300 How to Make a Flower Garden 



If you are fond of roses, it is a good plan to make a regular rose garden 

 at the side or rear of your place, in the spirit that you would make a straw- 

 berry bed. Choose good soil. Till, and fertilise, and prune. Work for a 

 heavy crop — a crop of large and perfect flowers. 



There are certain kinds of roses that are well in place on banks and 

 rough borders and against fences and gates. These are usually not the 

 highly developed named sorts, however. 



Crimson Rambler is always in place on a porch ; one is shown on page 303. 

 The same may be said of the Baltimore Belle and multiflora types, where 

 they are hardy. If there is no space in which roses can be separately grown, 

 the plants may be placed alongside other shrubbery, and late-blooming 

 herbs may be massed about them to supply foliage and to fill the latter part 

 of the season. 



There are two questions to ask when you are discussing the place to grow 

 roses : Are they to be grown primarily for flowers ? Are they to form a 

 structural part of the landscape planting? 



II. The ]\Iodern Tendency in Roses 

 By Leonard Barron 



Notwithstanding the nominal position that the rose has held, from 

 time immemorial, as the "queen of flowers," it is not to be gainsaid that 

 the rose as a garden plant has been relegated of late years to a secondary 

 place. It has been overshadowed by the very laudable desire to plant 

 more largely of native trees and shrubs, with which have been associated 

 the flowering shrubs of Japan. Unfortunately, rose plants are not decorative 

 bushes of themselves — at least, the most commonly accepted groups are not, 

 and in order to devote space to roses a decided rose enthusiasm is first of all 

 needed. A rose plant must be looked upon only as a means to an end — 

 glorious roses-^and the more this object is kept in view the less ornamental 

 does the rose plant become. This is due to the hard pruning that is necessary 

 if you would have the best blooms on the hybrid perpetuals, which are the 

 only generally reliable kinds for the average garden. 



But there is a change coming over the scene. Since the very wide 

 distribution of the popular Crimson Rambler, attention has been directed 

 to the possibilities of other groups of roses for various purposes. The avail- 



