THE GARDEN AT HOME 



grown, there is none so surpassing fair as that of a weeping 

 standard. 



There is no need to have poles stiff and erect and 

 straight. Why not arrange groups of three or four, 

 bringing them together at the top, and so at flowering 

 time produce a perfect pyramid of bloom ? Or one may 

 top the pole with an umbrella-shaped contrivance made 

 of thick wire or bamboo canes. When the lissom growths 

 reach the top of the pole they may be spread out, and will 

 fall in lovely clusters. How far better thus than bunched 

 together as pillar roses too often are ! For this purpose 

 it is necessary to choose one of the rampant roses with 

 slender growths, such, for instance, as Alberic Barbier, 

 Dorothy Perkins, or Hiawatha. 



How shall we group our roses ? Shall we have each 

 bed of one sort, of two sorts, or of many sorts ? And shall 

 we grow few or many varieties ? It must depend on the 

 space at disposal. If the object is merely garden display 

 and to provide plenty of flowers for cutting, then it is 

 better to choose, say, a dozen varieties and to put in a 

 fair number of plants of each. If, however, the rose itself 

 is a flower of intense interest to the home gardener, a 

 flower of which he cannot know too much, then let him 

 plant many varieties and two or three plants of each. 

 It is a great mistake to grow only one plant of any variety 

 of rose. It may succeed admirably ; it may do fairly 

 well ; it may languish ; it may die. How, in such a case, 

 is one to form a just conception of its qualifications ? 



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