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THE AMATEURS FLOWER GARDEH. 
in their own magical, bountiful way, the devotion of their 
owner to their ways and wants. 
The most simple form of rosarium will suit the majority of 
our readers, no doubt, and we advise those who do not require 
an elaborate plan to form on a part of the lawn farthest re¬ 
moved, and if possible hidden from the house, a few large 
beds in a group, and plant them with Perpetual roses, always 
giving the preference to dwarf bushes rather than to standards; 
because, generally speaking, bushes (especially if on their own 
roots), thrive in a more satisfactory manner than standards, 
and produce a far greater profusion of flowers. But here we 
must face the grave question, why one form of rose should be 
preferable to another, and we must attempt an answer in 
order to start the beginner in rose-growing fairly on the road 
to success. 
There are many modes of multiplying the roses; but for 
all general purposes we need only notice three of them. The 
standard roses commonly met with, are obtained by inserting 
buds of named roses on the young shoots of English briers in 
the month of July. The operation is called “ budding,” and 
constitutes an important mystery of the rose craft. Bush 
roses are obtained by the budding process; but an Italian 
brier, known as the Manetti rose, is employed for the purpose. 
It is a free-growing, very free-rooting, bluish-leaved brier not 
adapted to form standards, but well suited for bush roses if 
the buds are inserted very low down, in fact immediately over 
the roots of the briers, so that when they grow they will spring 
as it were from the ground, instead of from the stems in which 
they are inserted. Both bush and standard roses may be 
obtained on their own roots by striking cuttings or buds, or 
making layers of named roses, and the month of July is the 
best season in all the year for these operations. 
Brier Boses are admirably adapted for deep loamy and 
heavy clay soils. In any and every case the ground intended 
to be planted with roses should be well drained, and if the 
subsoil is anything approximating to a clay or deep rich loam, 
brier roses may be planted with a fair prospect of success. To 
make brier roses is a simple matter enough, when you know 
how, but very mysterious short of that point. In the “ Bose 
Book ” ample instructions are given for the multiplication of 
roses in all possible ways; but here we must cut the matter 
short by saying that the art of budding may be learnt in five 
