Evening star., 1901-06-01
A H ED GE OF RIOS S
LOVELY DISPLAY MADE OF THE
QUEEN OF FLOWERS.
Best Plants to Select The Planting
and the Care Re-
quired.


The mistress of the flower garden was
rose enthusiast. Moreover, she had had
wide experience in growing flowers, so
when she planned rose hedge that was to
border the south walk and said 1t was to
be a success, her friends expected 1t to be-
But even "the lady of roses,' as some one
had called her was astonished at the mag
nificent display that this same rose hedge
made, when once well established. Travel
ers would check their horses and gaze at
it, riotous in large blooms, white, pink
rose, crimson and maroon, such a sight as
they had never seen before.
This the way this successful flower
hedge was made. A strip of ground fifty
feet long and two-and-a half wide was pre-
pared for the rose plants. The first step
was to have this strip spaded deeply and
thoroughly. 1t was done as soon as the
ground was well enough dried out in the
spring to pulverize nicely when worked.
The spadng made the entire strip crum-
bled, yellow mass. clear down to the under
strata of clay beneath. This clay subsoil in
itself Is exactly to a roses liking. The
friable earth above gave every opportunity
for the roots to make rapid growth, End
find their way downward to the deep clay
anchorage that their whole being delight
ed in.
The next step was to enrich this spaded
strip. Barnyard manure that had been
piled In heap six months or more to rot.
and had become a soft, dark substance that
pulverized at the touch of the spade
rake, was spread along the plot 1t was
put on thickly, layer at least six inches
deep. Then the SCOT that had been saved
from the spring stovepipe cleaning was
added to the manure, and the whole thing,
earth, manure and SCOT, mixed thoroughly
through and through. Fine blooded roses
are hearty eaters. ROtted manure is rich
in the very elements of plant food that they
most like. Wood SCOT has the property of
increasing the intensity of roses color
i,cy How I,Sl oh,
aids all roses Will grow as by magic AS a
high -bloOded rose grows it blooms. and it's
profusion Of bloom is in direct ratio with
the rapidity and luXuriance of its growth.
SO that this well-prepared bed was itself
guarantee of good roses before so much as
a single rose root had been planted in it.
The mistress of the garden chose for her
hedge upright growing Hybrid Perpetuals
and Hybrid Teas. These have stiff
strafght-Growng canes, and are the ONLY
roses suitable for hedges. Tea roses are too
weak-stemned, and Bourbon and China
roses too dw growing to be available
Moreover, the Hybrid Perpetuais and Hy-
brid Teas are hardy with slight protection
while the others are not. A hedge once
made of hardy kinds is good for lifetime
ana improves year by year, if steadily well
cared for
These hybrid roses have the largest and
most grandly perfect blossoms of any of
the rose family. Their blossoms have great
substance also, and are particularly rich
In deep rose, crimson and blackish- maroon
shades. Their one fault Is that many of
the varieties are perpetual in name only,
blooming but once in the season. The two
dozen rose plants that went to the making
up of this hedge We're carefully chosen one
by one from those sorts that do bloom
freely throughout the season-and really
there is no lack Of such varieties partic-
ularly among the new roses. This hedge
list embraced twenty sorts of roses one of
klhd, ana two each of that royal white
rose, haiserin Augusta Victoria, and Of
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queminot, Madame Charles Wood and
American Beauty. The fun list embraced
beside these. the following: Margaret
Dickson and Ball of Snow both pure white
and of the most perfect shape; Belle Sci
brecht, La France, Mrs. John Laing,
Madame Schwaller, Madame Testout, Paul
Neyron Queen of Queens and Madame
Mason, each a remarkably fine flower and
each shade of fine, clear pink; Souvenir
de NoottOn, Dinsmore and Meteor all of
which are of dark glowing red shades in
contestaSy the richest colors found in
roses; In addition were Viscountess Folk
stone, a glossy. satiny flesh; Gloire Lyon
alse, chamois yellow white, unlike any
other rose, and Prince Camille de Rohan
Velvety purplish black. These odd-colored
varieties are not all perpetual boomers
but their rare gifts of color made an ex-
cepuon In their favor. This list of Vari-
eties Is given because it has proven good
ana rehable one. but IT might be varied
somewhat to suit Individual taste. In the
main. however these two things must be
kept in mind to secure a pleasing hedge:
Continuous blooming sorts must be largely
chosen, and there should be a goodly pro-
portion OF white and deep red roses as
these are the most valued for cutting
For this particular hedge two-year- ,Ia
bushes We're planted. The cost was about
twice that of smaller rose plants, but the
advantage was that they were of sufficient
size 20 bloom at once. 1t is not advisable
to allow young bushes of hybrid roses to
bloom much the first year. Some of our
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this is allowed. 1t is better to pay a little
more and reap immediate advantage Of the
outlay of the money
Last or all, mulching of fine pulveriZed
manure was spread all over the surface of
the bed, after the roses were planted This
kept the weeds down, and the rose roots
cool through the hot summer DAYS for this
hedge faced the sun, as all paintings of
roses should. Roses were freely cut with
long stems, to encourage a new growth
and no rose was allowed to go to seed
Each spring the entire hedge was trimmed
severely back, for hybrid roses bear on
the new wood And this is the true history
of the famous rose hedge.
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