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produce of certain trees exclusively appropriated to her. 

 One morning, towards the end of May, I listened with 

 amused incredulity to her announcement, that she " had 

 just cut a beautiful bloom of the Marechal;" and being 

 perfectly sure that there was no tree of that variety in her 

 collection, and no expanded flower on my own, I ventured 

 to ask, with affectionate sarcasm, which of her plants had 

 distinguished itself for life by this grand supernatural 

 victory ? The prompt answer was — " Gloire dc Dijon : go 

 to my room and look ! " I went, expecting to see some 

 abnormal specimen of the flower, and I found in all its 

 loveliness, Marechal Niel ! Thence to the branch from 

 which it came, and then the mystery was explained. I had 

 mentioned to my gardener, in the preceding summer, some 

 remarks which I had read from Mr Rivers the younger, 

 recommending the Gloire as a stock for the jNIarechal. He 

 had tried the recipe, as I now advise my readers to try it, 

 and had first perplexed and then pleased me with the 

 prompt success of his enterprise. 



The Banksian Rose is also a most genial stock for the 

 Marechal ; and if any of my readers are the happy pro- 

 prietors of the former, under glass, I advise them by all 

 means to bud the latter upon it. A gentleman residing 



