. Rose gardening; how to manage roses and enjoy them . to be puzzles to our world. An old priest, who was a poet in mind, once said to me: As often as I remember that the poor are always with us,I reflect, unwittingly, that the same can be said of the Catholicfaith, and surely of the rose ? God never wastes His greatworks. An unadvertised social reformer—one of those beings withnice mad ideas—told me he was convinced there would beno wars, strikes, murders, injustices, desertions, robberies,frauds or hypocrisies, if we all worked in rose hadour children trained to grow roses before
. Rose gardening; how to manage roses and enjoy them . to be puzzles to our world. An old priest, who was a poet in mind, once said to me: As often as I remember that the poor are always with us,I reflect, unwittingly, that the same can be said of the Catholicfaith, and surely of the rose ? God never wastes His greatworks. An unadvertised social reformer—one of those beings withnice mad ideas—told me he was convinced there would beno wars, strikes, murders, injustices, desertions, robberies,frauds or hypocrisies, if we all worked in rose hadour children trained to grow roses before learning to read andwrite. May there not be something in the notion ? The rose is the best flower to love rabidly—as we soonshall if we take up the culture—because roses can be hadin bloom every month, week, day, probably hour, if not minute,of the year. Special facilities are required for this, yet far WHY WE SHOULD GROW ROSES 17 less expenditure than is demanded by several other flowerhobbies such as orchid, carnation or auricula Plan for a Rose Garden. i8 ROSE GARDENING We may begin with garden roses, giving them all aspects,representing all classes, from the Banksians that commencethe show to the very latest bloomers. Here is a list of thoseI have watched competing among themselves each year forthe honour of being latest out. Caroline Testout. Pink. Gruss an Teplitz. Crimson- Mevrow Dora van Tets. Scarlet. scarlet. Climbing Mrs. W. J. Grant. Mrs. W. C. Miller. Vermilion, Deep rose. rose and pink. Killarney. Pink. Betty. Gold and rose. La France. Pink. Mrs. Wemyss Quin. Yellow. Viscountess Folkestone. Florence Haswell Veitch. Creamy pink. Crimson. La Tosca. Silver pink. Frau Karl Druschki. White. Then one can grow pot roses to force, pot roses to bringon slowly, pot roses not hastened at all, pot roses in sun, inshade, in stoves, greenhouses, conservatories, porches andvarious frames. If there are hundreds of pot roses, and theyare cut back in small batche
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