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piece of ground, the top spit should be saved to be used again. The 

 depth of the soil is an important matter, both for the trees and the 

 lawn. It should be at least eighteen inches deep. In shallow soils 

 Grass will burn out under a hot sun. In a soil eighteen inches deep 

 a lawn will be green except in the very hottest weather. For the sake 

 of the trees, also, the ground should be not only deep but rich. Life is 

 too short for it to be an object to wait too long for trees to grow, and 

 planting large ones is an expensive as well as unsatisfactory business. 

 A tree in a rich and deep soil will grow as much in one year as in five 

 in a poor one. So, in preparing a lawn, it is fortunate that, while 

 aiming at the best effects, we are helping our trees also. 



" While on the subject of improvements, we may add that the latter 

 end of August is one of the best seasons of the year to transplant ever- 

 greens. The young growth of the past season has got pretty well 

 hardened, so as to permit of but very little evaporation, and the earth 

 being warm new roots push with great rapidity, and the tree becomes 

 established in the ground before the cold autumn winds begin." 



AN ANALYSIS OF ROSES, OLD, NEW, AND NOVELTIES, 

 FIT FOR SHOW PURPOSES. 



Several amateurs and gardeners in different parts of England, and 

 one nurseryman in America, having addressed questions on this subject, 

 or on some particular Rose or Roses, I am reluctantly obliged, with 

 great apologies, to request so soon a place in your much read and highly 

 valuable pages. I may here say, before 1 begin about Roses, how 

 much I am indebted to your Florist for Raspberry information. I have 

 had a noble crop this year, and the canes are now seven feet high, and 

 of the greatest substance. The avidity with which your work is read, 

 and the eagerness with which it is looked for, on the first of each month, 

 confirm me in the belief, that, in time, the number of copies published 

 will be very great. » 



I will now speak first of summer Roses (all of which here are on the 

 Brier) fit for show purposes, and some of which are absolutely essential. 

 Pure white : Clementine — Blush, Adele Prevost, a fine Rose, Cynthia, 

 not so strong in habit, but is of a very fine Hollyhock shape, Juno, very 

 large — Rose coloured, Charles Duval, Charles Lawson, Paul Perras, 

 are fine bold Roses of the most robust habit ; Volupte is large and 

 perfect and refined; Dometille Bear is very fine — Pink, Coupe d'Hebe, 

 Sanchette, Bruxelles, are all beautiful Roses — Purple, Frederick II. is 

 large and of a splendid colour. Who will raise a Hybrid Perpetual of 

 the same colour and of the shape as Comte de Nanteuif ? Under shade 

 or a north wall is the place to preserve its fine colour. The sun soon 

 slates a purple Rose. Different shades of crimson and purple crimson, 

 Paul Ricaut, Ohl, Boula de Nanteuil, Kean, Triomphe de Jaussens, 

 General Jacqueminot (H.C.), DAguesseau, are a noble lot of Roses, 

 and all valuable for their colours — Variegated Roses, Bizarre Masbree, 

 Tricolor des Flandres, Madeline, a very curious Rose, essential at Bath 



