have passed their prime, replace them with potted 

 heHotrope in full flower. 



^ For myself I like the baskets all of roses and I 

 believe you would. The firms who make wire rose 

 arches, wire fences, wire anything, will make the 

 baskets. Their edge or border should be at lea^ 

 ten inches high for a five foot oval, the handle pro- 

 portionately high. With generous feeding, cultiva- 

 tion and permitting no faded blooms to remain, 

 these baskets always will be beautiful. 

 ^ 1 should protec5t the rose canes on the handles 

 again^ fro^ with a tepee of corn-^alks, and those 

 in the bottom with a five inch layer of rotted ^able 

 dressing 33 S& 



^ Now that we are reaching out, as it were, for 

 the uncommon and for the rare, now that we are 

 seeking for all garden excellencies, do you think 

 the time has arrived when we should adopt the 

 French and English permanent flower baskets, for- 

 mal, though they are? 



^ Is n't it comforting to know that there are 

 nurseries that can supply us with almo^ every 

 worth while rose of e^ablished excellence, and a 



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