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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII Roses For Spec1al Purposes Abbreviations.--(B.), Bourbon; (D.), Damask; (F.), French or Gallica; (H.B.), Hybrid Bourbon; (H.C.), Hybrid China; (H.N.), Hybrid "Noisette; (HP.), Hybrid Perpetual, including some of the hybrid Bourbons; (H.T.), Hybrid Tea; (M.), Multiflora; N.), Noisette; (P.), Prairie (roses derived from R. setigera); (R.H.), Rambler hybrids (Crimson Rambler, one parent); (T.), Tea-scented, (W.H.), Wichuraiana hybrid. We can have roses almost anywhere. It is even possible to have them in poor, sandy soil, but it is not possible to have the best double varieties without the best soil and the best care. There can be roses on walls, on trellises, on tree trunks, on arbours, in the city garden, at the seashore, and about the mountain home where your summer is enjoyed. There are roses that bloom in the summer, others that make the garden glow in autumn, and some that are so lavish with flower that they repeat their gifts of colour and fragrance through the season. As a whole, the rose family asks for a deep, rich and heavy soil; but the Burnet, or Scotch, roses will thrive in sand; so will the Memorial, or Wichuraiana--and there are a score of excellent varieties derived from this which make rampant growth with almost no soil at all, and seem not to ask much care. We have been so long trained to think and speak of roses as only for their individual flowers that whole groups and families of kinds that do not make a great display of specimen individual flowers have been almost lost to the sight of the ordinary individual. It is not true that all roses are ugly plants, to be regarded only as the means of producing glorious roses, and that therefore their proper place is in an out-of-the-way corner where they will never be seen. Roses there are...