The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-20
GROWING ROSES IN ENGLAND.
Gardens Rich With Fragrant BIoss-
 oms-Varieties of Plants.

From the London Standard
 July this year has proved itself the month of roses The qualification we were denied in June has come to us in fullness a month later Our gardens are rich with the sweet and fragrant beauties They renew our youth. They reawaken our capacity for appreciation, for admiration, for nnspeakable thankfulness. We feel once more the joy of living. The roses enter our hearts. They make for us new earth. We are born again into the king dom of nature, which is paradise. But even paradise is not gained by simple wishing These roses of today are the result of the past industry and the patiei use of acquired skill. If we would perpe- uate and increase in the future what we enjoy so much in the present we must continue to bud roses until all available stocks are used up. We may convert strong common roses growing in our gar dens into bearers of the choicest and finest varieties. We may double the in- terest of a small garden by placing sev- eral varieties on one head and causing them to grow and flower side by side The art of budding gives us the mastery over plants.
 By it thousands of wild rose briers have been transformed into the sweetest of all
  so rapid. so successful mode of increas- ing choice buds that no poor or useless ones hould remain. The unsatisfactory plants which may often be seen covering the walls of houses and outbuildings need not be destroyed or cut down. These plants may be budded all over with im- proved varieties. Their owners, who hate to sacrifice them, can little by little as time and opportunity offer, convert them into sources of new delight. The strength and growing forces of existing plants can be utilized in this way, and directed Into new and satisfactory channels
 There are many of the Boursault, Ayr shire and commoner Noisette varieties of roses which have an enormous capacity for living and growing. Their other claims for consideration as garden plants are small They are tolerated rather than appreciated But the quality they possess of abounding vitality is the very best for the purpose of conversion by budding. To feed and nourish fine varieties, tenacity of life and vigor of growth are just what are needed. Furnish these strong shoots of common roses with buds of charming varieties, perfect in form, color, and scent, and all is well. The amateur who laments the paucity of his stock may ma himself in future the possessor or a good collection All the most charming roses may be budded in this way on to common strong-growing plants. Let the possessor of brier stocks and common plants try his hand at budding them with some or the following choice roses
 Devoniensis for cream white. Gloire de Diion for a beautiful orange-tinted buff' Marechal Mel for a magnificent yellow, Perle des Jardins for lemon color. Celne Forestier for a light yellow, Triomphe de Rennes for a canary yellow, La France for A lilac shaded silver, Alfred Colomb for bright red, Beauty of Waltham for light red, General Jacqueminot for bril- liant scarlet crimson, John Hopper Tor bright rose color, Paul Neron for deep rose Madame Lacharme for faint rosy white. Baroness Rothschild for beauti- full pale rose, Countess of OXford Tor bright carmine red, Bouie de Neige for n,,re white. Charles Lawson for vivid rose color, Coupe dHebe for a deep pink, Jules Margentin for bright cherry red, and Charles Lefebvre for fine. brilliant, vel yety crimson. Budded with these fine roses. the strength and growing power of useless ones and those of little value may be converted into the means of life and the sources of development Of glorious blooms.
 The art of budding is not the only means of increasing collections of choice roses. They can be multiplied by cuttings of half f-ripened wood taken now or later. A convenient spot in a half shaded border should be made quite open with the aid of coarse sand Tn this 1t Is only necessary to insert the cutting firmly. The majority of them will root without any trouble This plan comments itself to some grow CTS. who believe they get better roses grown on their own roots than budded on brier stocks. although longer time is needed to produce fiower-bearing rose plants