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Photograph from Johnston-Hewitt Studio 
Dorothy Perkins is unexcelled for the rose arbor 
ROSE GARDENING FOR RESULTS 
Common-Sense Facts Which Will Enable You to Select, 
Plant and Care for Your Bushes Both Wisely and Well 
GRACE TABOR 
N EVER, until you have grown them, 
will you truly appreciate roses— 
though you may think you love them to 
distraction! And never, until you have 
grown them, will you really know anything 
about them, though you may read and listen 
to the talk of wiseacres and devote yourself 
never so faithfully to the theories of rose 
culture. For the rose is at one and the 
same time the simplest and the most tricky 
thing in the world to grow — or tricky 
seeming, to those unfamiliar with her 
peculiarities. 
To get at the root of the rose’s seemingly 
capricious behavior, it is necessary to go 
back in the history of the species, to the 
ancestors of garden roses as we know them 
today. For it is to their ancestry that roses 
owe certain ineradicable traits, tendencies 
and characteristics that make them do these 
things. 
The roses of our gardens are divided into 
two general classes, which are again divided 
Gather roses always in the early morning 
or at evening if you wish them to keep 
well and be at their best. 
and subdivided by rose specialists in most 
complicated fashion. To these subdivisions 
no one pays the slightest attention, how¬ 
ever, unless he has arrived at the distinc¬ 
tion of being a near-specialist himself. 
Two Classes of Roses 
The two general classes, however, you 
must know, and these may be called by the 
layman’s terms June roses and all-summer 
roses; or summer roses, and summer-and- 
autumn-flowering roses; or in the rosa'rian’s 
language, hybrid perpetuals and hybrid teas, 
teas, etc. “A rose,” you know, “by any 
other name-” So call them what you 
choose, but note one thing and let it never 
be forgotten: “hybrid perpetual” is a mis¬ 
nomer if you take it literally for what it 
seems to mean, for it is synonymous with 
“June rose” or “summer-flowering rose” 
and not with “all-summer rose” or “summer- 
and-autumn-flowering rose.” As a matter 
of fact, the term is not a misnomer, for it 
does not refer to the bloom at all, but to 
the character of the plant — “perpetual,” 
that is, hardy; not killed by winter; not 
tender. Hence, not in need of protection. 
Hybrid perpetual roses are a mixed or hy¬ 
brid breed whose ancestors are mostly 
hardy, as distinguished from hybrid teas, 
whose ancestors are, in part at least, very 
tender and from an almost tropical clime. 
The tea rose, so named from its charac¬ 
teristic odor of tea, comes curiously enough 
from the land of that fragrant herb, China. 
It is at home only in warm sections, and by 
nature blooms continuously, as so many 
tropical or semi-tropical plants do. Seiz¬ 
ing upon this characteristic as promising, 
under proper manipulation, hybridizers of 
the western world began working with it 
