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Title: Descriptive catalogue : fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, rose, bulbs, etc.
Identifier: CAT31284955 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Storrs & Harrison Co; Painesville Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Painesville Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs
Publisher: Painesville, Ohio : Storrs and Harrison Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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OF FRUITS, ORNAMENTAL TREES, ETC. 71
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A PARTIAL VIEW OF ONE OF OUR BLOCKS OF HARDY ROSES. from drouth. After the plants have been set out, keep the soil loose to the depth of an inch or two, by frequent stirrings. An occasional soaking with weak manure water is a great help to them. ROSES IN POTS. The Tea, Bourbon and China Roses should be selected for growing in pots in the house ; these will give you a succession of bloom, if treated in the following manner: Drain the pots well with broken bits of crock ; mix one part of well-rotted cow manure with two parts of light, friable soil, and press firmly about the roots in potting. Keep well watered during the summer, more scantily in fall and winter. Keep all flower buds pinched off until winter, and then give all the sunlight possible. Keep your plant clean and growing. About 60 degrees is the best temperature for it. WHAT VARIETIES TO PLANT. The Everblooming or Monthly Roses are the only really constant bloomers. They begin to bloom early in the season or almost as soon as planted, and continue all through the summer and autumn months until stopped by freezing weather. They bloom and flourish luxuriantly in all parts of the country from Canada to Mexico. The flowers are of beautiful form and fullness, delightful fragrance, and embrace all the lovely shades and colors that roses ever assume. In the north they require protection during the winter, and being natives of a more genial clime, must not be expected to survive in the open ground where the temperature falls much below zero. PROTECTION. They may be protected during the winter, except in the extreme north, in the following manner: First cut out all the soft or unripened wood and remove most of the leaves ; then take a little of the soil from one side of the bush to allow it to bend over easily. Bend it over to the ground and cover the whole plant with two to four inches of earth. Over this place four to six inches leaves, and keep in place with boards or boughs. Defer covering for winter until cold weather fairly sets in, as moderate freezing will not injure them. Treated in this way, three winters out of four they will go through unharmed. HARDY ROSES. This section includes the Hybrid Perpetuals, Mosses and Climbers, and while they are not as constant bloomers as the Teas, Bourbons, Noisettes and Chinas, they make a gorgeous display of deep rich colors in May and June, far excelling the Everblooming class in size of flower and brilliancy of color. Most of the Hybrid Perpetual class give a second crop of bloom in September and October, and in many cases finer flowers than those produced in June.

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