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sJiee, Caroline Lonaficld, Mabel Morris, Miss Burdett Goutts, Mrs. 

 J. Glutton, Peri, Queen Victoria, find Excellent. Bronze: Harrison 

 Weir, Danae, Prima Donna, Red Sing, Countess of Keltic, Blade 

 Knight, Fairy Ring, and Napoleon III. 



THE CULTIVATION OE THE EOSE.— No. VEX 



|T is such an. easy matter to make rosesby the dozen, hundred, 

 thousand, million, that the one miraculous tact in the 

 history of the rose is of this negative sort — the scarcity of 

 roses. To be sure there are plenty of roses in the world, 

 BUeh as starving standards that make gardens hideous, 

 and those who own them open defamers to the taste they profess 

 to promote. We may find wall roses, and pillar roses, and bush roses 

 of the most obnoxious character everywhere, but few well-grown 

 roses ; few roseries containing anything like a variety of roses, and 

 few, very few, extremely few, glass houses devoted to the delicate 

 tea roses, which, if virtue were triumphant, would drive all the 

 geraniums and verbenas clean out of every plant-house in which, 

 with any prospect of success, a tea rose might be grown. One good 

 reason for bad rose growing is the prevalence of an extravagant belief 

 in standard roses. They are good enough indeed, when they are 

 good, but they are so often planted in the wrong place and managed 

 in the wrong way, that very many of the examples commonly met 

 with are types of extreme ugliness, and should impress us, if we 

 knew no more than they can teach, with the idea that the rose h the 

 very worst of all our garden flowers. To correct this foolish faith, 

 we must continually urge'the claims of own-root roses, and teach people 

 how to obtain or make them. As a majority of the trade repudiate 

 the notion of providing people with own-root roses, we feel bound to 

 say that Messrs. Lane and Sob, Berkhanrpotead Nurseries, long'since 

 took a hint, kindly offered to mankind by the Floral World, and'set 

 about producing millions of own-root roses. Those who want to buy 

 such, know henceforth where to go for them. But what are own- 

 root roses ? some will ask, and thereupon the whole question will 

 be opened about roses, and their roots in general. 



There are many modes of multiplying roses ; but for all general 

 : ; es, we need only notice three of them. The standard roses 

 commonly met with, are obtained by inserting buds of named roses 

 on the young shoots of English briers in the month of July. The 

 operation is called " budding," and constitutes an important mystery 

 of the rose craft. Bush roses are obtained by the budding process ■ 

 but an Italian brier, known as the manetti rose, is employed for the 

 purpose. It is a free-growing, very free-rooting, bluish-leaved brier 

 not adapted to form standards, but well suited for bush roses if the 

 buds are inserted very low down, in fact immediately over the roots 

 of the briers, so that when they grow they will spring as it were 

 from the ground, instead of from the stems in which they are 

 inserted. Both bush and standard roses may be obtained on their 



