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blossoms, and these improved ones ; or by this unity the object sought is, to form 
a plant of the kind introduced of a peculiar and novel shape, or in the case of them 
being- grafted upon standards five or six feet high, to allow other plants to grow 
underneath them. Experience has taught, that certain kinds, brought to unite 
with other specified kinds, will grow and flower better than they would if worked 
indiscriminately upon any stock ; directions for this, and the best way of performing 
it, are given at the pages before quoted. Many systems have been devised, and 
plans laid down, by men of much practice, for the formation of a plot of ground 
intended to be devoted entirely to the cultivation of roses. Two appropriate designs 
are given in that excellent work, the EncyclopjEdia of Gardening, third edition, 
page 892 ; still, as these, although excellent designs, are more calculated for the 
Chinese and their innumerable varieties, &c., than for the Scotch rose, we have, there- 
fore, given the outlines of a plan (fig. "3) which, we think, will do well for the latter, 
so far as the filling each bed with this variety of rose goes. We do not wish it 
to be understood that we are of opinionthat a rosary entirely formed of Scotch roses 
would create an improved effect, when executed upon any given system or design, 
but it is our opinion that a rosary consistent with the fig. given, planted with the 
garden varieties of Scotch roses, and amongst these introduced some standards of 
uther valuable kinds, would have a very novel effect. And this novelty would be 
produced in the first place, by the difference in the size of the leaves and contrast in 
