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except for purely decorative purposes, will be as much 

 disliked by the real rose lover as the tripod with the 

 iron pot painted red and filled with red geraniums ! 



The English sweetbrier is a climbing or pillar rose, 

 capable of being pruned into a bush or hedge that not 

 only gives fragrance in June but every time the rain 

 falls or dew condenses upon its magic leaves. This you 

 must have as well as some of its kin, the Penzance 

 hybrid- sweetbriers, either against the pergola or 

 trained to the corner pillars, where you will become 

 more intimate with them. 



You may be fairly sure of success in wintering well- 

 chosen hybrid perpetual roses and the hybrid teas. 

 If, for any reason, certain varieties that succeed in 

 Lavinia Cortright's garden and ours do not thrive with 

 you, they must be replaced by a gradual process of 

 elimination. You alone may judge of this. I'm 

 simply giving you a list of varieties that have thriven 

 in my garden; others may not find them the best. 

 Only let me advise you to begin with roses that have 

 stood a test of not less than half a dozen years, for it 

 really takes that long to know the influence of heredity 

 in this highly specialized race. After the rose garden 

 has shown you all its colours, it is easy to supplement a 

 needed tint here or a proven newcomer there without 



