A WOMAN^S HARDY GARDEN 



country is a fine gardener, and particularly 

 successful with Roses. We have many de- 

 lightful talks about gardening. When I told 

 him of my surgical operations upon the 

 Roses he was horrified at such barbarity, 

 and seemed to listen with more or less 

 incredulity. So I asked him if, as a surgeon 

 as well as physician, he approved, on occa- 

 sion, of lopping off a patient's limbs to 

 prolong his life, why he should not also 

 sanction the same operation in the vegetable 

 kingdom. He was silent. 



I shall not say much about Roses, because 

 there is so much to say. They need a 

 book by themselves, and many have already 

 been written. In my garden there are not 

 more than five hundred Roses, including the 

 climbing varieties. They have done very well, 

 and have not been given more care than 

 other plants. 



For years I did not grow Roses, fearing 

 they would not be a success. I had read 

 about the beetles and spiders and other 



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