HOW TO GROW
ROSES

BY
ROBERT PYLE
President of the American Rose Society

FOURTEENTH EDITION
REVISED AND ENLARGED

Published by
THE CONARD & JONES COMPANY
WEST GROVE, PENNA., U. S . A.
BOOK - 1923 - 196 pages


INTRODUCTION


TO MAKE rose-growing easy for everyone has been the
intent and purpose of this book from its very beginning
many years ago. Almost with each successive edition its
size and scope have been enlarged. Every succeeding year
brings new roses, although not all of them are improvements
over existing sorts. New methods also come into use. Both
new roses and new methods must first be tested to find the best.

With a country so large, with a climate and other conditions
so varied, no narrow or single point of view avails.
Satisfactory conclusions can be drawn only after a broad
survey. This work has been built by the author upon an
experience that has had various points of contact: (i) By
personal visits to the rose-gardens and rose-growers in most
of the important rose centers of two continents; (2) by
correspondence extending over a quarter century WTth rose
patrons in every state of the Union and also abroad; (3) with
audiences from the lecture platform in many states; and (4)
for the past ten years as an executive officer of the American
Rose Society, working shoulder to shoulder with those devoted
to making the rose in America universally loved.

So many have helped to make this book possible that any
attempt formally to name them would result in a catalogue
of loyal helpers, in office and home, in the well-equipped Mount
Pleasant Press, and in the five Libraries in Boston, New York,
and Washington. To all these I am grateful, also to Stanley K.
Wilson, who assisted in many ways, and especially with Chapters
I and VII, which, except for his happy literary development
and interpretation of my message, would not so surely
breathe the atmosphere or reflect the dehghts which I know
you will find among roses. To Prof. Charles S. Sargent,
Mrs. Harriet R. Foote, Mrs. Aaron Ward, Rev. Edmund M.
Mills, D.D., Dr. Robert Huey, J. H. Nicolas, Theodore
Wirth, Wm. C Egan, C. E. F. Gersdorff, F. L. Mulford,
Director Charles E. Moore, Paul A. Kohl, Jesse A. Currev, and
H. L. Collier, those well-known rose experts whose contributions
makeup Chapter XI, I hereby express deep appreciation.

Frequent use has been made in this volume of the work and
findings of the American Rose Society, principally as published
in the 'American Rose Annual," edited by J. Horace McFarland,
whose permission and kindly cooperation are hereby gratefully
acknowledged.

How universal has been the devotion of the race to this
"flower of flowers" is attested by the praise of poets throughout
the ages. I like to think of the passages quoted as messages
of sweetness and beauty borne by the flowers from their Creator
and by the poets caught and distilled into verse like precious
attar of roses.

Do not these thoughts suggest that we, too, may get our
messages direct from that same Great Source if we but attend
at Nature's shrine? Shall we, with Thomas Edward Brown,
be able to say:


"A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Ferned grot.
The veriest school
Of peace; and yet the fool
Contends that God is not!
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool.
Nay, but I have a sign;
'Tis very sure God walks in mine."


May the pages which follow lead the reader straight toward
a richer practical experience in a pastime which "age cannot
wither."

R. P.

Rose Hill, West Grove, Pa.
March 31, 1923


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