COMRADESHIP OF THE ROSE 



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In spring, one can have the pleasure of building air-castles 

 about the plants. When the warm days of June arrive, these 

 air-castles will have taken substantial form. You may now 

 go from plant to plant, giving each a Httle daily attention, 

 contrasting one proud beauty with another equally 

 queenly, and, best of all, gathering an abundance 

 of lovely roses. Half an hour of such tonic- 

 toil each day is a superb nerve-restorer, 

 and, as many of those who have tried 

 it reahze, it is also food for the soul. 



But this is fundamentally a 

 practical book. It is a treatise on 

 how to grow this Queen of 

 Flowers. It is designed, sym- 

 pathetically and simply, to 

 initiate the beginner into 

 this culture of beauty as 

 well as to confirm the more 

 advanced amateur in his 

 technique. It is planned, in 

 short, to show that by set- 

 ting out the right plants of 

 the right sort this spring, 

 cut-flowers may be had The Temple of Love 



