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of April and May. l^ow, if these be taken for stocks upon wbicli 

 to bud some of the choicer Teas, jSfolsettes, and Bourboits, the growth 

 of the latter will be prodigious. The stock should be two years old, 

 having well-ripened, though still smooth, wood. In this way sucli 

 varieties as Gloire de Dijon, Marechal Niel, Lamarqtce, Safrano, 

 Chromatella, Aimc Vihert, Lc Factole, and all the teas, attain such 

 dimensions as to be no longer recognizable. 



liosa indica major is almost natviralized throughout the whole of 

 this region. It possesses the additional claim to favour of flowering 

 nearly all the winter, forming beautiful hedges of dark green shining 

 foliage, from which thousands of clusters of lovely flowers rise, of a 

 tender delicate transparent pink, or almost pure white, with a 

 brighter tinge in the centre and at the tips of the petals. This rose is 

 an evergreen, and makes an excellent stock for grafting or budding. 



It is either planted in nursery beds, where it quickly tlirows up 

 a stem suitable for standards, in the same way as we employ the 

 dog-rose, or in hedges, and left to its naturally luxuriant growth to 

 produce its own charming flowers in rich profusioii ; or rows of 

 cuttings are put in where it is intended to leave them, and subse- 

 quently budded with some of the varieties of the diverse tribes we 

 have named. 



We admired it most when treated in the manner last indicated. 

 In the Gardens jl the Villa Lizerbe, Nice, the residence of M. Cazale, 

 we saw three or four long hedges reared in this way ; and on the 

 sixth of May they presented a most gorgeous feast of flowers. To 

 give only one instance, we plucked, at random, a flower of Gloire de 

 Dijon, which measured five and a half inches in diameter, and six- 

 teen and a half in circumference. And it would not have been 

 difficult to find even larger flowers. 



This is how the intelligent head-gardener, M. Guichard, obtained 

 such splendid results. The soil where the hedge was to be made 

 having been moved to the depth of more than three feet, was planted 

 towards the end of winter with cuttings of well-ripened wood of 

 Txiosa indica major, about nine inches apart. They were left to grow 

 as much as they would, and not cut back at all. In August they 

 were budded nearly close to the ground, and in the following year 

 already they formed a hedge producing flowers abundantly. Iron 

 wire stretched upon slender bamboo stakes is sufficient to support 

 the branches. Pruning is only resorted to to keep them in shape, 

 remove exhausted branches, and shorten gross shoots. This rose 

 is also easily propagated by pegging down long branches or slightly 

 covering them with earth, cutting them asunder at the joints 

 when rooted, and thus obtaining as many plants as there are joints. 



By this very simple process M. Cazale has succeeded in raising 

 his rose hedges of incomparable beauty. From these hedges wag- 

 gon-loads of flowers might be cut every year. It is the varieties which 

 flower in winter, amongst which Safrano is the very beat, that are 

 here propagated on a large scale. We particularly noted Souvenir 

 de la Malmaison, Chromatella, Gloire de Bijon, General Jacqueminot, 

 Marechal Niel, Safrano, and Gloire des JRosomenes. A large number 

 of others grew and flowered equally as well as the foregoing. In 



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