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Under the second head, I wish to observe that ferns are mucli 

 like forest and fruit-trees in one respect, and that is, that they make 

 new roots all the winter, even when their fronds have perished. By- 

 potting in autumn the plants are encouraged to fill their pots with 

 roots before the new spring growth t-akes place, and that growth is 

 the sti'onger and more beautiful from the abundant roothold. the 

 plants have obtained to support it. In the course of the next few 

 weeks we shall shift into larger pots all our specimens that are 

 capable of benefiting by increased root room. 



Shielet Hibbeed. 



THE EOSES OP 1865-66: MAEESCHAL NIEL. 



BX \y. D. PEIOE, WOUGHTON HOUSE, CLAPTON. 



jlEVEE was the influence of a season upon roses more 

 aptly illustrated than during the past summer. Up to 

 the date of the Crystal Palace show the weather was 

 most unfavourable, and, in consequence, never were such 

 inferior collections exhibited as upon that occasion. It 

 is not too much to say that tiiere was not, among the whole, a first- 

 rate stand. Since that, however, the nutritious rains and warm 

 sunshine have filled out and developed the flowers, which have 

 seldom been seen in finer condition. The rose is somewhat of a 

 toper, and, like other thirsty souls, delights in strong fluids, and 

 also in plenty of succulent food, a fact to be borne in mind by those 

 who wish to avoid failure in growing it, and to deserve success, so 

 that, if nature be sparing in her bounties, art should be called in to 

 supply the deficiency. My own roses were very backward, and 

 congequently bloomed late, yet, during the whole of my experience 

 and observations, they never were finer; and, in my visits to rose 

 nurseries, I have found like circumstances to prevail. 



As the result of close criticism, I have found that neither among 

 roses of the current or the previous season, has a second " Charles 

 Lefebvre " been introduced ; nevertheless, some good and novel 

 additions have been made, and of a character likely to su-tain for 

 some time a respectable position in the catalogues. Before giving 

 a list of the most valuable in my opinion, a few special remarks may 

 not be out of place respecting the quasi new tea, Mareschal Niel. 

 This rose has already excited some controversy, occasioned perhaps 

 by there being a spurious kiud in the market. It is properly a 

 Noisette, and might well be described as a hardy Cloth of Grold. It 

 opens fairly in the open air, and will consequently be a great 

 addition to the section of yellow roses. It will probably succeed 

 admirably trained against a south wall ; but, as for superseding that 

 most excellent old favourite Gloire de Dijon, the best of roses for 

 all purposes and places, it is by no means likely, and it will no 

 doubt assume its proper place after its novelty has somewhat worn 

 ofi". It is too early yet to pronounce dogmatically upon the best 



