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The Garden Magazine, April, 1921 
Make Sure The Success 
Of Spring Plantings 
Now that all the spring planting is 
planned, make its success a certainty. 
Lack of water is the direct cause of three- 
fourths of all failure in the flower beds 
and borders, and in the vegetable garden. 
Skinner Irrigation provides a fine, misty 
rain whenever and wherever you want it. 
Works by itself — fits any size or shape 
of garden — costs less than hose. 
Our new book. Irrigation for the Home 
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V: ‘r QylgMm Standard varieties such as Barrymore, 
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1,000 — $50.00. Circular on request. 
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148 Chambers Street New York, N. Y. 
FAIRFAX ROSES 
The Aristocrat of Rosedom, no garden com- 
plete without my hardy everblooming roses. 
Grown under natural conditions. My free 
1920 guide on “How to grow roses” sent 
on request. I also have a select grade of 
GARDEN seeds. 
W. R. GRAY 
Box 6 OAKTON, VA. 
WHEN MULTIPLICATION IS 
NOT VEXATION 
HPHF.RE isn’t anything easier in the world tc 
1 propagate than Climbing Roses. And here 
is the easiest way to do it: — after the blossoms 
fade take the flower stems or side shoots all along 
the main canes, for cuttings, making them about 
four to six inches long and cutting them just 
below a bud at the bottom and above at the 
top. 
ROSES FROM CUTTINGS 
Set them an inch apart in a box of wet sand, in 
the sunniest exposure you can find — and keep 
them wet. And you’ll have a nice lot of rooted 
cuttings in the course of five or six weeks. I 
started cuttings three years ago, though I didn’t 
know just what 1 was going to do with them at 
the time. But the Climbing Rose bug bit me 
severely and I raised them anyhow; and last 
fall I transplanted forty two-vear-old plants 
that I had allowed to grow along in a tangle until 
I could decide their fate. They had grown five 
to eight-foot canes with no attention. And I 
knew what I wanted of them. Wire fences are 
specially made for them. A wire fence is no 
thing of beaut\' but nearly everybody has one 
somewhere around the premises. Plant Climb- 
ing Roses to tie to the ware. This idea has taken 
a firm hold through northern Ohio and Indiana 
and while travelling through these states the 
latter part of last June it was surprising to see 
the number of cottages with wire fences about 
them gay with Ramblers. 
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ROSES FROM SEED 
Then, too, there is the fun of growing them 
from seed, which is an easy matter — and perhaps 
you may raise a fine new Climbing Rose. Again, 
you may not! But here is the simplest way to 
try. In the fall when the hips have turned red, 
break them open, separate the seeds and plant 
them about half an inch deep in a row, somewhere 
hand} to mark — and leave them to their fate. I n 
the spring some fine day you w'ill be surprised 
to see baby Roses. They do not germinate uni- 
formly, so do not disturb the row except to trans- 
plant them. I have a fence planted with ten 
bushes from seed which ought to bloom this year. 
If they are worthless they can be thrown away, j 
If they prove to be good ones, there they may 
remain. 
Of all the Ramblers — a term which seems to 
belong more strictly to the Wichuraiana types 
which will ramble along the ground as happily 
as up in the air — Hiawatha is the most brilliant 
I have seen, w'ith its great bunches of little Roses, 
crimson at the tips with a contrasting white 
centre. Excelsa is another brilliant one, a deep 
rose color of the Dorothy Perkins type. Thous- 
sand Beauties (I prefer the English equivalent 
of Tausendschoen) is a larger individual flower in 
various shades of pink from almost white to a 
deep pink in the aging blooms. Christine Wright | 
is a fine light pink, large flowered and a rampant 
grower. 
All of them are beautiful in flower and have I I 
fine foliage to disguise a chicken yard fence or 
other unsightly wire barrier if pillars and arches 
are not available. 
Sherman R. Duffy, Chicago. 
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