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essential elements towards success. In my humble opinion the 

 secret may be summed up in growth ! growth ! ! growth ! ! ! Keep 

 the plants vigorously growing, and plenty of flowers, absence of 

 insect life, and other agrements which delight the heart of 

 rosarians, will follow as matters of course. The guano I obtained 

 was manifestly good, and administered at the right time — for the 

 future such a watering will form part of the regular treatment of my 

 roses in spring. I am, moreover, by no means disposed to regard 

 the weeds as altogether prejudicial, any more so than any other light 

 surface plants, not impervious to rain, would be. There is no doubt 

 such prevent evaporation and keep the soil moist ; and when dug 

 in, return as much to the soil as they have previously taken away. 



There is another point the experience of the present season has 

 impressed me with more strongly than ever — the primary importance 

 of sorts. At present I would not recommend more than the follow- 

 ing twenty, unless to adepts, and to them a wide range lies open for 

 experimental trials ; the first dozen for choice pretty much in the 

 order named : — Souvenir de la Malmaison (the most manageable 

 rose also in a pot for conservatory, greenhouse, or parlour window), 

 Gloire de Dijon, Madame de Cambaceres and La Duchesse de Moray 

 (a pair of the finest growers and freest bloomers known), General 

 Jacqueminot (in all qualities but doubleness far before any of its 

 seedlings), Madame Charles Wood, Jules Margottin, Victor Verdier, 

 John Hopper, Charles Lefebvre, Vicomte Vigier, Rev. H. Dombrain, 

 Baronne Prevost, Madame Domage, Pavilion de Pregny, Mrs. 

 Bosanquet (also a window pot rose), Emotion, Le Rhone, Anna 

 Alexieff, Colonel Cambriels. A dozen more might be added, but at 

 the cultivator's risk. 



But I must not expatiate upon the respective peculiarities of 

 these (and they have peculiar qualities for the purpose mentioned) ; 

 they have often been treated of before, and the space of this pub- 

 lication is too valuable to be occupied in reiteration. 



.ETHIONEMA CORIFOLIA. 



BY THOMAS WILLIAMS, 



Bath Ledge, Ormskirk. 



HAVE often wondered whether the very beautiful little 

 plant with the above name is generally known or not, 

 and if known as it deserves to be, why on earth it has 

 never been lifted from the obscurity in which it has 

 ever been shrouded. I have often thought that 

 enthusiasm may sometimes lead one to form a false estimate of the 

 merits of these objects of our admiration, but I was relieved from 

 this apprehension by meeting the other day with a very fine plant 

 of Symphiandria penchda in full beauty. On mentioning to the owner 

 of it that I had written in praise of the plant in the Floral "World, 

 a few months back, he replied, " If you had written for a month 

 about it it could not be overpraised." The little plant at present 



