CHAP. IX.J 
ROSES. 
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It should then be manured with part of an 
old hot-bed, and the roses should be planted 
about five feet apart. The following autumn 
a good coating of manure should be laid 
on the surface of the ground; and the plants 
will require no after culture but pegging 
down the shoots to prevent them from leaving 
any part of the ground bare. The Triomphe 
de Bollwiller is one of the best of roses for 
this purpose. The Boursault division, one of 
the best of which is the Rose de Lisle, may 
be treated in the same mariner. The noisette 
roses are known by the great clusters of 
flowers which they bear at the extremities 
of their shoots. Their branches should not 
be shortened, but the dead flowers should 
be removed as soon as they fade. 
The Banksia roses, the tea-scented kinds, 
the Macartney and musk roses, are too tender 
for any situation but a south wall. The best 
roses in the neighbourhood of London are 
to be found at Lee’s, Hammersmith, and 
Loddige’s, Hackney, There are also very 
fine collections at Rivers’s, Sawbridgeworth; 
at Wood’s, Maresfield, and Hooker’s, Brench- 
ley, both near Tunbridge Wells; and more 
