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summer and autumn a plentiful supply of liquid manure will be 

 found highly beneficial ; we have used Brain's concentrated liquid 

 Guano, in the proportion of one table-spoonful to a gallon of water, 

 once a- week, with great success. 



Among the hybrid, perpetual, and Bourbon Roses, will be found 

 some varieties having a tendency to throw up vigorous shoots, show- 

 ing little or no disposition to flower; these should be carefully 

 removed during the summer, leaving such only as are of medium 

 growth. These, if shortened to six eyes, will be found to produce 

 abundance of bloom in the autumn. 



In order to insure a high state of cultivation, it will be fonnd ne- 

 cessary to stir the surface of the beds annually in November, after 

 which they should be covered with a good dressing of manure; de- 

 cayed linings, from a cucumber or melon-pit, have been found the 

 most efficacious for this purpose. 



In some situations, where the rose-beds are much exposed to view, 

 it will be requisite to fork in the manure at once, as it would other- 

 wise appear unsightly ; in other cases, however, it may be allowed to 

 remain on the surface until the plants have received their annual 

 pruning, as recommended in the first paragraph. 



If the foregoing instructions are carefully attended to, the result 

 will amply compensate the extra labour bestowed ; as a proof of 

 which, we have the pleasure of stating that the autumnal Roses at 

 the Woodlands Nursery are at this late period of the season in 

 splendid bloom. 



ARTICLE VI. 



OBSERVATIONS ON ALLSPICE. 



BX HISTORICA. 



Allspice or Pimenta is the dried berry of a West Indian species 

 of myrtle (Myrtus pimenta) which grows to the height of twenty 

 feet or upwards, and has somewhat oval leaves about four inches 

 long, of a deep shining green colour, and numerous branches of 

 white flowers, each with four small petals. In the whole vegetable 

 kingdom there is scarcely any tree more beautiful or more fragrant 

 than a young Pimenta tree about the month of July, branched on 

 all sides, richly clad with deep green leaves, which are relieved with 





