land has well been given the name of "The Rose City." 
The flowers are used in every conceivable way — for 
hedges, for borders, for growing over fences and stone 
walls, for climbing on porches and arbors, for parkways, 
and as single specimens grown in tree form on the lawn. 
Every year a Rose festival is given at which fully five 
million blos- 
soms are used. 
The Rose 
is particularly 
the flower of 
the masses, be- 
cause it can be 
grown with so 
little difficulty, 
and because its 
blossoms may 
be had the 
whole season 
through. 
There are few 
gardens which 
need be with- 
out Roses for 
at least six 
months of the 
year, and in 
the southland Ramkl " Rose 
there are blossoms practically the whole twelve months. 
And can one wonder at the enthusiasm which the Rose 
grower displays, when the many queenly qualities of this 
flower are considered? Think of the varieties! Think of 
the variations in color, form, habit and fragrance ! Do you 
love red in the garden ? Let your thoughts dwell upon the 
American Beauty, upon the Jacqueminot, upon the Gruss 
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