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ON PROTECTING PLANTS. 



I think all the tribe of moss Roses are beautiful, but especially the 

 selectiou I have made ; the kinds are very distinct. The Rouge de Lux- 

 embourg is a very luxuriant grower, and of a fine dark crimson colour. 



rosy long buds and very double 



globular and very double 

 expanded and double 

 globular, large and very dbl. 



globular, large and very dbl. 

 globular, very large and dbl. 



with fine crested buds, 

 large double, globular 

 globular and very double 

 cupped and double 



large and double 

 globular and double 

 globular and double the plant 



covered with moss 

 cupped, very small, semi-dbl . 

 large and double 

 globular dbl, abundant bloomer 

 compact, small, and very dbl. 

 striped blooming in clusters, and some- 

 times in the autumn 

 blush, pretty blush globular and large double 

 splendid red globular and double 



deep red with purple cupped and double, splendid 



tinge 

 carmine cupped, small and double 



carmine with pale spots expanded, semi-double 

 pale with red stripes capped, and partially mossed 

 bright rose cappi I and very double 



bright rose expanded and large 



lilac rose expanded 



rose globular and distinct 



dark purplish crimson cupped, large and very mossy 

 globular and dbl., very mossy 

 globular and very double, but 

 partially mossed 



Peacock's Mottled Blush 



Pourpre Clair 



Rouge de Luxembourg, or 



Ferrugineuse 

 Scarlet, or De la Fleche 

 Spotted 

 Sriped 

 Sage-leaved 

 Single Rose 

 :!e Lilac 

 Single (River's) 

 Single Crimson (River's) 

 White Bath, or Clifton White pure white 

 White (Old) very pale flesh 



ARTICLE XIV. 



ON PROTECTING TENDER PLANTS DURING WINTER 



BY MR. JAMES FERGUSON, GARDENER, NETTERBY LODGE, GLASGOW. 



The winter season is now approaching, when it will be found neces- 

 sary to protect many of the beautiful flowering tender plants. I for- 

 ward for insertion in the November Cabinet, (the article was re- 

 ceived too late) the methods I have adopted for the last six years, 

 with complete success ; very little trouble is incurred in the at- 

 tention required, as well as being much neater than any method I 

 have seen in use elsewhere. 



For tender shrubs, as Standard Fuchsias, Rhododendron arboreum, 



