166 ON ROSE PLANTING ON LAWNS. 
CLEMATIS AZUREA GRANDIFLORA. 
BY G. B. N. 
I am desirous to increase this plant, what method am I to pursue? 
{ When the young shoots are about six inches long, cut them at their 
origin, insert them in equal parts of silver sand and yellowish loam, 
cover with a bell-glass, and place them in a hot-bed frame,where the heat 
is of a gentle temperature. The inside of the glass must be wiped in the 
morning, at the early stage of putting in the cuttings, so as to prevent 
them damping off. They root readily. Or when the new shoots are 
about half ripened, layer them as is done to carnations, cutting up toa 
joint; in this way they increase freely. Also graft them into the 
stock of a common white Sweet-scented Clematis flammula, or any 
other free-growing kind, either by cleft or tongue grafting, and they 
succeed well by that method. They also increase readily by inarching 
upon other kinds.] 
ON ROSE-PLANTING ON LAWNS. 
BY RHODOPHILOS. 
I oBsERvVE that the method of planting and grouping Roses on lawns 
varies in almost every pleasure garden that one sees ; one person delight- 
ing in placing tall naked standards on the turf without order or arrange- 
ment, merely as if they had tumbled from the skies, and were planted 
where they fell; others rejoicing in formal lines of standards of exactly 
one height, and directed to every point of the compass ; these grouping 
tall standards, of every shade and colour, in large beds; and again 
those preferring to see alternate rows of standards, tall and dwarf, 
meandering about their parterres. To none of these methods does my 
taste incline. Every one knows that ‘“ doctors differ ;” and several 
persons of undoubted taste in gardening have expressed opinions adverse 
to mine, but I still think it worth while to record my aversion to the 
general methods of planting Roses on lawns ; indeed, I may say that I 
never yet saw a garden in which standards were grouped on lawns 
tastefully, to my fancy. I regret that I cannot offer a plan which will 
embrace it according to taste; the whole system is bad. Devote a 
portion (let it be as large or small as you please) of your garden to 
Roses, and let nothing interfere with them; andfavoid by all means 
the placing of standards on your turf: the naked stems with bushy 
heads have an effect the reverse of picturesque. Standard Roses, work 
them and train them as you will, must of necessity be formal objects ; 
it is needless, therefore, to add to the formality by placing them in 
regular rows. It may suit the old Dutch and French gardens to place 
them in lines, with their mop heads distinct and outlines unvaried ; 
everything in these gardens is in character with them; but very dif- 
ferent is the aim of the English gardener. His object is truly to 
*‘hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature,” and to copy her faultless 
forms and varied hues. Our object is to hide, and destroy, if it be 
possible, all attempts at rigid formality ; and I cannot say that I ever 
saw the planting of standards on a lawn, where any quantity was 
