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excellent flavour; Bival, a brilliantly coloured 

 variety, usually fruiting well, is likely to be largely 

 planted when better known; American Mother is 

 an attractive apple of conical shape, colouring next 

 the sun, of good flavour, and ripening in October; 

 Christ iiuis Fearrimin is of upright habit, fruits of 

 medium size and good flavour towards the end of 

 the year. 



The Rose Garden. 



Rust ox Rosks. 



The winter spore stage of the Rose Rust Vredo 

 rosue is very common this autumn, and many 

 leaves can be seen with the under sides almost 

 black with TeJeutospores. These winter spores are 



Pope on Landscape Gardening. 



In an article in TJte Spectdtor of September 20th 

 the following passages occur, and may be of in- 

 terest to our readers : — 



The geniuses of Architecture and of Landscape 

 Gardening hover over the Moral Essays and the 

 Satires. It would he difficult indeed to find a more 

 felicitous use of language at once technical and 

 yet comprehensible as that which describes the 

 spirit in which garden architecture should be ap- 

 ])roached : — 



" To build, to plant, whatever you intend, 

 To rear the column, or the arch to bend. 

 To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot, 

 la all, let Nature never be forgot ; 



[Photo'by 



IE. UWer. 



Crinum Powellii. 



so constructed as to survive the severest weather, 

 and, falling to the ground with the dying leaves, 

 hibernate in the soil and soon infect the young 

 leaves next spring. All leaves now falling or lying 

 about the beds should be collected and burned, so 

 as to reduce the chances of reinfection. In spring, 

 l)efore the leaf buds open, say just after pruning, 

 a thorough syringing with potassium sulphide will 

 be effective in destroying many germinating 

 spores. An inch or so of the top soil might be re- 

 moved with advantage, as many winter spores 

 would thus be got rid of. A dressing of rotten 

 manure, lightly forked in, would have the twofold 

 result of feeding the roses during the growing 

 season and of making up for the removal of the 

 top soil. Late flowering Ramblers should be 

 thinned out now, and the growths remaining 

 securely tied up, otherwise, if a heavy " head " of 

 growth be left much damage may result from 

 winter winds. 



Grower. 



But treat the goddess like a modest fair. 



Nor over-dress, nor leave her wholly bare; 



Let not each beauty everywhere be spied. 



Where half the skill is decently to hide. 



He gains all points who pleasingly confounds. 



Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds. 



Consult the genius of the place in all ; 



That tells the waters or to rise or fall ; 



Or helps th' ambitious hill the heavens to scale. 



Or scoops in circling theatres the vale : 



Calls in the country, catches opening glades. 



Joins willing woods, and varies .shades from 



shades ; 

 Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending lines; 

 Paints as you plant, and as you work designs." 



Every epithet in the first three lines gives the ex- 

 treme characteristic expression of what the poet 

 desires to convey. 



Even when Pope smears the satiric arrow witli 

 the bitterest and most irritating of his deadly un- 



