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ROSES 



roses in wreaths hanging down, and, indeed, 

 roses everywhere. Grow them for their 

 colour, for their fragrance, and — because 

 they are roses! 



How to do this ? Select the proper vari- 

 eties of the proper groups, and, above all, 

 don't put up a fight against the inherent 

 nature of particular plants, for it will be a 

 losing struggle, and there is no lasting pleas- 

 ure in that sort of gardening. Certain con- 

 ceits of rose culture demand special methods 

 of setting about the desired end. Unless you 

 are wonderfully favoured, standards are not 

 possible under the usual method of perma- 

 nent planting, and it then becomes necessary 

 to take them into trenches each winter. 

 Again, climate controls the rose grower; a 

 garden of Teas and other of the tender roses 

 which is an easy matter in the South and on 

 the Pacific Coast is not a question of prac- 

 tical gardening in the East and the North. 

 The gardener has to make his garden from 

 the best possibilities, and the more this is 

 realised the less apparent is the effort. 

 American gardens have at hand a rich mass 

 of available material for rose effects without 

 a slavish adherence to the better known gar- 



