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Varieties of which the plants should stand about 1 foot 

 apart : — Baroness Rothschild, White Baroness, Merveille de 

 Lyon, Marquise de Castellane, Earl of Pembroke, Alphonse Sou- 

 pert, Marie Finger, Caroline Swailes, Mrs. Baker, Hippolyte 

 Jamain, Captain Christy, Madame Bois, Marguerite de Roman. 



Varieties of which the plants should stand about feet 

 apart: — Cannes la Coquette, a flesh-coloured seedling from La 

 France, and one of the most charming and useful of roses whether 

 for massing, for exhibition, or for cut flowers ; Alfred K. Williams, 

 Comtesse de Paris (Leveque, 1882), a very pretty rose-colour, 

 immensely free and perpetual; Viscountess Folkestone, Annie 

 Laxton, Duchesse de Vallombrosa, Pride of W T altham, Kron- 

 prinzessin Victoria, Laurette Messimy, a China or Hybrid Tea of 

 the most vivid and lovely rose-colour; Hemrich Schultheis, Lady 

 Helen Stewart, Suzanne-Marie Roclocanachi, Henri Ledechaux, 

 Sophie Fropot, and, of summer roses, Rosa Mundi, the brightest 

 and best worth growing of all the striped roses, and commonly, 

 though wrongly, called " York and Lancaster," and the Scotch 

 roses in variety. 



Varieties of which the plants should stand about 2 feet 

 apart: — Madame Gabriel Luizet, Charles Lefebvre, Anna Alexieff, 

 Prefet Limbourg, a most useful dark crimson rose of great 

 freedom and effect; Boule de Neige, Madame Nachury, La France, 

 Ulrich Brunner, Jules Margottin, and his lovely daughter 

 Violette Bouyer, freest and most charming of white Hybrid Per- 

 X^etuals ; John Hopper, Julie Touvais, a very early and most 

 distinct and attractive rose, far too little cultivated, and Gloire 

 Lyonnaise, a very beautiful rose both in plant and flower, and 

 making always a most striking group. 



It will probably have been noticed that with half a dozen 

 exceptions all the roses best adapted for massing to make an 

 effective display in the garden are also among the best roses for 

 exhibition, and the more they are cultivated as if with a view to 

 producing exhibition blooms, the more decorative they will be. 

 The system of pegging down is not recommended, the only roses 

 with which its employment has been attended with complete 

 success being some of the very vigorous mosses, such as Lanei, 

 Captain Ingram, &c. The plants should be fairly hard pruned, 

 liberally cultivated, and vigorously disbudded ; then there will be 

 a magnificent and effective display of bloom. 



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