THE ROSE AS A SUMMER 

 REDDER 



HE amateur gardener may 

 enjoy Roses from June to 

 November if he is willing to 

 take a little trouble for 

 them. Not, however, with 

 the material treated of in 

 the chapter on " 'The Rose " 

 — though what is said in it relative to the culture 

 of the Hybrid Perpetual class applies with con- 

 siderable pertinence to the classes of which I 

 shall make special mention in this chapter — ^but 

 with the summer-blooming sorts, such as the 

 Teas, the Bengals, the Bourbons, and the Nois- 

 ettes. These are classed in the catalogues as 

 ever-bloomers, and the term is much more ap- 

 propriate to them than the term Hybrid Per- 

 petual is to that section of the great Rose famUy, 

 for all of the four classes named above are really 

 ever-bloomers if given the right kind of treat- 

 ment — ^that is, bloomers throughout the summer 

 season. In them we find material from which it 

 is easy to secure a constant supply of flowers 



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