This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: … every exertion you make will not produce good ones; for a poor rose, unlike many other flowers, is a beautiful and fragrant object, and better than no rose at all. The cabbage rose, the common blush, the Provence, the Tuscan, the Base de Meaux, the Tudor, the Bengal celestial, and the early crimson, are the best for town. China, sweetbriar, and moss roses will succeed only in the country; and the American roses no nearer than in the best suburban districts. However strongly I would recommend the townsman to do his best in roses, I would urge him not to attempt the growib. -f China or moss roses, the experiment has so often tieen tried without success, even with all the resources of florieultural skill, that it seems at last a hopeless case, and its repetition suited only for those who have abundance of leisure, and who keep for their motto nit desperandum. The soil for roses should be very rich and porous A compost formed of well-sifted virgin earth or turf mould, old manure and sand, in about equal proportions, will suit welL This will require to he prepared some little time before the plants are set, and must be raked over and refreshed with old manure every autumn. If the trees get poor, they should be shifted into entirely new soil, as they soon exhaust the ground. Once in every four years this should be done, unless the continued health of the plants indicates that they still get food enough. February is the best time to transplant roses, or to renew the soil about them. When the bushes are taken up they may be laid together, and the roots covered with a good depth of earth to protect them from frost, and in this way they may be left for two or three weeks without injury, if you have not time to change the soil and replant them at once. On replan…
