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ways of doing so, all of which I tried with 
success when I was a small child myself. Of 
course the most simple way is to buy a plant 
from a nursery gardener. They sell not only 
every kind of rose, but many forms of plants of 
each variety. There are what are called 
“standards” or “half standards,” with a more 
or less tall “stock” or stem, generally a briar 
with a large bushy head of the choice roses at 
the top ; or there are “dwarfs,” those growing 
on their own roots from the ground. Which 
form is best depends on where it is to be planted 
and what kind of garden it is to go in. Having 
been given half-a-crown when I was about ten 
years old, I bought with it a “half standard” 
“Duke of Edinburgh,” a fine deep - red rose 
which made the centre of the Maltese cross¬ 
shaped bed in the middle of the garden, and a 
“dwarf” pink moss-rose for one of the corner 
beds. I was extremely proud of the half 
standard, and I still think it was the most 
suitable for that position, even though, after 
flowering for many years, it came to an un¬ 
timely end. A very hard winter came, and 
the frost killed the top of my “ Duke of Edin¬ 
burgh,’’and when the roots began to recover 
and shoot up, great was my grief to find they 
were only the common briar on which the rose 
had been grafted. With the moss-rose it was 
