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wiped out by the saving in time or labour, and is more 

 than compensated for by the length of life and the 

 quantity and quality of bloom produced. When once 

 your Rose garden is laid out and planted, the work 

 and expense is small ; beyond pruning, manuring, and 

 hoeing and the usual small attention by which all 

 flowers benefit, there is little to touch the pocket for 

 a few years. Of course, frost and age will take their 

 toll; but what is this to the man of small means com- 

 pared with flowers that need the yearly expense of a 

 greenhouse or frames to protect or propagate the same 

 in, together with all the labour and expense that such 

 involves? Even the most hardy and carefully selected 

 collection of herbaceous plants will require twice the 

 amount of attention as the Rose, if they are to be kept 

 within bounds, or to present the same tidy appearance, 

 and give, if possible, as good a decorative effect as the 

 Queen of Flowers. 



Most of these from time to time require trans- 

 planting* and thinning out, and far more work is en- 

 tailed to keep down weeds amongst herbaceous and 

 the usual bedding-out plants than on the plane surface 

 that exists with Rose borders. Of course, one can 

 always find work to be done in the garden, but it is far 

 more distressing to find work which must be done than 

 that which we can do at our leisure, and I would ven- 

 ture to express the humble opinion that the Rose 

 garden, above all gardens devoted to the culture of 

 any particular flower, will present the least amount of 

 such work. 



As the Rose garden is planned and planted to last 

 for years, it ought to be remembered that to be a suc- 

 cess it is both worth while and and also necessary to 

 not only carefully prepare the soil, but also to select 

 those varieties which are most likely to do well. 



There are many important considerations that 

 should present themselves to all who are willing to 

 make and plant Rose gardens. The observance of 

 certain rules will ever be found to be essential to en- 



