Old-Fashioned Roses
A flower garden would be lacking in interest and beauty, indeed, without the Queen of Flowers, the rose.
No matter how small the garden space, some roses may be grown, and their loveliness and perfume will well repay the work of caring for them.
There were no such beautiful roses in your grandmothers’ gardens as you may grow to-day, for more beautiful and more perfect roses come into existence every year.
Perhaps you have heard of “Damask,” and “Cabbage,” and “China” roses; old-fashioned sounding names they are, very familiar to the ears of your grandparents.
They were the great-great-grandparents of the hardier and lovelier roses of to-day, the “Hybrid Perpetuals,” and “Hybrid Teas.”