CHAPTER X 



ROSES 



nn HE Rose asserts her right to the title 

 of the " queen of flowers " through her 

 very exclusiveness. She insists upon being 

 grown apart from other plants; otherwise she 

 sulks and is coy, refusing to yield more than 

 an occasional bloom. I speak from expe- 

 rience, having tried several times to grow 

 Roses in the front of wide borders, where 

 soil and sun and everything except the 

 proximity of other plants was propitious. 

 But they scarcely bloomed at all. Now, the 

 same bushes, planted in rows so that a cul- 

 tivator may be run between them, flourish 

 satisfactorily. Grow Roses, then, in beds by 

 themselves or in rows. 



If one has but half a dozen Roses, let 

 them be grown apart from other plants. 



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