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chance to form a new root system and 
so gain new vigor and vitality. 
Cleanliness in a rose garden is essen- 
tial to healthy growth. Weeds are 
more obnoxious here than anywhere 
else, but are impossible if proper culti- 
vating is carried on. Fallen leaves 
must be raked up and the past flow- 
ers ready to fall should be picked off 
every morning, during which operation 
the picking of the rose-bug should also 
be carefully done. Good blooms and 
good foliage belong together. Only 
healthy plants can produce them, and 
healthy plants are only possible under 
wholesome conditions. 
Insects and diseases in the rose gard- 
en are plentiful, but can be controlled 
through close attention and prompt 
action. The above mentioned most 
destructive rose-bug can only be 
checked by careful picking in the early 
morning, drowning them in kerosene. 
The leaf-roller is overcome by using 
Hellebore early in May. The green-fly 
can be fought with a diluted solution 
of tobacco water, to which may be add- 
ed a little whale oil soap. The rose 
hopper appears during hot dry weather 
and is best defeated by the use of the 
hose under strong pressure, applying 
the spray to the under-side of the 
leaves. Such spraying is effective 
against most minor insects and always 
beneficial to roses, especially if applied 
after sundown. 
Plants which otherwise are free from 
insects and have been in healthy condi- 
tion, but begin to drop their leaves, 
are attacked by the white grub (May 
bug) and the only way to get at them 
is to look for them among the roots 
and destroy them. 
Mildew, often a most disastrous dis- 
ease, is not so easily controlled outside 
as under glass. Bordeaux mixture of- 
fers the best remedy,' Some varieties 
are more subject to this disease than 
others and it is a good policy to deny 
them a place in the garden. These are, 
in short, the cultural directions under 
which I have seen very happy and satis- 
factory results. 
A rose garden, especially if formal in 
layout, naturally is not congenial to 
general park scenery, unless the latter 
itself is of a formal character, to which 
the garden may be an expressly de- 
signed part and important feature. 
Otherwise the garden calls for an in- 
dependent location, screened, separated 
and protected from the rest of the park 
through naturally arranged tree and 
shrubbery plantations. 
As to the layout of a rose garden 
many different schemes and plans are 
feasible, but generally speaking, a for- 
mal symmetrical arrangement is most 
satisfactory. A public garden calls for 
certain features which do not necessar- 
ily apply to a private garden. 
The public garden must have wide 
walks to accommodate the crowds and 
1. ROSE PROTECTED FOR WINTER 
Manure covering to be put on after 3 
to 5 ft. of frost in ground. 
2. SAME ROSE PRUNED 
In the spring after covering has been 
removed. 
they should preferably be made in 
grass. Grass walks are easily kept 
clean, are not dusty and the dew on 
the grass helps to produce and keep 
the moisture in the air which is so 
beneficial to the rose. Besides, what 
is prettier to the eye than the green 
sward? How soft to walk on and how 
well it does harmonize with all that is 
in and belongs to the garden. It may 
wear out some and show traces of 
heavy wear during June, but a little 
grass seed and watering will easily 
restore it. 
Only one variety should be planted 
in one bed, and each bed should have 
a large neat, horizontally lettered label, 
giving on both sides the name of the 
variety and in abbreviation the class to 
which it belongs. Explanations of 
these abbreviations should be posted- 
The garden had best be fenced in, 
the panels between the posts being util- 
ized for trailing roses. Single arches 
may span the main walks covered by 
climbing roses. Those single arches 
are preferable to connected arbors, as 
they don’t obstruct views nor interfere 
with free intercourse in all directions. 
Everything of structural character 
should be plain, but neat. Statuary or 
ony other feature of art and ornamen- 
tation I think should be excluded, so 
as not to detract from what ought to 
be and is here sublime, “The Queen of 
Flowers.” 
In our attempt to show the possible 
high culture and wonderful creations 
of modern hybridization we must not 
forget to pay homage to our wild and 
native roses, which are so attractive in 
their modest garb of foliage, so pro- 
fuse and blending in their mass of 
flowers, yet so modest in their demands. 
They can be well provided a place in 
border plantations on the outside of 
the garden, acting as safeguards against 
intrusion over forbidden grounds and 
as a foreteller of the splendor await- 
ing the visitor. 
The usefulness of a well conducteu 
public rose garden seems to me to be 
easily recognized. Besides the enjoy- 
ment it will be to the lovers of flow- 
ers (and who does not want to be 
classed among them?) the garden will 
be a forceful educator to all those that 
wish to embellish their home grounds. 
The visitor will learn how to plant, 
how to water, how to protect and how 
to prune the rose. All this can be 
learned through self-observation and 
through information which must be 
given willingly .and instructively by 
those in charge of the grounds. 
The garden will solve for every one 
the question which varieties are hardy 
and adapted to the locality, and out of 
those many varieties all can select their 
own favorites as to color, form and 
habit. The authorities in charge of the 
garden must keep step with the times, 
