. Rose gardening; how to manage roses and enjoy them . ertainly do crave to have some roses with us untilthe end of the floral year. After the Banksians come some unclassed pioneers, thenthe Ramblers, the Persian Yellow and Copper Briars, the Wi-churaianas; then the summer roses, such as that magnificentpale pink. Captain Christy, and many others, that will notbloom again until another June. Then we turn to HybridTeas, Teas, Noisettes, Dwarf Polyanthas, Mosses, Bourbons,Ayrshires, Chinas, etc, etc., to compensate us for the gloriesthat are lost. But there is this serious side to the matter. In
. Rose gardening; how to manage roses and enjoy them . ertainly do crave to have some roses with us untilthe end of the floral year. After the Banksians come some unclassed pioneers, thenthe Ramblers, the Persian Yellow and Copper Briars, the Wi-churaianas; then the summer roses, such as that magnificentpale pink. Captain Christy, and many others, that will notbloom again until another June. Then we turn to HybridTeas, Teas, Noisettes, Dwarf Polyanthas, Mosses, Bourbons,Ayrshires, Chinas, etc, etc., to compensate us for the gloriesthat are lost. But there is this serious side to the matter. In quite a 53 54 ROSE GARDENING small garden blanks are very sad to see. The man whosebreakfast-room window looks out on a rose-covered fence,or trellis, becomes sorry for himself in July if he had onlyRamblers against it, and rightly objects to seeing merelyleaves all the rest of summer and autumn. That is whywe do right to unite our climbers, letting late bloomers mingleboughs with early bloomers. But the man whose breakfast-room window gives view of. O O PoL^f»,N^l^^ Roses /????>/ ,?. A Handsome Border of Long-Blooming Roses. beds or borders of roses requires, and rightly, to have roses* out in those, too, during all the rose months. While hisneighbour may be specializing in great full roses, or rosesfor colour, or scent, or exhibition, he needs chiefly roses forlong blooming. He will find them in several classes. Frau Karl Druschki(dwarf or climbing, for she may be had in both styles) is one of themost reliable. The Duke of Edinburgh gives splendid flowerslate if the earlier ones are cut, long-stemmed as though forbouquets, before they go to seed, and if the tree is then wellfed and its surplus branches thinned out. Caroline Testout LONG-BLOOMING ROSES 55 and La France go on and on ; so do Madame Hoste, LadyAshtown Noella Nabonnand, Souvenir de Pierre Nottmg,Gloire de Dijon, Catherine Mermet, Madame Lambard,Baroness Rothschild, George Arends, Hugh Dickson, WilhamShean, Mr
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