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is difficult to deflect some of sturdy growth, such 

 as the Baroness Rothschild ; but he will touch 

 tenderly who loves truly, and his unhappy fract- 

 ures will be few. In two years these beds will be 

 densely covered with flowers and foliage ; and the 

 contrasted beauty of La France and Lefebvre, 

 Marie Finger, and Marie Beauman, the Duchess of 

 Valambrosa and Louis Van Houtte, Madame La- 

 charme and Xavier Olibo, will dazzle the eye and 

 bewilder the brain of the fondest of all lovers — of 

 him who loves the Rose. 



This method of growing Roses might be am- 

 plified to any extent by those who had the desire 

 and the means, beds being planted not only with 

 mixed varieties for contrast, but with a dozen or 

 score plants of the same Rose. Were these taste- 

 fully arranged and carefully tended, we should 

 have a Rose-garden as attractive to the general 

 visitor as it would be interesting to the student, 

 and convenient to the exhibitor, of Roses. The 

 latter has often, when time is precious, to cut 

 specimens of the same Rose from different and 

 distant parts of his collection ; and were these 

 growing together, much needless locomotion 

 w^ould be saved. 



Let us now consider, collectively and individu- 

 ally, the various families of this our royal flower, 



