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need regulating and careful thinning, and may be pruned close with- 

 out harm. 



Noisette Roses may be left to grow wild without any pruning, 

 and will make a glorious show. But where order is the gardener's 

 first law, they may be pruned in the same way as advised for the 

 Tea-scented. 



Macaethey Roses are grand things for walls, in sheltered situa- 

 tions ; they scarcely require any pruning, but must be kept in order 

 and the growth as evenly distributed as possible. 



The Time to Prune is not sufficiently understood. Save and 

 except the pruning that should be done in summer, instantly upon 

 the decline of the first bloom, the proper time to prune is some time 

 in the months of March or April, and, as a rule, the later the better. 

 In a sheltered spot, where spring frosts rarely do mischief, pruning 

 may commence in January to promote an early bloom. But for the 

 average of climates in these islands, it is well to allow the trees to 

 make a little growth before pruning them. If late frosts occur, this 

 growth is injured, but presently afterwards the pruning- knife re- 

 moves it, and a new and more vigorous growth starts from the lower 

 buds left by the pruner. To be in undue haste to prune roses is to 

 expose to risk and injury by late spring frosts. S. H. 



BEDDERS AND BEDDING.— No. III. 



BY A HEAD GAEDENEE. 

 PREPARATION OF THE BEDS. 



'N the two last numbers of the Eeoeae "Woeld, the pro- 

 pagation and selection of the best bedders was briefly 

 dealt with, and we will now offer a few suggestions re- 

 specting the preparation of the beds for their reception, 

 and then indicate the most suitable situations for the 

 different classes of plants employed in the embellishment of the 

 flower garden. The advice, with respect to turning up the beds in 

 the autumn, and then leaving them in a rough state until the fol- 

 lowing spring, still holds goods where it can be carried out ; but 

 where the beds are filled, as they should be, with spring-flowering 

 plants, it is impossible for them to be prepared for the summer 

 until a late period in the spring. Hence, what follows is strictly 

 seasonable. A few years since it was commonly supposed that 

 flowers could be grown without the assistance of manure at all ; and 

 it was not until after repeated failures of such things as calceolarias 

 and verbenas, that a large proportion of flower gardeners could be 

 convinced to the contrary. It is now, however, generally admitted, 

 thanks to the teaching of our Editor here and elsewhere, that with- 

 out the assistance of manure, in some form, flower gardening can- 

 not be carried on successfully with any more success than would be 



