OLD-FASHIONED ROSES 



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Frau Karl Druschki, the handsomest of all white Roses, although a hybrid perpetual, blooms 

 more than once during the southern year 



CHAPTER VI 



OLD-FASHIONED ROSES— HOW TO GROW THEM 



AS far as the preparation of the soil and general cultural direc- 

 tions are concerned, any good article on Rose planting 

 applies to the South no less than to other sections. There, how- 

 ever, we must stop and hew out for ourselves a new road to meet 

 the climatic and growing conditions that confront us. 



Many years our gardens can show Roses from early March 

 to late November and often December. South of Nashville no 

 protection is needed for any varieties; even the tender Niphetos 

 and the tenderer Marechal Niel go safely through our severest 

 Winters. We might almost say, "Plant Roses and let them alone, 

 and warm sunshine and gentle rains will do the rest." If it were 

 possible for me to have only one kind of a flower in my garden 

 that one would be a Rose. No other flower so well repays one 

 for all the attention showered upon it, nor does so well without 

 care. 



December and January are always Rose planting and Rose 

 pruning time in the Southern States. After the first heavy frost 



