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glorious Rose to be perfectly hardy, I feel sure that 

 if the roots are well covered by manure during the 

 winter, and if the weather be very severe the upper 

 growth be screened by a few branches of fir or fronds 

 of the common bracken, we may preserve it always 

 from fatal injury, and almost always from any injury 

 whatever. If it dies after all, even then I should 

 say, ^ Tis better to have loved and lost, than never 

 to have loved at all/ 



As to the best method of growing this variety, 

 there seemed to be at first some hesitation among 

 our Rose-merchants as to the propriety of a union 

 between such delicate beauty and that rough, wild 

 vagabond, the jolly Dog- Rose ; and it was ' sent out ' 

 generally budded or grafted upon the Manetti, or 

 recently struck on its own roots, about the size of a 

 toothpick. We have since discovered that, as fair 

 damsels love stalwart knights, this Rose grows and 

 blooms most vigorously when budded or grafted (in 

 either case so low that the Rose itself may ultimately 

 be covered by the soil and root in it) upon the Brier.^ 

 This is the best stock for it, so far as my experience 

 goes ; but there is another with which it mates most 

 happily, and of this I had last season a somewhat 



^ It is, nevertheless, a melancholy fact that when Mar^chal Niel is 

 budded on the standard Brier, and thrives upon it, the Rose will 

 ultimately outgrow the stock, a large excrescence will be formed at 

 the point of juncture, and here a fatal decay will begin. 



