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Introduction: Roses

THE INCREASING REGARD FOR ROSES The American Rose Society Fragrant Roses Municipal Rose-Gardens A FAMOUS ROSE-GARDEN THE RED ROSE CHURCH AT MANHEIM ROSE-BEADS ATTAR OF ROSES.

HYBRIDIZING.

BIBLIOGRAPHY SYNONYMOUS ROSES ANALYSIS OF SPECIES.

ROSES ARRANGED IN CLASSES INDEX 6 9 14 14 15 16 17 18 20 22 22 24 25 26 26 29 31 34 36 37 39 41 43 64 77 J. A. Currey 77 Theodore Wirth 79 Rev. E. M. Mills 80 Admiral Aaron Ward 81 Dr. Robert Huey 82 Dr. W. Van Fleet 83 W. C. Egan 84 91 92 93 95 98 100 IOI 102 104 105 The Amateur's Kose Garden HIS little book is designed to help the reader realize that by setting out the right plants of the right sort of roses this spring, cut-flowers may be had from these selfsame plants during the last days of May, with a continuity of bloom almost unbroken until the frosts of late autumn herald the approaching winter.

Amateurs are now able to have an all-summer "feast of roses," as well as the skilled professional, and it is the amateur's rose-garden, especially, that we have had in mind when writing the following pages.

A large garden is not requisite. Two or three dozen good plants, of the modern and greatly improved sorts, properly selected, will give much enjoyment; while a garden of roses with somewhat greater variety and extent can readily be made a summer-long delight.

In spring, one can have the pleasure of building aircastles about the plants. When the warm days of June arrive, these air-castles will have taken substantial form, and you may go from one plant to another, giving each a little daily attention, contrasting one proud beauty with another equally queenly, and, best of all, gathering an abundance of lovely roses. Half an hour of such tonic-toil each day is a great nerve-restorer, and, what many of those who have tried it realize, it is also food for the soul.

Rose-growing among amateurs in this country is yet in its infancy. In England, before the war, nearly everyone grew roses. Dazzling vistas of roses were to be seen in the hedge-rows, along the country roads and lanes. Gardens were full of flowers, and each person seemed to be striving in friendly rivalry with his neighbor. Why was this extraordinary enthusiasm for the rose? Because it is without a peer among all the flowering plants. It presents nearly every floral shade, in combinations far more attractive than exotic orchids, and, above all, its delicious fragrance gives us the enjoyment of another sense the crowning feature, in which no other flower can compete with it.