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schild. N'o.l2,MadanieTlierfesoLevet. No. 13, White 

 Baroness. No. 14, Safrano, or Belle Lyonnaise. 

 But these are mere samples of many other methods 

 of furnishing that might he adopted, or the beds 

 might be furnished with mixed dwarf and standard 

 Eoses in the usual way. The circles could also be 

 filled with large standard or weeping Eoses, only one 

 plant in each. , 



Fig. 26 looks well on a long narrowish piece 

 of turf, such as may often be met with in gar- 

 dens, and may be furnished in the usual mixed 

 style, either with standard or dwarf Roses. If 

 looked down upon from a higher terrace or window, 

 it would, however, look best furnished with dwarf 

 Roses, each bed of one sort. No. 1 could be filled 

 with Souvenir de la Malmaison, one of the best 



have a narrow edging of Persian Yellovr and Copper 

 Eoses. The whole is about forty-five yards long- 

 and about twenty wide. The turf paths between, 

 the beds are three yards wide, and the line of oute.- 

 circles are six yards from the beds, and carried round 

 one. end of the rosary. These are furnished with a 

 single large standard Rose each — a white and a pink 

 alternating, the sorts used being Madame Plantier 

 and Charles Lawson. The form and style of the 

 beds are well adapted for Eoses, and when the plants 

 escape the spring frosts, few sights are more rich and. 

 satisfying than this large garden full of Eoses of all 

 sorts and shades of colour. 



The Actual Planting. — Having thoroughly- 

 prepared the root-runs, and if possible left the soil 



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Kg. 26.— Plan foe Beds of Boses oh Tcrf. 



of all Eoses for forming continuous floriferous 

 groups. No. 2, Charles Lefebvre. No. 3, Marie 

 Bauman. No. 4, Marie Eady. No. 5, Duke of 

 Edinburgh. No. 6, Marie van Houtte. No. 7, 

 Gloire de Dijon. No. 8, La France. No. 9, 

 Marshal Niel, or Madame Trifle ; or the four 

 S-shaped beds could each be divided into three, the 

 centre furnished with one sort, and the two comers 

 each with a different and distinct variety, thus con- 

 verting each for furnishing purposes into three beds. 

 In that case the centre might be furnished with 

 some of the more briDiant-coloured perpetuals, such 

 as Duke of Edinburgh, Madame Victor Verdier, 

 Maurice Bemardin, Senateur Vaisse ; and the ends 

 with such Teas and Noisettes as Madame Levet, 

 Cheshunt Hybrid, Madame Maurin, Niphetos, Ce- 

 line Forestier, Lamarque, President, Souvenir d'un 

 Ami, &c. 



Fig. 27 is a sketch of the largest rosary at Hard- 

 wicke, designed and furnished by the writer some 

 twenty years ago. It is chiefly furnished with a 

 mi*ed collection of standard Eoses of different 

 heights, each of the larger beds containing over a 

 hundred plants a-piece. The cm-ved beds at the end 



with a surface as rough as possible, to be amelio- 

 rated and sweetened by sun and air, wind and rain, 

 frost and snow, and the whole mass to be partially 

 consolidated by time, the preparations for planting 

 should be proceeded with and completed. Questions 

 of distance, stakes, &c., should also be determined in 

 advance. The old practice of making the holes 

 several months before planting is also of great use, 

 though now generally set aside in these times of ex- 

 press trains and telegrams and telephones. By some 

 of these means our Eoses are ordered in the morning, 

 and sometimes delivered and planted in the after- 

 noon. This is no doubt almost heroic in its sud- 

 denness ; but, in the end, not seldom illustrates the 

 truth of the old axiom, " The more haste the less 

 speed ; " not that the speed itself is dangerous pro- 

 vided the work is well done and due preparation 

 made for it. The mellowing and pulverising of the 

 sides and bottom of the holes for Eoses by exposure, 

 was a cheap and easy way of starting the roots in soil 

 of the very best and most root-tempting quality. 



To make the whole art of planting Eoses more 

 plain, it may be best to treat of it under the following 

 distinct sub-headings : Distance, Depth, Disposition 



