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tised at Ash Grove, near Halifax, the residence of Edward Rawson, 

 Esq., which came under my notice during my visits there in the winter 

 months. It was done by merely pricking branches of common whin 

 between the plants, deep enough to prevent the wind from blowing 

 them about. These branches stand very little higher than the roses, 

 and not so numerously as to crowd them ; in this way, at that season 

 of the year, the groups presented an improved appearance rather 

 than otherwise. Mr. Rawson is a great admirer of plants gene- 

 rally, but especially of the families of the Camellia, Rhododendron, 

 Azalea, and Roses. In re-modelling his grounds we arranged a 

 rosarium of little less than half an acre. It is truly a treat to visit 

 these grounds during the blooming season. 



This simple method of protecting roses may be applied with 

 advantage to many other tender plants after the roots have been 

 covered with decayed leaves or tanners' bark. Where the whin is 

 not very plentiful, common heath or spruce fir branches will answer 

 quite as well. 



ARTICLE III. 



REMARKS ON THE NECESSARY PROPERTIES TO CONSTITUTE 

 A FIRST-RATE TULIP. 



BY SENKX. 



I have been a Tulip-grower for twenty-five years, and an exhibitor 

 too, and not noticing in the Floricultural Cabinet any particular 

 description suited to my mind of the properties essential to constitute 

 each class of Tulips first-rate specimens, I venture to send what I 

 have considered to be so, and by which I have been guided, with 

 much success, during my exhibiting period, and were given me by 

 one of the best growers in the country. 



The flower should be composed of six petals, three outer and three 

 inner ; they should be alternate, and lay close to each other. They 

 require to be broad and round on the top, and quite smooth on their 

 edges, and of sufficient width to allow of their edges lying on each other 

 when fully expanded, which will prevent any quartering like Prince 

 Leopold, which is decidedly bad. The petals should also be firm in 

 texture, and have a little swell outwards towards the lower part of the 

 midrilj of the petal, which forms the shoulder, and is the cause of the 



