PRESERVATION OP PANSIES. ROSES. 189 



PRESERVATION OF PANSIES. 



BY DAHL, OF MANCHESTER. 



Having a good sized bed of the Pansey, which had grown rank, dnd 

 covered the bed, in tlie autumn it was cut out, and earthed up to make 

 it look clean, and preserve through the winter. The cuttings were 

 thrown on the ground on one side of the bed, and, wanting a hole in 

 which to deposit some idght-soil, the mould war, thrown on the vacant 

 ground, and covered the cuttings of the Tansies. It happened that 

 the whole of tiie mould that was thrown on them was left undisturbed 

 the whole of the winter, and in the spring was filled into the liole. 

 How great was my surprise when we came to the level ground ; there 

 was the cuttings of the Tansies as fresh, and nearly as green as M'hen 

 cut off, and all moist ; every joint had sent out roots, which were cut 

 up, planted, and made good plants. The winter had been severe, and 

 nearly all the old plants were dead, and thus, by mere chance, I saved 

 my sorts. 



P.S. In making the above hole we came in contact with the roots of 

 a pear-tree that had grown to a good size, but never bore fruit ; a 

 great many of the roots were cut away. Strange to say, the next year 

 it bore a large crop of fine fruit. The query is, what caused the 

 change, the fresh night-soil, or cutting the roots ? 



ROSES. 



BY ROSA. 



One of your correspondents inquires how the Crimson Hybrid China 

 Rose " Fulgens" is made to flower? Simply by using the knife very 

 sparingly in the pruning season. If you cut back the Hybrid Ciiinas, 

 as you ought to do ordinary Roses, many, and especially Fulgens, will 

 not flower the next season. I did not discover this for some time, and 

 obtained an amazing growth of wood without any flowers ; since I iiave 

 shortened the shoots of the preceding summer about one-fourth part 

 only of their length, I have found this Rose bloom as freely as any. 

 Tlie best mode of training this Rose, and its brethren, Beauty of 

 Billiard, Brennus, Legouve, Trioniphe D'Angers, &c., all splendid 

 free-growing Roses, is to get them standard high, and place against 

 them an iron stake ; tlie feet made square and flat, and eigliteen inches 

 long ; tlie stake branching off' at the top, in the form of a cross, so as to 

 support an iron ring, three feet in diameter, which should stand about 

 two or three inches lower than the head of the stock. At the winter 

 pruning, a sufficient number of the shoots must be brought down all 

 round the circle, and tied with tar twine. Tliese Roses, thus treated, 

 will present magnificent heads of flower tiie following summer. 



