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and though without doubt they constitute a pleasing feature 

 to the many, to the few anything of the nature of a chain is 

 considered more or less of a disfigurement. With many 

 amateurs living in the country there is often a need to divide 

 the flower-garden proper from that devoted to the cultivation 

 of vegetables. No more effective way can be devised than 

 by using a pergola constructed of larch posts and covering 

 them with suitable Roses. Or, again, a hedge of Rosa 

 rugosa or of Lord Penzance Hybrid Sweetbriars may be 

 employed as a dividing-line. 



Propagation. 

 Various Methods. 



Ordinarily there are two methods of propagation that will 

 appeal to the average Rose-cultivator Budding and Cut- 

 tings ; but to the man or woman who desires to experiment 

 still further there are several other very interesting methods 

 by which Roses or certain of them may be increased by 

 Seeds, Grafting, Division, Layering, and Suckers. These 

 constitute the principal methods in vogue, and we propose 

 to deal briefly with each in turn, though Roses are so wonder- 

 fully cheap nowadays, and the trouble, not to say the risk, 

 of propagating one's own stock so great, that perhaps many 

 would do a great deal better to obtain their stock from a 

 nurseryman, and get them established in their gardens. In 

 connection with the propagation of one's own stock it must 

 not be forgotten that there is a great waste of time involved 

 in a Rosarian starting his garden depending on his own pro- 

 pagation. He must, the first autumn, get his cuttings, 

 whether of Manetti or Briar, and plant them ; then, in the 

 following year, he buds them ; in the third year he gets his 

 maiden blossom ; and it is not really until the fourth year 

 that he obtains a well-headed plant. All this has been 

 already done for him by the nurseryman, and he has only 

 to put in his plants, without all the preliminary preparation. 



