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Gardening for Amateurs 



or other suitable kind of Rose. The great 

 difference between a standard Rose and a 

 dwarf Rose is that the bud of the dwarf is 

 placed on the stock so low as to be under the 

 soil, and is thus protected from wind and 

 weather, whilst the bud 'on the standard is 

 placed some feet above the soil, and the Rose 

 is much more exposed to injury from wind, 

 frost and bad weather generally, and cannot 

 gain additional support by throwing out its 

 own roots. Whether a standard is a thing 



with their wonderful festoons of blossom in 

 the later summer time. 



Roses grown as ordinary standards seem to 

 have lost ground of late years, and according 

 to the late Rev. H. Honywood d'Ombrain, 

 who was for long hon. sec. of the National 

 Rose Society, this was the result of a succes- 

 sion of severe winters, when growers' ex- 

 periences were so painful and their losses so 

 severe that the fashion declined both in 

 France and in England. 



A bed of China Roses. 



of beauty or not is more or less a moot point. 

 Probably the weeping standards are the most 

 beautiful of the class, the bare stems being 

 largely draped and hidden by the graceful 

 hanging foliage. Whatever the merits or 

 demerits of the ordinary standards from an 

 artistic point of view, I think few can fail to 

 admire the weeping standards when well 

 grown. Many of the Wichuraiana climbing 

 Roses look singularly beautiful when treated 

 in this way. Roses such as Dorothy Perkins, 

 Lady Gay, Lady Godiva, Excelsa and White 

 Dorothy captivate the eye when covered 



How to Plant Standards. If standards 

 are grown they should, in the first instance, 

 be planted an inch or two less deeply than 

 dwarfs the upper soil is better for the roots 

 and there is no " scion " to take root. The 

 ordinary jobbing gardener seems to have a 

 natural tendency to plant standards con- 

 siderably deeper than dwarfs, with the idea, 

 I suppose, of making them firm against the 

 wind. All necessary support should be sup- 

 plied by sturdy posts, well painted and 

 firmly hammered into the holes dug before 

 the Roses are planted. 



