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Manufacturers 
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vSimpiy drop us a line giving us a general 
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sweet-scented qualtites as well as for their 
showy blooms. 
If space is limited and only a few roses 
can be planted, choose one or two of the 
ever-blooming varieties and plant them in 
masses or in hedge effect. So many ama¬ 
teurs make the grave mistake of trying to 
see how many different kinds of roses they 
can have, while the result is far more 
satisfactory, both in the garden and for 
cutting, if many plants of a few varieties 
are chosen. I remember one hedge of 
Bridesmaid roses which divides two small 
city lawns in a near-by city. The roses 
of that border are blossoming almost all 
the time and I am always so grateful for 
the good taste which chose them to be all 
of the same color and kind. Specialize on 
quality of bloom and not on number of 
different kinds and joy will be not only 
your portion but also the portion of your 
friends, the passing public. 
As the rose-fields of Turkey and Persia 
are famed for the richness and fragrance 
of their blossoms, so ought the rose gar¬ 
dens and fields of the South to be known. 
There can be found in no other part of 
the world a more magnificent wealth of 
bloom or more extravagant depth of colors 
than are to be seen in the rose fields ot 
the South. Hundreds of acres of field 
grown roses blossoming at one time in the 
grounds of the Southern nurseries is a 
sight worth traveling far to see. Not only 
do roses adorn the gardens and ground of 
the rich, but even the humblest cottage will 
have its doorway framed in the fragrant 
masses of the old-fashioned Seven Sisters, 
the sweet-scented Lamarque, or the mag¬ 
nolia rose of the South, the creamy white 
Devoniensis with its rosy center, while 
even the hedge rows from North Carolina 
to Texas are framed in the rich dark 
green of the Cherokees. With the clear 
petals of snowy white and the massed 
stamens of pure golden yellow, sweet as 
the sweet-briered eglantine of old Eng¬ 
land, is it any wonder that the home of 
the Cherokee is called the land of sun¬ 
shine and roses? 
The Home Maker’s Christmas 
(Continued on page 369) 
to the average hall, while other homely 
but necessary things that might well fig¬ 
ure on the Christmas list include daintily 
enameled clothes hampers, shining brass 
hot water cans for the bedroom, sets of 
the most up-to-date clothes hangers to be 
installed in closets, and small electric 
stoves for use wherever there is an elec¬ 
tric light. 
It is impossible to spend much time on 
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coming across housefurnishing articles 
that would make presents suitable for the 
man of the family — presents that would 
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