tablished and is strong, healthy and happy, it 

 is almost cruel to remove it from its home, to 

 some place in the garden that is foreign in a way, 

 suddenly making it feel like a stranger among 

 strange companions. 



^ It seems to me that after every Garden Talk 

 I am always asked the same question. I really 

 think I would be disappointed if some one did 

 not ask it, and that is to give a certain and sure 

 method for success with roses. 

 ^ Do you want to know the safest, the surest 

 and the best rule to follow for real success? It 

 is this: plant only as many bushes as you have 

 the time, desire, intention and determination to 

 properly take care of, or sufficient and sustained 

 interest and knowledge to see that those whom 

 you employ to look after them do so consci- 

 entiously and intelligently 53 And remember, 

 roses, these fair flowers, crave and must have, 

 as I have said so often, not only attention, but 

 love as well. The first factor towards certain 

 success is to select only such varieties worthy of 



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