CULTURE OF THE ROSE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 25 June 1924, Page 2

CULTURE OF THE ROSE

GUIDANCE FOR GROWERS SOILS AND MANURES Many direct points in regard to the cultivation of roses were given by Mr li. G. Cutler, of Henderson, in a lecture before the Auckland Horticultural Society. Mr W. J. Wernham occupied die dinar, and there was a representative attendance of rose-growers. Heavy soil, said Mr Cutler, was recognised as the best for roses, but there must be some loam, and it- was to have sand in it. Roses, however, did pretty well over a different range of soils, and he himself was raising roses on soil as loose as volcanib. A very light soil needed to be consolidated by ramming. Farmyard manure, said the lecturer, had given the best results he had seen. Artificial manure was all right. If he were planting a permanent rose bed he would turn in a green crop in the first place. Good clean turf was a very good manure. Mr Cutler dwelt- at length with bud; cling, spraying, and the treatment of blooms for show purposes. As to the best position for raising roses, he skid with emphasis that good roses could not be produced in a bleak place. Shelter was always necessary. Tlie best lose he had ever seen was the almost, snow-white bloom of the Edel.— N.Z. Herald.