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I take two sixth parts of well rotted cow-dung, at least two years 

 old, to which I add two sixths parts of fine soft sand, and the remain- 

 der with rotted leaves, all of which I have well chopped up but not 

 sifted. I plant them in narrow deep pots filled with the above com- 

 position, allowing the bulb to be about half buried in the mould. 

 When I have potted off the number I intend to force, I take a 

 common cucumber frame, put it on a level surface on the ground, 

 into which I place the Hyacinths, filling the frame with saw-dust. 

 If I cannot part with a frame, I dig a pit sufficiently large to contain 

 the number I intend to force, about eighteen inches or two feet deep, 

 making it perfectly level, into which I place the Hyacinths and fill 

 it up in the same manner with the saw-dust. I then form a ridge, 

 with the earth taken out of the pit, on the top. I always pot my 

 Hyacinths for forcing the last week in September or early in October. 

 When Hyacinths are required to be in flower at Christmas they 

 should be taken out of the pit in November. I prefer letting them re- 

 main until the latter part of January or beginning of February, by 

 which time they will have filled the pots with roots, and made flower 

 stems six or eight inches in the saw-dust. When taken out of the 

 saw-dust they are completely blanched. I then place them in a cold 

 frame with plenty of light ; after remaining there for two or three 

 days, I give them a little air by lifting the light at the back, and when 

 they get their proper green colour, which they will in the course of a 

 week, T place them in the plant stove where I plunge them about one 

 third of the depth of the pot in the bark bed, letting them have all 

 the air and light I possibly can. 



By this treatment I have had remarkably fine Hyacinths. 



ARTICLE XI. 



REMARKS ON THE REVERSA ELEGANS ROSE, AS SUITED FOR 

 A TRELLIS OR AS A PILLAR ROSE. 



BY MR. ARCHIBAVJLD GODWIN, COLLYCROFT, NEAR ASHBOURNE. 



As much interest of late has been taken in that truly interesting and 

 all lovely flower, the Rose, I beg to forward a few remarks 

 which may be of some little service to the readers of your valuable 

 Magazine. Amongst pillars of Roses, there is scarce one that can 

 equal, if any can surpass, a Rose I have cultivated for about four 

 yeaTS, called the reversa elegans. I had two small plants of it acci- 

 dentally sent to me in a quantity of the variety Noisette purpurea, 

 which I planted in a strong loam in the month of November, not 

 neglecting to incorporate with the soil, a good quantity of half decom- 



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