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without quartering (that is, showing vacancies between the petals), he 
condemns it. Some writer on the subject, nevertheless, ventured to 
denounce Mr. Glenny’s proportions—making an eighth more or less 
to one or the other, and calling it his standard. He ventured also to 
accord to Mr. Groom the credit of deciding upon some other pro- 
portion; but Mr. Groom never mentioned a hollow ball, on the con- 
trary, maintains the old doctrine of a shoulder instead of the easy 
curve. The first annexed cut shows Mr. Glenny’s extreme depth— 
half a ball, and the second shows it expanded to a third—its extreme 
shallowness. . 
ROSES. 
Cuttore 1n Pots.—The first thing that should be attended to is to 
provide a good heap of soil for the plants to grow in. All like a rich 
soil, which should be made light for the delicate-rooting varieties, and 
more tenacious for the robust hardy kinds. . 
To form a light soil, procure one barrowful of seasoned turfy-loam, 
half a barrow of well-decomposed stable manure, half a barrow of leaf- 
mould, and silver-sand in proportion to the texture of the loam, which 
will in no case require more than one-fourth of its own bulk. 
The heavy soil may be composed of one barrow of stiff turfy-loam, 
one barrow of night-soil that has been mixed with loam and laid by 
for a year, half a barrow of leaf-mould, or well-pulverised manure, and 
sand as before recommended. ‘The addition of about one-sixth of a 
barrow of burnt earth will be found to improve both composts. The 
materials should be thrown together at least three months before 
required for use, and turned frequently, that the integrant parts may 
become well incorporated, and ripened by exposure to the sun and air. 
The sieve is unnecessary, for as large pots are principally used, the 
coarser, in moderation, the soil is, the better will the plants thrive. 
Roses intended for growing in pots may be either on their own roots 
or on short stems; the tea-scented and Chinese kinds are undoubtedly 
better in the former way. Roses cultivated to bloom in their natural 
period cannot be placed in too airy a situation, therefore keep them 
either plunged or placed on the surface, with moss or cinder-ashes 
about the pots, in an open spot in the garden. Whichever way is 
adopted, two things are to be guarded against—the ingress of worms 
from the ground, and the egress of roots from the hole at the bottom 
of the pot. If the roots find their way into the ground, there will be 
few formed in the pot; and the result will be, a more vigorous, but 
