Rose Manual

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1844. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... yellow, or striped variety, would be a great acquisition. We would therefore urge upon cultivators and amateurs the propriety of sowing every seed, never despairing of the results, till the object is accomplished. Lovers of the rose in the more northern states will find this family entirely too tender for out-door culture, unless surrounded with a quantity of dry leaves. They will not prosper if lifted every year from the ground and put away, as directed for Tea and Bengal roses; but where a green-house, or even dry cellarage, is accessible, they will grow magnificently in large pots and tubs, making a superb ornamental plant for placing in summer in any conspicuous situation. ROSA MOSCHATA. THE MUSK SCENTED ROSE. The Musk Cluster rose is an old inhabitant of our gardens. Botanists consider it a distinct species, and have named it from the peculiar and agreeable odour it exhales in the evening, and in the cool autumnal months, which is the season that it flowers most abundantly, in large clusters, of a yellowish-white colour. There are single, semidouble, and fully double varieties of it; the latter is the variety generally cultivated. It is a native of India, from whence it was introduced. From the seed of this plant the grand family of the Noisettes originated; though it is more delicate than the generality of those plants, yet the same system of treatment recommended for them may be adopted with the Musk Clusters. We have had several roses introduced to our notice, under the head of Musk Scented, but they have nearly all proved worthless,--mere "cumberers of the ground." However, a few deserve a passing remark before we close our descriptions of the rose. Pink Musk Cluster, has flowers of a pale pink colour, quite double, though the petals are rather...