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tion between the handle and the blade. In a stiff 
soil it can be used sideways, if necessary, plough 
fashion; and it has a free point, which has many 
advantages. 
Further, and especially, it is a Duplex: it is just 
as efficacious in drawing as in pushing, and ordin- 
arily should be used for pushing and drawing 
alternately, thus covering double ground, as it 
wastes no time in the air. A very short trial will 
also show that it will work the ground the other 
side of a plant, between it and the next one, with- 
out the user changing his position, as no other Hoe 
will. I do not like to puff it any further, though 
the sale of it has never brought me profit or seems 
likely to do so: but all who have tried it speak of it 
as the best Hoe, and it would plainly be of no use 
to mention it without adding where it is to be got— 
G. C. Bennett and Son, Tavern Street, Ipswich. 
As to mulching for winter protection of the roots, 
I do not believe it to be necessary, but the soil 
should be loose on the surface even in winter, for a 
friable and well-cultivated surface 7s a mulch as has 
just been seen. Very long shoots of dwarf Roses 
may be shortened, not too much, but only to pre- 
vent the wind getting much hold of them. This 
does not apply to the Noisettes, Maréchal Niel, or 
the Dijon race of Teas, whose long shoots must be 
protected and tied to some support. 
If the collection is quite small, labels of as per- 
manent a nature as possible may be used; but in 
large collections, especially where, for exhibition, 
many of a sort are grown together in rows, a book 
with the rows numbered and the names written in 
order will be found most convenient. 
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