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In planting due attention must be paid to soil preparation; 

 and while it is better to plant them as early in the Winter as pos- 

 sible, they may be safely put out from this time until the middle 

 of May. The earlier the planting the more promising the blos- 

 soms for the next season. 



As far as variety is concerned, choice is practically limited 

 only by the lists issued by the nurserymen. Unfortunately these 

 lists are most often misleading. It is wiser always to buy budded 

 stock, and better to secure plants that are grown in the open 

 ground, and for constant and varied bloom, true ever-blooming 

 qualities, the Hybrid Tea Roses will give the best results. 



The usual Rose garden in the South is a mixed planting of 

 many varieties in oblong or square beds planted in rows as they 

 are in the nurseries. When one remembers the wonderful rosa- 

 riums of old England with formal beds of Roses standing out in 

 carefully chosen color tones, always bounded by borders of turf 

 and with the divisions and walks invariably of softest, velvety 

 green one hopes that some day the landscape architects will be 

 able to awaken the amateur gardeners of the South to their priv- 

 ileges and start them making such gardens on this side of the 

 water. Small beds of single colors framed in foregrounds of turf 

 give a proper setting for -this queenly flower. 



For the porch pillars, the pergola, the summerhouse, the 

 hedge, and the wire netting that frames the tennis court, for the 

 trellises on the garage, or to make a background for the Roses in 

 the borders, there are the multitudes of climbers and trailers. 

 For evergreen effects, the white and pink Cherokees, both single 

 and double, though the former are more beautiful, and the Wichu- 

 raianas can be depended upon for quick growth, and wonder- 

 ful beauty of bloom and foliage. 



Slower of growth and not evergreen are the pink and white 

 Dorothy Perkins, the Tausendschon, and Philadelphia, which is 

 almost a perpetual blooming Crimson Rambler. All of these 

 have to be cut down to the ground every few years on account 

 of the mildew to which they are subject. 



Of the old favorites we have Lamarque, Devoniensis, Mal- 

 maison. La Reine, Marie Henriette, the Marechal Niel and the 



