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say a five foot oval with a very high handle. They 

 have no bottoms and should only be filled with 

 flowers that bloom continuously. Very frequently 

 climbing miniature roses entwine the handle with 

 their flexible green canes. On the lawn outside the 

 entrance to a formal rose garden I have often seen 

 and admired them. All the sod is removed from 

 what would be the bottom of the basket and the 

 soil is prepared as for our rose beds. Ju^ one plant 

 of a superior variety of climbing hybrid-tea rose 

 or climbing hybrid-polyanthus is placed at each 

 side of the handle, always on the inside of the 

 basket. Then, as close as possible to the handle 

 side, are dwarf roses, everblooming lilies, miniature 

 or baby roses or low growing (not dwarf) heliotrope, 

 an uncommonly lovely combination. 



^ For example, suppose the basket is planted with 

 the climbing hybrid-tea, Mme. Melaine Soupert — 

 you know this fine rose as a bush rose, of course? 

 Well, the climbing form is ju^t as gold-rose 

 and carmine, ju^ as full-petaled and ju^ as large 

 as the bush variety. One ^rong two or three 

 year climbing Soupert is planted in the basket 



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