A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF ROSES SEEN IN 1842. 2*71 



were " best, fairest, and most double," and yet it is often said that it 

 has only lately been discovered that seed can be obtained from some 

 of the finest Carnations. In light, dry soil, indeed, in a situation 

 where the sun has great power, the pods seldom swell ; but in a soil 

 like that of my garden, rather retentive of moisture, and not too much 

 exposed to the mid-day sun, many of the pods of my Carnations 

 swell every year, and by taking off the entire stalks and placing them 

 inverted in a thin paper bag, in a sunny window, without examining 

 them too closely, I have the pleasure in the following spring of 

 shaking out of the withered pods innumerable seeds, the stalks of the 

 plants having afforded the pods nourishment till the seeds had ripened; 

 and I can show every summer such a collection of beautiful Carna- 

 tions as might satisfy any person not ambitious of gaining the first 

 prize at a flower show, though I suspect that I might sometimes have 

 gained it. I always surround my plants with dry turf mould in 

 winter, which effectually preserves them from frost ; if possible snow 

 should not be left on their leaves for the sun to melt. 



I was much amused one severe winter day at seeing my very old, 

 infirm gardener, followed by two boys with little sticks in their hands, 

 beating off the snow from a variety of valuable Evergreens with which 

 my house was surrounded. His occupation appeared to me very 

 childish, but the following spring, when my neighbours had lost in- 

 numerable Evergreens, scarce a withered bough, it was observed, was 

 to be seen on mine; and as I felt then a great respect for age and 

 experience, I hope that you will not despise these hints from 



A Veteran Gardener. 



[We feel greatly obliged by them, and respectfully solicit further 

 communications; winter evenings often afford opportunities for 

 writing, and on floral subjects is very interesting. — Conductor.] 



ARTICLE VI. 



A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF SOME OF THE BEST ROSES SEEN 



IN 1842. 



BY CI.ERICUS. 



The list of Roses here given is the most remarkable that I saw in 

 the nurseries of Wood, Paul, Rivers, and Lane in 1841, and may 



