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such positions they should be trained and treated in the same way as Morellos. 

 The best white is AVhite Dutch ; the best red, Kaby Castle, Red Dutch, and 

 Magnum Bonum ; and the best black, Black Naples and Lee's Prolific. There are 

 many very inferior kinds of all the sorts in cultivation, and great care should 

 be taken, when young plantations are made, to get the sorts we have recom- 

 mended true to name. Gooseberries and Currants are very easily increased by 

 cuttings. The time to put them in is early in October. The cuttings should 

 be of the current year's wood, and 15 or 18 inches long. They should be 

 pulled off the old bushes in a way to secure a thin section of the old wood. 

 The ends should be smoothed with a sharp knife, the tips taken off the tops, 

 and all the buds removed, except four at the top. Such cuttings, planted 

 firmly, with a little sandy soil at the bases, on a shady border, 4 inches apart 

 in the rows, and 15 between the rows, will root readily. Green-fly and 

 caterpillars which attack Currants must be got rid of in the same way as 

 advised in the case of Gooseberries. A. H. H. 



TEA ROSES ON THE BACK WALLS OF VINERIES. 



The great demand that now exists for cut-fiowers compels gardeners 

 to make use of all odd corners and positions under glass that are 

 likely to be of any use in producing flowers for cutting, especially in 

 winter and early spring. We have found the Rose, especially the 

 Tea varieties, most accommodating in this respect ; growing and yield- 

 ing a great number of their deliciously fragrant blooms in positions 

 that are not always turned to account. For instance, on the back 

 walls of vineries where the roof is covered with Vines, we have found 

 Roses do very well indeed. 



Two years ago last spring, when a number of Tea Roses in pots had 

 ceased yielding many blooms, and had to be turned out of a forcing- 

 house to make room for other things, they were plunged deep enough 

 to cover the pots along the back wall of a vinery. The stakes were 

 taken from them, and they were tied to the wires on the back wall, 

 the weaker shoots being all pruned away. The wall is 134 feet long, 

 and 13 feet high. They have grown freely, and bloomed almost per- 

 petually. When they get too thick of growths, we cut out the 

 weakest ; those retained are rearranged over the w^all, and syringed 

 with paraflin and water, which keeps them free from insects till they are 

 again thinned out and retied. They have grown moderately strong, 

 and have yielded an enormous number of flowers. 



Where vineries will allow of planting Tea Roses in this way, a few 

 started in succession would give an immense number of Roses. In the 

 earlier houses the Roses should not be so frequently syringed as the 

 Vines, or mildew very soon puts in an appearance. I cut a beautiful 

 bouquet of Roses from the wall of our vinery last Christmas Eve, and 

 all through the season it has been very productive. 1800 blooms were 

 cut in April. The varieties are : — 



