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are most beautiful and novel additions. If these remarks and tables 

 are considered worthy of insertion in the Floricultcral Cabinet, 

 and thereby obtain a far more extensive circulation than they otherwise 

 would have done, I shall be only too pleased to let the world know 

 there was nothing invidious or treasonable contained in what was sent 

 to another periodical, which, as I have shown, refused to insert an in- 

 dependent article signed anonymously, for certain private reasons. 



[We are favoured with the name and residence of our obliging cor- 

 respondent, and thank him for the lists given. We shall be glad of 

 similar returns of all popular classes of flowers. Such are useful 

 guides to those desirous of procuring only the best flowers. — Editor.] 



BRIEF REMARKS. 



A Bed of low perpetual Roses. — The following on their own 

 roots, or worked on very short (a foot) stocks, will suit the lady who 

 solicits the names of a dozen varieties for a small circular bed : — Geant 

 des Batailles, Ami Vibert, La Reine, Duchess of Sutherland, Duchesse 

 de Montpensier, Celina Dubos, Madame Desprez, Fellenberg, Jaune 

 Desprez, William Jesse, General Negrier, Baronne Prevost. These 

 will bloom till November, or later if the season be mild as the present 

 is. The list combines all the colours of Roses. 



China, German, and Turkey Asters. — Early last season I pur- 

 chased a good packet of each of the best (so advertised) Asters bearing 

 the above titles, and having a new pleasure garden of extent, I deter- 

 mined on having a first-rate display of these beautiful flowers, and for 

 as long a period as possible. The ground being newly broken up, I 

 had most abundantly manured. In order to have a long season of 

 bloom, I made a sowing on the 1st of March in pots placed in a 

 cucumber frame then at work. As soon as fit to prick out, I put three 

 plants in each of a small sixty-sized pot. When filled with roots I 

 re-potted into larger, placing them in a frame upon a bed of leaves, 

 which had a gentle bottom heat, and I give all possible air during the 

 day. By the second week in May I turned the plants out into the 

 open ground, and by the first week in July I had a fine display of 

 bloom. A second sowing was made on the 28th of April, they were 

 pricked out in a frame on a south-aspected border, and transplanted 

 into the open ground the last week in June. These came into bloom 

 about the middle of August, and continued till cut off by frost in 

 November. The flowers were of a most extraordinary size, as superior 

 to whatever I had seen before as it was possible to conceive, many of 

 them being five inches across, and the single-flowered varieties larger. 

 This result was in consequence of the extra quantity of old rotten 

 manure which I applied. It was about five inches thick all over the 

 ground, and well incorporated with the top spit of soil. It must be 

 very rich to secure first-rate flowers. I planted them wide apart, and 

 in dry weather gave a liberal watering from a small pond into which 

 l Ik* drainings of a large; heap of dung had run. In order to have seeds 



