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A Rose Garden Planting Scheme 



FRANK CANT & CO. 



With Messrs. Frank Cant and Co. the utmost 

 importance is invariably attached to the individual 

 requirements of those who are in doubt upon any 

 point in connection with Rose growing, and no diffi- 

 culties are too comprehensive or too trivial to receive 

 valuable assistance in the form of a candid opinion. 



The composition of the firm is entirely a family 

 concern, comprising Mr. Frank Cant and his two sons, 



One of the perhaps most interesting departments 

 of the business is hybridisation or the creation of 

 novelties. Here again Messrs. Frank Cant and Co. 

 have excelled in a marked degree, and there are hun 

 dreds of magnificent seedlings, many of them still 

 unnamed, undergoing the most exacting tt^sts prior to 

 their distribution. 



Two of their latest novelties are Yvonne and 

 Snowflake, both wichuraianas " par excellence," 

 were awarded the gold medal of the National Rose 

 Society, with the additional coveted honour of the 

 Cory Cup, awarded for the best seedling climbing: Rose 

 of the year. 



Of those to come, Captain F. S. Harvey-Cant, 

 Mrs. F. S. Harvey-Cant, Mrs. Alfred West, Lady 

 Worthington Evans and Babs are perhaps the cream. 



The packing methods, both for defivery of plants 

 at home and also for foreign shipments, have been 

 reduced to a fine art, and with such consummate suc- 

 cess that the loss of even one per cent, from transit 

 exposure is a very rare occurrence. 



In co-operation with the Rose business this firm 

 possesses tvvo farms, one at West Bergholt, compris- 

 ing 150 acres, and the other at Elmstead, with 400 

 acres, where the land is specially cultivated for the 

 growing of Rose trees. 



If we study the drawn plan, and call the second on 

 the right No. i, reading round the centre of the plan 

 like a clock, we shall have eight beds with their stan- 

 dards to a colour scheme, the four colour beds with 



