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fine berries are required, either for exhibi- 

 tion or dessert. 



FLOWEK GAEDEN. 



Another lot of chrysanthemums should 

 be struck this month, under hand-glasses, 

 to make dwarf plants for the window and 

 greenhouse in autumn. The pompones 

 are tlie best for this purpose and they 

 may be stopped till the middle of August, 

 to keep them dwarf and bushy. Train out 

 dahlias neatly, but do not cut them 

 severely, for the loss of foliage only 

 weakens the plant. Put in cuttings of 

 scarlet geraniums in the full sun, either in 

 a sandy border, or in pots half tilled with 

 crocks, to be potted singly, as soon as 

 rooted. Get strong plants of chrysanthe- 

 mums into their places in the borders, so 

 tjiat the heavy rains this month may 

 establish them. Layer pinks, carnations, 

 and picotees, and put pipings of the same 

 into a gentle bottom-heat. Another lot of 

 annuals may be sown early in the month, 



to keep up the gaiety of the borders. Bud 

 roses during cool moist weather. 



GEEENHOUSE AND STOVE. 



Tlie last lot of pelargoniums will be 

 turned out this month, after being cut 

 down, and must be kept rather dry till 

 they begin to break, and then be syringed 

 frequently. Shift all greenhouse plants 

 required to bloom late, and stop any that 

 are rather too forward. Cinerarias for 

 winter bloom should have good culture 

 now. Camellias may be repotted any time 

 this month, but must have very small 

 shifts. As pines colour, keep them rather 

 dry ; pines shy of fruiting may be induced 

 to fruit, by having water withheld from 

 them, so as to check them for awhile, and 

 then be well soaked, and kept warm and 

 moist, and they will be pretty sure to 

 fruit freely. In vineries, give plenty of 

 liquid manure to plants swelling their 

 fruit, and be careful to keep the bunches 

 shaded with a few leaves, by tying the 

 laterals over, where necessary. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Yellow Roses.— -S. B., J.B., and others.— These 

 correspondeuts C(3niplaiu of the dilBculty in 

 getting Cloth of Gold and Isabella Grey roses to 

 hloom freely. Straufje that five correspondents 

 should make the same complaint, and all of them 

 agree in not letting us know where they live. 

 Suppose S. B. lives on the bleakest exposure of 

 the Grampian Hills, and with only an inch of soil 

 in which to grow the Cloth of Gold, then the 

 proper advice would be, move away, and take 

 Cloth of Gold with you. Mr. John Bell lives 

 at Hagley. "Well, where is Hagley? In 

 Cornwall or Caithness P It is aU very well to 

 have implicit faith in learned professors, but 

 not a wise thing to expect of them superhuman 

 knowledge. As soil and climate are conditions 

 of some moment in regard to the growth of 

 roses, and more so in regard to Noisettes and 

 Teas than any others, we cannot specijically 

 advise any of these querists ; but in the hope of 

 proving useful to thcin, we will make a few re- 

 marks on the general culture of these roses. 

 The usual mode of pruning Noisettes is the long 

 rod system, that is, to thin out all misplaced 

 and unripe shoots to their base, and leave the 

 remainder untouched. But this rule, evidently, 

 does not apply iu iin unexceptionable manner 

 to the two roses we are considering. Take the 

 ca>es that have been reported lately in the 

 Chronicle, the ff'Ufxhire Independent, and else- 

 where. An Isabella Grey planted in 1857 has 

 produced two blossoms this season, one of them 

 very much pinched by the cold. Another 

 specimen, now in its third year, at Torquay, 

 has ninety blooms upon it. In both of these 

 eases the pruning knife has had nothing to do 

 with the result, the plants have not been pruned 

 ■ at all. The next is Cluth of Gold, planted in 

 18.57, now growing vigorously, and blooms ex- 

 pected ! Let us hope the expectation is not a 

 vain one. Another instance is that of a Cloth 

 of Gold growing on the rectory house, at Great 

 Cheverell, Wiltshire. This produces, every year, 

 au immense crop of blooms, and frequently 



shows 200 or 300 expanded blossoms at one 

 time. This tree is worked on a yellow 

 Banksia, and is regularly pruned back to two 

 or three eyes, except when a leader is wanted 

 to fill up a blank. It thus appears that pruning 

 has little to do with the result either way ; but 

 there are a few other points to Vie noted, and 

 one of the first of these is age. If Cloth of GoUl 

 is in a warm aspect and a good climate, and 

 makes healthy growth from the first, it will be 

 pretty sure to bloom when of a blooining age, 

 and those who grow it must exercise patience. 

 As to pruning, the chief object should be to 

 keep the plant regularb' furnished and in decent 

 order, so that whatever wood it makes shall lu> 

 well ripened. Next, how should it be worked P 

 We suspect that on this point nurserymen ami 

 amateurs have very much to learn. We have 

 seen Cloth of Gold bloom well the second year 

 after having been budded on a well established 

 briar ; but bud it on a green briar and you 

 must wait. Then there is no dotibt if the bud 

 for insertion be taken from a bloom stalk, a 

 season at least will be gained; the bud im- 

 mediately below the bloom should be chosen ; 

 and if put on to an old, but vigorous briar, you 

 have the same chance of early bloom as you 

 have of early fruit, when a seedling apjjle or 

 pear is worked on a bearing tree. But people 

 who have these roses aheady planted are more 

 anxious to see their own filants uo well than to 

 consider the case ab initio, and we advise, first, 

 protection, for all yellow roses are of delicate 

 constitution; secondly, high feeding; thirdly, 

 management — get well ripened wood ; and, 

 lastly, have patience, for the tendency to bloom 

 increases with age ; if they do not bloom when 

 they get sufficientl}' aged, you may fairly con- 

 clude that the climate is too cold, or that the 

 plants have been mismanaged. J. B. need 

 only compare a Noisette with a Hybrid Per- 

 petual, to see the diffei-ence between them. 

 The Noisettes make long slender shoots, and are 

 always more or less tinged with crimson in their 



