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growth. Upright growing kinds, however beautiful and perfect, are 

 not suited to this manner of cultivation. Crescents and banks of 

 graduated roses require to be formed on similar principles. 



There are a goodly number of fine roses excellently adapted to 

 decorate vases, or to be utilized in the " plunging system," or fur- 

 nishing by plants in pots, so deservedly popular now-a- days. If any 

 connoisseur of floral effects desires to see the extent to which this 

 valuable method of garden ornamentation can be carried, he should 

 seek the assistance of some modern Asmodeus, and inspect a 

 certain portion of the domain of our able Editor, where changes take 

 place in the hours of darkness, or at least when ordinary mortals are 

 asleep, rivalling in magical effects, on a small scale, the transforma- 

 tions recorded in the Arabian j^ights. For the above application 

 such varieties only are adapted as possess a bushy, close-growing 

 habit, joined to that of being constantly and profusely in bloom. 

 There are no more unsightly objects than pot roses usually are at 

 exhibitions, tied out in unnatural directions to huge stakes, rendering 

 that which should be graceful and natural constrained and repulsive, 

 like the huge cuirass-like fabrics which enclosed the fair forms of our 

 ancestresses in the Tudor times. It may be also laid down as a 

 canon in the treatment of climbing or rambling roses, that all which 

 are not perpetuals should have continuous bloomers plentifully dis- 

 persed at their base, to fill up the blank period when they are out of 

 flower, and distract attention from the unlovely spectacle of dry 

 leaves, and spectral branches, and backgrounds uncovered, which were 

 designed to be concealed. 



A TEW GOOD 310SES TOK PEGaiNG DOW^:S". 



Common China : — Fabvier, Cramoisie Superieure, Mrs. Bosan- 

 quet. 



Bourhons : — Armosa, Madame Desprez, Bouquet de Flore, 

 Queen, Souvenir de la Malmaison. 



Syhrid Ferpetuals : — Admiral Nelson, Baronne Prevost, Beauty 

 of "Waltham, General Jacqueminot, Jean Goujon, Jules Margottin, 

 Le Rhone, La Brillante, Duchesse de Morny, Madame de Cambaceres, 

 Mrs. Rivers, Triomphe des Beaux Arts. 



Noisette Perpetimls : — Louise Darzins, Lady Emily Peel, Madame 

 Alfred de Bougement, Pavilion de Pregny. 



Teas : — Bougere, Grloire de Dijon, Devoniensis, Madame Viller- 

 moz, Narcisse, Madame Falcot, Sombreuil, Souvenir d'un Ami. 



Noisette : — Cloth of Gold, Aimee Vibert, Marechal iS"iel, Jean 

 d'Arc, Jaune Desprez. 



A FEW EXCELLENT CLIMBERS. 



Ruga, Amadis, Felicite Perpetue, Blairii No. 2 (not very high), 

 Admiral Nelson, Glory of Waltham, Russelliana, Triomphe des 

 Beaux Arts (where the climate will suit), Gloire de Dijon, Maria 

 Leonida, Aimee Vibert scandens. Climbing Devoniensis, Ophirie, La 

 Biche, Lamarque, Jaune Desprez, Solfaterre, Homere, Bougere. 



