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or removed in winter; and the smooth-leaved hardier hybrid 
China, either June, or perpetual, in tree form. With stout, thrifty 
stocks, it requires but little time, if one understands budding roses, 
to produce low rose trees, like the one shown in Fig. 165 ; and as 
these take up less room on the ground, and present a more gar- 
denesque appearance, it is much the best mode of showing a 
variety of roses in a limited space, especially bordering straight 
walks; as a number of different varieties may be grown on the 
same stem. Another beautiful mode of making good rose- 
standards for the centres of beds, is to bud upon a strong stock 
all the way up, or on its side branches, so as to make a cone or 
tower of foliage supported on one stem, but composed of several 
hardy varieties budded into it, and displaying their foliage and 
flowers from the bottom to the top. As such cones, or rose-towers, 
may easily be bound up, and protected in winter with straw or 
evergreen boughs, the finest half-hardy roses may be used on them. 
Where there is a good breadth of lawn, a variety of roses, massed 
in beds, will have the best effect. 
To produce fine roses, a deeply-drained soil, enriched to the 
highest degree, and manured annually^, is essential. Those who 
wish to make a specialty of the rose, should procure Parkman’s 
Book of Roses. 
Plate No. XXXI. 
The accompanying plate shows a variety of forms for rose-beds, 
some of which may be adapted to almost any place which has a 
lawn. We will suggest, briefly, the roses that will produce a good 
effect grouped in these beds : 
Bed, Fig. I.—This may have a fine tree-rose in the centre, 
budded with such hybrid perpetuals as any of the list in Division 
II, Class II, so that the head shall be a great bouquet of many- 
colored roses. At 2, 3, 4, and 5, plant from the same list those 
which will make the best variety of colors in the group, and 
keep well-rounded bushy forms. The four should be kept equal 
in height, not exceeding three feet, and the tree-rose should be 
grafted, or budded, about three or four feet from the ground. The 
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