Making a Rose Garden

The book offers a concise practical guide for creating and maintaining a domestic rose garden, covering rose classification (including Teas, Hybrid Teas, Hybrid Perpetuals, Moss and climbing types), site selection and soil preparation, planting and fertilizing, pruning, pest control, propagation methods and winter protection. It balances horticultural instruction with lists of dependable varieties and illustrated examples, and notes climatic differences that affect care and propagation techniques. The manual emphasizes simple, foundational practices for the amateur gardener and provides a glossary of terms and clear, illustrated steps to establish a successful rose collection.