Show Expert Advice Given on Roses i For Beautiful Home Gard Card l OWN HOOT I IROSE ROSE i Il S IS IlIE IlP P TO JO T fY 3 sow LAL Ml OF MTH TN If WOK rT cOTT iff TACT JUST OfT T AS AME 1 SOT SO T AY AV POT Q 3 a S WHEE TO PLANT 2 2 How to Select Prune and J Plant New Rose Bushes By PERLEY A HILL Secretary Amateur Gardeners' Gardeners Asso Asso- Aso- Aso and Former Sexton of City Cemetery Most roses furnished b by dealers are own root or low budded tock stock Own r root ot roses are struck from cuttings and after ater development develop ment mont are aro potted oft off and kept in cool greenhouses then sold with the theall ball bal all of earth erth attached These are the best bet for planting because they are arc alive e al and growing at the time of ot purchase which insures insure immediate results These roses are arc sold sol by Eastern Estern dealers in one two and year three grades ranging In prices usual usually year one-year t two two- oe year e r year three 7 c. c with the express i added year One stock is best jest to bu buy and should be planted in beds twelve Inches apart and after alter the thc second year remove every other one Beds should be well vell wel drained d and composed of or good garden garden garden gar gar- den soil son deeply dug and heavily mulched with well wen rotted cow manure manure manure ma ma- nure and for best results exposed to ful full sun Bun These roses are the safest for Cor th the tho amateur to plant as there is no root disturbance the ball ban of earth merel merely being tamped in its bed two Inches below ground round level Jevel Low Budded Roses Low budded roses mean that the thereal thereal thereal real rose is budded on a wild rose root brier manetti or dogwood The real rel rose rOJe must be budded low and in order to be bo hardy the bud must muni b be bl at a l least leant ast three Inches below below 11 I DORMANT 1 OSE c Mr F fo F 0 cv If i xai 1 II rOl wr f JN J TU J DJ nij I O 7 TO FAt z S I J Up t ny WATS JHEE ro to 0 s fA fT t r j T 7 v JM 4 yi JM I V I PERLEY A. A HILL the tho soil soi at time of planting If I th the the bud is left lef exposed above the ground it i will wi winter ki kill In this climate This class of stock is iR usually propagated propagated pro pro- in the bench then lieu field grown then allowed to become dormant dormant dormant dor dor- mant then dug duJ and shipped with wih no soil boil soi on tho the roots The Tho ros roses s are arc shipped In large lare quantities and are sold sometimes as low as por per dozen makin making it possible for Cor everone everyone everyone every ever one to have havo roses When buying select the thc ones budded budded bud hud ded low close to the root and those which show life at least six inches above the thc bud The Tho heavy hevy roots root below the bud hud are tap tp roots and each ech one should have at least two Inches cut from its Is tip tp this will wil wi force a growth of ot fibrous roots which furnish tho the life le of ot tho the plant The best way to plant is In prepared pro pre pared beds trenches or individual holes dug dug to a depth of eighteen Inches and heavily mulched with wih cow manure See Seo that the root Is no not crowded fill till in with fine fino soil soi and manure about two thirds of or the tho hole and then with wih a bucket of oC water puddle around roots after ater this seeps away finish filling Ung in and then press down firmly with wih foot Care should be bo taken to set the budded Joint at lest least three Inches below the thc ground level After th tile the therose rose I Is set prune back all al woo wood leaving having HavinS only three or four Cour eyes ces on each ech stem The soil son about now roses rose should be continually cultivated am and oc occasionally fed ted with wih well wel rotted cow manure Hybrid perpetual roses should b be planted two feet apart hybrid tea te roses ei eighteen Inches apart This ThI rule applies apples to low budded stock only own root roses aro are planted ci closer oser Pruning of Established Roses Do this In the thc spring just before the tho leaf lear buds unfold untold Hybrid Per Per- Cut Cut out all dead canes cu cut cutout cutout out center canes cut back all woo wood within two eyes above lower lo fork or orpIa I If pIa place co where the tile cane branches I it I does docs not branch cut in proportion with the canes that thal do and your rose rosewill rosewill wih will make new wood and bloom wi heavily in June After the Juno June bloom cut off ore all al dead flowers fowers am and hips Cut down to bush level vel al all al tall growing canes Watch atch for tor tal suckErs suckers These come from the thc root and are aro readily recognized by hy their difference In color and shape of ot leaf This second pruning insures In Insures In- In Mures blooms in September Hybrid Teas H Hybrid tea roses should not be pruned as severely as the tho and then thou not until all danger o ot of frost has disappeared and os no two varieties produce the thc same size of wood one must study the thc nature of or each plant plant For Tor instance LaFrance LaFrance La La- L- L France and McArthur can cai be cut fre freely l while Vie Vic torla Aaron Ward arll and Richmond very light The hybrid China tea rose Graus Grus an docs does better bette heler If It only hips are removed Unnecessary wood such as centers center should be bo cut out Cut out all al weak wood Cut out all nl dead wood Cut Cu Cutback back to about twelve inches inch's leaving two eyes eye above lower 10 1 fork Cut Cu straight canes to make a symmetrical symmetrical neal bush lush When hen hybrid tea roses bloom they should be picked ell or cut off Never let a bloom drop or go to seed This together with frequent cultivation and well wel rotell rotted cow manure manure manure ma ma- nure as food will wi keep them In bloom all al summer ummer and until frost trost Tea Roses Tea roses should he be very ery lightly In Iii the spring merely cutting After they off de dead and weak wood Aler 11 of come In iii bloom tho the pruning must be bo stem Tako Take a generous and continuous never let a flower droop or seca setd the bush bURh Cultivate and feed reed on described for or hybrid tea tea as ns freely freel Bourbon and Bengal roses roses roles roles' are Tea under this treatment nt rose climbing rl prune a To prop properlY that flo floer flowered flow flow- f know knon the tho wood flo one should last year ear for fOl the first SK time er ered d the tho wood that produced dur- dur new the tho and amI woot should not be The These o In cut lag the In tact fact only old weak and dead deadwood should should be cut and this I wood removed at the root of the tho plant be climbing rose roso means wood la in a Old Pruning three years than year older be before before be- be Should should be done in early ary spring unfolds ore the tho leaf bud f fore well drained soil soU wl with witha h Roses Hoses like a wel a do better in cia Roses clay heter little a beds bed Roses ca like full ful sunshine a afree aree circulation of air all in summer and protection free ree from cold wind In winter loses Hoses should nov novel never touch an any other variety of plant either cither with wih root or of water branch A heavy heay pressure should novel never be used on roses Ground hone bone meal and well wel rotted cow manure manuro are arc good food tood for or roses should ho bo kept free of oC and especially grass an and eed weeds gross t ROS LJ- LJ V HY RI T TEA A ATO HEADY IDY p J DUDi O OfT 1 J JHO J TO O 71 I V Instructions on Cai Ca Treatment Aft Planting there should bo be at least t space between bush and der There are seven met C families and anti upward thousand varieties of or roses Seine Somo Soo good roses for hoing hoi In ing selected for their freedom of or bloom and growing qualities aro are Hybrid Perpetual Anna carmi Karl white pink Mrs Jo pink Paul Neyron Nenon pink Rohan dark scarlet Url nero ncr red Magna Charta pin pla lean ican Beauty crl crimson son Hybrid Tea Richmond red red Testo Graus An red Ab Abney Abney ney pink La France Fance pink Augusta August Victoria white McArthur red red Etolo D DC dark red Aaron Yard Ward cop Sunburst apricot yellow yellow Det Betty copper coppel pin Reid red ed Maman Cachet Cochet white l Tea Roses These TheM Invariably wInter aro are high highly prized as ever bedders Climbing Pillar Pilar and Ramble rambler ramble red Don Dorl kins kin rambler pink White rambler white bier variegated bier violet Alberic Barb Darb bier yellow clow Dr Van Fleet flesh fesh Keystone rambler Prairie Queen ram rambler Iler pu watha single sing rambler crimI Robt IM Peary pillar white I Cloth Ide or i ivory wh vh i I Crimson Baby Dorothy pink Snowball w red Cecil Ceel Brunner pin After you ou have read real this thi and anti bu buy geraniums buy a n roses plant plenty ont of ot th tl year and in a a. short time wonder wonter how you ever er c did them |