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bably want but little water, and should 

 only Jiave enough to keep them fresh. 

 Many of them will root, and in March 

 begin to grow ; many will rot during 

 the winter. If a hard winter follows 

 they may be saved by covering with 

 frames or canvas. Where frames are at 

 hand, and a gentle hot-bed can be made 

 U[>, the same method of making the 

 cuttings may be adopted, but the bed 

 sliould consist of equal parts loam, leaf- 

 mould, and sharp sand, and be six inches 

 deep over the fermenting material. They 

 must be kept in the frames all the win- 

 ter, and have air during fine weather. 

 In cocoa-nut waste roses root quickly, 

 but as soon as possible should be potted 

 off, and put in the greenhouse or a pit, 

 and the stuff for the first potting should 

 have a considerable proportion of leaf- 

 mould and sand in it. Tlie plan you pro- 

 pose will answer very well if the soil is 

 thoroughly drained ; the reason we ad- 

 vise raising the bed is to secure the cut- 

 tings a dry position all winter. 

 New Garden. — W. B. W. — To furnish 

 you with a plan in these pages is simply 

 impossible. It might occupy hours, per- 

 Ijaps days, and nnless we visited the 

 ground, and made measurements in our 

 own way, the plan would be a mere 

 fancy. We undertake to advise on 

 laying out and improving gardens, but 

 we have never used these pages to fur- 

 ther our own interests ; we despise the 

 system of converting a periodical into a 

 shop. We can now give you these gene- 

 ral hints. Get all earth-work done as 

 speedily as possible, so as to plant this 

 present autumn. On the upper part of 

 the ground pipes of two-inch bore will 

 do, and the trenches had best be filled 

 a foot deep over the pipes with chalk. 

 Tlie cross drains at b, and all the drains 

 in the lower levels had best be four 

 inches diameter, and the outlet drain to 

 carry the water to the dilch six inches. 

 The hill, marked h, appears to us to in- 

 terrupt the view. If so remove it, and 

 use tiie stuff for raising the ground 

 marked out for fruit, which appears to 

 be very low ; some of it will come in for 

 the lawn, which, being large, had best 

 be in gentle undulations towards the 

 sides, but a dead level across from the 

 house towards b, c, where you mark 

 the view, to be good. If j'oii can push 

 the work on to begin planting at the end 

 of this month, get in all the evergreens 

 first, and by the time they are planted 

 you may proceed with the trees. With- 

 out seeing the soil we cannot speak posi- 

 tively about American_plants, but gene- 



rally an old turf on a yellow loam will 

 make a first-rate staple for rhododen- 

 drons if stripped off in a thin slice with 

 the pick. Every scrap of turf should be 

 saved for some purpose ; that which is 

 not wanted for American beds should 

 be stacked up for potting. The clay 

 taken out in making the walks will 

 do for the walks again if burnt, and the 

 best fuel to burn it witli is small coal ; 

 one ton vv^ill burn fifteen yards of clay, 

 "Profitable Gardening" contain! some 

 pi-actical suggestions on the formation 

 and improvement of gardens, and in the 

 "Town Garden" the same subject is 

 treated in respect to ornam-'utal features. 

 By the way, the " Town Garden" is as 

 well adapted to the wants of country 

 gardeners as those in London, so far as 

 concerns its cultural directions and ad- 

 vices on earth-work, etc. 



Rose Fence. — Constant Suhscrihcr. — Bru- 

 tus, now called Brennus, would not an- 

 swer at all for your rose fence " to bo in 

 flower and perfect immediately." You 

 had best have common China, of at 

 least three years old, and plant them in 

 November next ; on your rocky soil that 

 would do better than any hybrid per- 

 petual ; otherwise Jules Margottin or 

 Charles Duval would be grander, and of 

 rapid growth. In reply to 3, we recom- 

 mend you to get up a stock of the little 

 blue heartsease ; it makes a charming 

 ribbon line; many of the self and co- 

 loured pansies to be obtained at the 

 nurseries make nice ribbons, and any 

 lady gardener could manage them. The 

 pea you saw at Alexandria is Lord 

 Anson's pea. The Iris, found at Mem- 

 phis, may be Xiphium, or one of its 

 varieties, but we cannot determine cer- 

 tainly from your description. Tlie Cistus 

 found on Anti -Lebanon was albidus. All 

 these plants are procurable at English 

 nurseries. 



PiANTiNtf OUT Beddeks. — Will you in- 

 form me how far apart bedding gera- 

 ;iiums should be planted ; also verbenas, 

 petunias, supposing quantity of plants to 

 be unlimited, etc. ; also, how petunias 

 answer as bedders, and whether the 

 single or double varieties flower most 

 freely; also the names of a few of tlie 

 most suitable, and the name of the 

 best horse-shoe geranium. — A., Shef- 

 field. [We might reasonably make 

 an article on these questions, but we 

 will endeavour to reply briefly. In the 

 first place, then, no general rule can be 

 given for the distances of bedders : even 

 the masters of the art occasionally make 

 mistakes. As, for example, at Victoria 



