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the Southern Rose garden that we will not touch upon 
them. In the foregoing classes will be found all that is 
beautiful in the Rose, and all that is desirable for our 
climate. We do not wish to be understood to say they 
are useless the world over, for in different climates they 
they have their peculiar advantages, and in this land of 
well nigh perpetual Summer we would be prone to sigh 
ror the various charms that their absence would evoke 
in the heart of a true rosarian, were it not for the wealth 
of a thousand others more beautiful that gladden the 
pathway through our garden. Like the old adage, “ out 
of sight out of mind,’’ when the new love supplants the 
old, it is with a loyal reverence we say adieu to those 
groups which have inspired our lives with so much glad- 
ness; but we cannot long remember them here, sur- 
rounded as we are by such an abundant harvest of 
continuous blooming sorts; therefore the tears of our 
memory must dry away as swiftly as the dews of Sum- 
mer. 
POSITION AND SOIL. 
The first requisite in the culture of Roses is the selec- 
tion and preparation of a suitable place for planting. 
This is very important, as all that follows depends upon 
the care used in this first step. To begin with, then, 
choose the best place you have in the garden. When 
fences are used, their general ugliness can be most appro- 
priately clothed by Roses themselves. A warm, sunny 
position is also requisite; if so situated that there is an 
exposure to the morning sun, and the hot rays during 
the afternoon are in part or wholly shaded, all the better, 
but a certain amount of sunlight is as essential to a Rose’s 
welfare as to our own, though many of us do not show 
our appreciation of the blessings of sunlight as gratefully 
as do our Roses. Besides scattering them through our 
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