GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
coaxed to bloom all season, while all those that I 
draw to your attention are among the loveliest and 
most easily grown. With even three or four, well 
taken care of, you should be able,—as far north as 
New York,—to cut a bud any time you wish from 
May to November. , 
These hybrid teas and hybrid perpetuals are the 
most satisfactory for growing in this climate. 
Field-grown stock, in dormant condition, is brought 
here from Holland every spring early in March, . 
and good plants can be bought as low as fifteen or 
twenty cents apiece. The weather is usually fit for 
them to be set out by the 25th of March, and they 
will produce more and better roses than the costlier 
potted plants procurable later. The American 
grown roses, however, are really the best, as they 
are adapted to our soil and climatic conditions, and 
produce both more and better flowers. 
Of these potted plants, though, just a word. The 
Richmond, a deep, rich red, and the single white 
Killarney, I have found exceptionally good, free 
bloomers; and with little winter covering they 
should, on account of a season’s rest, be better the 
second year. The 6-inch or ‘‘bench plants, ”? as they 
are termed, sell for only 25 cents each. These can 
be set out from April on all summer. 
As soon as a rose bush comes into your hand, 
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