8 Roses for Amateurs. 



fully removed. The object of this is to prevent as far as 

 possible growths springing up from below. 



Cultivation. 

 Requirements. 



While those who grow Roses extensively do so without 

 much reference to their appearance as garden flowers, and 

 are mainly concerned as to their well-being for exhibition, 

 many who are very fond of the flower are too often utterly 

 regardless of their wants, and plant them about in all sorts of 

 places, without any idea of massing them, or of giving them 

 a fair chance of either growing or blossoming well. Nothing 

 can be more deplorable than the manner in which Roses are 

 sometimes treated; and then, when their owners go to an 

 exhibition, and see the splendid flowers shown, they come 

 away in no very amiable mood, and perhaps vent their wrath 

 on their gardener, utterly ignoring the conditions under which 

 exhibition flowers are grown, and also the fact that, most 

 probably, they had given him directions to plant them in 

 unsuitable places, perhaps because the grower thought they 

 would look well, or because my lady wished it to be so. Very 

 frequently, also, no consideration whatever is given to the 

 difference in climate or situation whence these Roses have 

 come, compared with those in which the somewhat irascible 

 grower has his. We know how, within the limits of a county 

 even, the situation may be as wide as the Poles asunder 

 perhaps on the top of a cliff overhanging the sea, or in some 

 sheltered valley where no breath of heaven can disturb them 

 rudely ; so that it is almost impossible, in giving directions 

 for the formation of a Rose-garden, to have in one's mind all 

 the various conditions under which the Rose may be grown. 

 There are, however, some canons which we may take for 

 granted to apply to the growing of the Rose in all circum- 

 stances. Readers we hope will not be frightened by the 



