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overcome and good Roses can be grown. To 
attempt to grow them in such situations without 
first of all providing efficient drainage is labour in 
vain, and nothing but disappointment can be the 
result. 
Elevated situations, not too much exposed to high 
winds, are favourable to the growth of Roses, and 
the tender kinds are less injured by frost than in low 
grounds ; but the prevalence of high winds is 
hurtful as well as troublesome, and where these are 
common, screens of plantations or fences should be 
contrived, and no plants higher than half-standards 
grown. 
SeLecTiInG VARIETIES.—This is a most important 
matter though rarely attended to, and is, I doubt 
not, a more frequent cause of failure to the amateur 
than any other. The first thing the amateur 
generally does is to fix upon the varieties he wishes 
to grow, and for this purpose the catalogue is taken 
in hand, and those varieties described as being the 
most beautiful and perfect in form are chosen, with- 
out any regard to the habit or the hardiness of the 
kind or nature of the soil in which they are to be 
grown. ‘Their destination may be a smoky atmo- 
sphere, and a light porous soil, or perhaps a cold, 
wet, tenacious soil, in combination with a damp 
atmosphere. In many instances the sorts which are 
chosen are not at all suited to the soil or the 
climate, their constitution possibly being of the 
most tender kind, and such as should only be grown 
in the most favourable soils and situations ; the 
result is, as may be expected, that nearly the whole 
