Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . of which are natives ofChina, are evergreen and ever-blooming, if not arrestedby severe frosts, for in the milder latitudes of our South-ern States, they grow and bloom without cessation theentire season, unless, ])erhai3S, for a month or two in ex-tremely dry and hot weather in summer. But now comesthe question. Are these Monthly Roses hardy in ourNorthern States ? They are certainly not so with ordinarytreatment, but I will briefly describe a very simple proc-ess by w
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . of which are natives ofChina, are evergreen and ever-blooming, if not arrestedby severe frosts, for in the milder latitudes of our South-ern States, they grow and bloom without cessation theentire season, unless, ])erhai3S, for a month or two in ex-tremely dry and hot weather in summer. But now comesthe question. Are these Monthly Roses hardy in ourNorthern States ? They are certainly not so with ordinarytreatment, but I will briefly describe a very simple proc-ess by which they can be preserved in as good conditionduring winter as the hardiest Perpetual or Prairie success of the plan, however, depends greatly on thecondition of the soil in which they are growing. If it isnaturally dry, having a gravelly or sandy subsoil, it iscertain to succeed; but if wet and undrained, they can-not be saved by this or any other process. The operationis to remove three or four inches of soil from one side ofthe plant close up to the roots, and of a length and width CULTURE OF THE ROSE. 125. Fig. 41.—DIGGING THE TRENCH. proportioned to tbe size of the bush, as represented by-figure 41. The plant is next bent down into tlie excava-tion, and held in j^lace by afew pegs, as shown in figure42. It is then covered en-tirely, root and branches, bysods, placed grassy side up-wards, and presents, whenfinished, a little hillock, inaj^pearance like figure is one very important condition to success, whichis, the time at which it is done. Few of our rose ama-teurs have any idea of the amount of freezing that themost tender Tea Rose even, will sustain without injury,and would, in consequence,be apt to hurry to put theirplants under their wintercovering on the appearanceof the first sliglit frost inOctober. This would mostcertainly prove fatal, by
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