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m 

 about one-third, and the other half I cut down to two buds, in order to supply 

 young vigorous wood for next year's blooming. I have invariably noticed that 

 the buds at the lower part of a young shoot are not so perfected as those about 

 midway ; this I think arises from the fact of about one-third of the lower part 

 being- produced at an early spring season is more pithy and coarse, and does not 

 afterwards get a due proportion of sun and air, so that the buds are weakly. The 

 next portion of the shoot is produced when the weather is wanner and drier, aud 

 getting a summer's sun and air become well ripened and furnished with plump 

 buds, which will produce the finest roses the next year. The last portion of a 

 shoot is the growth of the end of summer, and does not get so well ripened and 

 perfected as the midsummer production. It is from these considerations I cut in 

 February the shoots for blooming, as before stated, so as to retain two parts of 

 the length ; and where wood for next season is the sole object, cut down so low 

 as to retain but two buds. The former, blooming shoots, left the previous year 

 two parts their original length, the following February are cut down to two buds, 

 ami of the shoots produced from those cut down the previous February to two 

 buds, I now retain to two-thirds of their length. Liy this mode of pruning, my 

 Kose trees are kept regularly supplied with young perfected wood, and kept to a 

 dwarf stature. 



1 pursue the same plan with my Perpetual Ruses, only in June I cut a portion 

 of the present season's shoots to two-thirds their length, and when those left un- 

 touched have dune blooming in August, the new shoots, pushing from the shor- 

 tened ones above described, come into bloom and continue to October. I give 

 four inches deep of well-rotted cow-dung over the roots of my Kose Trees every 

 Autumn, just ] ointing it in the soil, and spreading over it a slight covering of 

 fresh loam, liy this mode of treatment my Roses are of the finest description. 

 In further remarks on Roses, I will give my mode of treatment with the other 

 classes. Rosa. 



Taking vv thb Roots ov Ranunculus and Anemones. — Of all the points in 

 the cultivation of the Ranunculus, this is the most vital and important. The 

 tubers are extremely apt to start, or put forth roots again, il allowed to remain too 

 long in the ground — this fatal event being most liable to occur under the influ- 

 ence of heat and moisture. Hence, if the weather be showery, the top awning 

 should never be removed till the stalks and foliage of the plants have turned 

 yellow, indicating the proper period for taking up the roots ; when they have put 

 on this appearance they should be at once harvested. It the tuber has again 

 vegetated, it will either grow weakly, or, in all probability, perish when planted 

 the following year. But though the young roots may not always be visible tu 

 casual observation, if but an impetus be given — an effort, as it were, to grow be 

 induced — there will be a failure in the bloom the following summer ; the root 

 being weakened and injured by its previous attempt at growth. 



LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY MEETING. 



January 17. — R. H. Solly, Esq., in the chair. MissHurrocks, J. French, Esq., 

 and Mr. Robert Cooper were elected fellows. A paper upon a method of heating 

 hothouses by steam was read, from Mr. P. Walker, gardener to R. W. Grcntil, 

 Esq., Maisteg, near Swansea. Instead of heating water in large pipes by means 

 of smaller ones conveying steam and traversing them longitudinally, it was pro- 

 posed to introduce the end only of a steam-pipe into that of a larger water-pipe, 

 which is continued round the house. The steam is generated in a boiler, and 

 can thus, by pressure, be made to heat the water in the pipes to any required 

 temperature: it may also be thrown into the atmosphere in any quantity by 

 means of a small perforated pipe running along the top of the water-pipe. To 

 prevent abstraction of heat, the steam-pipe is to be isolated on wooden sleepers, 

 anil to be inclosed in a tunnel of the same material. Mr. Goode, gardener to 

 Mrs. Lawrence, exhibited a huge collection of Orchidaceous and other plants, 

 including a magnificent specimen of Dendrohium nobile, covered with its beau- 

 tiful white aud violet purple flowers ; Ltclia albida, white, having the centie of 



