THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



SEPTEMBER 1st, 1837. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 

 FURTHER REMARKS ON THE CULTURE OF THE TREE ROSE. 



BY ROSA. 



The increasing number of splendid varieties of the much es- 

 teemed family of Roses, and their admission into every flower 

 garden, and pleasure ground, being a desideratum, induces me 

 again to resume the subject of their culture as standards. During 

 the present summer I have been much struck with the increasing 

 taste for their culture on lawns, and to exhibit their splendid 

 heads in the centre of a flower bed, or back part of a border. 



In remarking on the growth of a tree rose, I must observe that 

 the rings round the bottom of both stem and branches are the de- 

 positaries of a dormant bud, which will not be called into action 

 unless the buds above be injured, or unless the sap arise so pro ■ 

 fusely as to be unable to expend itself by the upper parts, in 

 which case the buds below break out ; though, indeed, they will 

 occasionally do so, as the natural act of the tree in preference to 

 rising higher. This is more observable in the wild rose than al- 

 most any other plant, and perhaps may, in some degree, explain 

 the reason why budded roses are shorter lived than those on 

 their own bottom ; for any one who has at all observed the growth 

 of wild stocks, must have noticed that the original head is seen 



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