Gardening for Little Girls

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rosebuds w

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ghly prized of all the flowers; and ro

recent Manetti stock, and in crossing the teas with the hybrid perpetuals,-developed from the old June favorite

to your attention are among the loveliest and most easily grown. With even three or four, well taken car

nd good plants can be bought as low as fifteen or twenty cents apiece. The weather is usually fit for them to be set out by the 25th of March, and they will produce more and better roses than the

ionally good, free bloomers; and with little winter covering they should, on account of a season's rest, be better the second ye

round as quickly as possible. If its permanent home is not ready, dig a little trench and cover i

the lawn and so violate the landscape rule, "Preserve open lawn centers"), a numbe

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that they do not directly touch the fertilizer. Then hold your rose with your left hand while you straighten out the roots, and sprinkle enough fine soil to hold it in position while you set the next bush. Be sure that your budding point is 3 inches below the level of the ground,-and Baily says even 4! When all are in

be sunk with as little disturb

p the sun from drying out the earth. Some gardeners for this purpose cover the bed with pansies,

wet thoroughly. Manure from the chicken house is especially good as the chickens are meat eaters, and it is, therefore, better adapted to the needs of the roses and easily a

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sheep

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ts of each rosebush every two weeks, af

nd they do best in an open, sunny spot, away from the

do they stand being set "high and dry." Too damp beds shou

is protected from the sun by the shade of other plants. Cut off close to the parent stem any wild shoo

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roses, and give them a good covering of coarse manure or leaves. The m

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about 10 inches. The middle of April prune the more tender varieties. But remove from both all shoots growing in toward the center, and cut all wea

and cut out all over three years old. This renews the stoc

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tle later a spraying of whale-oil soapsuds as warning to the great army of bugs, s

cess? Yes, but sure. The leaf-roller, too, is most effectively disposed of by physical force,-pressure of thumb and forefinger. Clear, cold water, twice a day through a h

ladelphia is said to r

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both spray the bushes thoroughly and wet the ground around the roots. Repeat every ten days f

oted cottager," says Neltje Blanchan, "may easily have

he best of the different classes mentio

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HE BEST OF

ing winter protection. Noted fo

loomer, hardiest of

a free bloomer and quit

Guillot, a rose of exc

a strong grower, l

ne the best qualities of the teas and the hybrid

the most popular, sligh

ontinuous bloomer a

best dark rose, and fr

blooms of lovely shape, o

and one of the best of

port," same as

lly good form, fra

plant, of compact growth,

r all summer, with a beau

as June roses, and hardy. The follo

Paris), splendid in the gard

cessful in most loca

very large and fra

favorite that does we

very desirable and

blooming and hardy,

Crawford, a splendi

fragrant, with well-for

utiful fragrant buds wit

, flowers in c

inais, one of t

finely crest

, very vigor

xceptionally

d over walls, fences, pill

for hedges, beds, or carpeting, and can be boug

Beauty, well worth

ofuse bloomer and rap

e ramblers, but disliked by

best, resisting mildew and

on the formerly popular

f all, between 40 and 50 r

ross, graceful in form, and

sfactory Dorothy Perkins

called "Aviator Bleriot," th

ndmothers, and some known here in this country

single reddish-copper and

ngle flowers (introduced l

lantine, loved for its fra

n, very gracefu

ery daint

e,-deepens in color on deve

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ner as the thick, green of the imported, it is much more adapted to our soil and climatic conditions. It is cheaper, too, and splendid varieties, in 2?-in. and 3-in.

.00, with the growers' guarantee that "they will bloom the first and each succeeding year, from early

number of firms as suggestions for planting. Don't go looking for these plants at the 5- and 10-cent stores, for they never carry such specialti

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