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such attention, well-grown handsome plants can be made to last a 

 wonderfully long time in heated atmospheres, where they would be 

 supposed to fade as soon as introduced from the stove or green- 

 house. The common hardy British ferns, if grown in pots singly, 

 or in groups in pans, form pretty ornaments, and stand the cold air 

 of halls, etc., where other plants would not live. They are well worth 

 a trial for this purpose ; some of the small-growing varieties, suL-h 

 as Asplenium adiantum-ni(jrum, A. viarinum, A. trichomanes, Poly- 

 podium vulc/are, etc., being very neat and pretty. These small or dwarf 

 growing kinds are best adapted for pans, but Scolopeiidrium vioJc/are, 

 JOastrea Jilix-mas, and such like, show to best advantage when planted 

 singly in pots. Before closing this paper, I cannot refrain from 

 making a few remarks on the usefulness of Acacia lophantha as a 

 table-plant; it will stand a room heated up to almost any degree, 

 and looks as light as any fern. 



MAEECHAL NIEL EOSE ON A NEW STOCK. 



UT HE^"KT TATLOK, ESQ., PENCOTE. 



|jE. JOHN HARRISON, of the North of England Eose 

 Nurseries, Darlington, has raised a stock lor budding 

 and grafting dwarf or bush roses upon, which has 

 turned out so good, that it is in a fair way of super- 

 seding the manetti, or any other stock at present 

 known. He calls liihe Napoleon StocJc. It was raised some years ago, 

 and was picked out from amongst a bed of seedling roses, on account 

 of its robust and remarkably vigorous habit. It strikes from 

 <;uttings as freely as the manetti, and all the different varieties of 

 roses, including tea- scented and noisettes, unite and take to it 

 freely when budded or grafted thereon. It is said to be the 

 best stock in the world for tea-scented roses, imparting a vigour 

 which is remarkable when compared with those worked upon the 

 manetti. 



In the Gardeners' Magazine of last year I mentioned a Marechal 

 Niel rose, which had been budded on the Napoleon Stock, and 

 planted in a span-roofed glass-house, and that in four years it com- 

 pletely covered sixteen four-feet lights, eight on either side, 

 and that from thi-ee to four thousand blooms had been cut 

 from it in the preceding spring, and sold at sixpence each to the 

 dealers at Newcastle. The first batch of blooms was sent off in 

 February. 



In June last, Mr. Harrison planted another Marechal Niel rose, 

 budded on the same stock, in a large glass-house, intended specially 

 for growing specimen rose-trees in pots. By the end of October, a 

 period of only five months, it had shot out eight branches, varying 

 in length from fifteen to seventeen feet, or about 130 feet of wood, 



December. 



