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COMMON SENSE GARDENS 



wish to have healthy plants and good flowers, the 

 ground must be kept loose and fine. 



The Roses in the flower garden need not be 

 pruned back so vigorously as those that are grown 

 for specimen blooms. The idea in the garden is to 

 make attractive looking bushes that will be covered 

 in due season with flowers. Cut back the plants 

 in the Spring to the height of one or one and a half 

 feet, leaving the thick shoots the longest, and re- 

 moving all of the dead wood. 



Rose Beck 



