GARDENS OF ROSES 



ing of new shoots. These blooms are delightfully 

 fragrant. 



Anna de Diesbach forms a robust bush and is 

 prolific with its very full and carmine-colored roses. 

 Victor Verdier should find a place in every rose garden. 

 About its carmine petals there is a decided outline 

 of purple. The Magna Charta, although of clear 

 rose red, is tinted here and there with crimson running 

 to violet. Louis Van Houtte, Alfred Colomb, Baronne 

 de Bonstetten, and an infinite number of others are 

 among the tried and beautiful members which wave the 

 red standard of rose gardens. 



Roses of the hybrid perpetual class are usually 

 so hardy that an amateur is almost sure to succeed in 

 growing them. Often in this very success he finds 

 the inspiration to extend the garden and to include 

 those of more delicate nature, even striving, perhaps, 

 for show roses. Many a rose grower, on the contrary, 

 has been completely discouraged because he started his 

 garden with the less hardy monthly roses and knew 

 not how to take care of them. Then, in despair, he 

 laid down his arms when his roses failed to meet with 

 his expectations. 



Hybrid perpetuals, while responding to expert 

 care, will nevertheless live and bloom through seasons 

 of neglect, which they strive to bear with smiling 

 faces. A deserted rose garden is a pitiable sight. 

 I have seen only one of any extent and that was where 

 the home as well as the garden had been forsaken, 

 while those in various parts of the world disputed the 

 ownership of the estate. Even there, the hybrid per- 



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