| are an old standby for any garden and one of the | | | | commercial manure. Prepare the soil in the rose |
| worlds favorite flowers. There are over 5,000 | | | | beds well before in order to allow for settling of |
| varieties of roses in the United States and they | | | | the soil. |
| can be used to enhance your garden in many | | | | You can plant roses in fall or spring, but fall is |
| ways — as creepers, shrubs, vines, | | | | actually best. When planting roses, inspect the |
| climbers, hedges or just as beds of pure colour. | | | | roots to make sure they have not dried and if |
| When picking out roses for your garden, it is | | | | they have make sure you soak them before |
| important to get healthy plants. Make sure the | | | | planting. Trim back any roots that are weak, long |
| stems are green and not shriveled and the roots | | | | or broken. |
| are moist and partly fibrous. The most expensive | | | | Set the plant in a hole that is large enough so that |
| rose is not always the best rose; it may be only | | | | the roots can spread. The part of the plant |
| a newcomer, much discussed and, therefore, a | | | | where the top attaches to the roots (called the |
| favorite. | | | | bud) should be just under the surface of the |
| In general, there are two types of roses: bush | | | | ground. Plants should be spaced 18” apart. |
| roses and climbers. Bush roses are shrub like and | | | | Prune the branches back to about 8” |
| climbers produce canes that require some sort of | | | | from the soil. |
| support. The most commonly planted type of | | | | To grow good roses it is necessary to cultivate, |
| bush rose is the hybrid tea rose. Other types of | | | | to prune and to spray. If you have a |
| bush roses include polyanthas (roses in large | | | | well-cultivated bed you need not worry about |
| clusters), the fioribundas (large-flowered | | | | watering. But if you start to water in hot |
| polyanthas), and the hybrid perpetuals (vigorous | | | | weather, you must keep it up, soaking the roots |
| growers with a great crop in June and continuous | | | | thoroughly about once a week. |
| blooming throughout the summer). | | | | Spraying every 10 days guards against the |
| The climbers include ramblers, whose long pliant | | | | diseases and insects that attack roses. Nicotine |
| canes have large clusters of small roses that can | | | | sulphate wipes out the green lice; arsenate of lead |
| be used for covering walls, fences and banks. The | | | | is used against chewing insects; or sulphur and |
| climbers also are pillar roses, adapted to growing | | | | arsenate of lead may be used in a dust, as may |
| near buildings and on posts and the climbing hybrid | | | | DDT dust. |
| tree. | | | | When winter approaches, protect your roses by |
| If you are contemplating planting roses in your | | | | piling sod or straw mulch around them. If you |
| garden, make sure you pick out the proper spot | | | | have climbing roses, remove the supports and |
| and prepare the soil appropriately. You should use | | | | place the canes on the ground, peg them, and |
| garden loam with organic matter that contains | | | | cover with soil mounds. |
| peat moss, leaf mould, compost, rotted or | | | | |