THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



complete without such a collection. To produce the greatest, 

 and probably the most imposing effect, this numerous family 

 should form the furniture as it were of an entire garden. 

 Such gardens have been denominated rosaries, and are va- 

 riously formed, according to the extent of the collection and 

 taste of the planter or owner. In the arrangement of the 

 sorts, they should be so placed, that the varieties which re- 

 semble each other may be placed together, in order that their 

 distinctions may be the more readily seen, and only one plant 

 of each variety introduced. The different varieties of China 

 roses should be placed by themselves, that they may be the 

 more readily protected during winter, as many of the finer 

 varieties are not sufficiently hardy to stand our severest win- 

 ters. That numerous assemblage of roses, denominated 

 Scotch, from their habit of growth are better calculated for 

 covering banks or rock-work, than blending in a general ar- 

 rangement of this family ; they should, therefore, also be 

 planted in a separate compartment by themselves, either as a 

 centre or margin for the whole. 



Of this interesting section of this genus, there are above 

 three hundred varieties to be procured in the nursery ot 

 Messrs. Austin of Glasgow, who probably have the finest 

 collection in the kingdom. The catalogues of roses in the 

 London nurseries enumerate upwards of live hundred names ; 

 and the catalogue of Calvert & Co., near Rouen, exceeds nine 

 hundred : the greater part of these being raised within these 

 thirty years from seeds saved on the continent, where these 

 seeds ripen more frequenily than with us. French roses are 

 imported annually by us in large quantities, and are in a 

 great part budded upon stems of stronger gi-owing kinds, 

 from two to ten feet high. 



In planting rosaries, those which are considered English 

 roses, or such French ones as are hardy enough to stand our 

 climate without injury, should be planted and trained, by laying 

 annually the branches to within a few inches of the ground, and 

 so managed that the whole surface may be covered with them. 

 The more delicate French roses may be planted as standards 

 amongst the others, and will in such an arrangement have a 



