Evening star., 1932-06-09

gardening energies to coddling rose
He knows, from some years expert
ence, that the real rosarian must do
Just that.
The true rosarian will not mind. To
him there is no flower in the world
to equal the rose. and he Is prepared
to spray and fertiliZe and devote count
less hours to difficult varieties.
Our average gardener, for whom sole
ly we speak, agrees with the rosarian
that the rose is the queen Of flowers "
To him, however. she is a difficult
queen. a too exacting flower, in many
ways. to receive the tribute from his
hands which she expects.
This man may call himself a rosarian,
too If an honest admiration for roses
makes him such. We believe that the
American Rose Society would agree to
this definition.
He is not the dyed-in-the- wool sort,
however, and so much he will be will
ing to admit.
After determined attempt to grow
roses well-the only way they should
be grown, Of course-he has come to
the decision that many varieties are
too much trouble.
This decision, being an essentially
honest one, Is not openly expressed
by many amateur gardeners, who would
agree with him in private nevertheless.
Not for gardening worlds could he
get them to admit that the growing
of some roses Is too much trouble" in
plain words.
This gives them one of the chances
which some folks. ever ready to seize
opportunity when it comes their way,
never miss.
What" they declare. Beautiful
roses too much trouble OF course, If
one doesn't want roses"
Go visit their gardens, and the
chances are the visitor will find far
poorer roses. and fewer. than in the
garden of the honest man who says,
because he knows, that some rosess are
simply too much trouble for him to
grow.
They may not be such a trial and
tribulation to another but they are to
him, and so In the end he begins to
weed out" his rose beds, getting rid
OF those varieties which show them
selves too susceptible to black-spot and
the like.
He pins his faith on Red Radiance.
There is a rose for you!
With a minimum of trouble, expense
and worry, 1t delivers at once a neat
bush and scores Of beautiful flowers
These only, of course, when certain
requirements are met.
These are proper pruning, fertilizer
and lack of water.
All roses are camels, growing best
when thirsty, but scarcely another is
such dry" as the Red Radiance.
The less water it gets the better it
does
We mean little water not only on the
foliage. which dry state tends to keep
down the dreaded black spot" but
also little at the roots.
More gardeners ruin good roses by
too much watering than by too little.
Red Radiance Is beauty which de-
mands but one thorough soaking a year.
ard that is in early Spring, after the
pruning, which must be within a few
inches of the ground
The more one prunes Red Radiance
the better 1t grows.
For large flowers Of the proper color
and manv affect TO sneer at this rose
because they have never seen its blooms
with the true coloration-there is. per-
haps. nothing quite so good as blood
meal
Applied generously when the growing
season begins. this fertilizer will make
good canes and good flowers as nothing
else will. especially on Red Radiance
And Red Radiance seems to thrive bet
ter on blood meal than many other
varieties. 1t has taste" for it. finds
it its own food and blooms accordingly
To be right, Red Radiance. as most
roses, must get the sun all day long
DRY. and warm, and beautiful" is its
motto