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A ROSE FOR EVERY PLACE AND PURPOSE 
“The success of the Rose in this country is very largely a question 
of the selection of adaptable varieties.’’ — DR. LIBERTY H. BAILEY. 
The preceding page will help you, no doubt, to avoid selecting those Roses not 
well suited to your climate, and to a choice of the right ones for your locality. That 
is very important. Having received your Roses, do you yet realize in how many 
different ways they may be used, what clever, original, and decorative arrangements 
may be employed to make your home beautiful? 
Let us note the climbing Roses, for example, ft is difficult to imagine a home with grounds at all 
that is too small for at least one climbing Rose. A climbing Rose that covers the entire side of a house may 
need only two cubic feet of soil to grow in. (Please note in passing the rose-embowered house on page 19.) 
The ingenuity of our readers will conceive a greater variety of uses than the few examples pictured on this 
page. A much more complete treatment of the subject will be found in our book, “How to Grow Roses.” 
1. For Trellis. For covering a trellis, select from the climbers, pages 17 to 21, inclusive, and espe¬ 
cially those on page 18. A trellis may be made of wood, wire, or other materials, and may be used 
about the house, porch, or garden, or for a screen. 
2. For an Archway. Use the same varieties as for above. “Dig deep while sluggards sleep,” and 
you’ll have Roses galore. The archway is most effective over a pathway or entrance. 
3. Pergola. A pergola, like an open tunnel, made up of a series of connected arches, should be covered 
with the same varieties recommended for arches, and is a great addition to any garden. 
Fences. First of all, plan for a substantial support, and choose, according to taste, 
from the long-branched climbers on pages 17 to 21, but especially on pages 18 to 21. 
If your fences are already in place, why not cover them with Roses, for this can be 
done for a slight additional expense. From a single bush, like Dr. W. Van Fleet, you can 
get hundreds of perfect, large, long-stemmed blooms every year, that city folks are glad to 
get for $2 per dozen. These large-flowered hardy climbers make canes 10 to 15 feet 
long in a season, and bloom the second season after planting. 
5. Banks or Stumps. Any ugly or unsightly objects, from stumps to buildings, may 
be transformed into bowers of beauty. Expense is trifling, compared with the satis¬ 
faction. The hardy climbers, and especially Wichuraianas, are best for this purpose. 
GrowYour Own Decorations for Weddings, Recep¬ 
tions, Commencements, and Celebrations 
At the dedication of the National Rose Test Garden at Washington, D. C., 
Benjamin Hammond, then President of the American Rose Society, called at¬ 
tention to the beauty and appropriateness of a background such as there 
shown for a wedding ceremony. In the book “How to Grow Roses” is 
told of a most charming Rose-garden near Paris which is the setting for a 
permanent open-air theatre. Have you experienced the satisfaction of 
having plenty of Roses from which to cut for festal occasions, for decora¬ 
tions, for showering rose petals on guests to be honored, for carpeting 
their pathway with velvet flowers ? 1 .t 
Shall we do less than the ancients and fail to use 1JU . | 
God’s great gift of beauty to crown life’s important 5 * 
events. For uses like these Roses lend themselves as 
does no other flower. 
Join the American Rose Society 
Eminent lovers of the Rose throughout America to the number of 
nearly two thousand have joined hands to foster and stimulate a 
wider interest in, and to improve the excellence of the Rose for Americans. 
To each member is sent a valuable 
and comprehensive survey of present- 
day Rose progress. A cloth bound 
book of 180 pages, edited by J. Horace 
McFarland, President of The Ameri¬ 
can Civic Association, will give you 
the latest and best information about 
new Roses and why which are best, 
etc. Your application for Member¬ 
ship with $2 per year should be e 
sent to Prof. E. A. White, Sec¬ 
retary, Cornell University, ^ ^ 
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