Know the Joy of 

 Having Your Own Roses 



of having them when and where and how you like. The fragrant 

 ones especially you will want near you, so that their most subtle 

 charm may not be lost. 



Before you start to make your Rose pictures, study and plan 

 a bit. It is even stimulating to read Dean Hole's "Book About 

 Roses." Thus he warns you — 



"He who would have beautiful Roses in his garden must have 

 beautiful Roses in his heart. He must love them well and always, 

 . . . with no epherneral caprice, like the fair young knight, 

 who loves and who rides away when his sudden fire is gone from 

 the cold white ashes. The cavalier of the rose has semper fidelis 

 on his crest and shield. He is loyal and devoted ever, in storm- 

 fraught or in sunny days; not only the first on a summer's morn- 

 ing to gaze admiringly on glowing charms, but the first when 

 leaves fall and winds are chill, to protect against cruel frost." 



Americans as yet have not begun to learn what wide variety 

 of use and arrangement is possible with Roses. So many other\vise 

 well-informed citizens think of Roses in two forms at the most, viz., 

 in the climbing or the bush form. It would be as adequate to think 

 of satisfactorily classifying all kinds of weather as either sunshine 

 or storm or all hard-wooded plants as either trees or shrubs. 



From plants that hug the ground to those that would almost 

 cover a church, we have Roses of almost every imaginable size 

 and habit of growth. There is no dearth of material for practically 

 every place and purpose. 



So when you look out of your window while the ground is still 

 frozen and perhaps snowclad, and with thoughtful eyes begin to 

 paint pink and white and yellow and red into the possible places 



Rose Specialists 



on your lawn where the Roses may be blooming 



when J»une comes again, do you know which Roses to get and 



how to arrange them? 



Perhaps a few hints will help you. First look along the outside 

 border of your lawn or garden, usually an excellent place for 

 shrubbery — waist-high bushes of robust growth and easy culture — 

 for such places get Rugosa or Moss Roses, pages 22 and 23, and 

 then farther along the boundary border where a somewhat taller 

 growth would fit with slightly weeping branches, arrange to plant 

 the quaint Sweet Briar Rose, also offered on page 23. But 

 more than anything else you will want Roses in Rose-beds. 

 Even here there may be great variety. Low beds, about 12 inches 

 high, and a mass of blooms for most of the season is possible if you 

 plant Polyanthas or Baby Ramblers (page 16), closely together 

 and keep the blooms cut off before they fade. This class is also 

 coming to be used for beds that border walks and for edging 

 flower-beds filled in with something taller in growth. 



Again, you may maintain one or many Rose-beds from which 

 to cut for bouquets, varieties that bloom faithfully and freely, and 

 thus we come to the Teas, Bourbons, Bengals, and Hybrid Teas, 

 etc. Select here with special care and do not hesitate about 

 planting several of one kind, for often this is better than the 

 same number mixed, for not only in the bed is it more effective 

 but in bouquets also. Hybrid Teas are most largely planted of all 

 types as they are hardier than the Teas and bloom almost as 

 freely. It is best to plant Roses of each class by themselves as 

 Teas, Hybrid Teas and Hybrid Perpetuals do not all grow alike. 

 You will find this more fully explained on the following pages. 



The Conard & Jones Co. 



