In the rose garden of to-day we are not satisfied with the old-fashioned bedding plants; we must have a two-story display by training half 
the bushes on high stakes 
Ro ses for the Small Place 
CHOOSING THE MOST SATISFACTORY ROSES TO THRIVE IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS— 
BEDDING, CREEPING, ARCH AND HEDGE TYPES IN RELIABLE VARIETIES AND COLORS 
by Hugo Erich sen 
Photographs by the J. H. McFarland Co. and Nathan R. Graves 
O F all the children of Flora, none is more accommodating nor 
can be used in so many different ways as the Rose — rightly 
it has been termed a plant of many parts. You may cover walls, 
fences, porches, pillars, poles, arches, arbors, and even make 
hedges with the Rose while 
you cannot fill bed or border 
with any more lovely flower. 
Unfortunately the purpose 
for which Roses are intended 
does not always receive due 
consideration at the time they 
are purchased. Too frequently 
are these queens of flowers 
selected because some friend 
has given a chance recom¬ 
mendation of some varieties 
which may not fit the place 
another has for them at all, or 
because the buyer was be¬ 
guiled into their acquisition 
by some of the garish pictures 
with which occasional irre¬ 
sponsible dealers are wont 
to hypnotize their victims, 
instead of buying from respon¬ 
sible nurserymen and florists, 
or because a lot of “standard” roses are offered by someone at a 
phenomenally low price which seems to indicate a bargain though 
in reality they are worthless old stock being got rid of. In all three 
respects I write from experience. Buying roses without careful 
thought of the matter or when 
purchasing at emporiums 
whose regular business is 
other than that of dealing in 
plants is very much like a 
game of chance. Now and 
then at rare intervals I have 
scored, as when 1 acquired a 
rose under the name of Prince 
Bismarck that turned out to 
be a magnificent Frau Karl 
Druschki; but more often 1 
have failed lamentably, and 
plants purchased under the 
grandiloquent name of “Am¬ 
erican Beauty” had to be 
discarded from my garden 
because of the insignificant 
flowers they put forth. They 
scarcely bloomed at all with 
all the painstaking care given 
them. 
The half-evergreen Memorial Rose ( Rosa Wichuraiana) makes a beautiful 
cover for banks or stone walls 
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