280 BRIEF REMARKS. 



Be it observed, that a three to four foot standard is most in keeping 

 with the head it carries, and being nearer the ground, has a very 

 natural and steady effect, and in confined places it is unquestionably 

 best in its appearance ; but if the tree is to be distant from the eye, or 

 the shrubbery or walk be large and increasing in distance, a four-foot 

 standard is certainly more distinguishable, and has a much greater 

 effect. 



A foot standard is of little or no use, except it be intended to approach 

 the edge of a border, or is grafted for the convenience of affording 

 nosegays or increasing the quantity of the plant placed upon it. 



The heights most in use having been shown, it may be remarked 

 that for a weeping Rose to stand singly, (perhaps surrounded with a 

 wire guard, and creepers upon it, to have a more marked effect,) you 

 cannot find a stem too high, if it be proportionally strong. A fine 

 plant of this sort, six, seven, or even eight feet high, budded with a 

 noisette or boursault, looks beautiful ; and its long free branches, 

 covered with clusters of Roses, have a wild and luxuriant appearance, 

 which give a distinct character to a tree budded in this way. 



Thus having arranged where the plants are to be, and having made 

 the earth good all around, stake up each tree with a neat, clean hazel 

 stake (unless the stock be so strong as not to require it), saw off the top 

 level with the top of the wild stem exactly (a matter tliat conveys a 

 great air of neatness), and with a piece of bass, or, better, a small strip 

 of pitched rope, attach your tree to the stake. 



REMARKS. 



Double Stocks. — My attention has been directed to the article on 

 double flowers ; as I have been growing Stocks for the last seventeen 

 years, I may be able to give an opinion on the subject ; but I have 

 liad no occasion to puzzle my brain about the best method of getting 

 double ones, as mine is a sort that produces more double than single 

 every year — I should say, in the proportion of seven out of nine, inva- 

 riably. They are good colour, and bloom beautifully, not spilling up 

 in the middle and lasting but one year, but yielding a great number of 

 fine flowers, and standing two or three years. I had one, two or three 

 years ago, on which I counted fifty-three flowers : and the plant about 

 three feet high. I should have been happy to have sent you some 

 seed, but unfortunately I did not save any last year, as I removed from 

 the neighbourhood, and the few plants that I have are all double ; 

 tliere are some growing in the neighbourhood, from Avhich I hope to 

 get some seed. About twenty-five years ago, I sowed some seeds from 

 the plants ; I selected thirty-five for planting, and gave away the rest. 

 I supposed I kept the best plants for myself; out of the thirty-five I 

 had seven double ones. But on inquiry I found that the plants I gave 

 away produced a much larger proportion of double tliau mine, so I 

 concluded that to have double flowers it would be best to choose small 

 plants. Mentioning the subject to a nurseryman several years after- 

 wards, he said, " There was a lady here this spring for some plants, 



