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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



July, 1908 



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THE CARE OF THE SUMMER 

 ROSE BED 



By Ida D. Bennett 



THE choice of roses will depend largely 

 upon individual taste, a rose that may 

 seem to possess all the desirable at- 

 tributes of beauty to one may entirely fail to 

 appeal to another, so greatly do we differ in 

 taste, but there are certain roses that have 

 become so well established in popular favor 

 as to make their selection a matter of course 

 even in a quite limited list. Among these may 

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 bly well adapted to garden culture. Papa 

 Gontier has always been a great favorite of 

 mine, both from its freedom of bloom, im- 

 mense size and ease of culture. The Brides- 

 maid, also, may be depended on for a pro- 

 fusion of choice pink roses the summer through. 



Among the rich red roses no finer flower 

 will be found than Admiral Schley, with its 

 glowing color and unusual thickness of texture, 

 Meteor and Jacqueminot, Madame Baden, 

 Liberty, and above all the exquisite Virginia 

 R. Cox or Gruss and Teplitz or Crimson 

 Hermosa, as it is variously called. This is a 

 persistent bloomer of most wonderful frag- 

 rance and persistent, glossy green foliage, 

 tipped in the new growth with crimson, and 

 much less addicted to the entertainment of 

 insect guests than most of the summer roses 

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Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, The Bride, 

 Frances Willard, may all be selected where a 

 white rose is desired, with the certainty of ex- 

 cellent results, and there are many tinted and 

 shaded roses of much beauty and value, and I 

 am inclined to think that more satisfactory re- 



