106 ON THE CULTIVATION OF ROSES IN TOTS. 



nected ; and flowers blooming in the winter of our gloomy climate 

 possess double attractions. 



For my own part I manage very well without the advantage of a 

 greenhouse. The evergreens serve me in winter. Then the Lilacs 

 come in, followed by the Guelder Rose and Woodbine, the latter 

 trained in a pot upon circular trellis-work. After this there can be 

 no difficulty in choosing, as the open air offers every variety. I 

 arrange all my library and parlour-plants in a room in my dwelling- 

 house, facing the south, having a full portion of light, and a fire- 

 place. I promote the growth of my flowers for the early part of the 

 year by steam-warmth, and having large tubs and boxes of earth I am 

 at no loss, in my humble conservatory, for attending them is all my 

 own, and is one of those employments which never appear laborious. 

 Those who have better conveniences may proceed on a large scale ; 

 but I contrive to keep up a due succession, which to a floral epicure 

 is everything. To be a day in the year without seeing a flower is a 

 novelty to me ; and I am persuaded much more might be done with 

 my humble means than I have effected, had I sufficient leisure to 

 attend to the retarding or forcing them. I cover every space in my 

 sitting-room with the beautiful fairy things of creation, and take so 

 much delight in the sight of them, that I cannot help recommending 

 those of limited incomes, like myself, to follow n)y example and be 

 their own nurserymen. The rich might easily obtain them without ; 

 but what they procure by gold the individual of small means must 

 obtain by industry. I know there are persons to whom the flowers 

 of Paradise would be objects of indifference; but who can imitate or 

 envy such ? They are grovellers, whose coarseness of taste is only 

 fitted for the grossest food of life. The pleasures " des Fleurs et des 

 Livres" are, as Henry IV. observed of his child, " the property pf all 

 the world." 



REVIEW. 



Observations on the Cultivation of Roses in Pots, by W. Paul ; 

 Nurseries, Cheshunt, Herts. Published by Sherwood and Co., 

 London, pp. 32. 



{Continued from page 61.) 



Bourbon. — This class of Roses is truly elegant. It has also been 

 much extended lately, and become more varied, by the introduction 



