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A ROSE HEDGE 



The best varieties for this purpose will depend upon where you 

 live. For cold climates it is doubtful if you can get anything else quite 

 so good as the Rugosa Roses, especially Sir Thomas Lipton, see page 

 23. Erect, stout, clean and healthy looking, with beautiful seed hips 

 in the fall. Next comes the Sweet Briar (see page 24) with its deli- 

 ciously fragrant foliage. This makes quite a dense growth under 

 favorable conditions. But for both the above a more satisfactory 

 result can be obtained by planting a post and wire fence to which the 

 heavy upright canes can be fastened, somewhat as you would grape- 

 vines. A perfect glory of bloom and foliage will decorate that ob- 

 literated fence. 



In warmer countries, or even in our own latitude, a single row of a 

 free-flowering erect bushy Rose is sure to be pretty and very satisfac- 

 tory where one wishes to simply mark a boundary, as, for example, 

 between the vegetable- and flower-garden. For this purpose, Clotilde 

 Soupert, see page 14, is excellent. In a different way the Polyanthas 

 are also popular, especially Baby Rambler, see page 13, and Cecile 

 Brunner, see page 14, and Baby Dorothy, see page 13. The list could 

 readily be extended, and each one be well worth planting. 



FOR BORDER BEDS 



ALONG A PATHWAY OR DRIVE 

 The housekeeper knows how splendid it is to have plenty of flow- 

 ers in bloom, so that she can run out and cut a bouquet when she 



needs them Here are nine good kinds 

 for that purpose. A bed or border row 

 all of one kind should bloom much as 

 shown in the illustration below. 12 cost 

 10 times the price of one. PAGE 



Baby Dorothy 13 



Baby Rambler 13 



Cecile Brunner 14 



Clotilde Soupert 14 



Hermosa 16 



Magnaf rano 21 



Maman Cochet 21 



Mme. Camille 20 



Safrano 23 



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Twenty-four Magna Charta Roses will give an effect like this 

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