THE GARDEN AT HOME 



Whereabouts shall we create our home rose garden ? 

 Where shadows fall, and it is cool at noonday and the 

 sunshine only niters through, where, above all things, it 

 is pleasant to linger in high summer time ? Seductive 

 though this may seem, tempting though it may sound, be 

 not misled, for a rose garden in the shade is one of many 

 leaves and few blossoms. Shall it, then, be in the open 

 ground, that watches the sun go round, and where the 

 light falls full from dawn till dusk ? Assuredly yes, for 

 the rose is a flower that, above all things, loves the 

 sunshine, and is prone to languish in the shade. If the 

 winds that are apt to blow fiercely where the sun shines 

 most warmly can be schooled by shelter that they come 

 softly and with a gentler touch, why, then the roses 

 will be all the happier, and there will be fewer failures 

 to record when the rose year is past and the rosarian 

 makes his reckoning. Sunshine and a little shelter 

 without shade mould the golden key that unlocks the 

 magic gate dividing success from failure. Within a 

 little paradise of frail buds and bewitching blossoms, 

 languorous and sweet with attar of roses, an enchanted 

 spot, beguiling, and full of exquisite charm. Without 

 a waste of leaves and a want of bloom. 



Think not to make of the home rose garden solely a 

 show place, a place gaudy with flowers that strike a 

 brilliant note from afar, for not thus do roses rightly 

 charm. If an inspiring display from a mass of bloom 

 is the aim in view, let the gardener accomplish his end 



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