Just what we will get from our Roses during the trying month of July will depend on how the beds were prepared before planting , and whether the plants have been maintain gratis from disease and kept well fed and water up to date .
If the plants are healthy and the weather is red-hot and dry , there will be little need to spray or dust against diseases during the month , but if the Roses are in Nipponese mallet zona , the foliage must be protected against the depredation of this pestilence . Luckily there are now several beetle repellant uncommitted which hardly show on the folio , and beetles will not deplete foliage protected with them .
flower and beetles . Protecting the bloom is another problem .
One can either handpick the beetles , which is almost a continuous undertaking during the beetle time , or better , cover the bud with high mallow cloth or wax newspaper bags , and cut the protected blooms when they are sufficiently developed .
other risers will be able to delight nice blooms during July by cutting unprotected buds before the beetles become active in the aurora .
hold balanced plant food for thought , early on this month and be sure the plants are keep well irrigate all during the hot time of year .
Never hold chemic fertilizer when the soil is debris dry . If the soil is very teetotal , water thoroughly , then reserve the earthly concern to dry out out enough to become practicable beforefeeding the plantswith chemicals .
summertime mulches . Mulching during the hottest weather foreclose too quickly - dry out of the beds , and a rubble mulch may be maintained by careful culture . Many nurseryman prefer to mulch the beds with peat moss or grass clipping and do aside with tame .
Canes of Ramblers ( not climbers ) which have finished bloom this month should be turn off off at the dry land just as soon as efflorescence is over , providing there is a supply of new canes coming along for next year ’s bloom .
The sooner these bloomed out cane are take away , the better will be next twelvemonth ’s show . This remotion of old Rambler cane is about the only pruning study required in July .
Climbers leave unpruned . There are a number of the large floweredClimbing Roseswhich will bloom again if kept well fed and watered right through the season . Most so - called Everblooming Climbers do their re - bloom on subIaterals put out just under the previous efflorescence , so be very thrifty to hold all of the first bloom lateral ; but pinch , or cut off , the calices of the idle flower .
It is , therefore , good to get pruning of all tumid bloom Climbers wait until spring .
A few Ramblers bear attractive come pod if not summertime pruned . One of the estimable is Bloomfield Courage , which holds its nifty craw of shining red berries well into wintertime , and is a beautiful pic after the foliage has fall .
By R. M. Hatton
