A garden entirely of roses laid out after the formal French manner 
Roses for Every Garden 
; AND PLANTING A ROSE GARDEN—DIRECTIONS FOR PROPER 
-HOW VARIETIES HAVE BEEN IMPROVED AND WHAT THEIR 
CHARACTERISTICS ARE 
by F. F. Rockwell 
Photographs by Ella M. Boult, Mary H. Northend and N. R. Graves 
D ESPITE a prevalent belief to the contrary, a rose garden 
is not a luxury reserved for the specialist. Recent im¬ 
provements in gardening methods, and new varieties of roses 
suited to every condition, make possible for any amateur a 
garden of these popular flowers. You can have a rose garden 
without a gardener; you can have beautiful roses for cutting 
without a garden at all! You can have them in festoons over 
the porch, with the foliage clean and green all summer, in place 
of the mildewed foliage of a crimson rambler, which has been 
superseded by a newer and better climber for arbor or trellis. 
Then there are dwarf sorts that are splendid for low hedges or 
for mass bedding, that bloom continuously throughout the sea¬ 
son. Others are adapted to covering unsightly banks. 
In planning a rose garden, the quality of the flowers should 
be the prime consideration, and the beginner will do well to buy 
from a reliable firm. Then you will have to choose between 
dormant and potted plants. The latter cost more, but will give 
Paul Neyron is one of the favorite hybrid perpetuals with delicate creamy tinted 
blossoms of a large size 
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