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From the centre pin to the outside ones, I place wires in a neat 

 manner ; one is fixed from pin to pin on the outside, so that the whole, 

 when finisiied, resembles a wheel. Both the centre pin and the outside 

 ones are fixed very firm, to admit of the wire, which is not very strong-, 

 being drawn straight and tight. The outside pins -should not be too 

 high, as the twiner intended to be planted to run thereon is to form, as 

 it were, an edging to the wliole. At each of the outside pins I plant 

 my plants, the more tender sorts in pots ; these, as they grow, are kept 

 neatly tied to the wire, and trained towards the centre pin. Other 

 twiners or climbers, of a different kind from those that ^are trained 

 towards the centre, are planted at intervals, according to their liabits 

 or luxuriant growth, round the outside wire, to form the aforesaid 

 edging. 



The beauty and success of this method depends on the neatness with 

 which the plants are trained to the wire, and in their being placed at a 

 proper height, so as to mingle, as it were, their blossoms with those 

 forming the mass of the bed. A little taste is also necessary to assi- 

 milate as near as possible the plants forming the mass, and those trained 

 to the wires, both as regards size, and, as far as practicable, shape too, 

 as will be seen by the manner in which the following kinds are grouped 

 together. 



No. 1 . A bed of Escholtzia crocea, with Convolvulus major, on the 

 converging wires, and Clematis Sieboldii for the margins. 2. A bed 

 of Hybrid Mimuluses, with Mannandya Barclayana for the rays, and 

 Lophospermum scandens for the margin. 3. A bed of NoJana 

 atriplicifolia, with Thunbergia alata for the rays, and Petunia nycti- 

 giniflora for the margin. 4. A bed of Streptocarpus Rexii, with 

 TropjEolum tricolorum for the rays, and Cobaea scandens for tlie margin. 

 5. Anagallis Philipsii in a bed with Thunbergia alata alrja for tiie rays, 

 and any of the small growing Ipomeas for the margin. 6. Calendrinia 

 discolor for the bed, with Loaza aurantiaca for the rays, and Rhoiiochiton 

 volubile for the margin. 7. A bed of Lobelia bellidifolia, with 

 Lantana Sellowii for the rays, and Verbena Tweediana for the margin. 

 8. A bed of Verbena Melindres, with Tropaeolum Pentaphyllam for 

 the rays, and Thunbergia alata for the margin. I have merely given 

 the above list to show what may be done in the way of grouping, and 

 which can easily be multiplied at pleasure. The plants I use for 

 training on the wire I always contrive to have a good stock of, well 

 established in pots. Nothing more beautiful than the above arrange- 

 ment can be well imagined when done with neatness ; and the season 

 for planting sucii beds having now arrived, it is hoped that these re- 

 marks may prove acceptable. 



THE OLD DOUBLE YELLOW ROSE. 



BY A nobleman's FLOWER GARDENER FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS. 



This Rose, in general, is said to be very shy of blooming perfectly, 

 and to remedy this, various situations have been recoriunended ; some 

 have .said, plant it against a south wall ; others, give it a northern 

 a.spect, under the drip of some water-trough, as it requires a wet situ- 



