IX 



SOME GENERAL INFORMATION AND 

 HINTS ON HYBRIDIZATION 



BY this time the reader should have gained a 

 practical idea of how to make a small rose garden 

 and care for it. If he wishes to go into the various 

 features of rose culture more thoroughly, the books 

 we have suggested will give him the necessary 

 information. We have treated more especially of 

 the small rose garden for the average American 

 home; we have not considered formal gardens, nor 

 how to cultivate the various weaker varieties of 

 roses to any extent. 



In the roses marked numbers 1 and 2 under 

 heading "List" we have been careful to give only 

 those varieties which we know will succeed well 

 without any great care or special protection. In the 

 American climate of which we write, the latitude of 

 the Middle Atlantic States, it is not possible to grow 

 some of the roses which succeed so wonderfully in 

 the south of England and in France. However, 

 there is a vast area in the United States in which 

 all of those more delicate roses may be successfully 

 grown, more particularly in the southeast and south- 



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