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A BOOK ABOUT ROSES 



Rose-shoots are so generally injured and retarded, 

 that you must rely principally upon your older 

 trees — commonly, but not pleasingly, termed ^ cut- 

 backs.' 



Moreover, you should have in your Rose-garden 

 the advantage of a wall on which to grow the more 

 tender Roses, those grand Marechal Niels, Devon- 

 ienses. Souvenirs d'un Ami, and other Teas^ so 

 distinct from the Hybrid Perpetual varieties, and 

 such exquisite contrasts among them. Plant these 

 between your mural fruit-trees, or wherever you can 

 find a vacant space. Let them be grown upon their 

 own roots, or * worked ' so low upon the Brier that 

 the junction may be under the soil, and protect them 

 with a thick covering of farmyard manure laid on the 

 surface during the winter months. 



The Brier, grown from seed or from cutting, is by 

 far the best stock for Tea-Roses ; and he who has 

 been taught to regard these exquisite flowers as too 

 delicate for outdoor cultivation, will be surprised and 

 charmed if he can devote a border, backed by a wall, 

 and aspecting southward, to Rosa indica odorata 

 budded or grafted low upon the Brier. It must be 

 thoroughly protected by dense farmyard manure, laid 

 around in November, from frost — ^just peeping out of 

 it, as a Russian from the eyelets of his furs ; and then 

 such Roses as Adam, Anna Ollivier, Catherine Mer- 



