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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 |
| Maréchal Neil, a Tender Climbing Tea Rose | 8 |
| Killarney, One of the Best Hybrid Teas | 12 |
| A Garden for Roses Only | 14 |
| A Dormant Tea Rose as It Comes from the Grower | 22 |
| A Stock of Manetti Grafted with an Improved Variety | 42 |
| A "Standard" Rose | 44 |
INTRODUCTION
I well remember the caution given me by a noted horticulturist when, in the sudden awakening to the joys of gardening, I was about to attempt the cultivation of nearly everything named in the largest seed and plant catalogue I could find:
"Leave the rose alone; it is not worth fighting for."
And leave it alone I did, until one day I was browsing about an old book shop and came upon a well-thumbed copy of good old Dean Hole's "A Book About Roses." Let me tell you that there is something radically wrong with the person who can read that book and then go on plodding along his dreary, roseless way.
But why, if there is such a book as that to be had, do I presume to put forth what can at best be but a feeble ray in its predecessor's blaze of inspiration? Merely because Dean Hole's book, and a later volume by the Rev. Andrew Foster-Melliar that is almost as inspiring, with perhaps even more helpful guidance, are both written for the English rosarian and for a cool, moist climate that necessitates a somewhat different method of procedure throughout as compared with that which would bring success in growing roses here in America. Then too, there is to my mind something encouraging in a very small book, a book that will merely attempt to lay the foundations for the superstructure that, after all, only experience can bring. Perhaps there are those who, like myself, are content with the bare essentials of classification, content to be told the basic rudiments of cultivation, and who are in haste to be done with all of these homely means to an end, that they may begin growing roses.
Making a Rose Garden
CLASSIFICATION
When one considers the fact that the majority of botanists recognize over a hundred species of the genus Rosa, and that a French botanist lists and describes 4,266 species from Europe and western Asia alone, it will readily be understood that this chapter can give but a rough, working knowledge of groups and species.
Fortunately the amateur rosarian in the United States is concerned with very few of the species, largely for the reason that the efforts of our rosegrowers have naturally been confined to a few important groups where general merit is most strongly marked. Indeed,