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but be well tied up on the outside, as otherwise it is 
very inconvenient to remove them without injury to 
the plants, when any repairing or painting is to be done. 
If planted on the margins of avenues or garden 
walks, and trained to single stakes, the ends of one 
bush may be tied to those of another, forming fes¬ 
toons ; but when they are planted in the center of the 
flower beds, or rosary, they show to the best advan¬ 
tage. When trained upon pillars, (the frame of which 
may be made by a joiner, or simply by four strong 
stakes, set in a rectangular form, with a taller one in 
the centre,) roses of different colors should be planted 
at each of the stakes, choosing such as are of similar 
growth; they will have a beautiful effect when in 
flower. 
Propagation. —All hardy roses are best raised by 
layers, whenever it can be done, as they make the 
most permanent plants. The end of July, or begin¬ 
ning of August is the proper time, and the following 
is the method. Look over the bushes intended to be 
layered, and choose such shoots as are sufficient length, 
and bend them gently to the ground; take off the 
leaves from that part of the shoot that will be under 
ground ; and bend the end of the shoot upwards; re¬ 
move the soil below the crook to the depth of three 
or four inches, and place the shoot in the hole ; then 
choose a bud on the upright part of the shoot next 
above the bow, and make an incision just below the 
bud, half way through the stem, and two inches long; 
give the branch a slight twist, that the part so cut may 
rest upon the soil, and stick in a peg to secure it in 
