GARDENS NEAR THE SEA 



are budded and should invariably be removed at the 

 base. The majority of hybrid perpetuals are fragrant, 

 and many of them by judicious pruning can be induced 

 to bloom several times during the summer instead of 

 only through June. Mrs. John Laing is especially 

 noted for continuing its bloom longer than the recog- 

 nized period, and Frau Karl Druschki produces a few 

 flowers well through the summer. This rose is a good 

 offset to the American beauty, the most generally 

 cultivated, hardy hybrid, perpetual in America. 



Indeed, there is no need to describe this rose. Its 

 noble bearing and its sweet, spicy fragrance are known 

 to all. In the center of one rose garden, I have seen a 

 circular bed filled with American beauties. They were 

 not young plants, and had grown into large bushes 

 sending up stems approaching a height of five feet. 

 Their blooms would have made a sensation in a florist's 

 window had they been forced into occurring out of 

 season. In their natural place in the rose garden, 

 however, they looked infinitely more beautiful than 

 under any circumstances that severed them from the 

 bush. 



It is sometimes a matter of question how to plant 

 the center of a rose garden so that it shall give character 

 to the whole and yet not strike so high a key that 

 the small, outlying beds are placed at a disadvantage. 

 In the month of June, the central feature of American 

 beauties above mentioned was a success. It gave 

 height and strength to the entire garden and it also 

 held these radiant beauties apart so that their color, 

 which is somewhat damaging to other reds and crim- 



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