The Golden State: Where & How to Live, Secure, Visit, Enjoy and Thrive in California

Window Gardener

Plants For Window Gardening, Continued

ROSES. CHINA ROSE: History. —Description.—-Soil. —Pruning.— Watering. — Varieties. TEA ROSE : History. — Culture. — Varieties. BOURBON ROSES: History.— Culture.— Varieties. PINKS: Indian Pink. — Carnation.— Difference between Carnation and Picotee.— Classes. — Soil. — Potting. — Care of Flowers. — Culture out of doors. — Prop-agation.- Layers. — Pipings. — List of Carnations and Picotees. FUCH- SIAS : History. — Growth. — How to direct it. — Wintering. — Soil. — Varieties.

IN continuing our list of plants adapted for window gardening, we come to the queen of flowers, the Rose. A book, rather than a portion of a chapter, should be devoted to this flower; but as our space is limited, we must with a word, dismiss the large divisions of June, Hardy or Hybrid Perpetuals, Pro-vence, Damask, Galic, Moss, Climbing, Austrian,Noisette, and Banksian Roses, each, of which would require a separate treatise, and confine ourselves to the China, Bourbon, and Tea families.

Many of the others are of great value for the green- house, some being, in our climate, purely green-house roses, and others being invaluable for forcing; but none succeed with parlor culture, though many are well known in the garden, and may claim more than a passing mention when we come to the concluding portion of our book, the Flower Garden and Shrubbery.

CHINA ROSE.

And, first, the China rose. While treating of parentage, we may also include the tea rose, which, with the China, comes from the same ancestor, the Rosa Indica and its varieties. From this.; stock come all the China and tea scented roses, which, by skilful hybridization, are now so multiplied that already their name is legion.