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pretty lilac moss, which gives a few good 

 blooms, but is evidently not at home ; 

 Baronne de Wassanaer does not open 

 well; Striped Unique Provence ; Gallioa, 

 CEllet Parfait, Shakspeare, and Nelly ; 

 Hybrid China, Fimbriata, Lady Stuart, 

 Statholder ; Hybrid Bourbon, Great Wes- 

 tern, pretty good, but always looks curled 

 and shrunk, Paul Perras. 



AUTUMN KOSE3, BAD. 



Perpetual Moss.—- Madame E. Ory 



gives a few of its lovely blooms in autumn, 

 but the first blooms are never good. Salet, 

 good enough in the hands of a skilful rose 

 grower, but valueless to beginners. 



Hybrid Perpetual. — Auguste Mie, 

 plants of this, worked on short stocks, 

 and others on their own roots, are in the 

 highest vigour of growth, and in good 

 places, but they never bloom well, and this 

 season very few flowers have opened pro- 

 perly. I must beg possessors of my "Town 

 Garden," to scratch this out of the list 

 of roses for smoky atmospheres, given at 

 page 214. Louis Bonaparte is always ill- 

 looking in foliage, and the blooms drop 

 over as if loaded witli lead, and they never 

 open well. Dr. Henon, one of our best 

 whites, no good in town. Triomphe 

 de l'Exposition, moderately good, but 

 needs a first-rate position, and must be 

 adopted at the grower's own risk. La 

 Reine, full in growth and bloom, but the 

 blooms burst and look ridiculous from 

 first to last. Madame Andry very good, 

 if the grower is content with a few blooms, 

 but will not, in London, serve as a perpe- 

 tual. Madame Bernard rots in the bud 

 iu wet seasons, and does not open well in 

 fine ones. Pauline Lansezeur, very shy, 

 grows but little, but makes a few good 

 blooms. William Griffiths, this I have 

 entered above, among the good ; its blooms, 

 when they come, are perfect, but London- 



ers will get few of them, and will have to 

 be content with very little growth. It 

 seems as if it would take a hundred years 

 to make a good plant, whether on its own 

 roots, or worked, in London. Duchess 

 of Norfolk, this is in the list given m 

 " Town Garden," and may remain there, 

 but do not use it in quantity until, by the 

 trial of a plant or two, you have some 

 assurance of success : it does very well 

 here, but is say, and not over effective. 

 Eveque de Mimes, it is painful to have 

 to say a word against this splendid rose, 

 but it won't do in smoke-town. Of 

 Bourbons and tens I need not make a 

 black list. Most Bourbons do well in 

 London, and most teas the contrary. The 

 list of good teas is a safe one. If the 

 experience of other Londoners will enable 

 us to add to them, we metropolitan florists 

 will be right glad if we can get but one 

 additional name. One word more : If 

 yellow loam or mellowed clay cannot be 

 got to refresh the plot chosen for roses, 

 tlieu use, as a dressing, and in liberal 

 quantity, the scrapings of Macadamized 

 roads ; ' I find_it a most valuable material. 

 I get here a mixture of the scrapings of 

 gravel as well as granite roads at half-a- 

 crown a load, and find it of great service 

 in tempering the texture of the heavy soil of 

 the place. It contains plenty of the dung of 

 well-fed horses, plenty of siliceous matter, 

 and an abundance of alkaline salts, conse- 

 quent on the trituration of the granite. 

 Strange to say, a bank of conifers planted 

 in this mixture two years ago are now in 

 the most luxuriant health, and, as a rule, 

 animal manure is injurious to them. For 

 roses, especially the more tender kinds on 

 their own roots, and also as a top-dressing 

 for beds and borders, it is the best mate- 

 rial within easy reach of Londoners. 



Shirley Hibbebd. 



REMINDERS FOR SEPTEMBER. 



Auriculas not yet repotted must be 

 attended to without delay, to insure new 

 roots before the temperature declines. 



Azaleas and Camellias to be syringed 

 frequently, but not so much watered at the 

 root as during previous months. 



Cinerarias ought now to be strong 

 from rooted offsets, and some will want 

 a shift. Use good compost, moderately 

 sandy, and plenty of drainage. 



Hollyhocks to be propagated at once. 

 The shoots that rise at the base of the 

 flowei'-stem are to be put in as cuttings 

 round the sides of pots. 



Kitchen Garden. — Another lot of win- 

 ter greens may be got out from those left 

 to strengthen in the seed beds ; and it is 

 better to plant every spare plot with them. 

 Onions are ripening very slowly, and will 

 need twisting at top, and loosening at the 

 root, to hasten the process. Sow another 

 lot of Hammersmith lettuce. 



Pelargoniums — It the weather con- 

 tinues wet, house the plants a little earlier 

 than usual, but with air left on night and 

 day for the first week. 



Bedding Plants to be potted off without 

 delay, as soon as rooted. Strike calceolarias 



