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protected from frost, and covered with dry sand or other light mate- 

 rial of the kind, and be so preserved till the following February or 

 March. At this period the roots must be placed in a moist heat, 

 slightly covered with light soil : the young shoots will soon be ob- 

 served pushing through it, and when they are two or three inches 

 high the roots must be taken up separately and be split, so as to have, 

 with every portion of the old root, a shoot. These must be potted 

 singly into small pots, and placed in heat for a short period till they 

 have taken fresh root, and afterwards they should be gradually har- 

 dened to the open air if intended for growing in beds or borders. 

 They may be safely planted out at the end of April or early in May, 

 and having a edging of Salvia chcemedrifolia round, with a few plants 

 of S. fulgens and S. coccinea interspersed in the bed, the entire gives 

 a very interesting appearance, more especially so when the middle of 

 the bed is raised so as to give the surface of bloom a gradual rise from 

 the side to the centre. 



Salvias can be very readily pegged down to the ground, and if done 

 so when turned out, the spikes of flowers are produced much more 

 uniform than when the plants are grown erect; and they will only 

 rise to about a foot high, giving quite a dwarf show of brilliant bloom, 

 amply repaying for any attention paid. 



ARTICLE IX. 



TO OBTAIN LARGE HEADS ON STANDARD ROSES IN A SHORT 

 SPACE OF TIME BY INARCHING. 



BY ROSA. 



The rapid improvement which has taken place in all branches of 

 useful and ornamental gardening within the last few years is perhaps 

 ■in no case more conspicuous than in the delightful family Rosa, 

 which, for beauty and fragrance, is not only admired but stands 

 unrivalled. 



Having myself practised a method by which standard Roses with 

 large heads may be obtained in one season, I venture to submit it for 

 insertion in the Cabinet, hoping it may convey a useful hint to 

 some reader. I do not regard the matter as an important improve- 

 ment in rose culture, since no permanent advantages can be derived 

 from it beyond the pleasure of obtaining with certainty a larger 



