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a preventive to this disease. The treatment will answer for any 

 locality. By July, many of the varieties will have done flowering. 

 Give them all the sun and air you possibly can, in order to ripen the 

 wood and prepare them for cutting down, previous to which let them 

 become perfectly dry, then cut them slanting to the eye, leaving three 

 or four eyes to break from. The wound will soon heal over ; but if 

 inclined to bleed a little, unslacked lime put on will soon stop it. 

 When healed, they may be placed in a frame prepared as I have 

 directed above, and a little water may be given — just enough to 

 damp the soil. Keep the frame close for a few days, to induce 

 them to break vigorously ; but as soon as the eyes are fairly broken, 

 air must be given. When sufficiently broken, they may be shaken 

 out and disrooted, using a sharp knife, and cutting off all straggling 

 roots. Re-pot them into soil previously prepared as follows : One 

 barrcwful of turfy loam, four shovelfuls of rotten cow r -dung (the older 

 the better), and an 8-inch potful of silver-sand. This compost should 

 be well chopped over with a trowel, not sifted. If the plants were 

 previously in S-inch pots, put them into 6-inch ones, using an inch 

 or two of drainage, which should be crocks broken into pieces about 

 the size of a small bean. When potted, water with a fine-rosed 

 watering-pot ; place them in a frame as before directed, and keep 

 them close till the plants have become established, just damping 

 them overhead two or three times a week. As soon as they have 

 sufficiently recovered from the shift, air must be abundantly given 

 night and day, sheltering from heavy rains, and keeping them clean 

 from green-fly. The plants should be housed by the midd'e of Sep- 

 tember. Trie house should be thoroughly cleaned down, and the glass 

 and stages, floor, &c. well washed. The plants may then be placed 

 the distance apart which is allowed them to bloom in ; they will re- 

 quire but little water to keep them in good health ; watch for green- 

 fly, and fumigate the moment it is perceived. The above is exactly 

 the kind of treatment my plants have received ; and I never remem- 

 ber seeing them finer than they are now. 



I cannot, close these remarks without saying that those who think 

 the spot is confined to certain varieties are not much acquainted with 

 the disease ; it attacks all varieties, more or less, under the same 

 treatment, from Sylph, Matilda, Alba multiflora, &c, which are some 

 of the oldest varieties in cultivation, down to Rosamond, Emily, and 

 many others, both older and newer. If, as I before observed, the 

 plants are exposed to wet, cold winds, &c. after they are cut down, 

 the spot will overtake any variety ; but I admit that some sorts are 

 more affected than others. I trust the foregoing remarks may be of 

 service to some of your readers. To those who have the spot, I 

 would recommend the house to be kept dry, and the temperature 

 about 45, giving air at all favourable opportunities. 



Woodlands Nursery, Isleworth. John Doeson. 



