170 TIIE FLORIST. 



Aphides also will be " in " soon ; use black and yellow sulphurs, or 

 bitter aloes and water, or quassia. I have sooted all my trees (25th 

 April) under a dripping rain, but I shall soon begin the syringe and 

 sulphurs. Every aphis produces 100, and there are 10 generations in 

 a year, amounting to 100 billions ; therefore, catch the first aphis, and 

 you may say — 



" Oh ! the rosy month of June I hail as summer's queen ; 

 The hills and valleys sing in joy, and all the woods are green ; 

 The streamlets flow in gladsome song, the birds are all in tune ; 

 And Nature smiles in summer's pride, in the rosy month of June ; 

 There is music in the laughing sky, and balm upon the air ; 

 The earth is stamped with loveliness, and all around is fair; 

 There is glory in the mountain top, aud gladness in the plain ; 

 The Roses wake from their wintry bed, and blush and bloom again ; 

 Oh ! the rosy month of June ! my heart is bounding, wild, and free; 

 As with a fond and longing look, I gaze once more on thee ; 

 With all thy thousand spangling gems — a bright and blessed boon — 

 That comes to cheer and welcome in the rosy month of June." 



And now, brother amateurs (there is a fraternity among all Rose 

 growers ; we know each other by intuition and sympathy), under the 

 distinguished patronage of England's " greatest gems," may you enjoy 

 and profit by the National Rose Show, " in the rosy month of June." 



Rushton, April 26. W. F. Radclyffe. 



P.S., May 14. — Cardinal Patrizzi has given me two beautiful 

 blooms. It is quite an " acquisition," or, to use a new term, it is 

 " sumptuous ; " it is a fine claret red, very bright, and well formed ; 

 it is in the line of Madame Masson's colour (a sad winterer, yet most 

 beautiful), but brighter, and of a lighter colour. I have two others on 

 good half-standard Briers. The above Rose is in a pot on Manetti. 

 M. Masson has wintered well on a Brier, but badly on Manetti, and 

 on her own roots ; she must be kept off the ground, as she stains in 

 her rind. 



A USEFUL HINT. 



Allow me to suggest an addition to your very useful periodical, which 

 is now almost indispensable to every lover of a garden, whether he be 

 an amateur or a professional gardener, and most of all to those who, 

 like your reverend correspondent at Deal, are obliged to study economy 

 in the pursuit of their tastes. It strikes me that a page might very 

 usefully be devoted to short notices from correspondents, who have not 

 time for a regular article, but yet might furnish occasionally very 

 useful hints, or suggest inquiries that might be profitably pursued. 

 This idea has occurred to me, in looking over the volume for 1858, 

 and, with your permission, I will illustrate my view by a few short 

 notes, which I made as I turned over the pages. 



P. 122. The Verbena pots described by Mr. Deam would have been 

 noted by me as a desideratum a few months since, but I have recently 

 met with them at Halifax, where they maybe had — of common clay — 

 for 4s. a dozen, of more elegant form than the one you figured. The 



