HOW TO SHOW THE ROSE. 



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12 Roses. 



Take any Rose in this collection, and you will find it in 

 close proximity to others which, from their diversity of 

 colour, will give and gain beauty by contrast. Thus 

 Lefebvre has the pink Furtado below and the golden Niel 

 at its side ; the yellow Niel has crimson Roses on either 

 side and beneath ; the bright red Dilc de Rohan has a 

 yellow Rose on his left, a white Rose on his right, and a 

 cream-coloured Rose below him ; pale Vidot has a scarlet 

 and crimson close to her ; and so throughout. 



Your beautiful thoroughbreds may not all come to the 

 post, they may not run in the order in which you have 

 placed them — that is, some of your Roses may be too much 

 expanded when you come to cut them, or may not be in 

 size or in colour exactly suitable for the position assigned 

 to them ; but you will find, notwithstanding, very great 

 assistance from such a plan as that proposed to you ; and 

 « when you have gained by observation a knowledge of the 



