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for exhibition, as roses, like facts, are stubborn 

 things, and will often, in summer, bloom just 

 whenever it pleases them to do so, not being easily 

 retarded or forced : now, as days of exhibition are 

 usually fixed before it is known whether we are 

 to have an early or a late season, it is frequently 

 a complete lottery whether any particular plants 

 of rose will be in bloom or not. I have some- 

 times known on days fixed for the exhibition at 

 Chiswick, that I have looked over fifty plants of 

 one sort before I could find three or four perfect 

 flowers. The roses recommended for greenhouse 

 culture, from their producing a succession of 

 bloom, must be most relied upon by the exhibitor : 

 but if, by a lucky chance, a collection of Moss 

 Roses, or some of the finer kinds of French and 

 Hybrid Bourbon or Hybrid Perpetual Roses, 

 could be enticed to show themselves in all their 

 gay attire on the day, they would make the green- 

 house roses ' hide their diminished heads.' 



To form a collection of liardy roses in pots, the 

 very best should be selected from the following 

 families: French, Hybrid China, Hybrid Bour- 

 bon, and Hybrid Perpetual. Now for hardy pot 

 roses, except Moss Roses, in which the choice is 

 limited, only those with very double flowers, and 

 stiff waxy petals, should be selected. The follow- 

 ing will not disappoint the amateur. I ought 

 here to mention that it is better to pot two, or 



