Excerpt from How to Grow Roses Amateurs are now able to have an all-summer Rose feast as well as the most skilled professional, and it is in the amateur's Rose garden, too, that these fragrant blossoms may be gathered with early icicles hanging to them. Nor is a large garden requisite - two or three dozen good plants, of the modern and greatly improved sorts, properly selected, will give much enjoyment, while a garden of Roses can be readily made a sum mer-long delight. In the spring one can have the fun of building air - castles about the plants. When the warm days of June arrive, these air-castles have taken substantial form, and you go from one plant to another, giving each a little daily attention, contrasting one proud beauty with another equally queenly, and, best of all, gathering an abundance of lovely Roses. Half an hour of such tonic toil each day is a great nerve-restorer, and, what is more, it is the best food for the soul. Rose-growing among amateurs in this country is yet in its infancy. In England, nearly everybody grows Roses; there are dazzling vistas of Roses in the hedge-rows along the country roads and lanes; there are gardens full, each person striving in friendly rivalry with his neighbor. Why do our friends on the other side of the sea become so enthusiastic over the Rose? Because it is without a peer among all the flowering plants. It presents nearly every floral shade, in combinations far more attractive than exotic orchids, and, above all it gives to us enjoyment of another sense in its delicious fragrance the crowning feature, in which no other flower can compete with it. For centuries has the Rose been fully recognized as the Queen of Flowers, honored alike by poet and king. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.