GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 



coaxed to bloom all season, while all those that I 

 draw to your attention are among the loveliest and 

 most easily grown. With even three or four, well 

 taken care of, you should be able, — as far north as 

 New York, — to cut a bud any time you wish from 

 May to November. 



These hybrid teas and hybrid perpetuals are the 

 most satisfactory for growing in this climate. 

 Field-grown stock, in dormant condition, is brought 

 here from Holland every spring early in March, 

 and good plants can be bought as low as fifteen or 

 twenty cents apiece. The weather is usually fit for 

 them to be set out by the 25th of March, and they 

 will produce more and better roses than the costlier 

 potted plants procurable later. The American 

 grown roses, however, are really the best, as they 

 are adapted to our soil and climatic conditions, and 

 produce both more and better flowers. 



Of these potted plants, though, just a word. The 

 Richmond, a deep, rich red, and the single white 

 Killarney, I have found exceptionally good, free 

 bloomers; and with little winter covering they 

 should, on account of a season's rest, be better the 

 second year. The 6-inch or ' ' bench plants, ' ' as they 

 are termed, sell for only 25 cents each. These can 

 be set out from April on all summer. 



As soon as a rose bush comes into your hand, 

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