CONTENTS 



(For Classified Index, see pages 161 to 165) 



Chapter Page 



I. Choosing a Location 12 



II. Style of Houses 16 



III. What to Plant 20 



IV. Propagation, Own Root 24 



V. Propagation by Grafting 31 



VI. Hybridizing 41 



VII. The Seedling-Inarch and Nurse-Plant Methods of Plant 



Propagation 48 



VIII. Preparation of the Soil for Planting 56 



IX. General Culture 63 



X. Insect Pests 71 



XI. Fungous Diseases 80 



XII. Insecticides and Fungicides 85 



XIII. Fertilizers 89 



XIV. The American Beauty Rose 95 



XV. Rambler Roses 100 



XVI. Roses Outdoors 110 



XVII. Cost of Equipment and Returns 117 



XVIII. Notes on Cutting, Marketing, Exhibiting, Etc 120 



XIX. General Remarks 126 



XX. Greenhouse Construction for Rose Growing 137 



XXI. Steam Heating and Engineering 144 



XXII. Hot Water Heating 156 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Rose Lyon 11 



Double White Killarney 13 



Sunburst 15 



Lady Hillingdon 17 



Frau Karl Druschki 19 



Mrs. A. R. Waddell 21 



Measure for grading Roses -. 23 



A three-eye cutting 25 



A one-eye cutting 27 



A three-eye cutting trimmed ready for the sand bed 29 



A cion just cut off the plant 33 



Manetti stock ready for the case 34 



Manetti stock cut down ready to receive cion 36 



The finished grafted plant ready for the case 39 



