MAKING A ROSE GARDEN

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


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.