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roots, either in pots or otherwise. Another plan is to plant four 

 foot standards for the back row, two feet standards in front of them, 

 then again one foot standard and dwarf ro3es on their own roots 

 fronting the whole ; and if there be any wall or fence, climbing 

 roses may be trained over it. In planting roses, they should never 

 be buried deeper than they have been used to, and where they have 

 a tendency to throw up suckers, these should be removed as fast as 

 they appear. Roses should also be kept in form by rubbing off or 

 stopping such shoots as are not wanted ; if this is done in time, it 

 will save the use of the knife, and is far better than allowing them 

 to grow anyhow, and then having to cut out a great deal in the 

 autumn or winter. Roses are very subject to the green-fly, which 

 should be brushed off as soon as it appears. They are also injured 

 by a sort of caterpillar which eats the young buds ; these should be 

 hunted for and destroyed, if possible, before they have done any 

 mischief. Roses are propagated by budding, which has been so 

 often mentioned, and the process described, as to render it needles8 

 here ; they are also raised from cuttings, which root freely if taken 

 off while young, and treated as directed for bedding plants. 



A very neat method of keeping a little garden in order, is by 

 cultivating the plants in pots. Let a certain number of dwarf hardy 

 evergreen shrubs, and a few plants of Chieranthus Marshallii, ever- 

 green candytuft, yellow alyssum, and such like evergreen her- 

 baceous plants ; these are to be plunged about the borders for the 

 winter, the herbaceous plants being placed next the edge; then if some 

 snowdrops, crocuses, winter aconites, hyacinths, and other bulbs, are 

 potted, these can be plunged between them, and will flower in March 

 and April. As soon as they are over, take them up, and plunge 

 some spring flowering herbaceous plants such as the above-men- 

 tioned, which will flower in May ; when these are over, they may 

 give place to cinerarias, and these again to scarlet geraniums, 

 heliotropes, pots of China asters, etc. If a succession of flowering 

 plants can be kept up in this way, the garden will be always fresh 

 and lively ; one pot can be taken up and another dropped in its 

 place ; and thus nearly all the work may be performed in a place 

 apart from the garden, which it is desired to keep in order. And, 

 all things considered, this mode will take no more time or labour 

 than any other. 



DIELYTRA SPECTABILIS. 



ALTHOUGH the Dielytra is properly classed as a spring- 

 flowering plant, yet, if propagated by cuttings of the 

 young shoots in the spring, and planted out in June in 

 a sheltered situation, it will continue to throw up a 

 succession of blooms till late in the season ; it thrives 

 best in a light rich soil, and should bo plentifully supplied with 

 water in dry weather. We once saw a bed so treated, in the front 

 of a greenhouse, in bloom in September, and it appeared likely to 

 continue in flower much longer, if frost did not occur. To procure 



February. 



