose of charming subtle creamy tone.
But no rose of any class seems to me so
fine as successful Souvenir de Nalmaison.
1t is a tea-rose, but its leaf and stalk have
the vigor Of remontant. The great dark
green leaves have no rival among all the
rose plants. and the flower is large, most
exquisite in form, and in color Il pale
silvery flesh tone with Il blush of rose in
the centre. The Bon Silence is very fori-
ferrous, and the full open rose is as beaut-
full Us the bud. though of all teas 1t Is sup
posed to be most valuable for its buds.
The Duchesse de BrabaBt is charming
tea-rose Of delicate shell pink. 1t grows
luxuriously, and if housed in winter can be
grown To fine size, and lends itself easily
to being made into standard rose "a
form of rose the French delight in, and
which is the handsomest artificial form
that Il rose can be trained into 1t has
great style The method is to cut away all
but the strongest shoots of the tree-Oltcn
the tree is pretty well grown, and then all
the strength goes into that one stem, and 1t
grows very large and light and tall, no
side branching allowed upon it. The foil
age at the top of the one stem grows very |
thick, and it is trained into shapely mass
that bears many roses. The hardy re-
montants can be excellently used for this |
form of rose.
| will give the names of Il few hardy re-
montants which have seen very successful:
The Marshall p. Wilder, which is of a
superb red, the Marquise Castilliane, which |
bears very large rose of magnificent
deep pink; the Annade Diesbach, which is
of beautiful pink, and very large and
very fragrant; the Abel Giraud very fiorl-
ferrous, and of which the bud is most |
shapely; the Silver Queen, which is blush /
rose of great beauty and | might hive
said. first of all, the Mabel MorrisoR, a |
white, with slight pink blush; the Gen.
dark and fragrant; the beau
tiful Baroness Rothschild, a full shell pink
in color, absolutely perfect in form, and |
the most decorative rose. 1t has one |
fault-it has no perfume. But do not let .
this deter you. Places .Jacqueminot next
to it, and you will miss nothing. The |
de st Armand is a lovely |
rose; the Dinsmore is not 80 beautiful in !
FORM but covered with bloom from end to |
end of the season. One delicious sweetbrier |
must be among your roses. Mix other
flowers with your roses. They are finer
so in garden than alone,
Roses, like peoples and marigolds, need |
sun. Set your roses out in the autumn
only if your winter is mild. II you have
a severe winter climate, start them in the |
spring. Then they will get firmly estab-
lished by the autumn, and will winter more
safely They must be ''laid down as late
as possible-that is, gently bent to the
ground and fastened so by means of twigs
put over them like little arches, the ends
of the twigs firmly stuck in the ground;
then, according to the severity of the win
ter, cover them gith straw, leaves, litter,
cloths, lightly or heavily as the winter may
demand A snowless winter is their great