Identifier: commercialrosecu00holm (find matches)
Title: Commercial rose culture under glass and outdoors; a practical guide to modern methods of growing the rose for market purposes
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, Eber
Subjects: Rose culture
Publisher: New York, A. T. De la Mare company, inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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bsequent harrowing. A pair of horses anda disc harrow is then put on and run over the piece back andforth until soil and manure are thoroughly cut up and mixed.A plow is also run through the piece to turn it over, then aleveling board similar in action to a road scraper is used tolevel it, after which it is again gone over with the disc harrow. When thoroughly leveled, a good coating of bonemeal isspread on and worked in with the harrow. Then the loam isleft to bake in the sun until wanted when it is carted to thehouses in a sweet, fresh condition. It is safe to assert that one man with a good pair of horseswill prepare as much loam in a day in this manner as two menwould in a week by chopping down and turning over a loampile in the ordinary manner. The man with ability to adapt himself to changing con-ditions and to work out new methods in saving labor or inproducing better stock than his neighbor, is the most likelyto be successful in Rose growing, as in every other line ofendeavor.
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Climbing Rose LucileVery vigorous and free; bright carnation pink Photo courtesy M. H. Walsh, Woods Hole, Mass.126 CHAPTER XVIII RAMBLER ROSES THIS class of Roses has come into great prominence dur-ing the past few years, and, thanks chiefly to Americanhybridizers, we now have a large and varied collection of goodkinds, suitable for outdoor planting, and good also to forcefor Easter and Spring sales. In addition, we have the dwarf,or Baby Ramblers, which are excellent for bedding outdoors.These are very desirable and will flower all Summer. Amongthe best of these are crimson, pink, and white. BabyDorothy is a good pink. One of the newer ones, Jessie,originated by Merryweather of Southwell, England, is de-scribed as one of the best, commencing to bloom in June andcontinuing until killed by frost. These grow to a height ofabout i)/2 feet, branch freely, have bright, glossy greenfoliage and flowers of a bright cherry crimson color, borne inlarge clusters. These dwarf Ramblers are a decid

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