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Europe, there are cultivated above fifteen hundred 

 species, sub-species, and varieties. 



When planted, they are too frequently crowded in- 

 discriminately amongst other shrubs, which prevents 

 them having the effect they would have if planted singly 

 or grouped. They vary in size in different sorts from 

 one to ten feet. When planted in the latter method, they 

 should be assimilated in size of leaves and manner of 

 growth, with the greatest variation of flower ; or if 

 planted in many small patches, giving each a distinct 

 colour, which has a picturesque effect. An other desi- 

 rable and fanciful method, is to plant them in figures, 

 giving them edgings of wire, willow, or any other sub- 

 stitute, in imitation of basket work, which is called 

 " baskets of roses;" the ground enclosed in the basket 

 margin to be made convex, which will present a greater 

 surface to the eye ; the strong shoots to be layered, or 

 kept down by pegs into the ground, having the 

 points of the shoots only to appear above the 

 soil, which should be covered with moss. With this 

 treatment, in a few years the whole surface of the bas- 

 ket will be covered with rose buds and leaves, of one 

 or various sorts. If two or three of the larger growing 

 sorts are taken, such as Moss or Provins, they may be 

 trained so as to cover a surface of several square yards. 

 One of these covered with Lee's Crimson Perpetual 

 Rose, would be one of the greatest ornaments of the 

 Flower-garden. 



A modern invention in the cultivation of the rose is, 

 to grow them in shape of trees, by budding on strong 

 growing kinds at different heights from the ground, 



