270 ROSES. [CHAP. IX. 



in most cases, will have rooted, so as to be 

 removed in autumn. The blossom buds are 

 pinched off the shoots when they are laid down, 

 in order to throw the strength of the plant into 

 the root. Briars for budding are purchased by 

 the nurserymen from country people, who find 

 them growing wild in the coppice woods and field 

 hedges - 7 and these are used for standard roses, 

 the buds being insprted about five or six feet 

 from the ground. These standard roses, though 

 now so common, were unknown till about 1803, 

 when some briars that had been budded in this 

 manner were sent from Holland into France, 

 and afterwards introduced into England. Ac- 

 cording to the old method, when roses were to 

 be raised from seeds, the hips were thrown toge- 

 ther in a rot-heap, and left for twelve months to 

 decay ; but a more rapid mode is now adopted 

 of disengaging the seeds, by rubbing the hips 

 between coarse hair-cloths. The seeds should 

 be sown in February, in a soil composed of 

 vegetable mould and sand, in a shady situation, 

 and they should be kept tolerably moist till the 

 young plants come up. The following spring 

 they should be transplanted into rows a foot 

 apart every way, but they seldom flower till the 

 fourth summer. 



Roses are frequently planted in what are 

 called rose gardens or roseries, that is, in a 

 series of beds forming some regular figures, with 

 walks between, and only filled with roses of 

 different kinds. The form of the beds, and the 

 mode of planting them, must depend entirely 

 on taste and fancy; the only rule to be attended 

 to is, to keep the roses forming the outer beds 



