OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



secured, nevertheless, from careful comparison be- 

 tween his roses and those in our ordinary beds, we 

 cannot see enough advantage gamed to warrant 

 our recommending his beds for general use, primarily 

 on account of the expense and trouble involved in 

 their construction. No doubt Mr. Taylor will event- 

 ually discover the best beds for each given type of 

 rose, changes in the beds being made in accordance 

 with the different habits of growth of the plants. 

 If these new beds are to be brought before the rose- 

 growing public, most certainly they should have the 

 advantage of being explained by their originator and 

 not by us. It is our opinion that for the average rose 

 lover who wants to grow his few dozen plants, such 

 experiments, while interesting, would not as yet be 

 practical and would certainly be very expensive. It 

 is far better to order the best roses as carefully tested 

 in the regular beds, and to construct beds from which 

 good all-round and practical results may be obtained 

 at a moderate cost. There is, however, one new 

 feature of Mr. Taylor's experiments which seems 

 very practical and useful and is so simple that we 

 take great pleasure (with his permission) in recom- 

 mending it for rose beds, i.e., the covering of the 

 bed in the spring with a blanket of peat moss. 

 This is a non-conductor of heat and cold, and will 

 not only keep the moisture in the ground by pro- 



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