IX. 



EXHIBITING ROSES. 



NTIL recently little attention has, 

 in this country, been given to a 

 careful exhibition of roses, but of 

 late years a decided interest has 

 been taken in the matter, and very credit- 

 able displays are now made in Boston and 

 New York. The Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society has done a great deal to encourage 

 exhibits of cut-roses, and the numerous boxes 

 of splendid flowers to be seen at Boston 

 every June attract admirers from all parts of 

 the land. Much has been written and said 

 for and against the exhibition of cut-roses in 

 boxes. Objectors to the system claim that 

 wrong impressions are given to the public ; 

 amateurs see beautiful flowers of a certain 

 variety, and are thereby led to purchase and 

 attempt to grow plants of it, only to discover 

 that they don't grow; the variety being of 

 feeble constitution and requiring skilful 

 treatment, lives but a dismal life at their 

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