CHAPTER IX. 



EXHIBITING ROSES. 



Until recently little attention has, in tliis 

 country, been given to a careful exhibition of 

 roses, but of late years a decided interest has 

 been taken in the matter, and very creditable dis- 

 plays are now made in Boston and Kew York. 

 The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has 

 done a great deal to encourage exhibits of cut- 

 roses, and the numerous boxes of splendid flow- 

 ers to be seen at Boston every June attract ad- 

 mirers from all parts of the land. Much has 

 been written and said for and against the exhibi- 

 tion of cut-roses in boxes. Objectors to the sys- 

 tem 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 hands, and it is Anally 



