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ing surface. Much moisture is injurious, and it will be only during a period of 

 drought that water is required. It is perfectly hardy, no further protection being 

 necessary than securing it firmly to a stout stake until it becomes established, to 

 prevent it being blown over by strong wind. 



Planting a Piece of Ground. — Riscemara will be much obliged for some 

 hints as to the best appropriation of a plot of ground situated as described. " Imagine 

 a mansion situated on a hill, with lawn and shrubs sloping down to a navigable, but 

 not very wide, river, on the other side of which lies a verdant meadow of five acres, 

 bounded by a railway line, which line has, on its exterior portion, a new cut for 

 navigation, rendering the five acres, recently purchased, an island. The soil re- 

 sembles peat, and the surface may, at high tides and inundations, be sometimes, but 

 rarely, flooded. The other side of the valley being terminated by a ridge of hills 

 well clothed withtrees, the object is so to embellish the five acres as to form a pleasant 

 foreground to a beautiful view, and to plant out part of the line of railway. The 

 difficulty is to find what trees would answer best. I should like to form an imitation 

 of American scenery, and believing that many of the noble flowering trees of that 

 country grow in swamps, I should be gratified by any hints upon the subject. 

 Would the Tulip tree thrive in such a locality, or the Deciduous Cypress, the 

 Hemlock Spruce, Catalpa, or any of the Pine tribe ? " 



No doubt many of our readers can furnish information as to what trees flourish 

 in America in a soil similar to that our correspondent mentions. It is very likely 

 too that in this country a practical proof as to what will succeed in like circum- 

 stances has been realized. In either or both cases, we shall feel much obliged by 

 the request of the inquirer being complied with as early as convenient. 



Roses. — Annette asks, " Why the buds of the Hybrid Perpetual Roses, ' Newton ' 

 and ' Prince Albert,' will not open well in a border where other Roses of the same 

 kind with Bourbon and Provence flourish extremely well ? This summer both 

 Rose trees were covered with buds, but of the first bloom not one of them opened. 

 The second bloom, ' Prince Albert' had a few flowers in perfection, but there were 

 still several buds which withered off. — May I venture to plant China Tea-scented 

 and Noisette Roses against a paling? The paling faces south, and I have had 

 painted canvas put behind it to shelter them from the north. If you think these 

 kinds of Roses will flourish in this situation, will you, or any of your numerous 

 correspondents, give me a list of ten of the best in each class ? I have hitherto 

 been afraid to try anything excepting Ayrshire Roses, but I wish to have some that 

 will bloom till the frosts come." 



It is probable that there may be some defect in the soil the Newton and Albert 

 Roses are planted in, or in the subsoil. The season being so very dry, the plants 

 might require watering at the roots, more especially so if the subsoil be gravel and 

 the soil but shallow. The following Roses will succeed well in the situation above 

 named, affording the protection described. 



Noisette. — Boulogne, dark purple, very distinct, double. Cloth of Gold, pure 

 yellow, bright, vigorous. Fellenberg, rich bright crimson. Jaune Desprez, bright 

 fawn, very fragrant. Lamarque a CcEur Rose, white, with fawn centre. Miss 

 Glegg, pale flesh, nearly white, superb. Solfaterre, bright sulphur, superb. Vic- 

 torieuse, pretty lilush, large. I.iUxembourg, bright rosy-purple. Jeanne de Arc, 

 very pure white, vigorous. 



Tea-scented. — Bougere, shining bronze, rose, superb. Devoniensis, creamy sul- 

 phur, rose-tinged. Comte de Paris, large, perfect, pale rose. Eliza Sauvage, pale 

 yellow, orange centre, superb. Josephine Malton, large, shaded white, beautiful. 

 Perfection, apricot colour, very bright. Geubault, bright shaded rose, very fra- 

 grant. Maria de Medicis, bright rose, shaded with fawn. Bride of Abydos, sulphur 

 and white, tinged with rose. Fragrans, bright rosy-crimson, pretty. 



ScAKi.ET Verbena. — Can you inform me why the Scarlet Verbena does not 

 flower well with me? It seems to go all to rot ; it covers the ground, and throws 

 out roots at every joint, but is very shy of flowering, except in a basket or at the 

 edge of the bed where it cannot make root. Do you think if the plant was sur- 

 rounded with some material into which it could not make root that it would flower 

 better ? g. l. 



In a very rich soil the Verbena grows luxuriantly, but, in proportion, the pro- 

 duction of flowers is less. There is a variety of the scarlet which covers the ground 

 with a close carpet of green, but scarce blooms at all. By your plant blooming more 

 freely at the side of a basket we conclude it was planted in a soil too rich. 



