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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ April, 
We learn that the stock of this valuable plant will be placed in the 
hands of Mr. W. Dean, of Shipley, and be sent out by him in the early part 
of 1869. _ M. 
BEDDING ROSES. 
RXLLIANT and beautiful as the ordinary “ bedding plants” are, 
there are few gardens that can be at once economically and effectively 
arranged without a certain preparation of permanent plants, which 
once planted, exonerate us from the labour, expense, and risk of 
removal in autumn, and replanting in spring. Of such, Roses stand 
in the very first rank. To establish this point we would ask those of our 
readers who may have taken an interest, in gardening, either from the 
amateur or the professional point of view, over a lengthened period of time, 
whether they have not occasionally met with groups or masses of Roses the 
richness and effect of which they would gladly see reproduced in their own 
gardens. The answer will we know be “yes,” with a stress laid on the 
word “ occasionally,” conveying the impression that the task is not easy 
to accomplish. But this, in our judgment, is not the case. The task is 
easy if only the right means are pursued towards its accomplishment. 
The Rose as a bedding plant is seldom fairly and properly treated. It 
is known to be a hardy plant, and is treated as such; that is to say, the 
ordinary nursery plants are taken at planting time, put out at once, and 
expected to do for themselves what in the case of ordinary “ bedding 
plants ” is done in advance by the cultivator. These latter are grown under 
glass with the utmost care till they become strong, planted out in the most 
suitable soil that can be made, and afterwards tended with assiduous watch¬ 
fulness. Now if lovers of Roses would attain a like measure of immediate 
success, they must not shrink from the same forethought and care. It 
would pay them a handsome rate of interest could they be induced to 
buy their Bedding Roses a year in advance, grow them the first year in 
pots, and plant them out in May, after the spring frosts are gone, for then 
the same brilliant effect would be obtained the first season as with other 
bedding plants. It is further, more important with permanent bedding 
plants than with those which are replaced every spring, that the soil should 
in the first instance be made all that is requisite, because there is not the 
same opportunity of after modification or renewal. Lovers of Roses treat 
your favourites with the same consideration and care that your friends give 
to their “bedding plants”—remembering that from the slower growth of 
the Rose a longer period of time is required to obtain the strong established 
plants they work with, and your gardens will be varied and improved by 
the addition of one of the richest and most effective of bedding plants. 
Taken from a practical point of view, bedding Koses may be arranged in three groups 
according to their habit of growth—the dwarf, the moderate, the free. In a good soil and 
