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the hardy hybrid perpetual ; but to have roses from June until November we 

 must have the ever-blooming varieties. They are tender, but by protecting 

 them they will live through most of our winters, and if some of them do die 

 there is a firm where we can replace them for very little more than we pay for 

 verbenas, which cease to bloom nearly as soon as the frost comes. 



I have a bed where I can pick more than a bushel of roses at one time in 

 June and never miss them. To appreciate their delicate beauty we must watch 

 their unfolding day by day. Among the most attractive are the Caroline De 

 Lansal and Gen. De Tonquil. These two alone would well repay the care and 

 expense of the whole bed with their rare beauty. 



FRUIT TREES IN PLEASURE GROUNDS. 



We do not consider the orchard as in its most appropriate place when situated 

 in the front yard, still a judicious use of some of our most ornamental fruit 

 trees upon pleasure-grounds may add greatly to the artistic effect of the group- 

 ing. A correspondent of the London Garden gives some valuable hints upon 

 this subject, which we epitomize. He says that in Germany the lawn between 

 the fruit garden and the pleasure-ground is by no means a definite one; often 

 fruit trees and shrubs are intermingled with the ornamental planting, and 

 results prove there is much to recommend the practice. The rather cheerless 

 aspect of groups in early spring is relieved by the delicate blossoms of our early 

 fruit trees; and when these trees come to be laden with rich fruit, if the 

 groups are so arranged as to have a back-ground of sombre evergreens, there is 

 nothing more pleasing to the eye than the delightful contrast. The writer 

 says: " I have a vivid recollection of once standing upon an eminence in the 

 vicinity of the Vosges mountains, from whence seventeen villages could be 

 counted, each embowered in fruit trees, and lying snugly in the valleys sur- 

 mounted by hills, clothed with lines of somber hue, the whole forming a scene 

 worthy of the most gifted painter's brush. In the palace gardens of Lud wigs- 

 burg there are whole avenues of fruit trees, which, so far from appearing 

 misplaced, rather seem to add to the attraction of the place. It is certain that 

 there are many situations in gardens in this country, such as in the wild garden, 

 the shrubbery, or the half -annexed portion of the pleasure-ground, where a few 

 fruit trees might be introduced with pleasure and profit to the owner." 



MAKING LAWNS. 



To properly make a lasting lawn, and to keep it in good order, taxes the 

 highest skill of the horticulturist, and when well executed, is the masterpiece 

 of ornamental gardening. Without it all other improvements look insignifi- 

 cant. It forms the green carpet upon which all ornaments are to be placed, 

 and its bright verdant hue imparts beauty to all. 



Instructors upon lawn making generally advise subsoiling the ground. If 

 this be done, it should be a year previous to laying down the lawn. It is not 

 always best to do it, as the subsoil may be a stiff clay, or barren sand. I 

 have seen subsoil brought to the surface so poor that not even beans, peas or 

 corn would grow, — the germs rusting and decaying away. The seeds of grasses 



