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ever propagates so freely, that a good stock can 

 be reared during the winter in the green-house 

 four bedding out purposes next season; and as it is 

 well known that young established plants are best, 

 for that purpose they will be preferred. "Rubin- 

 son's Detiance " will have a celebrity wherever 

 seen, that no other verbena has ever acquired, And 

 in England this day stands at the head of the list, 

 particularly among tho scarlets, no seedling having 

 before approached it in the qualites constituting 

 a first-lass (lower. 



With regard to the general culture of the ver- 

 bena, so many have written long winded essays 

 on the subject as to leave but little to be said. I 

 have found the best method, an adherence to a 

 succession from May to August of young plants ; 

 as soon as the first planting is a little past the 

 first bloom, take a few cuttings, whether in bloom 

 or not is of no consequence. They will soon 

 strike in a cool shaded corner of the green-house 

 or an empty frame ; protect from strong light, and 

 in less than a fortnight they will be rooted, and 

 then transplant each into small pots and place 

 these in a cool shaded exposure ; in a few days 

 you will find the young roots have filled the pots 

 and are creeping out at the bottom ; keep turning 

 them out in new beds, or old ones, or at any fa- 

 vorite end or turn of your garden flower beds 

 when no void space occurs in the borders ; you 

 will soon have, from a single plant, a broad luxu- 

 riant patch. I have found this to be the case, 

 especially with Defiance, Beauty Supreme, Rosy 

 Morn, and Satellite, all flowering in one mass till 

 the end of the season. Beauty Supreme is a su- 

 perb variety, and when planted as a companion to 

 Defiance, forms a beautiful contrast — the one being 

 bright scarlet and the other a delicate peach-pink, 

 and both being immense flowerers. Queen is also 

 a good old sort, and although of too erect a habit 

 has such a profusion of delicate, white, sweet-scent' 

 ed flowers, as to render it, until a better supplants 

 it, an indispensable variety. « » » Jlstoria, 

 Jan. 22, 1850. 



Selection of Roses for the South. — I have 

 esteemed the rose ever since boyhood, when my 

 mother — an ardent lover of flowers — had but three 

 or four varieties. I recall them very vividly, 

 though 'tis forty years since. There was the — 

 now universally known — Blush Indica or Daily, 

 the old-fashioned Damask, and an exceedingly full, 

 and profusely blooming rose, then commonly called 

 the Medicinal Rose, though since known as one 

 of the endless varieties of the Gallica tribe, dwarf- 

 ish in its habit, and soon making itself a nuisance 

 with its interminable stolones. In 1814 a neigh- 

 bor, who had served a six months tour of military 

 duty on the coa6t near Charleston, introduced the 

 common Multifiora. Never shall I forget the 

 arbor, thirty feet long, at his beautiful seat in the 

 neighborhood, formed of a single plant of tins 

 rampant and lovely variety. 



Years rolled on, and Latin and Greek drove 



roses and all other flowers out of my head, till 

 about 1823. Since then, year after year has 

 ushered in variety after variety, new kinds have 

 been constantly displacing older ones, as good 

 and — in many instances — better than themselves, 

 till, within the last ten years, lists of the rose 

 have swelled into books, and the amateur is nearly 

 at a loss to decide as to what sorts he should 

 order from a distant nursery. 



The catalogues are apt to confuse men; there 

 are such discrepancies in classification and no- 

 menclature. We have, in Athens, no fewer than 

 four roses, claiming the name of King of the 

 Crimsons ; and I shrewdly suspect that not one of 

 them has any right to it. We have two Gloire 

 de France, as dissimilar as can well be imagined. 



A friend has asked me to prepare a list of 

 good roses which I have tested myself, or seen 

 tested by others. I append it, and shall follow it 

 up with some remarks, such as will, at least, 

 justify the heading adopted for this communica- 

 tion. 



I give the above, as I have said, because J 

 have tried the major part of them myself, and 

 have them in my shrubbery. Less than twenty, 

 five dollars would secure strong plants of all. 

 Yours, /. P. \V. University, Mhens, Georgia, 

 January, 1850, 



Grafting old Apple Orchards. — I have in 

 the same enclosure with two hundred young 

 grafted npple trees, one hundred old trees of natu- 

 ral fruit, the bodies of which are sound, and, to 

 all appearand, healthy. The trees have, been 



