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If a few dwarf trailing shrubs should be required, add the 

 following : — 



Sedum huxifolium, Mica carnea, Gaultheria procunibens, G. 

 sliallon, Pernettya inucronata, Juniperus prostrata, Cotoneaster thymi- 

 folia, Gytisus purpurea, Empetrum nigrum, Berleris empetrifolia. The 

 last is a charming plant for "hanging over." 



Many more things may be added, but sufficient has been enume- 

 rated, to give an idea how very beautiful nooks and corners, and out- 

 of-the-way places may be rendered. 





THE CULTURE OF STANDARD ROSES WITHIN THE 

 SUBURBS OF LARGE TOWNS. 



BY J. F. M'ELEOT, 

 Head Gardener at Moray Lodge, Campden Hill. 



|0 much has been written and said on the cultivation of 

 the rose that it may appear superfluous on my part to 

 attempt to retrace the already-beaten track. But I 

 cannot refrain from offering some observations on this, 

 of all flowers, the most universally admired. This 

 paper has been partly suggested to me from a remark uttered by my 

 friend, Mr. Broome, of the Temple Gardens. I was alluding to the 

 number of standard roses under my own charge, when he exclaimed, 

 " I should not have thought they would have succeeded in your 

 locality" (Kensington). Yet they do succeed there, and a parallel 

 case has, for several years past, been afforded by our Editor's garden 

 at Stoke Newington, which is one of the homes of the rose. 



In the detail of my practice herein afforded, I am not so pre- 

 sumptuous as to suppose that any efforts of mine within the limits 

 of the metropolis can ever assure me the attainment of perfection, 

 and I cannot expect to produce flowers like those exhibited by the 

 Rev. E. Pochin at the Crystal Palace Rose Show, or such as the 

 Rev. S. R. Hole, of Newark, and Mr. Hedge, of Colchester, exhibit. 

 But my experience convinces me that we may, with some attention 

 to their requirements, even surpass mediocrity, and that where space 

 is contracted, and the atmosphere occasionally made murky by 

 smoke, which the wind may drive in the direction of our grounds. 

 Certainly, when subjected to such objectionable influences, it requires 

 a man to be on the alert to combat with them, and to point out the 

 way is my object now. 



In the first place, I must inform my readers that I have to con- 

 tend with a light soil not in the least adhesive. The subsoil, and 

 that at a very little depth, is composed of gravel and sand, so that 

 in dry seasons we suffer very much from drought. The situation is 

 very much elevated, but I do not think that is any drawback in rose 

 culture. 



To suppose that we can bring the soil up to the standard in 



