The Rose Amateur's Guide: Containing Ample Descriptions of All the Fine Leading Varieties of Roses, Regularly Classed in Their Respective Families; Their History, and Mode of Culture |
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... weather is a very lively pink , in cloudy moist weather a bright rose . This variety will form a fine pillar rose , as it will in rich soils make shoots from six to eight feet long in one season , consequently there cannot be a finer ...
... weather is a very lively pink , in cloudy moist weather a bright rose . This variety will form a fine pillar rose , as it will in rich soils make shoots from six to eight feet long in one season , consequently there cannot be a finer ...
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... weather . With this description of culture , these roses will much surpass any thing we have yet seen in this country . Although the varieties of this group are summer roses only , their period of flowering may be 24 THE FRENCH ROSE .
... weather . With this description of culture , these roses will much surpass any thing we have yet seen in this country . Although the varieties of this group are summer roses only , their period of flowering may be 24 THE FRENCH ROSE .
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... weather , it also prevents that rapid evaporation which would otherwise take place , so often ren- dering watering useless . This practice is , after all , only imitating nature ; for the Dog Rose , upon which all the fine varieties are ...
... weather , it also prevents that rapid evaporation which would otherwise take place , so often ren- dering watering useless . This practice is , after all , only imitating nature ; for the Dog Rose , upon which all the fine varieties are ...
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... it is drawn in by the worms or washed in by the rains . Water with liquid manure in dry weather , and probably you will have shoots eight to ten feet in length the first season . Three of the most vigorous 36 THE HYBRID CHINA ROSE .
... it is drawn in by the worms or washed in by the rains . Water with liquid manure in dry weather , and probably you will have shoots eight to ten feet in length the first season . Three of the most vigorous 36 THE HYBRID CHINA ROSE .
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... weather it fades very soon to white : this was the case more particularly in 1837 : it seemed much influenced , in common with the other Scotch roses , by the cold springs and a rapid transition to hot weather . William the Fourth is ...
... weather it fades very soon to white : this was the case more particularly in 1837 : it seemed much influenced , in common with the other Scotch roses , by the cold springs and a rapid transition to hot weather . William the Fourth is ...
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