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THE FLORAL WOELD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



•will be found enough, and care must be 

 taken not to bud every branch of the climb- 

 ing rose; some must be left to grow in their 

 natural, graceful, vigorous manner, so that 

 the decorated wall or walk has not a stumpy 

 appearance like an avenue of standard roses. 



"Evergreen roses, trained to tall pillars 

 or suffered to hang in festoons, are capable 

 of most fanciful decoration, as buds of very 

 choice kinds may be inserted at different 

 points of view so as to have a charming 

 effect." 



PINE GEOWINa rOE AMATEIJES. 



In the section of pine pit which accom- 

 panied the former part of this article, an 

 overnight occurred. Two four-inch pipes 

 should have been shown in front of the pit, 

 for affording the requisite amount of heat to 

 the atmosphere ; the upper pips of the two 

 should also be shown with vapour-troughs 

 cast upon it, for the purpose of counteracting 

 the drying effect of tlie pipes ; these troughs 

 should always be supplied with wateras often 

 as they become empty by evaporation, as the 

 pine only flouiishes in a iiumid atmosphere ; 

 the contrary state produces an enfeebled 

 plant, which, in a dry air, becomes a prey 

 to scale-bug, and all the vermin that the 

 pine is subject to. 



The bed having been prepared as al- 

 ready directed, procure sufficient fruiting 

 plants for one row ; the second row may be 

 planted with strong successions. This ar- 

 rangement will give a better succession of 

 fruit than would be the case were all the 

 plants fruiters at the time of planting ; as, 

 if planting take place in spring, fruiting 

 plants will start immediately, and if con- 

 sisting of two or three sorts, Avill furnish a 

 auccession of fruit during the autumn, 

 whilst the successions will be getting very 

 strong for showing fruit early in the fol- 

 lowing spring ; and at that time the sucliers 

 on the first-named row, will be progressing 

 to follow up the succession. When any 

 fruit are cut, the lower leaves must be re- 

 moved from the old stem ; it should then 

 be earthed up with the prepared compost, a 

 little above the base of the suckers, the lat- 

 ter having been reduced to two on each 

 plant, as it is not desirable that more than 

 that number be left, unless the third be a 

 ground sucker, that ■will sometimes sliow 

 itself from below the soil ; these will, if left, 

 reproduce, as it were, the original plant, 

 the old stock being entirely cleared away 

 after the fruits are cut, leaving the ground 

 sucker as a maiden plant. Any crowns or 

 suckers that are taken off, may be placed 

 to nurse in the front row. 



I would advise the amateirr not to get 

 home his plants rintil he is quite satisfied 

 all is in readiness for planting ; for though 

 the pine does not immediately flag and show 

 an injury received so soon as some other 



plants, still its roots are very soon de- 

 stroyed, and it takes time for the plant to 

 replace them. When they arrive, they will 

 be closely tied up with matting, and should 

 not be released until after planting, as that 

 operation cannot be accomplished in the 

 case of large plants with their leaves loose. 

 If the bed is six feet wide, place the suc- 

 cession plants in a row, two feet and a-half 

 from the front wall, and at two feet from 

 plant to plant in the row; then put the 

 fruiting plants in a row, two feet from the 

 former, and at the same distance apart as the 

 others ; and, as the soil should not be trod- 

 den upon, have a piece of board to stand 

 upon during the operation ; and having 

 opened a spacious hole, turn the plant care- 

 fully out of the pot, and if the roots are 

 matted together at the bottom of the ball 

 take a pointed stick, and with care, disen- 

 tangle some of the principal ones and 

 spread them in the hole, shaking the soil 

 betv/een them with a little hand-l'ork ; and 

 if any of the lower leaves are yellow, or 

 injured, a few may be pulled away that 

 the stem of the plant may be covered with 

 earth, which will facilitate the emission of 

 roots therefrom. When all are planted, a 

 watering sufficient to settle the soil about 

 them may be given, with water at 90'; and, 

 as the soil of the bed will not for some time 

 be much occupied by their roots, the water- 

 ings may be moderate and confined to the 

 immediate vicinity of the plants for the 

 first few weeks ; after which a general 

 watering all over the bed may be given, 

 and again repeated at intervals, according 

 to its state, which must he ascertained by 

 turning up some of the soil, or keeping a 

 stick tlu-ust into it, which can be drawn 

 out and examined, and will indicate both 

 the state of heat and of moisture. The 

 water that is used should always be made 

 quite as warm as the soil in the bed, which 

 is easily done by the addition of boiling 

 water ; and when the plants have become 

 established, a little soot-water, or liquid 

 manure, made from cow or sheep dung, 

 may be added to the ordinary water ; saj'- 

 a peck of soot and the same quantity of 

 dung put into a half-barrel tub, and upon 

 that a can or two of hot water to draw out 



