1G8 THE FLOEAL WORLD AND QARDEN GUIDE. 



their lady friends (and what a desirable reputation that is only the 

 initiated can tell) who are yet neophytes in the fascinating art of 

 growing the most enchanting flower that adorns our gardens and 

 parterres. Let such, consider that there is a sort of subtle and 

 unspoken flattery in the mere act of presenting a lady with a rose 

 which attends no other offering, and which affords, moreover, oppor- 

 tunities for delicate compliments or well-turned speeches as appro- 

 priate as ingenious, to say nothing of certain looks and glances and 

 other time-honoured modes of ingratiation with the fair recipients. 

 I recollect an axiom of a certain venerable fem.ale of the " Sairey 

 Gamp " sisterhood in my younger days, who was accustomed to 

 aflarm to her patients " That a look of love and weneration was of 

 more wally than ten physicians." How much more effectual, then, 

 would such looks prove if accompanied by the presentation of a 

 beautiful rose ! But I must restrain my too errant pen. Verhum sap ! 

 Toung men who peruse the Floral World incontinently become 

 rosarians, and realize the beatific frviits. The beds into which roses 

 are transplanted from pots need not, for the first season, be more 

 than eighteen inches deep, and the soil should be rather rich and 

 free than too stiff. There should be a staple of soft, fat loam, which 

 should be well intermixed with succulent manure of any kind and 

 lumps of half-rotted turf; charcoal, charred wood, and clean bones 

 will be a valuable addition. When the plants are turned out of the 

 pots ail suckers should be extirpated, the drainage just removed, but 

 otherwise the ball should be disturbed as little as possible, although 

 when the earth has been pressed well to it, a slight pressure near the 

 collar, just to insure the water passing through the fibres, will not 

 be amiss. After a good soaking, the ground round newly-planted 

 roses should be deeply mulched with only half-decayed manure, over 

 which a layer of fine mould ought to be sprinkled, to take off" any 

 unsightly appearance among dressed borders, and the plants should 

 be further strengthened now and then by refreshing draughts of 

 liquid manure. These operations, with cleanliness and the watchful 

 eye of an enthusiastic insecticide brought to bear daily upon the 

 welfare of his favourites, will insure a fine bloom ; somewhat later, 

 perhaps than in November-planted rosaries, but in not the less per- 

 fection. Small plants, however, especially those sent out in 60's 

 on their own roots, are not for the purpose ; they are mostly too 

 weak, and require more nursing into robustness of constitution than 

 the cultivators for whom this paper is intended are able to bestow. 



I shall next consider a selection of varieties, limited it may 

 be, but unsurpassed in their styles, and in their several adapta- 

 bilities for the generality of soils and localities, and also remarkable 

 for their strong and healthy growth. Beginning with the darkest, 

 the^ may be taken in the following order; — Yicomte Vigier, Prince 

 Camille de Kohan, Charles Lefebvre, Madame Victor Verdier, Sena- 

 teur Vaisse, Le Rhone, General Jacqueminot, Jules 31argottin, 

 Victor Verdier, Madame Clemence Joigneaux, C. Guillot, John 

 Hopper, Madame Domage, Baron Gouella, Centifolia Rosea, 

 Duchesse de Morny, Baronne Prevost, Chabrilland, Mrs. Rivers, 

 Therese Appert, Louise Darzins. Teas, Gloire de Dijon and Devo- 



