Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover . hem intothe ground about the middle of May. Mulch thesoil about them well. This will do away with thenecessity of watering if the season happens toprove a dry one. In planting, be governed bythe directions given in the chapter on TheRose. Try a bed of these ever-bloomers for a seasonand you will never afterward be without flowers will rival them in brilliance, per-haps, and may require less attention, but—theywill not be Roses! One fine Rose affords morepleasure to the lover of the best among flowersthan a whole garde
Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover . hem intothe ground about the middle of May. Mulch thesoil about them well. This will do away with thenecessity of watering if the season happens toprove a dry one. In planting, be governed bythe directions given in the chapter on TheRose. Try a bed of these ever-bloomers for a seasonand you will never afterward be without flowers will rival them in brilliance, per-haps, and may require less attention, but—theywill not be Roses! One fine Rose affords morepleasure to the lover of the best among flowersthan a whole garden full of ordinary blossomscan, and this is why I urge all flower-loving peo-ple to undertake the culture of the ever-bloomingclass of Roses, for I know they will give greatersatisfaction than anything else you can grow. In fall, the plants can be taken up, packedaway in boxes of earth, and kept in the cellarover winter. Cut away almost the entire topwhen the plants are lifted. All that one cares tocarry through the winter is the root of the plant. THE DAHLIA. HIRTY or forty years agothe Dahlia was one of ourpopular flowers. That is,popular among those whoaspired to keep up withthe times, and grow all thenew plants that had realmerit in them. At that time but one form of itwas considered worth growing, and that was thevery double, globular type of flower. The singlevarieties were looked upon as worthless. After a time the popularity of the flowerwaned for some reason hard to account for, ex-cept on the theory that there are fashions inflowers as in clothes. I presume that the trueexplanation is that we Americans are prone torun to extremes, and when we take up a plantand it becomes a favorite we overdo matters andtire of it because we see so much of it. Then werelegate it to the background for a time, andafter awhile we drag it out of the obscurity towhich we temporarily consigned it as a penaltyfor its popularity, and straightway it comes into 156 THE DAHLIA greater prominen
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