LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



A Rambler Rose for House Decoration Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE. 



How To Make a Rose Bed . . . . 4 

 Four First-class Garden Roses . . .11 

 Two of the Best Hybrid Tea Roses . . .18 



Killed by a Sucker 27 



A Low-budded Plant 29 



A High-budded Plant 32 



How to Plant and Prune . . . -34 

 Spring Pruning for Quantity of Bloom . . 43 



Pruning Rosa Rugosa 45 



Beating the Commoner Insect Pests . . 48 

 Portraits of Favourite Roses .... 50 

 Reine Marie Antoinette as a Trellis Rose . 59 

 Standard Roses in a Famous Garden , . 61 

 Lord Penzance Hybrid Sweetbriers ... 64 

 A Close View of the Altai Rose .... 66 

 How Tender Roses Flourish in the Warmer 



States 71 



A Hybrid Tea Rose as Grown Under Glass . 86 

 A Modern Even-span Rose House ... 93 

 A Modern Three-quarter-span Rose House . 96 



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