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BRIEF REMARKS. 



which is extensively employed for budding- Roses upon in this country, 

 particularly for standards, half standards, and dwarfs. Tiie following 

 classes grow well upon it : — Provins, Moss, Gallica, Hybrid Provins, 

 Alba, Hybrid China, Hybrid Bourbon, Damask Austrian, Damasis 

 Perpetual, Hybrid Perpetual, witli the free growing Bourbon and 

 Noisettes. Tiie delicate kinds of the last two classes do not thrive, 

 upon it. The Manettii Rose Stock (a cultivated kind) is an excellent 

 one for working upon. It is valuable for its free, vigorous, and con- 

 tinuous grovvtli, which lasts up to winter. It also ripens its wood 

 well, becomes liard, firm, not subject to decay, nor are the shoots gross 

 and pithy. On dry, warm, or sandy soils, it is the best of all Stocks, 

 especially for Hybrid Perpetuals, and they force well upon it ; also 

 Bourbons and Noisettes Such of tliese as are delicate and will not 

 flourisli on tlie Dog Rose, do admirably up(m this Stock, as also do the 

 Tea and China Roses. The best metliod, however, with the two last- 

 named classes is to work such delicate ones upon the Common Monthly 

 (Rosa Iiifiica). The Manetta Rose strikes as freely as a Willow, and 

 may be had cheap at the public nurseries or general Rose growers. 

 The Crimson Bouisault Rose Stock is used by some extensive growers, 

 as also tlie Rose Celine ; but the kinds worked upon them do not 

 flourish or endure so well as upon the Manettii. Mr. Rivers states tiie 

 Cloth of Gold Rose succeeds best when worked upon tlie Celine Rose 

 Stock. Due Decazes Rose Stock is of free growth, firmness, and 

 solidity of wood.* It is a Hybrid Bourbon, and many of the Bourbons, 

 Chinas, Teas, and Noisettes, succeed well upon it. Slocks of the 

 above are very superior to all others, and are strongly recommended iu 

 an article inserted in the Journal of the Horticultural Society, from 

 Mr. Saul, of Durdham Down Nursery, near Bristol. 



Allamanda catiiartica. — A correspondent lately asked for in- 

 formation how to bloom this handsome climber. By the following 

 treatment it succeeds admirably : — In a small stove for plants I have 

 a bark pit, at one corner ; a portion is divided by a piece of wood, in 

 which are a number of holes to allow roots to push through. Inside 

 this partition I placed a foot deep of broken bricks, &c., for drainage. 

 I filled it up with the following compost: equal parts of one year old 

 chopped turfy loam, turfy peat, and leaf mould. Grown in this, and 

 thus situated, it blooms most profusely. I have two plants grown in 

 pots; tliey have a free drainage, and the compost as above, excepting 

 a little more loam is added. I guard against over potting; but when 

 I find that the roots are matting round the ball, I re-pot into two sizes 

 larger. In re-potting I carefully loosen the tips of the coiled roots, so 

 as to incorporate them into the fresh compost at once. Early in No - 

 vembei' I begin to withhold water, and only just keep the soil from 

 being dry, and allow the plant to rest till the first week in February, 

 at which time I place it in more heat, water it, and when the shoots 

 have just pushed I re-pot carefully. During its period of growth water 

 is increased as its necessities justify. During its period of fjrowing I 

 give a good watering of liquid manure (from a tank in the Cucumber 

 bed ground), once a-week. Nothing can flourish and bloom better 

 than the plants do. They are trained round a barrel-shaped wire 



