HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 
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65 
SOUTHERN GARDEN 
DEPARTMENT 
Conducted by JULIA LESTER DILLON 
Inquiries and problems for this department will re¬ 
ceive prompt attention. Please enclose a self-addressed 
stamped envelope for reply. 
Planning the Rose Garden 
T HERE are three essentials for suc¬ 
cessful rose-growing with us, as 
elsewhere: good soil, good drainage, 
plenty of sunshine, preferably of the 
morning sun, and, if the situation is shel¬ 
tered without being shaded, so much the 
better. Deep digging, artificial drainage, 
if necessary, rich warm, loamy soil, with 
some sand, and always clay for the Hy¬ 
brid Perpetuals, is the first step in the 
creation of the rose garden. 
More and more garden-makers of the 
South are coming to realize that the plant¬ 
ing of roses in number sufficient to fur¬ 
nish blossoms for the house from month 
to month does not necessarily make a 
rose-garden. To be a garden worthy of 
the name, it must be a beautiful picture, 
in season and out of season. Usually no 
artist would call that part of the grounds 
where the roses grow either beautiful or 
worthy of his brush and canvas at any 
season. 
The first requisite of a rose garden or 
a rose border, then, is a background. It 
may be an evergreen hedge, an ivy-cov¬ 
ered wall, a trellis, the lines of which are 
buried in the leaves of some evergreen 
climber. It may be a border of shrub¬ 
bery planted along the lines of a city lot 
or the boundary of an estate, but, what¬ 
ever it is, there must be no question about 
its abiding qualities. For the foreground, 
the soft greens of the evergreen turf of 
the South form a most worthy treatment. 
If the walks be brick or gravel, then the 
beds of roses should have an edging of 
turf at least a foot wide, and inside this 
edging dwarf boxwood or violets will 
make a dark-green ribbon to tie the har¬ 
monies of the roses to the velvet greens 
of the turf. If grass walks are possible, 
they are the most beautiful and satisfac¬ 
tory in every way, and the rose beds 
should then be edged with either the vio¬ 
lets or the dwarf box, Buxus sempervi- 
rens stiffruticosa. 
For a formal garden with a bird bath 
or a sun dial as the central axis in the 
midst of grass walks and box-edged beds, 
as above outlined, the spaces for the roses 
may be filled with the silvery pinks of the 
Killarneys, or the exquisite Bridesmaid, 
of heavier texture than the Killarney, but 
equally desirable in both form and color. 
Carolina Testout is another pink bedding 
rose of prodigal wealth of blossoms, and 
beds of these varieties will give pleasure 
and satisfaction without end. 
For the white roses that make the high 
lights in this garden canvas we will put 
the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, the sil¬ 
very White Maman Cochet, the magnifi- 
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