June, 1913 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
469 
Ground devoted to roses should be for them primarily, as these plants 
deserve undivided attention being paid to their best points 
Let the rose beds be surrounded by walks, if possible, so that they may 
be distinctively marked out and given added attractiveness 
Hiawatha, a desirable single climber, has intense crimson 
petals shading to white at the base 
reconcile with ordinary standards of beauty, for everywhere else 
the aim is to clothe the earth completely with vegetation. If it 
were not for grass paths I do not think that such an expose of 
the ground itself could be tolerated, even for the sake of a rose. 
But the grass paths neutralize the glare and the nakedness of the 
ground so completely that a rose garden well designed, well made, 
and carefully kept becomes really a wonderful mosaic in brown 
and green with the blossoms studding the former. 
Beds should never be wider than forty-two to forty-eight 
inches. They may, of course, be as long as the situation demands. 
This width, however, is as great as clean culture and proper care 
of the plants will permit — for it should be understood that the 
gardener must never step on the surface of the bed, but work 
always from the walks, reaching over. Beds this width will 
accommodate two rows of plants placed zigzag as the diagram 
in the continuation of this article 
shows. For a single row of plants a 
bed eighteen inches wide is sufficient 
—but it is rarely necessary to plant 
a bed of this size, and where it is not 
necessary, I should not advise it. 
With the garden planned and the 
design laid out in the ground, pro¬ 
ceed to the preparation of the beds, 
summoning to your assistance much 
patience and great determination to be thorough. For the only 
right way to prepare these beds is to take out the earth to a 
depth of two feet — eighteen inches will do if the soil is naturally 
well drained and neither heavy nor sandy — then to provide 
drainage with a four-inch layer of cinders or gravel, on top of 
which should go two inches of well-rotted manure, and on top 
of this the soil which has been removed, well mixed with about 
one-quarter manure. This must, of course, be forked over until 
the mixture is perfect. The bed, when it is ready for planting, 
should be crowned so that its center is three or four inches higher 
than the surrounding turf, while its margins are on a level with 
this, or just slightly below it. 
When you come to look into the subject of roses, probably by 
studying some rose grower's catalogue, you will find that there 
are several kinds. The classifications of the garden roses are, 
Hybrid Perpetual, Hybrid Teas, and 
Teas. In addition to these, there are, 
of course, miscellaneous and climb¬ 
ing roses, but neither of these need 
be taken into account. Roses that 
are going' into the garden will be of 
the three first mentioned. Hybrid 
perpetuals are not very truly named,, 
for they are not perpetual, as all hon¬ 
est growers will acknowledge. They 
