ANTICIPATING SUMMER 



It sometimes happens that Avhat at the time seems to be a 

 disadvantage and an unfortunate occurrence eventually turns 

 out to be a blessing in disguise, and I think that I can say this 

 (in a measure) of the Horticultural Importation Act. For 

 because of it things have come to such pass that we gardeners 

 are doing certain Avork and realizing results in a field, that I 

 think perhaps we never thought or dreamed we could enter, one 

 that we gave little consideration to before that arbitrary ruling, 

 fthe Horticultural Importation Act, became an established fact. 

 Sometimes I am almost glad that it did pass (except of course 

 because of certain restrictions), but it is responsible at least 

 for many Amateurs gTowing, and growing wonderfully well, the 

 finest and the rarest, the loveliest and most interesting things 

 imaginable. 



Are we not working along entirely new lines that are not 

 only thrillingly absorbing, and at the same time commercial? 

 Why, only last Summer a friend who admits she is flower-mad, 

 much to my astonishment, showed me in her garden thousands of 

 one-year-old roses ( on their own roots ) which she had propagated 

 from stock taken from a friend's rose garden. A garden wherein 

 only the very, very best of the tried-out hybrid-teas and teas were 

 permitted a place. This coming Summer these roses "grown at 

 iome" will be permitted to bloom- They will be nearly two years 

 old and I assure you that the work they involved really cannot be 

 termed work at all ; frankly, it was just the best kind of fun and 

 far more exciting, diverting and interesting than golf or tennis, 

 and what this amateur has accomplished you may accomplish. 

 The successful propagation of hybrid-teas, teas and climbing roses 

 in all their essential details I will give as definitely and as ex- 

 plicitly as I can in the next issue of Our Garden Journal. 



And thinking of roses I cannot refrain from speaking of the 

 yellow ones. ^ 



