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be best. The surrounding circle of eight plants we would make 

 Nos. i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10, of our select list of hybrid per- 

 petual roses. Or two sets of bushes may be planted around the 

 central rose-tree ; say four, consisting of Nos. i, 2, 4, and 8 of the 

 list just mentioned, planted equidistant two feet from the centre, 

 with a circle of twelve or sixteen Noisette, tea or China roses around 

 them. The first-named list will, however, fill the bed completely 

 in two or three years. If a pillar, and climbing roses, should be 

 preferred to the tree-rose for a centre, the Queen of the Prairies 

 and Baltimore Belle may be used. 



BED, FIG. 5. This bed is supposed to be near a walk on its 

 longest side, and to have a row of chioce hybrid perpetual or Bour- 

 bon roses in the middle of the part parallel with the walk ; and at 

 3 and 4, in the centre, a low post for some perpetual pillar roses, 

 like Mrs. Elliott and Pierre de St. Cyr. 



BED, FIG. 6. This is a pretty form for a large bed, and very 

 simple to lay out, being on a hexagonal plan, where the distance 

 of each circle from the centre may measure the distance from one 

 plant to another in that circle. The centre is to have a post, for, 

 say the Baltimore Belle and Queen of the Prairies for June bloom, 

 and Mrs. Elliott and Pierre de St. Cyr for autumn flowers. In 

 the circle three feet from the centre are places for six hybrid per- 

 petual or Bourbon roses of strong growth; and on the outside, 

 four feet from the centre and five feet apart, six smaller and bushy 

 varieties of the Noisette, tea, or China varieties. In the latter 

 places (marked 9 to 14 inclusive), three sorts of the smaller and 

 delicate roses last named may be planted, instead of one, so that 

 each little mass or projection of the bed will form a group of low 

 rose-bushes with flowers of contrasting colors. 



BED, FIG. 7. This should have a high compact bush in the 

 centre, or post-roses, on a short support entirely concealed by the 

 foliage. The Mrs. Elliott and Caroline de Sansal side by side, and 

 kept together either with a hoop or with the post just suggested, 

 would make a beautiful centre-bush ; and for the three ends of the 

 bed strong plants of the Bourbon roses, Hermosa, Sir Joseph Paxton, 

 and Souvenir de I 1 Exposition, which will represent flesh color, bright 

 rose, and deep crimson. If a pure white rose is desired in the 



