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place of one of these, take Louise Darzetis or Madame Alfred de 
Rougemont; and for a yellow rose, Mar'echal Neil. These end 
bushes should be managed so that they will be pretty nearly equal 
in size, and about three or four feet high, while the centre one 
should be two feet higher. The first year the bed between these 
plants may be filled with trailing flowers; but if the roses have done 
well the first year, they should cover the bed thereafter. 
Bed, Fig. 8.—A bed of this form may be appropriately filled 
out of any of the lists we have named, but perpetual roses are pref¬ 
erable, and we suggest for the centre at i, the Caroline de Sansal; at 
2, Celine Forestier or Jane Hardy; at 3, Aimee Vibert; at 4, Marechal 
Neil; at 5, Caroline Marniesse. This will give blush-flowers in the 
centre, golden-yellow on each side, and white at the ends. Another 
selection of more decided colors may be for the centre, General 
Jacqueminot , deep crimson ; at 2, Hermosa, flesh color; at 3, Caro¬ 
line Marniesse , white ; at 4, Madame Boutin , cherry-rose ; at 5, Jane 
Hardy or Marechal Neil , golden-yellow. This will shade the bed 
from deep crimson to white on one side and to the richest yellow 
on the other. 
Bed, Fig. 9.—This is a great bed, appropriate only where there 
is ample lawn room, and if skillfully managed is large enough to 
constitute a very respectable rose-garden. An inspection will show 
it to be arranged on an octagonal plan, with roses in straight lines 
from the centre, and in decreasing distances apart towards the out¬ 
side. This arrangement enables the cultivator to get at all the 
roses conveniently from the lawn, which is deeply scolloped into 
the bed between its projecting lines. The lawn might perhaps run 
to points towards the centre, and thus expose less soil to view 
between the lines of rose-bushes. This bed should have a substan¬ 
tial post or pillar in the centre, ten or twelve feet high, and at the fcot 
of it two prairie roses, and two of the rankest climbing perpetual 
roses, say the Caroline de Sansal and Mrs. Elliott. Four feet from 
the centre of the post, at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, permanent 
stakes about five feet high should be set, and on each side of 
them pairs of strong growing roses from the hybrid perpetual list; 
making sixteen plants of eight varieties. Each radiating line beyond 
these might approximate to one tone of color, so that whatever colors 
