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only necessary to allow two feet. If a double 

 row is to be planted in a bed — and more than a 

 double row is not advisable, since every plant 

 must be accessible from the outside of the bed 

 — a width over-all of four feet will make it pos- 

 sible to set the plants nine inches from the edge 

 of the bed and the required distance apart; 

 they may be staggered instead of planted di- 

 rectly opposite each other and enough space 

 gained on a bed of ten feet in length for at least 

 two extra plants. I do not like the effect as well 

 however as I do when they are placed evenly 

 along the two sides and opposite — and the gain 

 is after all inappreciable. 



So much for the roses of high culture, which 

 give us the glorious double and exquisitely 

 formed flowers we commonly visualize at the 

 mention of the rose. That they are the result 

 of high culture, that they are truly patricians 

 with an almost endless line of noble blood back 

 of them we have only to examine the wild roses 

 of the different parts of the world to see. For 

 in the uncultivated rose **the corolla is com- 

 posed of five heart-shaped petals, which consti- 

 tute the rose in its single or natural state" — as 

 who does not know, since they grow wild every- 

 where in our country as well as in most others. 



The wild roses of different parts of the world 



