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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



those who like the form of the Standard should not have them if 

 they can but get them healthy and long-lived ; but in that case 

 they should train hardy and vigorous Roses to form their own stems. 

 While of the evil effect of the Standard Rose any one may judge 

 in the suburbs of every town, its other defects are not so clear to 

 all, such as the exposure high in the air to winter's cold of varieties 



Climbing cluster Rose at Belmont. 



more or less delicate. On the tops of their ugly stick supports 

 they perish by thousands even in nurseries in the south of England 

 (as in Kent). If these same varieties were on their own roots, even 

 if the severest winter killed the shoots, the root would be quite safe, 

 and the shoots come up again as fresh as ever ; so that the frost 

 would only prune our Rose bushes instead of killing them and leaving 



