robe your plants and live happily ever after all 

 summer. 



You will realize, of course, that raising roses is 

 not eating ice cream and cake. Believe me, the rose 

 grower cannot be either a fool man or a lazy lady. 



It's so hard to write plain, practical facts about 

 roses. To write of them properly one would irresist- 

 ibly commit a sonnet. When you pick your first 

 great basketful some very dewy morning next June, 

 please place them in an old blue bowl, for my sake 

 (and the sake of our Indian uncle, whom we had al- 

 most forgotten). 



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