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lations formed by the living tissue ;] and others vary so sliglitly that a prac- 

 and the readiness with which this takes ticed eye is scarcely able to detect the 

 place is in proportion to the sniallness ditTerence. The Queen of Flowers had 

 of the wound. It may be sometimes at no previous day attained the cele- 

 advantagcous to remove large parts of brity and popular favour it now enjoys, 

 the coarser roots of a tree, even if and never was it so well worthy that 

 they are not accidentally wounded po[)ularity. Ever cliarining, it is now 

 when taken up, the object being to doubly so from exhibiting its beauty 

 compel tlie plant to throw out, in room almost without intermission, whilst very 

 of those comparatively inactive subter- i many of them yield powerful and de- 



ranean limbs, a supply of young active 

 fibres. 



"This is a common practice in the 

 nurseries in transplanting young oaks 



licious perfume. Those who may be 

 resident in remote positions, and whose 

 idea of the rose, pleasing as it may be, 

 is the recollection of it, as it was in by- 



and other tap-rooted trees, and is one , gone years, are far behind the age — 



of the means employed by the Lan- 

 cashire growers of gooseberries, in or- 



notliing, whether it be artificial, or the 

 product of nature assisted by art, has 



der to increase the vigour of their kept more steady pace with the im- 

 branches ; in the last case, however, 1 provements of our day. 

 the operation is not confined to the The following select varieties in each 

 time when transplantation takes place, of the divisions into wliich by common 

 but is practised annually upon digging consent this flower has been divided, 

 the gooseberry borders. The reason : are abstracted from the catalogue of 

 ■why cutting off portions of the princi- I the old Landreth nursery, and though 

 pal roots causes a production of fibres ' they are now certainly among those 

 appears to be this; the roots are pro- i most to be desired, who can tell how 

 duced by organizable matter sent down- : soon many of them may be superseded 

 wards from the stem; that matter, if by more attractive varieties? Whilst 

 uninterrupted, will flow along the main speaking of varieties it may not be out 

 branches of the roots, until it reaches ^ of place to remark that great disap- 

 thc extremities, adding largely to the , pointment has been endured by im- 

 wood and horizontal growth of the porters of roses from Europe, induced 

 root, but increasing in a very slight de- j to order by the enticing descriptions in 

 gree the absorbent powers: but if a English and continental works : a large 

 large limb of the roots is amputated, niajority, it is believed, have fallen short 

 the powers of the stem remaining the , of their transatlantic character, and 

 same, all that descending organizable American florists have not a! ways escap- 

 matter which would have been ex- ' ed censure for distributing varieties of 

 pended in adding to the thickness of little worth, when their only fault was 

 the amputated part, is arrested at the reliance on the fidelity of European 

 lime of amputation ; and, unable to descriptions, 

 pass further on, rapidly produces granu- 

 lations to heal the wound, and imme- 

 diately afterward young spongioles, 

 which soon establish themselves in the 

 surrounding soil, and become the points 

 of new active fibres.'- — Theory of liort. 



ROPALA. Three species. Green- 

 house evergreen trees. Cuttings. Loam 

 and peat. 



ROSE. Roaa. Seventy-eight spe- 

 cies, and an almost innumerable num- ' 

 ber of varieties, principally hardy de- 

 ciduous or evergreen shrubs. To 

 attempt an enumeration, much less a 

 description of all the varieties which 

 they profess to cultivate in Europe, 

 would be an unnecessary waste of 

 space, for the simple reason that many 

 of them are unworthy of preservation. 



ROSA INDICA. 



Bengal, or Daily Rose. 



Animated, rosy blush. 

 Arsenie, light rose. 

 Augustine Hersent, superb rose. 

 Assuerus, crimson. 

 Admiral Duperre, dark rose. 

 Belle Isidore, crimson. 



" de Monza, dark rose. 



" Violet, violet purple. 

 Bisson, rosy blush. 

 Burette, dark red. 

 Camelcon, rose. 

 Cramoisi superieur, crimson. 

 Cels, blush. 



Comble de Gloirc, crimson. 

 Don Carlos, dark rose. 



