240 THE CULTIVATION OF ROSES. 
tection, they vigour, by repotting, watering with liquid manure, &c., 
occasionally. CHinEsr Primroses should be similarly encouraged 
for winter blooming. If mildew appears on any plants, dust them 
with sulphur immediately. Camellias may be grafted; the operation 
may be performed with the greatest success by pursuing the method 
the French call “ graffe en placage,” which is merely inserting that 
portion of wood that includes a bud and leaf cut longitudinally, into a 
corresponding cleft in the stock. The grafted subjects should be 
plunged in bottom heat, and kept covered for at least a month. 
SHRUBBERY, &c. 
When it is intended to remove large evergreen shrubs, &e., the 
coming season, it very materially contributes to success now to have a 
deep trench cut round the plant at the size the ball is intended, and 
thus cut in the roots, which induces them to push lateral ones, and 
such readily strike afresh when removed. October and early in No- 
vember is the best season for planting evergreens ; the ground possesses 
some heat then, and promotes their more immediate establishment, and 
the air is cool and damp in a proportionate degree. 
THE CULTIVATION OF ROSES. 
Peart soils, although not of the best kind for Roses, are found to grow 
them tolerably well. For the improvement of such if wet, the first 
effort should be to drain them. After this, stiff loam or pulverised 
clay, and burnt earth, may be brought upon the surface, digging two 
spit deep, and well mixing the foreign substances with the natural soil, 
as advised in the improvement of clay-soils. 
The worst soils for roses are those of a sandy or gravelly nature. In 
such they often suffer fearfully from the drought of summer, scorching 
up, and dying. Soils of this kind are sometimes bad beyond remedy. 
The best plan to pursue under such circumstances, is to remove the soil 
to the depth of about twenty inches, as the beds are marked out, and fill 
up again with prepared soil. ‘Two-thirds loam—the turf from a pas- 
ture, if attainable—and one-third decomposed stable manure will make 
a good mixture. If a strong loam is within reach, choose such in 
preference to others, and if thought too adhesive, a little burnt earth 
or sand, may be mixed with it. A good kind of manure for mixing 
with the loam, is the remains of a hotbed, which has lain by for a year, 
and become decomposed. Opiox, a French apothecary, attributes the 
superiority of the Roses grown for medicinal purposes, in the neigh- | 
bourhood of Provins, to peculiar properties of the soil, which contains 
iron in considerable quantity.—Paul’s Rose Garden. 
