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Show THE HOME. 1 9 ROSES AND THE HOME. A writer at the Colorado station is a lover of the rose. He says: The writer spent his early days in a log cabin, and a beautiful home life it was. Surrounded on all sides by dense, hardwood forests, no thought was given to preserving the timber, but how to rid the ground of it cheaply cheap-ly and quickly was then a matter of considerable monvent. It was with much regret, however, that we saw the forests gradually destroyed and the log house give way for a more pretentious one of frame. During the years of hard work while the hud was being cleared and the farnn developed, time was found to pa.y some attention to the needs of growing boys. An abundance of good reading matter was provided, and what is equally important, flowering flow-ering shrubs and plants were grown in profusion. Among those which ard best remembered were lilacs, snowballs, snow-balls, mock orange, flowering almonds, al-monds, mountain fringe, honeysuckle, trumpet vine, roses, pcon?cs, bleeding heart, hollyhock, phlox, London pride, lilies, gladiolus, dahlias and a host of annuals. It should be mentioned that the log house was literally covered by the trumpet vine and the honeysuckles. honey-suckles. In spile of humble surroundings surround-ings the home soon became the show place of the neighborhood and its attractions at-tractions arc still among the most cherished memories of childhood days. All this, goes to show that an -dab orate and costly house docs not necessarily nec-essarily make a home. And now that shrubs and flowering plants arc so cheap, docs not every man owe it to his family to sec that they are not only provMcd, but that they are planc-cd planc-cd anjl well taken care of? But it is roses in particular we wish to call attention to in this at tide. They are not the difficult plants to grow that many have thought, and as there are now mtany fairly hardy sorts there is no reason why roses should not be much more common. They can certainly be grown in any locality where apple and sour cherry trees thrive. First of all, they should have, a soil llwit has been well enriched with rotten rot-ten barnyard manure. See to it that the ground docs not become compact 1 by frequent surface waterings and an 1 infrequent use of the hoc. In fact, 1 flowering plants require the same care 1 that any other cultivated crop re- i oeivcs. ' I n |