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place of one of these,, take Zoutse Darzens or Madame Alfred dt 

 Rougemont ; and for a yellow rose, Marechal Neil. These end 

 bushes should be managed so that they will be pretty nearly equal 

 in size, and about three or four feet high, while the centre one 

 should be two feet higher. The first year the bed between these 

 plants maybe filled with trailing flowers ; but if the roses have done 

 well the first year, they should cover the bed thereafter. 



Bed, Fig. 8. — A bed of this form may be appropriately filled 

 out of any of the lists we have named, but perpetual roses are pref- 

 erable, and we suggest for the centre at i, the Caroline de SaHsal; at 

 2, Celine Forestier or Jane Hardy ; at 3, Aimee Vibert; at 4, Marechat 

 Neil ; at 5, Caroline Mdrniesse. This will give bliish-flowers in the. 

 centre, golden-yellow on each side, and white at the ends. Ahother 

 selection of more decided colors may be for the centre, Generar 

 Jacqueminot, deep crimson ; at 2, Hermosa, flesh color ; at 3, Caro- 

 line Mdrniesse, white ; at 4, Madame Boutin, cherry-rose J at 5, Jane 

 Hardy or Marechal Neil, golden-yellow. This will shade the bed 

 from deep crinison to white on one side and to the richest yellow^ 

 on the other. 



Bed, Fig. 9. — This is a great bed, appropriate only where there 

 is ample lawn room, and if skillfully managed is large enough to- 

 constitute a very respectable rose-garden. An inspection will show 

 it to be arranged on an octagonal plan, with roses in straight lines, 

 from the centre, and in decreasing distances apart towards the out- 

 side. This arrangement enables the cultivator to get at all the 

 roses conveniently from the lawn, which is dieeply scolloped into 

 the bed between its projecting lines. The lawn might perhaps run 

 to points towards the centre, and thus expose less soil to view- 

 between the lines of rose-bushes. This bed should have a substar. 

 tial post or pillar in the centre, ten or twelve feet high, and at the fcot 

 of it two prairie roses, and two of the rankest climbing perpetual 

 roses, say the Caroline de Sansal and Mrs. Elliott Four feet from 

 the centre of the post, at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, permanent 

 stakes about five feet high should be set, and on each side of 

 them pairs of strong growing roses from the hybrid perpetual list ; 

 making sixteen plants of eight varieties. Each radiating line beyond 

 these might approximate to one tone of color, so that whatever colors. 



