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The Formal Garden is incomplete without Roses 

 (See this one explained below, and for one year later picture see next page) 



WHERE TO GROW ROSES 



LOCATING THE BED. Roses may be grown in any place where 

 there is sunlight during most of the day. The kind of soil is immaterial, 

 for it can be made to suit the requirements of the Rose. (See further, 

 page 8.) Your yard will grow Roses if there is sunshine in it for five 

 or six hours a day and a good circulation of air. The average home 

 grounds usually have several available spots for Rose-beds. An eastern 

 exposure is preferable. The presence of trees is not a disadvantage, 

 provided the Roses are not so close that the tree- 

 roots rob the bed of its plant-food. 



DIMENSIONS. The young garden at the top 

 of this page is well laid out. Note the avenue effect 

 produced by the double rcw of Standard or Tree 

 Roses on either side of the walk (they should be 

 set at intervals of from 4 to 10 ft. >. They remind one 

 of the beautiful Rose-gardens in England. Up the 

 wall on either side, Climbing Roses have been 

 started. The front bed on the left in the picture 

 is 4^ feet square, and contains 9 Roses. The front 

 bed on the right is 4^ feet wide by 6 feet long, and 

 contains 12 Roses. The rear bed on the right of 

 the walk is 4^ feet wide by 13 feet long, and con- 

 tains 24 Rose's; and the long bed in the rear on the left is 4^ feet wide 

 by 20 feet long, and contains 36 Roses. 



Beds 4^ feet wide accommodate three rows nicely (as above), 12 

 Roses to every 6 feet. The diagram below shows a bed 3 feet wide for 

 two rows, and will require 12 Roses to every 9 feet; 24 Roses if 18 feet 

 long, etc. The above estimate is based upon planting the Roses 18 inches 

 apart each way. Eighteen inches to 2 feet is about the right spacing 

 for most bedding Roses. In warm countries, where growth is most 



luxuriant, and for the big, bushy 

 sorts, more room will be required. 

 Beds of any other shape or size 

 may be laid out to suit one's fancy. 

 12 Roses in a Round bed 6 feet in 

 diameter. In making large beds 

 and Rose-gardens, provide for a 

 pathway between every three or 



Six feet diameter for 

 twelve Roses 



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