ON THE ROSE. 35 



dwellings but have a specimen of this sort, to welcome the happy 

 morn of Christmas. 



The tubers of this plant, when purchased for forcing, cost from 

 three to four shillings per hundred. Where a succession is re- 

 quired, the roots are kept in a shady place, or in the border in 

 the garden, covered a foot or eighteen inches with fresh stable 

 litter, so as to be easily come at in frosty weather, as occasion 

 may require. When finished flowering, they are planted in the 

 garden at the latter end of March, and form a plantation for for- 

 cing purposes in two or three years. 



G. G. 



ARTICLE V. 



REMARKS ON THE ROSE. 



(Continued from page 13.) 



The deep-red China rose was first introduced by Gilbert Slater, 

 Esq. of Knotsgreen, near Laytonstone, in the year 1789 ; but this 

 is still confined to the greenhouse, being of a much more delicate 

 nature than the common China rose. The flowers are serai-double 

 and large in proportion to the plant, of a fine dark carmine co- 

 lour, and of delightful fragrance. 



The China rose, which has been named Lady Bank's rose we 

 hope to see soon hardy enough to leave the green house where 

 it has occupied a place since the year 1807. This is a double- 

 white rose, of very diminutive size, but producing such abun- 

 dance of blossoms, as to render the branches extremely elegant. 

 We are are informed that it was discovered growing out of an old 

 wall in China. 



In pleasure-grounds it is scarcely possible to plant too many 

 rose-trees, and they have the best effect when three or four plants 

 of the same kind come together. The Scotch or burnet-leaved 

 rose, from its dwarf growth, forms a good foreground to other 

 roses ; and the neat little Rose de Meaux should advance towards 

 the walks, whilst the more towering kinds may mix with shrubs of 

 the middle class. 



Where the lawn is interspersed with little clumps, fenced with 

 basket-work, each clump or basket should be confined to one 



