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of teas, which should be covered gradually until the 

 top is reached. 



By this you will judge, Mary Penrose, that a rosary 

 has its labours, as well as pleasures, and that like all 

 other joys it is accompanied by difficulties. Yet you 

 can grow good roses if you will, but the difficulty is 

 that most people won't. I think, by the way, that remark 

 belongs to Dean Hole of fragrant rose-garden memory, 

 and of a truth he has said all that is likely to be 

 spoken or written about the rose on the side of both 

 knowledge and human fancy for many a day. 



Modern roses of the hybrid- perpetual and hybrid- 

 tea types may be bought of several reliable dealers for 

 twenty-five dollars per hundred, in two conditions, 

 either grown on their own roots or budded on Manette 

 or brier stock. Personally I prefer the first or natural 

 condition, if the constitution of the plant is sufficiently 

 vigorous to warrant it. There are, however, many in- 

 dispensable varieties that do better for the infusion of 

 vigorous brier blood. A budded rose will show the 

 junction by a little knob where the bud was inserted ; 

 this must be planted at least three inches below ground 

 so that new shoots will be encouraged to spring from 

 above the bud, as those below are merely wild, worth- 

 less suckers, to be removed as soon as they appear. 



