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and to work it out. I think budding Roses is an 
especially charming work. You must do it neatly 
and it requires care, but only fancy how very nice 
it is to have whole hosts of Roses of the prettiest 
kinds, or perhaps to be able even to bud the love- 
liest flowers on the wild hedge-trees ! Where 
people have some special little glen or favourite 
dell of wild flowers they often like doing this, 
though X must own myself that I like the wild 
flowers best, and had far rather see them growing 
in all their own wild luxuriance. However, all 
these things are matters of private taste — and 
some beautiful garden Roses must look beautiful 
anywhere — I would only venture to observe that 
the rampant, free-growing kinds, like Muga and 
the Ayrshire and the Roursault Roses, would have 
the best chance of prospering. 
The delight of budding is that we thus multiply 
Roses so. It would be nice to try how many new 
sorts, new sorts for us X mean, we could collect our- 
selves. Roses, X dare say you have noticed, seem 
sometimes to be peculiar to a place. I remember at 
this moment at least four different kinds which X 
never could meet with except in one place each, and 
two out of the four were most truly exquisite. One 
was a small red Rose of a climbing kind ; it was 
