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to break its continuity, and being desirous of grow- 

 ing more varieties of the rose, I determined to cut 

 out a circular bed in the centre, about 9 feet in 

 diameter. The circle was struck with a radius 

 composed of a piece of cord, revolving on a cen- 

 tral pin by means of a slip knot, or rather loop, 

 the outline being marked by a sharp stick at the 

 other extremity. This outline was then cut deep- 

 ly with a sharp spade, and the turf was thinly 

 pared away, leaving much of the fibrous rooty 

 matter behind. My grass is an old pasture, hav- 

 ing a good substratum of hazel loam ; if it had 

 been recently laid down, with a poor hungry sub- 

 soil, I should have trenched the bed, and buried the 

 turf, removing some of the poor mould and putting 

 better in its place. But in my case this was not 

 required, and the loam was deeply dug, a quantity 

 of rotten frame manure being well mixed with it 

 as the work proceeded. A bed was thus formed, 

 elevated in the centre and gently declining to the 

 edge, of the proper shape for receiving and dis- 

 playing the plants. 



These plants I procured from the rose nursery 

 of Mr. Francis, of Hertford, and they came in 

 healthy condition ; good strong plants, capable of 

 rapidly bearing abundance of bloom. I will give 

 their names, premising that the selection is a 

 mere matter of taste, and may be indefinitely va- 

 ried. These, it was thought, would make a 

 pleasing collection at little expense. The descrip- 

 tions are from Mr. Francis' catalogue. Austrian 

 Briar, Persian Yellow. Hybrid Perpetuals -. — Dr. 

 Marx, rosy carmine ; La Reine, brilliant rose- 

 colour j Madame Laflay, dark rich rose; Auber- 



non, dark brilliant crimson; Duchess of Suther- 

 land, large brilliant rose, mottled ; William Jesse, 

 crimson, tinged with lilac. Bourbon : — Leveson 

 Gower, delicate carmine; Phoenix, bright rosy 

 red; Queen, delicate creamy salmon; Pierre de 

 St. Cyr, dark purplish crimson ; Bouquet de Flore, 

 brilliant rose ; Bossuet, splendid rich carmine. 

 Hybrid Bourbon: — Coup d'Hobe, very large, bright 

 pink. China: — Desfontaines, pure white; Eugene 

 Hardy, pale creamy pink ; Archduke Charles, 

 rose; Triumphant, dark rosy crimson. Tea-scent- 

 ed China: — Devoniensis, delicate pale sulphur ; 

 Elise Sauvage, fine yellow, buff" centre; Hardy, 

 dark rose pink; Belle Allemande, large blush; Jo- 

 sephine Malton, large creamy white. These are 

 arranged both with reference to colour and habit ; 

 the strongest growing sorts being placed in the 

 back ground, and the China and tea-scented near- 

 er the edge. My object has been to produce a 

 mass of bloom all over the bed, without injuriously 

 crowding the plants; and about the number just 

 specified will do this. 



Having fixed upon the distances of the plants, I 

 trod the soil a little in the spot where each w r as to 

 be placed, to counteract the lightness produced by 

 deep digging. A hole being made, the roses were 

 turned out of the pots carefully, and deposited in 

 their places without the balls being disturbed, the 

 soil being trodden firmly in around them. The 

 bed being raked, the work was done. Around 

 the edge of the bed I placed cuttings, or di- 

 visions of the roots of double Violets, to form cood 

 plants by next spring. H. B. Gardeners' Chro- 

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Visit to Buist's Nursery. — While we were in 

 Philadelphia, early last month, we had a great 

 deal of pleasure in visiting the exotic department 

 of Buist's nursery establishment. 



Mr. Buist has for a long time, we believe, em- 

 ployed more capital in exotic floriculture than any 

 other commercial grower in the country. His ex- 

 tensive trade, especially with the southern and 

 western states has enabled him to introduce im- 

 mediately every new species, and to maintain an im- 

 mense stock of all the finest exotics in cultivation. 



Our visit was only to the exotic portion of the 

 establishment — what is known as the "city green 

 houses" in Twelfth St. 



We found there a very large stock of all the 

 most valuable and desirable plants. The rapidity 

 and facility with which all popular and new plants 

 are increased in this establishment immediately 

 struck us, no less than the large stock already fit 

 for sale of species very lately introduced — among 

 others, such plants as Plumbago larpenta, Tor- 



renia asiatica, Cuphea stigmatophyllum and Am- 

 phicoma, etc. 



Torrenia asiatica was full of flowers, and most 

 exquisite flowers they are. Mr. Buist has alrea- 

 dy a large quantity of young plants of this Torre- 

 nia, which will undoubtedly prove one of the finest 

 acquisitions of the green-house — growing, as it 

 does very freely, hanging over the sides of the pot, 

 and flowering abundantly for a long time. Plum- 

 bago larpentce, we think, judging from a plant, 

 in our own garden, will flower most abundantly in 

 the open border — and a bed of it covered with its 

 rich dark blossoms will be exceedingly beautiful. 

 In one of the stoves we noticed a rare climber — 

 Stigmaphylluin ciliatum — loaded with clusters of 

 delicate bright yellow blossoms. 



In the house devoted to Cacti we noticed quan- 

 tities of the following new species — Cereus Jiel- 

 ilii — flowers nearly blue ; Epiphyllum crcnatus and 

 Cereus maynardii — the latter resembling the night- 

 blooming cereus in form, growth, and size of the 



