FOREIGN NOTICES. 



not have remained healthy above two or three years, having nothing to feed upon but light dry 

 soil. Rose growers, who are fortunately situated on a rich soapy loam, or on a deep loam, or 

 who possess a deep vegetable soil with a cool moist bottom, doubtless find the Dog Rose suit 

 them best. And these are the cultivators whom I have generally heard condemn the Manetti 

 stock. I believe, however, that in most other soils and situations 

 the Manetti is preferable, and it will be highly prized by those 

 who have to contend with light, dry, or poor soils, on which this 

 stock will flourish, when the Dog Rose would scarcely live. A few 

 Roses will not grow well upon it, siich as Cloth of Gold, Solfaterre 

 Ophirie, (fee; but as a set-off, it will be found that Robin Hood, 

 Madame Aimee, Ilypocrate, Oiillet parfait. Superb Shaped, Un- 

 ique, (fee, grow niucli more robust on it than they do on the Dog 

 Rose, and they produce finer flowers. — R. B. Bircham Hedenham 

 Rosery, Bungay, SuJ'olk, in Gardener's Chronicle. 



Flower Stands for Gkeeshouses, &c. — In small greenhouses, par- 

 tieiilarly those attached to or near the proprietor's house, where 

 elegance of design and neatness in keeping are attended to, we see 

 nut why stages of the ordinary clumsy description should not be 

 entirely dispensed with, and the plants set in elegant vases or 

 flower-stands, having the surface of the pots covered with clean 

 green moss. The subjoined cut represents a flower-stand suited to 

 this pm-pose, and much used in France. They are of cast-iron or 

 brorze, and not only are the plants tastefully arranged in them, but 

 often little jets are introduced, as shown in our cut. Wherever such an arrangement is 

 intended, we would suggest to have all the tables portable, so that the arrangement may be 

 altered at pleasure. — M'IntosKs Book of the Garden. 



Espalier Railing. — The accompanying cut exhibits a specimen of a cheap, durable, and elegant 



espalier railing, consist- 



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.1 .1. . ;-i^ t^:^=^^EB^ . I L . ing of wrought-iron up- 

 rights \^ inches square, 

 and six feet in height. 

 They are set into large 

 blocks of unhewn stone, 

 sunk in the ground so 

 as not to be seen. The 

 horizontal wires are 



nearly a quarter of an inch in diamater ; and after being very firmly secured at one end, are 

 made to pass tlii-ough tlie uprights at about 6 or 7 inches apart from each other. They are then 

 tightened up with a nut and screw at the other end. — Ibid. 



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