Practical Flower Gardening

A trained horticulturist’s working handbook: what to plant, how to prepare the ground, and how to keep a flower garden going through the year without pretending it is effortless.

Outdoor Roses

5 pages in this part of Practical Flower Gardening.

Outdoor Roses

Roses will grow in various locations provided they receive full sunshine for at least half of the day, but will respond wonderfully if they…

Outdoor Roses, Continued

Excavate the beds to a depth of 3 feet. Keep the dark top soil and the subsoil in separate piles. Loosen the bottom of the bed with the…

Outdoor Roses, Continued

ception to this rule is the La France variety which does not respond satisfactorily to much feeding. After the June crop of flowers has…

Outdoor Roses, Continued

spells of dull damp weather dust the plants with flowers of sulphur toward evening. This is excellent for preventing mildew and for holding…

Outdoor Roses, Continued

Dorothy Perkins, clusters of pale pink flowers.

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