1 66 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



Rose-garden and a garden of beautiful Roses — requires the 

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the ground and the gold, which few can spare. They who 

 can — who have both the desire and the means, the en- 

 thusiasm and the exchequer — should have some such a 

 Rosary as I have suggested in the chapter on Arrangement, 

 together with a large budding-ground annually devoted, 

 fresh Briers or Manetti on fresh soil, to the production of 

 show Roses. As a rule, the amateur who becomes a keen 

 exhibitor will eliminate the varieties which he cannot show; 

 and the amateur who studies fou^ ensemble — the complete- 

 ness of the scene, diversity, abundance — will rest satisfied 

 with his exhibition at home. He will grow, of course, the 

 more perfect Roses, enumerated hereafter as Roses suit- 

 able for exhibition ; but not requiring them in quantity, 

 he will have ample room to combine with them those 

 varieties which, though their individual flowers are not 

 sufficiently symmetrical for the show, have their own special 

 grace and beauty — the garden Roses, which I now propose 

 to discuss. 



