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is a charmiog plant in spring, but becomes coarse in summer. A. 

 argentea forms an elegant silvery bush ; it is not quite hardy. The 

 southernwood is A. abrotanum, a plant which will grow almost any- 

 where, but is at home on a raised bank. 



Tabragon (A . dracimcidus) . — A favourite plant of the country 

 garden, in some households prized for the preparation of tarragon 

 vinegar, and it is much used, also, to flavour sauces. It gives an 

 aromatic warmth to a salad. The soil for this plant should be poor 

 and the position sunny. It is a hardy herbaceous plant, easily pro- 

 pagated by parting the roots. The tarragon plantation must be 

 planted in the spring, the roots one foot apart ; but where fresh 

 leaves are required in winter and spring, plants that have not been 

 cut from should be taken up in October and November, and be 

 divided and planted in frames. In warm, sheltered gardens, a few 

 plants on a dry border, facing south, may be pretty well depended 

 on to supply fresh leaves all the winter. The flower-stems should 

 be cut close over as they rise, unless seed be wanted. Those who 

 like the flavour of tarragon should dry a little in summer for winter 

 use, as the dried leaves have nearly as good a flavour as those 

 freshly gathered. S. H. 



PLANTING EOSES OUT OF POTS. 



BY W. r. PEIOE, ESQ. 



[0 true enthusiast in floral enterprise is ever weary of 

 discussing questions connected with the rose, particularly 

 under the phase of new and untried varieties. There 

 is always a hope of some closer approximation to ideal 

 perfection than that already possessed, which leads us 

 to anticipate, anxiously as well as curiously, the productions in store 

 for us, through the skill of foreign and English raisers, year after 

 year. We eagerly desire to put all such to the test of experiment at 

 once ; and the only way of doing so, as regards the novelties of the 

 season, is by means of plants, turned out of pots into prepared 

 situations as soon as the weather will permit. By the time this 

 number is in the hands of the readers of the Eloeal "Woeld, a 

 suitable period will have arrived for the operation, and the first step 

 towards its successful result will be a careful and well-considered 

 preparation of the soil in such, -oositions as the plants are destined to 

 occupy. There is no better composition, where the soil is not 

 exceptionally appropriate for the growth of roses, than the following 

 admixture : of chopped sods from a clayey pasture, one part ; of 

 soft silky loam, another ; of rich manure (preferably that of the 

 domestic pig), another ; of the scrapings of the fowl-house a third 

 part; the like quantity of nodules of charcoal, about the size of a 

 nut, and also of broken bones. Let this compost be filled into a hole 

 about three feet in width, and in depth two feet. The plant is to 



