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Growing Roses
There are few people in the world who do not
love roses,
whether growing in the garden or shedding fragrance within doors. These beautiful flowers of pink, white, and
the lovely red roses, are neither so difficult nor so expensive to cultivate as many other plants. Rose growers
should determine not to be daunted by a few failures, which are inevitable at first.
Roses can give us many years of great
beauty and pleasure if planted and tended properly.
This guide will show you how to:
Plant your roses
Care for your roses
Prune your roses
Water your roses
Prevent diseases in your roses
Budding your roses
Finding the best roses for your
garden
Constant Attention
Is needed to grow roses
well, or as Dean Hole says, "love in your heart" is the great thing required and no outlay of money will make up
for the absence of enthusiasm.
It is essential to do things at the right time
and rose care is very important. In this age of hurry it is so difficult to remember at the right time, or until
another season is lost.
It is a good plan to turn over the pages of
your diary and write, say, on the 1st October, "select rose trees", this jogs the memory, so that when that month
is reached we know that the work must start at once.
A good rose grower should be humble, for there
is always so much to learn, and one should never be ashamed to ask. Walks and talks with gardening friends are of
great value, so much can easily be explained when amongst the flowers that is troublesome to put down on
paper.
There is nothing like gardening for teaching
patience. Nature will not be hurried, and this is specially true of rose growing. Trees forced in high temperatures
soon become exhausted, plainly showing that they resent the treatment. We are more or less like children who dig up
their primroses to see what is going on underground. But after all, if we wait long enough we can see the result of
our labor, if Nature is slow she is at least sure.
Many people seem afraid to cut their
roses,
while if they only knew it, there is nothing better for the health of the trees than constant cutting!
Generosity in this, as in so many other things, is repaid by a greater wealth of flowers, and by renewed vigor
in the roots.
Another reason why gardeners fail is because
they attempt too much. Trying to grow rose trees from seeds, cuttings, and grafts, is the highest branch of the
art, and should not be attempted until considerable experience has been gained. Order good strong bushes from
reliable garden centres, and these are sure to flower, if not the first, at any rate the second season.
It is hoped that this guide may assist a few,
who have previously stood aside, to enter the ranks of those who grow successfully the veritable queen of
flowers.
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