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difficult to flower in any situation. Roses are generally planted in 
the front of shrubberies, and in borders : they are also planted by 
themselves, in rose-gardens or in rosaries, in groups on lawn or gra- 
vel, either with common box, or other edgings, or with edgings of 
wire, in imitation of basket-work : these last are called baskets of 
roses : the ground enclosed in the basket margin is made convex, so 
as to present a greater surface to the eye, and increase the illusion : 
the shoots of the stronger sorts are layered, or kept down by pegs 
till they strike root, so that the buds of the shoots furnished with 
buds appear only above the soil, which is sometimes covered with 
moss or small shells. Under this treatment the whole surface of the 
basket becomes in two or three years covered with rose-buds and 
leaves, of one or of various sorts. Where one of the larger free 
growing sorts is employed, as the Moss Rose, or any of the Province 
varieties, one plant may be trained so as to cover a surface of many 
square yards. Where different sorts are introduced in the same 
basket, they should be as much as possible assimilated in the size of 
leaves and flowers, and habits of growth, and as different as possible 
in the colors of their flowers. By mixing small-flowered with large- 
flowered sorts, the beauty of the former is lost, without adding to 
the effect of the latter. In rosaries usually but one plant of a sort 
is introduced, and the varieties which most resemble each other are 
placed together, by which their distinctive differences are better 
seen. Particular compartments are often devoted to one species, as 
the Scotch, Chinese, Yellow, Barnet-leaved, &c, which has an excel- 
lent effect. Sometimes a piece of rock- work in the centre is covered 
w T ith creeping roses, and on other occasions they are trained to trel- 
lis-work, which forms a, fence or hedge of roses round the whole. 
In this hedge standard-roses are sometimes introduced at regular 
distances : a grove of standards is also frequently formed in the cen- 
tre of the rosary, and sometimes they are introduced here and there 
in the. beds. Standard-roses, however, have certainly the best effect 
in flower borders, or when completely detached on a bed : their 
