FEW WORDS ABOUT STANDARDS 



pleasure not experienced every day. The ornamental 

 value of standard roses is inestimable. 



During the last few years, growers have made use 

 of a hardier stock for budding than formerly, which 

 fact, with an accumulation of experience, has greatly 

 lessened the problematic character of the tree rose. 

 To-day such well-known roses as Paul Neyron, Mrs. 

 John Laing, Margaret Dickson, La France, General 

 Jacqueminot, Ulrich Brunner, Madame Caroline Test- 

 out, Belle Siebrecht, Frau Karl Druschki, the Maman 

 cochets, American beauty, and many others are recom- 

 mended as standards likely to give satisfactory results. 

 That they demand much petting, protection, and fer- 

 tilization is true, but in return they are very generous. 



In the gardens of Long Island, the New Jersey 

 coast, and those along the Sound, there are many 

 examples of thrifty rose trees. Wind is their enemy. 

 The place selected for them should, therefore, be one 

 well shielded from high gales by either natural or arti- 

 ficial breaks. 



Standard peonies have an aristocratic, altogether 

 charming look, when covered with ^heir gorgeous, 

 often slightly fragrant flowers. Many of the old, 

 well-known varieties are grown in this way, which 

 for a space of several weeks in the spring shows 

 the flowers to extreme advantage. To uphold the 

 approaches to beds of flowers, or to accentuate entrances 

 into formal rose gardens, they are very desirable, 

 especially if, in the latter case, their passing is marked 

 by the blossoming of rose trees. Although the appear- 

 ance of the peony is bolder and more pronounced than 



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