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difficult to flower in any situation. Roses are generally planted in 

 the front of siirubberies, and in borders : they are also planted by 

 themselves, in rose-gardens or in rosaries, in groups on lawn or gra- 

 vel, either with common box, or other eddnss, or with edirinas of 

 wire, in imitation of basket-work : these last are called baskets of 

 roses : the ground enclosed in the ba.sket margin is made convex, so 

 as to present a greater surface to the eye, and increase the illusion : 

 the shoots of the stronger sorts are layered, or kept down by pegs 

 till they strike root, so that the buds of the shoots furnished with 

 buds appear only above the soil, which is sometimes covered with 

 moss or small shells. Under this treatment the whole surface of the 

 basket becomes in two or three years covered with rose-buds and 

 leaves, of one or of various sorts. Where one of the larger free 

 growing sorts is employed, as the Moss Rose, or any of the Province 

 varieties, one plant may be trained so as to cover a surface of many 

 square yards. Where different sorts are introduced in the same 

 basket, they should be as much as possible assimilated in the size of 

 leaves and flowers, and habits of growth, and as different as possible 

 in the colors of their flowers. By mixing small-flowered with large- 

 flowered sorts, the beauty of the former is lost, Avithout adding to 

 the effect of the latter. In rosaries usually but one plant of a sort 

 is introduced, and the varieties which most resemble each other are 

 placed together, by which their distinctive differences are better 

 seen. Particular compartments are often devoted to one species, as 

 the Scotch, Chinese, Yclloic, Barnet-lcavcd, &c., which has an excel- 

 lent effect. Sometimes a piece of rock-work in the centre is covered 

 with creeping roses, and on other occasions they are trained to trel- 

 lis-work, which forms a fence or hedge of roses round the whole. 

 In this hedge standard-roses are sometimes introduced at regular 

 distances : a grove of standards is also frequently formed in the cen- 

 tre of the rosary, and sometimes they are introduced here and there 

 in the beds. Standard-roses, however, have certainly the best effect 

 in flower borders, or when completely detached on a bed : their 



