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MAKING A ROSE GARDEN

THE HOUSE & GARDEN MAKING BOOKS

It is the intention of the publishers to make this series of little volumes, of which Making a Rose Garden is one, a complete library of authoritative and well illustrated handbooks dealing with the activities of the home-maker and amateur gardener. Text, pictures and diagrams will, in each respective book, aim to make perfectly clear the possibility of having, and the means of having, some of the more important features of a modern country or suburban home. Among the titles already issued or planned for early publication are the following: Making a Lawn; Making a Tennis Court; Making a Garden Bloom This Year; Making a Fireplace; Making Roads and Paths; Making a Poultry House; Making a Hotbed and Cold-frame; Making Built-in Bookcases, Shelves and Seats; Making a Rock Garden; Making a Water Garden; Making a Perennial Border; Making a Shrubbery Group; Making a Naturalized Bulb Garden; with others to be announced later.

MAKING A ROSE GARDEN

By HENRY H. SAYLOR

NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY McBRIDE, NAST & CO.

Published February, 1912

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 1

CLASSIFICATION 3

LOCATION AND SOIL 11

PREPARATION AND PLANTING 20

FERTILIZING 25

PRUNING 30

PESTS 38

PROPAGATION 40

WINTER PROTECTION 44

LISTS OF DEPENDABLE ROSES 46

GLOSSARY OF TERMS 51

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

A ROSE GARDEN WITH THE IDEAL ARRANGEMENT OF GRASS PATHS Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

ULRICH BRUNNER, A RED HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE 4

MARECHAL NEIL, A TENDER CLIMBING TEA ROSE 8

KILLARNEY, ONE OF THE BEST HYBRID TEAS 12