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rose garden for the best success of the plants requires careful main- 

 tenance. The hybrid roses, which are usually grafted stock, revert 

 quickly to the original type if suckers are allowed to develop and 

 not kept within control. The rose garden beds should be kept clean 

 of other plants unless provided with English tufted pansies or por- 

 tulaca. If the rose garden is a part of some formal garden develop- 

 ment and the beds are edged with any small hedge or edging plant such 

 as the alyssum, then extreme care should be exercised to be certain 

 that these plants are kept neatly trimmed and within definite bounds. 

 One of the important problems in the maintenance of the rose garden 

 is that of knowing the different types of hybrids and how these plants 

 should be pruned in order to encourage the production of more flowers 

 or of larger flowers. This question is too extensive to be discussed in 

 the short space available, but there are numerous books which discuss 

 at length the development and care of the rose garden. 



FERTILIZING ROSES. When rose garden beds have been properly 

 prepared by the introduction of plant food in the form of manure, 

 bone, and lime, all that remains to be done in the way of fertilization 

 may be easily attended to by top-dressing from time to time. Liquid 

 manure should never be given in dry weather without first thoroughly 

 wetting the soil with plain water, but it may be used at frequent inter- 

 vals provided it is not too strong. Dried blood may be used either in 

 water or dry at the rate of one ounce to the square yard during May, 

 June, and July if hoed well into the surface soil. Wood ashes and bone 

 meal in small quantities may be used in a similar manner after growth 

 starts. These dry fertilizers should be used only just before a good 

 rain or should be followed by a thorough soaking with the hose. 



WALL GARDEN. The wall garden is perhaps one of the most inter- 

 esting types of gardens. A wall garden should never be attempted 

 unless those responsible for its maintenance feel certain that the 

 proper kind of intelligent maintenance care can be devoted to such a 

 garden. A list of plants which are adapted for producing wall garden 

 effects is small. It is not so much the question of quantity of main- 

 tenance as it is the question of the degree of intelligent maintenance 

 which makes for the failure or success of the wall garden. The 

 greatest success is attained with wall garden development when 

 those responsible for its maintenance make it a special point to thor- 



