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Dwarf plants on their own roots may be taken up and potted in 

 autumn, and kept under glass, the pots plunged in old tan or saw- 

 dust, till May, and then planted out ; they will bloom well towards 

 the end of summer and in autumn. This treatment may also be 

 applied to dwarf standards with success : under no other mode 

 of culture can the amateur be certain of keeping his plants un- 

 injured by the weather. As dwarf standards they bloom beauti- 

 fully, and also as standards ; with the latter 1 have for some 

 years succeeded by removing them in November or December to a 

 north wall,* placing their roots in the ground, and their heads rest- 

 ing against the wall, over which a mat should be nailed in severe 

 weather; in April they may be removed to their summer quarters. 

 I think it is Mr. W. Paul who tells us (but I quote from memory), 

 " that to remove a Rose once is to injure its growth, to do so twice 

 is a still greater injury." I have reason to believe that a Rose may 

 be removed every season for a number of years with the most com- 

 plete success ; and if some fresh compost is given to it every season 

 when planted, a most luxuriant growth and abundance of flowers will 

 be the result. By this annual removal numerous fibrous roots are 

 formed, which, it is well known, act as feeders, capable of taking 

 up any quantity of nutriment supplied to the tree. 



The frequent removal of Roses in unfavourable soils is an old 

 doctrine of mine. I hope some of your readers will amuse them- 

 selves by planting two Rose-trees, removing one every season, giv- 

 ing it some fresh compost, and allowing the other to remain : if the 

 soil is deep and rich, the tree frequently removed will perhaps be 

 distanced by its competitor ; but if the soil is shallow and unfavour- 

 able, the " oft-removed tree" will thrive " as wellf as those that 

 settled be." 



VICTORIA REGIA, 



THE QUEEN OF AQUATICS. 



For the following particulars respecting this noble plant we are in- 

 debted to the kindness of a correspondent, who has forwarded them 

 to us just in time for their appearance in our volume for 1849. 

 The present year has produced no greater event in horticulture than 

 the flowering the plant in question, which has been effected by the 

 skill of Mr. Pax ton : we quite envy the establishment at Chatsworth 

 the gratification it must experience in this triumph. 



Nov. \0th, 1849. The following particulars respecting the 

 Victoria Regia, which has been bloomed at Chatsworth for the first 

 time in England, may be acceptable to the readers of The Florist. 

 It was procured from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, when it 



* By being placed on the north side of a wall, vegetation is retarded in spring, 

 so that they need not be planted out till all danger from frost is over, i. e. not 

 till the middle of April. 



T For well read better; but we must not interrupt " Poor Richard." 



