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scliild. No. 12, Madame Therese Levet. Xo. 1 3,^Vhite 

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

 But these are mere samples of many other methods 

 of furnishing that might he adopted, or the heds 

 might he furnished with mixed dwarf and standard 

 Roses in the usual way. The circles could also he 

 filled with large standard or weeping Poses, only one 

 plant in each. 



Fig. 26 looks well on a long narrowish piece 

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

 dens, and may he fm-nished in the usual mixed 

 style, either with standard or dwarf Poses. If 

 looked down upon from a higher terrace or window, 

 it would, however, look hest furnished with dwarf 

 Poses, each hed of one sort. No. 1 could he filled 

 with Souvenir de la Malmaison, one of the hest 



have a narrow edging of Persian Yellow and Copper 

 Poses. The whole is ahout forty-five yards long 

 and ahout twenty wide. The turf paths hetween 

 the heds are three yards wide, and the line of outer 

 circles are six yards from the heds, and carried round 

 one end of the rosary. These are furnished ^ith 

 single large standard Rose each — a white and a pink 

 alternating, the sorts used heing Madame Plantier 

 and Charles Lawson. The form and style of the 

 heds are well adapted for Poses, and when the plants 

 escape the spring frosts, few sights are more rich and 

 satisfying than this large garden full of Poses of all 

 sorts and shades of colour. 



The Actual Planting. — Ha^•ing thoroughly 

 prepared the root -rims, and if possihle left the soil 



J^ ic. 26.— Plan foe Beds of Eoses on Turf. 



of all Poses for forming continuous floriferous 

 groups. No. 2, Charles Lefehvi-e. No. 3, Marie 

 Bauman. No. 4, INIarie Rady. No. 5, Duke of 

 Edinhurgh. 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 heds could each he divided into three, the 

 centre furnished with one sort, and the two comers 

 each with a dilterent and distinct variety, thus con- 

 verting each for furnishing purposes into three heds. 

 In that case the centre might he furnished with 

 some of the more hrilliant-coloured perpetuals, such 

 as Duke of Edinhurgh, Madame Yictor Yerdier, 

 ^Maurice Bei^nardm, Senateur Yaisse : and the ends 

 vdth. such Teas and Noisettes as Madame Levet, 

 Cheshunt Hyhrid, 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 funiished hy the writer some 

 twenty years ago. It is chiefly furnished with a 

 mixed collection of standard Poses of different 

 heights, each of the larger heds containing over a 

 hundi-ed plants a-piece. The cm-ved heds at the end 



with a surface as rough as possihle, to he amelio- 

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

 frost and snow, and the whole mass to he partially 

 consolidated hy time, the preparations for planting 

 should he proceeded with and completed. Questions 

 of distance, stakes, kc, should also he determined in 

 advance. The old practice of making the hole?, 

 several months hefore 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 Poses are ordered in the morning, 

 and sometimes delivered and planted in the after- 

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

 denness ; hut, 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- 

 ^■ided the work is well done and due preparation 

 made for it. The mellowing and pulverising of the 

 sides and hottom of the holes for Roses hy exposure, 

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

 of the very hest and most root-tempting quality. 



To make the whole art of planting Poses more 

 plain, it may he hest to treat of it under the following 

 distinct suh-headings : Distance, Depth, Disposition 



