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than if he did not copy at all but blundered along 

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6. "The easiest way to prove that we cannot 

 copy English cottage gardens, is to show that the 

 material is too different. . . . ' Rose tree is the 

 same as tree rose, we cannot grow standards. 

 . . . Roses are the most precious of all flowers 

 The English laboring man gets large double 

 fragrant roses from June to October with a mini- 

 mum of effort. He does not have to contend with 

 the rose chafer or 'rose bug,' as we call it. In 

 America roses do not bloom all summer save on the 

 Pacific Coast. Climbing roses do not reach to the 

 third story of a big house. We find roses require 

 more care and cause more loss and disappointment 

 in America than any other flow 7 er." 



If the beginning of this quotation from Mr. 

 Miller's article is a fair sample of the facts upon 

 which he bases his conclusions, that we cannot 

 copy English gardens, I feel that I should be for- 

 given for objecting to the same because I have 

 "the roses" to prove that he is in error. 



The fact that roses are not seen in America like 

 they are in English cottage gardens is because we 

 do not know how to grow them like our English 

 cousins. It is not that roses 'will not grow out of 

 doors and bloom from June to October, or that we 

 cannot grow standards, because they will and we 

 can do so, provided we do as the English gardener 

 does, i. e., select the kinds that bloom from June 

 to October and grow them with the same care and 

 we will have the same average result that he has. 



My rose beds planted in November, 1908, with 

 Hybrid Tea roses from England, Ireland, and the 

 United States, have successfully withstood our severe 

 Canadian winter, the temperature having dropped 

 to as low as 18 degrees below zero. 



If Mr. Miller knows any Englishman, laboring or 

 otherwise, who gets larger or more fragrant roses 

 with any less trouble from June to October, than 

 my photos show, I would like to make his acquain- 

 tance to learn how he grows them, so I may do like- 

 wise. I had several Mildred Grants propagated 

 by an Irish firm, the blooms from which have meas- 

 ured between five and six inches in diameter. There 

 are dozens, perhaps hundreds of people, whose out- 

 door roses do as well and perhaps better in the 

 United States, than mine do here. 



It was news to me to learn from the above quota- 

 tion that the English gardener does not have to con- 

 tend with the rose bug, as he certainly does, and in 

 the book published by the National Rose Society of 

 England, entitled "The Enemies of the Rose," they 

 give about fifteen other varieties of bugs and insects 

 which seem to be troublesome with them, but they do 

 not seem to have reached Canada yet. Roses will 

 thrive and bloom with as litUe care in America as in 

 England, and yet repay for all the extra work you 

 can put on them if one selects the best Hybrid Teas 

 and grows them well. 



It is true our climbers have not reached the third 

 story of our house because it has no third story, but 

 we have climbers three years old eighteen feet high, 

 which is "going some," and I have seen them twenty- 

 seven feet high in Ottawa, Canada, where thirtv 

 degrees below zero is not unknown. 



Toronto, Canada. W. G. Mackendrick. 



A Rhode Island Garden 



ABOUT the middle of last June the pink Can- 

 terbury bells in my garden began to bloom 

 for the first time. I had about thirty-five plants 

 which had outlived the previous winter, the seeds 

 having been sown in the house the spring before. 

 With the exception of a friend to whom I had given 

 some seedlings, no amateur in town had grown 

 any of the beautiful flowers. Single plants were 

 to be had at the florist's at Si. 50 and S2.00 each. 

 A month later the stocks Princess Alice and Cut- 

 and-come-again, were blooming well, many of the 

 flowers measuring an inch and a half in diameter, 

 white as snow, and very double. Some of the 

 plants had single flowers which were exceedingly 

 pretty for bouquets when kept in a mass by them- 

 selves or used profusely with other flowers. 



Verbenas, among which is the may flower, 

 have done well, and the may flower combined 

 with single pink dahlias makes a beautiful table 

 decoration. 



Rhode Island. James Bennett. 



