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.
