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February, 1912 



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Fertilizing. This is also a good time to fertilize 

 some of the weaker specimens on your lawn. Well 

 rotted cow manure makes excellent fertilizing 

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 needs this treatment should have the soil dug 

 around the trunk to a distance equal to the spread 

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 again, leaving an opening about two feet in radius 

 around the trunk of the tree. 



Watching for scale insects. In the case of several 

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New York. J. J. Levison. 



The Good Points of Standard 

 Roses 



IN THE issue of The Garden Magazine for 

 November, 191 1, appeared an article entitled 

 "Are Tree or Standard Roses Any Good," signed 

 Thomas McAdam. With the article is published 

 an old photograph of a small bed of standard roses 

 in my garden at Rochester, N. Y. 



The rose bed shown in the photograph was 

 established about five years ago and generally 

 blooms all summer long, with a good succession 

 of beautiful crops, until frost. Therefore, there 

 is sense in standard roses. They are not "un- 

 sightly," nor do they "give a feeling of weakness, 

 poverty and pretense," as Mr. McAdam states. 

 Quite the contrary. They generally offer a series 

 of beautiful, fragrant bouquets on graceful stems 

 and trim supports. Apparently Mr. McAdam 

 has had in mind the misnamed Hybrid Perpetuals 

 which, whether in standards, bush or dwarf, bloom 

 practically only once a year and are perpetual 

 chiefly in the memory. The wonderful new Hybrid 

 Teas and some of the old Teas are very different and 

 will repay their care, in whatever form they are used. 



The advantage of fine standard roses for use 

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 the Dutch standard is another; the French and 

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 No rose of any kind, worth looking at or smelling 

 of or speaking of — not even a wild rose or a briar 

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 worms, sun and rain, frost and mildew — all 

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A bed of standard roses for the small garden 

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