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4C6 FOnEION NOTICES. 



way opart, in soil well worked and manured with rotten dung. Basins are formed round each 

 plant, and water is supplied soveral times a day when the weather is hot and dry. Twelve or 

 lifleen days after planting the ground is hoed, or otherwisi; ttirred between the i)lant«; yellow 

 leaves are picked off; the basins are again formed, and the surface of the noil is sligiitly mulehed. 

 Thus treated, the plants will beeome perfectly fresh-rooted by the first week in July. A stick 

 is then put to each, without which it is impossible that the stems eould support fifty or a hun- 

 dred large well-expanded flowers, which will be produced on every plant. 



As the proper arrangement of flowers in a garden is very important, and as a mixture of tall 

 and dwarf varieties of different colors has a confused appearance, the seeds of the varieties of 

 p\-ramldal China Astei-s should be gathered separately; and by marking, and sowing in regular 

 order accordingly, the planting can be performed early, as above directed, without waiting too 

 late to see the colors. To preserve the beauty of the flowers, it is advisable to shade them during 

 the hot weather in August, the shading being removed at night ; but in September and October 

 the plants are fully exposed to the light during the day, and the thin canvas is then employed for 

 protection from the cold at night 



Roses for Winteu-Blooming. — A selection for this purpose should be made from the Tea and 

 Bourbon families, on their own roots or budded very low. Presuming the plants brought from 

 the nursery are in the small pots they are generally grown in for sale, they should at once be 

 placed into those a size larger, carefully and freely watered, during this and next month, cutting 

 off all the flower-buds they may show before September. About the middle of the latter month 

 shorten the strongest shoots, and thin out the slender ones, turn the plants out of Jhe pot«, 

 depriving them of some of the soil, and repot in those a good size larger, using a compost of 

 turfy loam, sand, and manure in about equal proportions ; they also like a little leaf mold ; put 

 several pieces of broken crock in the bottom of the pot, then a portion of soil ; place the plant 

 so that its surface roots shall just be covered, and then filling with the soil ; put them in a situa- 

 tion partially shaded — water sparingly, till they begin to grow — then expose them fully to the 

 sun, and water freely every day. There they may remain till the middle or end of October, when 

 they should be removed to a pit to prepare them for flowering. Previous to their removal, the 

 pots should be washed, and the plants neatly tied up. "Where charcoal can be had, it will be 

 found of great utility in the pot-culture of Roses, broken to the size of nuts, and about one-fifth 

 mixed with the soil ; the roots delight to ramble through it, and the foliage becomes of a richer 

 and darker green; the surface of the soil must have frequent stirrings. The plants must be care- 

 fully examined, and whenever infested by tue green-fly, the latter should be destroyed by tobacco 

 smoke. Roses in pots are wonderfully benefited by a Avatoring of manure-water now and then. 

 This water is very easily prepared. Let droppings from the stable or cow-house be put into a 

 large tub or barrel, with water kept over them for a week or two, occasionally stirring it uj> ; 

 the water may then be poured or drawn off for use. Guano water also makes a good manure. 

 A quarter of a pound of guano in three gallons of water, frequently stirred before using, will be 

 found very nourishing ; indeed, one pound to sixteen gallons will be strong enough to use by the 

 inexperienced, for if used much stronger than I have stated it would injure plants in pots. In 

 the open ground any of these liquids may be used stronger and rather more frequently. — /. H., 

 in Gardeners' Chronicle, Londoti, July IG. 



The Lapageria rosea, exhibited by W. J. Myers, Esq., at Chiswick, on Saturday last, has been 

 grown in the plant-stove, where for the last three years it has never failed to flower beautifully ; 

 and when fifteen or sixteen blooms are in perfection at one time (as we have had it) the effect is 

 very striking. One planted out in the border of a Camellia-house has not grown any — in fact, 

 it has grown small by degrees and "beautifully less." Another planted in the border of the 

 plant-stove last year has made a shoot twenty feet long, and is now in flower, trained up the 

 rafter. We find that it grows best in pure leaf-mold, with plenty of pieces of wood in a state of 

 decay mixed with the soil, and the plant kept well up in the pot or border in which it is planted. 

 — J. Selkirk, in London Gardeners' Chronicle, July 16. 



