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a most interesting employment. To do this, all 

 that is required is to sow the seed as soon as ripe 

 in October, in pots or beds of fine earth, covering 

 it with nearly one inch of mould ; the succeeding 

 spring threy will come up, and bloom in perfection 

 the season following ! 



The aim should be to obtain varieties with 

 large and very double crimson flowers : this can 

 only be done by slightly hybridising ; and to 

 effect this it will be necessary to have a plant or 

 two of the Tuscany rose trained to a south wall, 

 so that their flowers are expanded at the same 

 time as the Scotch roses in the open borders : 

 unless thus forced they will be too late. Any 

 dark-red varieties of the Scotch roses, such as 

 Venus, Erebus, or Flora, should be planted sepa- 

 rately from others, and their flowers fertilised 

 with the above French rose. Some very original 

 deep-coloured varieties will probably be obtained 

 by this method. Sulphurea and one or two other 

 straw-coloured varieties may be planted with the 

 Double Yellow Austrian briar, and most likely 

 some pretty sulphur-coloured roses will be the 

 result of this combination. 



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