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House & Garden 
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W E have keen winters here at Rosedale. Zero 
temperatures are not unusual. All of our 
Roses have proven hardy. They will succeed in 
Northern gardens if cared for in the simple man¬ 
ner described in our catalog. 
There are Rosedale Roses for every planting 
purpose. Dignified Standard (tree-form) Roses 
for the formal garden. Romping Climbers for 
screening the porch or decorating the chimney. 
Hybrid Teas and Perpetuals in a rich variety of 
colors for cutting. All will bloom riotously with 
very little care. 
All our Roses are field-grown, heavy two and 
three year old plants. Planted in April they 
will often begin blooming by mid-June and some 
varieties will continue until frost time. 
What Rose Lovers Say 
About Rosedale Roses 
(Names furnished on request) 
We unpacked and planted the Rose Bushes Saturday 
last, three days after they arrived. We found them not 
only in fine condition but well “cut back,” leaving nothing 
to do but proper planting and after care.—New York. 
I shall want a few more Roses this year, and yours 
are the best I have been able to get.—Massachusetts. 
The Roses shipped by you April 20th reached me April 
27th in splendid condition, and were in every way satis¬ 
factory.—Idaho. 
Your shipment of Roses to us was so satisfactory we 
wish to order more and would like your general catalog. 
—Illinois. 
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Read about our complete line of Hardy Roses, Fruit 
Trees in ordinary and bearing sizes, Evergreens, Shade 
Trees, Shrubs and Vines in our 
Illustrated Catalog 
All Rosedale Planting Material is priced “As Low as 
Consistent with Highest Quality”. You will effect a 
big saving and assure satisfaction by ordering direct 
from our Nurseries. 
Outfitters for the Home Grounds 
Tarrytown, N. Y 
Standard. Tree-form Roses from Rosedale 
The Succulent Vegetables of Spring 
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Shallow and frequent cultivation is a 
sine qua non in good gardening. It con¬ 
serves the moisture at the roots of the 
plants where it is required, and obviates 
the labor of watering. To pull up and 
hoe up the weeds is not sufficient, the 
garden rake must be kept in action so 
as to make a dust mulch alongside the 
rows of plants. 
It is a good practice to dig enough 
stable fertilizer into the soil, and rake 
into its surface or into the seed drills 
enough chemical fertilizer so that the 
latter will give the crop a quick start, 
and the former carry it out till it is 
in its growth, and rather than to 
be done before the plants are checked 
ready for use. If, however, fertilizing 
the growing crop is practiced, it should 
be compounded with some chemical 
fertilizer by ourselves. VVe prefer to 
use “A complete vegetable manure for 
heavy” or “for light soil”, as the case 
Fifty Good Flowering 
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Native red osier, cornus stolonifera, 
is a valuable shrub for the massed en¬ 
closure. Its liveliness is not confined 
to one season. When its leaves fall in 
the Autumn the brilliant red of its 
branches is exposed for Winter effective¬ 
ness. In the Spring it is flecked with 
white flowers and later with waxy 
berries. It is sturdy and compact in 
growth and quite, the hardiest of the cor¬ 
nels. Almost any soil or exposure will 
satisfy it, but it prefers a slightly moist 
situation. It can be counted upon to 
attain a height of 10 '. 
Bush honeysuckle, lonicera morrowii, 
should be planted in clumps of not less 
than six and toward the front of the 
shrubbery grouping where its drooping 
branches will make their graceful con¬ 
tacts with the ground. Early in the 
Spring it is covered with small white 
flowers, and the bright red berries 
that appear in late Summer cling to the 
twigs through the Fall. Clumps of 
Morrow’s bush honeysuckle should not 
come immediately against other shrubs 
of a coarse, rigid habit of growth. The 
delicately curving lines of this shrub, 
with its slender fragile branches, should 
merge into plants of somewhat similar 
tendencies. That is the real secret of 
good shrub grouping. Adjoining clumps 
should not have their lines of demarca¬ 
tion made too strongly apparent. The 
bush honeysuckle named here will grow 
to a height of from 6 ' to 12 '. 
Common lilac, lonicera vulgarus, 
earns its right to a place in the heavy 
shrub order by the loveliness of its 
foliage and the wealth and quality of 
its fragrance in flower. It is a power¬ 
fully growing affair, as everyone knows, 
and will make innumerable layers which 
may prove troublesome if they get out 
of hand. 20 ' is not an unusual height 
for this shrub to go. Its great panicles 
of bloom stand from it during May and 
early June. If it is to receive pruning, 
the knives and shears should be ap¬ 
plied fairly soon after the blooming 
season, as the buds for the following 
Spring begin to form immediately. The 
lilac is a statuesque shrub and its com¬ 
manding stateliness should be taken 
into account when it is planted by giv¬ 
ing it an important situation and by 
arranging the different groups (if there 
be more than one) with a certain sym¬ 
metry. 
Mock orange, philadelphus coronarius, 
may require; raked in alongside the rows. 
The thoughtful gardener gathers his 
vegetables as soon as they are barely 
large enough to eat; then they are ten¬ 
der and have a delicate flavor. It is a 
great mistake, to allow vegetables to 
grow' to approximately full size so that 
the crop may measure up big. A beet 
pulled when the size of a nickel may in 
tenderness and delicate flavor be com¬ 
pared to a pound and a half spring 
chicken and a full grown one to a two 
year old hen. In the one case you 
have delicate flavor, in the other, size. 
Most of us really have to force our¬ 
selves into the good habit of gathering 
vegetables when quite young. Just see¬ 
ing in our “mind’s eye” on our table 
a side dish of French Forcing carrots 
and Laxtonian peas, gathered young, 
makes us rejoice in the poet’s thought: 
“If winter comes, can Spring be far 
behind?” 
Shrubs for the Garden 
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is justly fond and familiar. Its Spring 
blossoms are among the nicest, with 
their white petals and yellow centers, 
and their romantic perfume. It should 
be planted somewhere back of the ac¬ 
tual front of shrubbery grouping, where 
its tendency to become ragged with age 
will not be particularly noticeable. If 
it is not to be moved after planting it 
should be given, plenty of room in 
which to develop—at least 3 ' in every 
direction from its center. It will grow 
to a height of 10 ' with ease. 
Out of the great family of the Vibur¬ 
nums, all of which are interesting and 
attractive shrubs, mostly large-growing 
and informally shaped, with brilliant 
Fall foliage and colorful fruit, the two 
varieties, dentatum and tomentosum, 
seem particularly suitable for the pur¬ 
pose of heavy mass planting. Arrow- 
wood, V. dentatum, is a robust grower, 
attaining undisturbed a height of from 
10 ' to 15 ', blooming white in Spring 
and early Summer, and carrying shiny 
black berries through most of the Win¬ 
ter. Single Japanese snow'ball, V. To¬ 
mentosum (so called because its more 
famous cousin, V. Tomentosum plenum, 
sports a showy ball-shaped cluster of 
flowers), is a neater and smaller ( 8 ') 
shrub than the other, with handsome 
foliage and attractive white blossoms 
(May and June), and fruit that appears 
a brilliant red, turning later to a pur¬ 
plish black. 
Pearl Brush, exochorda grandiflora, 
so called because the unopened buds of 
its flowers resemble pearls, is a well 
shaped shrub attaining a height at 
maturity of from 10 to IS'. It has a 
graceful slender habit of growth and 
is a splendid thing to plant against 
clumps of bush honeysuckle. It is a 
prolific, late Spring-blooming plant with 
white flowers. 
SHRUBS FOR HEDGES 
Many of the shrubs which are neat 
and compact in their habits of growth 
are suitable to use for hedges in an 
untrimmed state. Spiraea Van Houteii, 
for example, makes a splendid hedge 
for the property line where space is 
not at a premium; and there are plenty 
other similar types. But for the average 
garden enclosure a free growing hedge 
takes up too much room. It should 
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