THE ROSE: ITS GENERAL CARE 

 AND CULTURE 



HE owner of every garden 

 tries to grow roses in it, but 

 where one succeeds, ten fail. 

 Perhaps I would be safe in 

 saying that ninety-nine out 

 of every hundred fail, for a 

 few inferior blossoms from 

 a plant, each season, do not constitute success, 

 but that is what the majority of amateur Rose- 

 growers have to be satisfied with, the country 

 over, and so great is their admiration for this 

 most beautiful of all flowers that these few blos- 

 soms encourage them to keep on, season after 

 season, hoping for better things, and consoling 

 themselves with the thought that, though results 

 fall short of expectation, they are doing about, 

 as well as their neighbors in this particular phase 

 of gardening. 



One does not have to seek far for the causes 

 of failure. The Rose, while it is common every- 

 where, and has been in cultivation for centuries, 

 is not vmderstood by the rank and file of those 



