ON THE CULTURE Or ROSA SEMPERFLOREN*. 253 



covering up every night. I saw a bed last May with most excel- 

 lent blooms, which never had been suffered to have one shower 

 from the planting till the end of April. 



Should you think this worth insertion in your Floricullural Ca- 

 binet, I will finish the culture in another Number. 



Sept. 2nd, 1835. Amator Flokum. 



ARTICLE Y. — On the Culture of Rosa semperflorens, 

 (the dark-flowering China Rose.) By Mr. Wm. 

 Stent, Nurseryman, East Stockwith, wear Gains- 

 borough. 



The want of opportunity has prevented me contributing my 

 mite of information towards the support of your very interesting 

 and useful publication, the Cabinet, — a subscriber to which, with 

 the Record, I have been from their commencement. On looking 

 over the second volume of the Cabinet, at page 186 1 find a 

 Query by " C. S." on the dark-flowering China Rose, and as I 

 grow this kind to greater perfection than I ever saw them else- 

 where, I am induced to give you the mode of treatment I practice, 

 for the information of" C. S.," is well as the other readers of the 

 Cabinet. 



First, as to Soil. — My residence is near the river Trent, my 

 garden extending to its banks. The soil is of the kind we term 

 " warp land," that is, such as has originally been deposited by the 

 overflowing of the river. It is of very considerable depth, damp 

 and cold, but of excellent quality, and quite free from stones. 

 Perhaps " C. S." may say, "How am I to get a soil of such a 

 nature ' J ' to which I reply — After the outlines of the bed are 

 formed, lake out the soil to the depth of two feet, then get some 

 strong clay, such as bricks are made of, lay it about three inches 

 deep over the bottom and the same thickness up the sides, beat it 

 • lose und firm together with a rammer, then get a sufficient quan- 

 tity of good strong soil from an old meadow, let it be well chopped 

 and broken, and with this fill up the bed tolerably high, so as to 

 allow for settling, and that the bed shall be finally somewhat 

 higher than tht mrrmmding surface. In this plant the Roses, 



HJ two tu threa feet apart, adding at the time of planting a 



