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place of one of these, take Louise Darzcns or Madame Alfred de 

 Rougemont ; and for a yellow rose, Marechal Neil. These end 

 bushes should be managed so that they will be pretty nearly equal 

 in size, and about three or four feet high, while the centre one 

 should be two feet higher. The first year the bed between these 

 plants may be filled with trailing flowers ; but if the roses have done 

 well the first year, they should cover the bed thereafter. 



Bed, Fig. 8. — A bed of this form may be appropriately filled 

 out of any of the lists we have named, but perpetual roses are pref- 

 erable, and we suggest for the centre at i, the Caroline de Saiisal; at 

 2, Celine Forestier or Jane Hardy ; at 3, Aimee Vibert ; at 4, Marechal 

 Neil ; at 5, Caroline Marniesse. This will give blush-flowers in the 

 centre, golden-yellow on each side, and white at the ends. Another 

 selection of more decided colors may be for the centre, General 

 Jacqueminot, deep crimson ; at 2, Hermosa, flesh color; at 3, Caro- 

 line Marniesse, white ; at 4, Madatne Boutin, cherry-rose ; at 5, Jane 

 Hardy or Marechal Neil, golden-yellow. This will shade the bed 

 from deep crimson to white on one side and to the richest yellow 

 on the other. 



Bed, Fig. 9. — This is a great bed, appropriate only where there 

 is ample lawn room, and if skillfully managed is large enough to 

 constitute a very respectable rose-garden. An inspection will show 

 it to be arranged on an octagonal plan, with roses in straight lines 

 from the centre, and in decreasing distances apart towards the out- 

 side. This arrangement enables the cultivator to get at all the 

 roses conveniently from the lawn, which is deeply scolloped into 

 the bed between its projecting lines. The lawn might perhaps run 

 to points towards the centre, and thus expose less soil to view 

 between the lines of rose-bushes. This bed should have a substan- 

 tial post or pillar in the centre, ten or twelve feet high, and at the feet 

 of it two prairie roses, and two of the rankest climbing perpetual 

 roses, say the Caroline de Sansal and Mrs. Elliott. Four feet from 

 the centre of the post, at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, permanent 

 stakes about five feet high should be set, and on each side of 

 them pairs of strong growing roses from the hybrid perpetual list ; 

 making sixteen plants of eight varieties. Each radiating line beyond 

 these might approximate to one tone of color, so that whatever colors 



