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ability of the plant to bloom again the following spring." 

 The climate in which the Moors lived — that of Cordova, 

 Grenada, and Seville, where the winter is very much like 

 our weather in mid-autumn — was very favorable to the 

 cultivation of the Rose. In this country the same re- 

 sults could doubtless be obtained in the Carolinas, and the 

 experiment would bo well worth Irving, even in the lati- 

 tude of New York. It w^ould be no small triumph to 

 obtain an autumnal bloom of the many beautiful varieties 

 of French, Moss, or Provence Roses. Ilaj has also given 

 the method of keeping the Rose in bud, in order to pro- 

 long its period of blooming. His process, however, is of 

 so uncertain a character, as scarcely to merit an insertion 

 here. The manuscript of De la Xeuville also contains 

 particular directions for propagating roses, and for plant- 

 ing hedges of the Eglantine, to protect the vineyards and 

 gardens, and at the same time to ser\e as stocks for graft- 

 ing. Nothing is omitted in the Arabian treatise Avhich 

 pertains to the management of this shrub ; the manner of 

 cultivating, weeding, transplanting, watering, etc., are 

 all particularly explained. Among a variety of curious 

 matters, it contains the process by which, for the purpose 

 of embellishing their gardens, they produced the appear- 

 ance of trees whose tops are loaded with roses. A hollow 

 pipe, four feet long, or more, if the top was to be large, 

 was obtained, of a well-proportioned diameter, set up- 

 right, to resemble the trunk of a tree, and filled with earth 

 or sand in a suitable state of moisture. In the top of 

 this pipe were planted several varieties of roses, of differ- 

 ent colors, which, rooting freely in the earth around them, 

 soon formed a bushy head, and represented a third-class 

 tree, clothed with rich foliage and beautiful flowers. 



This plan could now be practiced with success ; and 

 we can scarcely imagine more beautiful objects in a lawn 

 than a number of these pipes, of various heights, single, 

 and in groups, some low, with the small heads of the 



