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EXHIBITING ROSES. 
ewe |N TIL recently little attention has, 
{5|| in this country, been given to a 
careful exhibition of roses, but of 
£ se late years a decided interest has 
feeh taken in the matter, and very credit- 
able displays are now made in Boston and 
New York. The Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society has done a great deal to encourage 
exhibits of cut-roses, and the numerous boxes 
of splendid flowers to be seen at Boston 
every June attract admirers from all parts of 
the land. Much has been written and said 
for and against the exhibition of cut-roses in 
boxes. Objectors to the system claim that 
wrong impressions are given to the public; 
amateurs see beautiful flowers of a certain 
variety, and are thereby led to purchase and 
attempt to grow plants of it, only to discover 
that they don’t grow; the variety being of 
feeble constitution and requiring skilful 
treatment, lives but a dismal life at their 
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