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valuable additions/ but they only withstand our severest winters in 

 southern or sheltered localities. 



Of the Noisette, Jaune Desprez, Lamarque, and Solfaterre, have been 

 selected as Climbing or Pillar Roses, and have been previously discussed. 

 They are available as standards also, the best for that purpose be- 

 ing Solfaterre. I have found Narcisse to be hardy in all winters save 

 that of 1860-1; and its lovely Roses, white, deepening to a Primrose 

 centre, claim a place in every rosarium. The time will soon be here 

 when Celine Forestier and Triomphe de Rennes will take their place, a 

 high one, among garden Roses, but in our present scarcity of yellow 

 flowers they are valuable as exhibition varieties. 



And now, my reader, as when eating our strawberries in early 

 youth, boys by their mothers', girls by their fathers' sides, we reserved 

 the largest to the last ; or as when, in later years, we loved something 

 more dearly even than strawberries — making with the Yorkshire 

 rustic our tender confession, *'! loikes poi, Mary; but, oh Mary, 

 I loikes you better nor poi" — we, meeting in mixed company, reserved 

 for our beloved the final fond farewell, or meeting, not in mixed com- 

 pany, found that the sweetest which was, alas ! the parting kiss ; even 

 so have I reserved for my conclusive chapter the Roses which I love 

 the best — those Roses which are chosen for their more perfect beauty, 

 like the fairest maidens at some public fete, to represent the sisterhood 

 before a wondering world. 



S. Reynolds Hole. 



THE CULTIVATION OF HARDY FRUITS. 



THE APPLE. 

 {Continued from page 209. ) 



The stocks to be used for grafting the Apple upon ought to be strong, 

 vigorous, and healthy. They should be at least IJ inch or 2 

 inches in circumference, and those which are intended to be worked 

 at standard height should at first be chosen from the seedling beds 

 for their straight and strong habits of growth. They ought to be 

 encouraged to grow erect by pinching the side shoots at every second 

 and third eye, and by having their leaders trained in an upright 

 direction to a stake. This is not necessary except in cases where the 

 kinds to be worked are weak-growing and tender varieties, as the 

 most of the varieties of the Apple will form standards if required, 

 although grafted at 1 foot from the ground. In fact, I am not sure 



