Of course one never knows just what a ^ 

 rose really will do. It may thrive with a vigor 

 surprising in a friend's garden, but in our own 

 it presents the appearance of a weakling, re- 

 fuses to bloom, refuses to do little else than live 

 half-heartedly. Now what is to be done with such 

 a rose, we wonder? Try it elsewhere. Move it 

 about, we may eventually find its congenial home! 



A rose that would not climb for me in one 

 position, but stubbornly insisted on remaining 

 a dwarf, when moved to another part of the gar- 

 den proceeded to climb like "Jack's bean stalk." 

 If we do not find the right place for a rose to 

 thrive in, then let us discard it; it is not the rose 

 for our garden. It is just this experimenting that 

 helps us amateurs. Roses and their ways and 

 whims will always be a happy and interesting 

 topic, now that we are all going to be actual 

 working gardeners with understanding, intelli- 

 gence andy above all things, patience. We all 

 possess an abiding love for roses, and loving them, 

 there is but little we cannot succeed in accom- 

 plishing with them. 



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