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carefully revised calendar of operations for the year, and notices of 

 new Florists' flowers. INIr. Edwards gives, moreover, a mass of in- 

 formation respecting Horticultural Societies and their Exhibitions; 

 and we can here refer with some satisfaction to the list of Nursery- 

 men, as our knowledge of the Trade leads us to believe that the cor- 

 rections are made up to the close of the year. A correct list of the 

 Trade and leading Horticulturists has long been Avanted, and Mr. 

 Edwards has done much towards supplying that desideratum. What 

 his compeers have done is best shown by the amount of errors appa- 

 rent in their productions. Mr. Edwards has given some well-timed 

 remarks on Rose-pruning, which are so suitable to the present season 

 that we venture to extract them. They are by Mr. Wilkinson, of the 

 Rose Nurseries, Ealing, who says : 



" The introduction of a woodcut of a 

 closely-pruned Rose in last year's Alma- 

 nac, induced some subscribers to ask for 

 more information which it seemed to fore- 

 shadow, we therefore present the follow- 

 ing general instructions ; it is, however, 

 hoped that the practical ideas will be of 

 such assistance to the amateur, as to pre- 

 vent the ail-but fatal operations generally 

 performed under the above title ; neither 

 can an attempt be made to particularise 

 the treatment necessary for the several 

 families ; their growth, to which our sub- 

 ject alone refers, will be readily compre- 

 hended by the terms luxuriant or short 

 growing, and tender. Budded Roses 

 when received from the Nursery are ge- 

 nerally one year old, and during the first 

 season the knife must be sparingly used ; 

 but after all chance of severe frost has 

 disappeared (early in April), the branches 

 should be cut back to four or five eyes, 

 having previously cut out all growth that 

 interferes with the shape the sketches 

 illustrate, being especially carefid in 

 performing the former operation, to cut 

 to an outer hud. The followmg illustra- 

 tion of a budded Hybrid Perpetual, when 

 received from the Nursery, shows, by the 

 marks, where the knife is to be iised; 

 and further to exemplify the great advan- j--i 



tage of adhering to this principle, the next 

 sketch shows the results, after the first pruning, where it has been 

 attended to and where neglected ; the single lines shomng the former, 

 and the dotted the latter. 



" During the following October, any shoots which started in the 

 centre of the head, or any cross branches, may be entirely removed; 



