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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



" Docteur Vingtrinier," " Gloire de 

 Sacre Cceur," "Pavilion de Presjny," 

 etc. Simplicity in this as well as in 

 more important matters of taste is not 

 only a cnarm but a convenience. 



The unprecedented weather, acting 

 upon the well-ripened wood of last 

 season, appears to have produced 

 an unusually early development of 

 growth and bloom, promising a dis- 

 play of flower sufficient to gladden 

 the heart, and satisfy the desires of 

 the most insatiate gluttons of floral 

 beauty. The only drawback up 

 to the present time has been the pre- 

 valence of that intolerable pest the 

 black grub, whose ravages must have 

 already decimated the rose beds. It 

 will be difficult at present to foretell 

 what effect the weather will have upon 

 the shows if they take place about the 

 usual time. It would seem that the 

 first period of bloom, at many of the 

 rose grounds, must have passed by be- 

 fore the period for exhibition arrives, 



especially on light soils. This will, 

 however, offer a chance of carrying 

 off the prizes to growers upon the 

 heavy lands — of late years such have 

 not been up to the mark in time. — 

 This 21st of May I have a few 

 blooms of Gloire de Dijon, Lord Pal- 

 merston. Victor Verdier, and Prince 

 0. de Rohan out, with many more 

 coming on ; and a neighbour has an- 

 ticipated me by a fortnight with Gloire 

 de Dijon, Jules Margottin, and Gene- 

 ral Jacqueminot on a south wall. 

 As a final admonition to purchasers 

 L would recommend them to have 

 large and established plants : chances 

 of failure wdl be diminished, and 

 effect sooner produced. Most of the 

 great nursei y firms keep half sjeci- 

 mens in pots, at a small advance in 

 price on those usually sold in 6U's or 

 43's. It will be better to have one 

 such plant than two or three of the 

 smaller size. W. D. Peiok. 



Homcrton, May 21. 



JUNE WOEK IN THE EOSE GAEDEN. 



Hating proved the possibility of 

 planting roses in any week or 1he 

 whole year, we may now remind our 

 readers that this is as good a seat-on 

 as any for furnishing a rosarium, 

 though it is not usually so regarded 

 or described. There are many blights 

 that affect the rose, but the greatest 

 of all is the nursery system of propa- 

 gation. How many of the rotes 

 planted last autumn are now poor 

 scrubby things, like worn out mops, 

 or puny imitations of dwarf busies 

 that refuse to grow, and when their 

 flowers appear it is with some twist 

 of the bud that indicates constitu- 

 tional weakness. JNevertheless, tor 

 plants carefully worked on young 

 lusty briars or Manettis, and duly 

 pinched in when forming their first 

 shoots, the autumn is the best time 

 for planting, because all winter the 

 roots are at work, and a good sum- 

 mer bloom is the proper result. But 

 suppose a man with a passion for 

 roses has just made up his mind 



which of the new ones he will add 

 to his collection, or suppose a new 

 garden where it has been tremendous 

 hard work for months past to get 

 things in order, and the season ordi- 

 narily used for planting has been 

 lost, it is not too late now to plant 

 roses in either case, and we will ven- 

 ture to say that under certain cir- 

 cumstances it is the best season of 

 the w hole year. 



There is one thing certain about 

 roses planted in April and May from 

 nursery pots, and that is that a good 

 many always perish, though there 

 are ie^v writers who have the courage 

 to acknowledge it. People order in 

 so many of such and such roses. 

 The plants arrive in due course, and 

 very shortly afterwards they are 

 turned out to take all chances of 

 v\ t ather. 'I hey were perhaps worked 

 1 on Manettis during winter trom forced 

 plants and forced stocks, and to meet 

 the demand in spring were sent out 

 before the juuction of the two barks 



