ROSES 



One should always buy two or three plants at least of 

 each rose, then a right estimate of its value can be obtained. 



Although by filling one's rose garden with innumerable 

 varieties it never makes such an attractive show as when 

 a few sorts are massed, each in a bed to itself, the interest 

 is, I think, far greater. 



Different roses have such characteristic points, such 

 marked individuality, and respond so readily to special 

 treatment, that there is untold delight in possessing a 

 collection of many varieties. It is only when one grows 

 numerous sorts of roses that one comes to realise fully 

 what a wonderful flower this is, and how much nearer it 

 creeps to one's heart than any other garden plant. One 

 rose may compel admiration because of its most perfect 

 form or exquisite colouring in the bud ; another as, 

 for instance, a single rose only expose its beauty 

 when wide open ; some, as the Hybrid Perpetuals, prove 

 admirable from the moment the colour first shows until 

 the last petal fades ; others (ah ! why do I name them 

 last ?) bewitch us by their fragrance, and how rose 

 fragrance varies ! 



If we fill rose beds for the sake of a fine flower 

 show with a few distinguished varieties, how are we 

 to arrive at a proper appreciation of this queen of 

 flowers, so infinitely varied and each variation in itself 

 of infinite charm ? So I shall counsel the home gardener, 

 if his garden is circumscribed, to grow not fewer than 

 three and not more than six plants of each rose. If his 



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