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preserved in the utmost neatness and I and, by the luxuriant appearance of the 

 cleanliness. We need hardly say that plants when we saw them, we should 

 Mr. Hodgkinson is well repaid in the anticipate for him a heavy crop this sea- 

 abundance and excellence of the produce ; son. 



EOSES BLOOMING- TO THE GROUND. 



It is quite needless to waste time, or ink I 

 and paper, in recommending the queen of 

 flowers to the favourable consideration of i 

 the readers of the Floral World, for, de- ; 

 spite the thorns with which she is almost I 

 invariably beset, the mere mention of a 

 roae inspires a wish after the feast of 

 colour and fragrance, which in truth is the 

 flowery essence and joy of the summer. 

 The veriest dolt can appreciate a rose ; the 

 merest child has reached the acme of en- I 

 joyment when it has become possessed of 

 an unfolding rosebud ; and the perfect 

 symmetry, indescribable tinting, and rich 

 perfume of the rose afford exquisite enjoy- ; 

 ment to the most refined and educated 

 mind. So universal is the love of this 

 flower that I should think there is not a 

 garden in the united kingdom in which 

 there is not some apology for a rose. In 

 naming the occupants for a new garden, 

 the rose is not only never forgotten, but , 

 occupies one of the first places in the 

 arrangement, and even the town garden 

 would be no garden unless it coidd boast 

 of a rose or two. I wish to say a few 

 words about pegging down roses. There 

 is no plant that produces so gorgeous a 

 display of flowers as the rose when grown 

 in masses and pegged down, so as to cover 

 the surface of the soil with flowers. For | 

 this purpose, dwarf plants on their own j 

 roots are the most suitable, as, when the 

 shoots rise directly from the soil, there is 

 no strain upon them, and no danger of I 

 breaking them in the operation of pegging. \ 

 The best kinds to use for this purpose are 

 those which make very long and very 

 strong shoots — Brennus, Yivid, Paul ! 

 Ricaut, Coup d'Hebe, Fulgens, Chenedole, 

 Juno, and Charles Duval, amoDg Hybrid 

 Chinas ; Alexandrine Bachmeteff, Auguste . 

 Mie, Baronne Prevost, Jacques Lafitte, , 

 Jules Margottin, Laura Brigeon, Leon des 

 Combats,MadameYidot,MathurinRegnier, 

 Souvenir de la Reine d'Angleterre, Wd- , 

 ham Griffiths, Dr. Juillard, and Geant des 

 Batailles, among Hybrid Perpetuals ; 

 Dupetit Thouars and Leveson Gower, ; 

 among Bourbons ; and, among Noisettes, I 

 Aimee Vibert, Desprez a Fleur Jauue, and i 

 Du Luxemburg. All the above-named i 



make long and vigorous shoots, will flou- 

 rish in almost any soil, and will thrive in 

 the neighbourhood of large towns. 



Their management i3 exceedingly sim- 

 ple. If they are grown in a bed by them- 

 selves, let the sod be well prepared by 

 trenching two spades deep, and six inches 

 of good rotten dung put at the bottom of 

 the trench, and a coating of two or three 

 inches on the top, to be worked in with the 

 soil about the roots when planting. When 

 the plants are all inserted, dig the surface 

 over, to bury all the manure and give a 

 neat appearance. If the roses are mixed 

 with other plants, give them as good a 

 chance as possible, by taking the soil out 

 as deep and wide as the position will 

 allow, and work a little rotten manure in 

 with it, as directed for a bed. As before- 

 mentioned, the plants for this purpose 

 should be on their own bottoms ; and, if 

 they are good plants and well planted, 

 they will make shoots three, four, and five 

 feet long the first season. They should not 

 be interfered with, but be allowed to grow 

 upright, and remain so until March or 

 April, when they shoidd be slightly short- 

 ened in, and then brought down and 

 fastened to the ground by pegs or hooked 

 sticks, strong and long enough to hold 

 them ; or, lacking hooked sticks, cut hazel- 

 rods, or rods of any other durable wood, 

 of the thickness of a finger, into lengths of 

 fifteen or eighteen inches ; thrust them into 

 the ground to within two inches of the 

 top, then tie a piece of bast matting or 

 tarred string tightly to the stick, and 

 bring down the shoot to it. The latter 

 mode of the two is most easily accom- 

 plished, looks best, and is most effective 

 for strong shoots. If a bed is to be 

 covered, the shoots of the different kinds 

 can be so intermingled as to give variety 

 in colour, and, where plants are growing 

 in mixed borders, the shoots, supposing 

 the plant to have four or five of them, 

 can be laid down among the surrounding 

 plants without detracting from the neat- 

 ness and finish of the flower-border. The 

 advantages of this mode of treatment are, 

 that the shoots bloom all the way along, 

 instead of a few bunches at the top, when 



