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of the importance of the ivies may be deduced from the considera- 

 tion that those of the marginata series make edgings to beds equal 

 all the winter to edgings formed of variegated geraniums during the 

 summer, while nicely-grown pyramidal specimens of any of the 

 varieties in pots may be plunged in the flower-beds for winter to 

 afford a sumptuous furnishing. As the ivies thrive in shade, those who 

 love ivies may furnish their shady borders in a most delightful 

 manner, by planting all the more distinctive kinds, and training 

 them over rough logs, or on poles, or over detached heaps of mere 

 brick rubbish, to form rich knolls of glossy vegetation, which will be 

 even more beautiful in summer than in winter. 



In the former plate the varieties were numbered 1 to 7, and 

 therefore, to prevent confusion, those in the present plate are 

 numbered 8 to 15. Their names are as follows : 8. Marginata, 

 rubra, a small silver-edged variety, which acquires an edging of 

 bright carmine-red in the autumn, retaining it all the winter. It is 

 known as " tricolor " in many nurseries. 9. Luteola, a fine tree 

 ivy, with leaves richly margined or mottled of a fine deep yellow 

 colour. This is one of the best variegated ivies known. 10. Margi- 

 nata major, the best of the marginata series, save M. grandis, which 

 was figured in the plate published December, 1869. 11. Argentea 

 minor, a fine tree ivy, with richly-margined leaves, the disk of a 

 bluish tint, the margin rich cream colour. 12. Striata, the striped- 

 leaved tree ivy, a variety of the large-leaved Irish ivy, the leaf heavily 

 blotched and striped with yellow on a ground of rich deep green. 

 13. Variegata, the variegated large-leaved ivy, another noble variety 

 of the Irish ivy, barred and blotched with gold upon a ground of 

 rich glossy green. 14. Discolor, the small marble-leaved ivy, a very 

 pretty little climbing variety, the young leaves of which are some- 

 times wholly white, but usually heavily blotched with white and 

 slightly tinged with red. 15. The large centre leaf is Canescens, the 

 hoary-leaved ivy, a delicate and pleasing variety of Algeriensis. In 

 this tlie principal surface of the leaf is of a dull glaucous green, 

 overspread with darker shades, and the margins are distinctly whitish. 

 A large mass of this ivy has a most beautiful appearance. 



S. H. 



THE CULTIVATION OF THE EOSE.— No. VIII. 



FORMING A ROSARIUM. 



IHE time has once more returned for planting roses, and 

 we begin by saying that roses may be multiplied to an 

 immense extent in any garden without causing satiety. 

 But it does not follow that all the roses should be 

 crowded into one compartment — my private opinion is 

 that they should not. There is a great delusion current that a rosery 

 is a very fine thing. A lover of roses passes half his time in dreaming 

 of the mighty rosarium he will have "some day," and when some 

 years have passed by, and he has nursed that notion until it has 



