94 PICTORIAL PRACTICAL ROSE GROWING. 
Round the centre of each selected flower carefully fasten a 
piece of raphia, which may remain until the flowers are 
arranged in the stand. Always take more flowers to the show 
than are required for the stand, in order to be able to make 
a choice when setting-up time comes, but if there are two 
blooms of one variety, watch them carefully ; they have a nasty 
way of sneaking in and getting you disqualified for duplicating. 
The old parliamentary hand is great on getting a strong 
back row. He knows that substance there, combined with 
freshness, catches the judge’s eye quickly. The heaviest 
flowers should go to the back. 
While, however, weight is regarded, and rightly regarded, as 
a point, symmetry and freshness must never be overlooked. 
A blown flower must be rigidly excluded. It might find favour 
with Mr. Broad Beans at the rural show, but try it on, under 
the encouragement afforded by the estimable Mr. Beans, at 
the National, and a catastrophe will ensue. 
If with youth and freshness you can unite size, it is well, for 
in the Rose tent, as on the turf, the old trainers dictum 
holds the sway, “A good big ’un will always beat a good little 
Realty e3 
Chapter 12.—Roses in Pots. 
It has been urged against the Rose, by those outside her 
charmed circle, that she is a short-lived beauty, whose season 
is gone almost as soon as it comes. 
_Were this true, Rose worshippers would be Rose worshippers 
still. They would tell you that an hour with a queen was better 
far than eons with a scullerymaid, and keep the flame of their 
affection strong and pure from one season of flowering to 
another. 
But itis not true. Time was when the reproach carried some 
weight. We grew little or nothing but Hybrid Perpetuals, and 
for most of the year they were flowerless, but in these latter 
(References to Fig. 44, page 95.) 
PICTORIAL PRACTICE.—PLAIN HINTS IN FEW WORDS. 
FIG. 44.—-SHADES FOR SHOW ROSES. 
A, Dean Hole’s zinc cap or helmet, 8 inches in diameter and 6 inches in 
depth: a, ventilation openings; 4, socket; ¢, stake; d, wooden wedges, 
