. Amateur garden THE ROSE: ITS GENERAL CARE AND CULTURE. HE owner of every garden tries to grow roses in it, but where one succeeds, ten fail. Perhaps I would be safe in saying that ninety-nine out of every hundred fail, for a ? few inferior blossoms from a plant, each season, do not constitute success, but that is what the majority of amateur Rose- growers have to be satisfied with, the country over, and so great is their admiration for this most beautiful of all flowers that these few blos- soms encourage them to keep on, season after season, hoping for better things, and consoling
. Amateur garden THE ROSE: ITS GENERAL CARE AND CULTURE. HE owner of every garden tries to grow roses in it, but where one succeeds, ten fail. Perhaps I would be safe in saying that ninety-nine out of every hundred fail, for a ? few inferior blossoms from a plant, each season, do not constitute success, but that is what the majority of amateur Rose- growers have to be satisfied with, the country over, and so great is their admiration for this most beautiful of all flowers that these few blos- soms encourage them to keep on, season after season, hoping for better things, and consoling themselves with the thought that, though results fall short of expectation, they are doing about as well as their neighbors in this particular phase of gardening. One does not have to seek far for the causes of failure. The Rose, while it is common every- where, and has been in cultivation for centuries, is not understood by the rank and file of those m. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Rexford, Eben E. [from old catalog].
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