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have either well-developed buds or buds just showing 

 colour. Having gathered sufficient shoots of any 

 one sort to make an exhibition bunch, those selected 

 should be wired and placed deeply in a bowl, or other 

 vessel holding plenty of water, before proceeding to 

 cut the remaining bunches. When all are gathered, 

 the sprays should be arranged in bunches and their 

 stems tied together with raffia ready for exhibition on 

 the morrow. Some taste and care are necessary in 

 arranging these bunches so that the flowers are dis- 

 played to the best advantage. After this has been 

 done they will require to be again placed in water 

 and removed to a dry cellar or other cool place for 

 the night. On the following morning these bunches 

 must be taken from the receptacles in which they 

 were placed and carefully laid on soft paper in the 

 bottom of a Rose-box from which the tray has been 

 removed, or, better still, in a lady's cardboard dress- 

 box. On arriving at the exhibition the bunches 

 should at once be placed in water in the vases in 

 which they are to be exhibited. The same principle 

 should be followed as when setting up exhibition 

 Roses ; that is to say, the largest bunches should be 

 placed at the back, the smallest in the front, and the 

 light and dark varieties arranged as far as possible 

 alternately, using larger and higher vases for the 

 bunches in the back row than for those in the front. 

 Bunches of garden Roses should not be crowded, or 

 the foliage and habit will not be properly shown. 



