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slightly, deferring the final thinning till the spring, when the thin- 

 nings may be either transplanted or used for culinary purposes. The 

 Onions may be disposed from 4 to 6 inches asunder in the rows, 

 according to the size of bulb required. Early White Naples or its 

 synonym the early White Italian, are the best early varieties ; and 

 their flavour is much appreciated by some employers not fastidious. 



W. Igguldex. 



ROSES UNDER GLASS. 



Rose- CULTURE under glass is a practice which has been, if anything, rather 

 neglected in gardens; and yet, perhaps, the gardener who has to supply 

 cut-flowers for the house could not grow any one plant that is equal to 

 the Rose for such purposes between January and June. The introduc- 

 tion of the Marechal Niel led to the extension of indoor Rose-culture, 

 and, incidentally, to the trial of other varieties for planting out in houses ; 

 and at the present time a good few gardeners are extending their ex- 

 perience in that way. Pot- Roses are useful for pot culture, but whether 

 we consider the quantity or the quality of the flowers, there can be no 

 doubt that planted-out trees succeed best from the middle or end 

 of February. Here we have for some time back depended a good deal 

 on the Rose in spring for cut-flowers ; and now, from being scarce with 

 us, if anything, for floral decoration, it has become a common practice, 

 when other things happen to be scarce, to " make up with Roses " — in 

 other words, the extra demand is provided for by the Roses, but we have 

 never too many for house purposes or for giving away. Our success 

 with the Marechal Niel, like mostly all who have tried it anywhere 

 round here, has not been satisfactory without frequent planting and 

 renewals ; and consequently we have for some years back taken to other 

 varieties most extensively, and the three best of these are Gloire de 

 Dijon, Cheshunt Hybrid, Souvenir d'un Ami, and a few others ; but the 

 two first — a light and a dark — are regarded as the best for our purpose. 

 Two years last November we planted an old but strong standard 

 Gloire de Dijon in one of the greenhouses, allowing it a few square 

 yards for extension. The second year it bore several hundred blooms, 

 and this season it has borne close upon 700, and all were good, large, 

 and fine, many of them quite fit for exhibition purposes — the greater 

 proportion being produced in March and April, but the house had to 

 be kept as cool as possible to keep them back to that period. Another 

 lesser plant, put in at the same time, and allowed to ramble up the 

 gable of the house, has done equally well. From these two plants alone 

 -we have often had several hundreds of blooms standing in water in the 

 fruit-room, because they were not w^anted at the time. A Cheshunt 

 Hybrid covering a large space of the roof in the same house has bloomed 

 contemporaneously with the Gloires, and produced a great quantity of 

 flowers, and is still flowering at this date, June 8th. In addition to 



