GARDENS OF ROSES. 



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hibition boxes has much that is disappointing associated with it, and is 

 wanting in the attractiveness a Rose garden should assuredly have. 



In writing and speaking on the cultivation of Roses for beautifying the 

 garden I have again and again urged that varieties for growing as 



standards should be selected in the nursery during the season of flowering, 

 so that due account may be taken of their constitutional vigour as well as 

 of the form and colour of the blooms ; or, failing that, trust to the advice 



