MISCELLANEOUS GARDENING ADVICE 



effect in Rose gardens is weak compared to the rich 

 bloom of the main garden; possibly this point is not 

 a matter of importance to the owner who considers 

 the place more as a picking garden where the pleasure 

 lies in gathering baskets full of lovely color for the 

 house vases. However, should one wish to increase 

 the color in the Rose garden all that is necessary is 

 to border the beds with the dwarf pink or red Baby 

 Ramblers, set about 1 foot apart. These Baby Ram- 

 blers have several periods of bloom, if trimmed back 

 to within about eight inches of the ground, after each 

 bloom, and providing the plants are amply fed and 

 watered. They are profuse bloomers. If the Rose 

 bed measures about 5 or 6 feet in width, two rows 

 of the taller best blooming varieties are sufficient for 

 the inner space of the bed. La France, Dean Hole, 

 Etoile de France, Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, Lyon 

 Rose, Madame Caroline Testout, Gruss an Teplitz 

 are among those which flower the most freely. 



In order to take away from the flatness of a Rose 

 garden, where the plants are mostly of a uniform 

 height, standard Roses can be used at the corners 

 of the beds, and climbers may have a place in the 

 background, and covering arches over the paths. 



In the climate near New York City, the standard 

 Rose does not often survive a winter in the open, 

 therefore the following treatment is advocated. In 

 the late autumn open a trench deep enough to lay 



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