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kinds, tlie JS'oisette Fellenburg, blooming in June, continuing 

 all tlie summer and autumn ; and althougli the autumnal 

 frost will sometimes destroy the flowers that are fully deve- 

 loped, it does not kill the buds ; and we have known a very 

 close approach to Christmas to exhibit this beautiful variety 

 in full s|)lendour. It is worthy of notice, that so persevering 

 does it seem in growth and blooming, that when the severe 

 frost comes to cut everything down, the l!^oisette Fellenburg 

 rose is cut off with hundreds of buds and flowers upon it. 

 "We have never gro^Ti it in a house or under protection, but 

 we should expect that it would continue to grow and bloom 

 the entire winter. We have in vain searched among the 

 roses for any one so constant ; the old Cliina and the crimson 

 China are the nearest to it in that particular, but both are 

 inferior in every respect. There are some dwarf varieties 

 which are pretty constantly in bloom ; and we have done 

 much towards keeping up the flowering of beds by the assist- 

 ance of roses, for it is only by the severe frosts that they are 

 cut off, and then is the time to remove them and put other 

 subjects in their places. 



In villa gardens, where the space in sight is limited, we 

 must resort to pot culture for the beds and borders, if we 

 desire a constant succession of bloom ; for plant here as we 

 will, and sow as we please, a great many periods will occur 

 when there is hardly a flower to be seen, or we must so in- 

 crease the number of species that there can be only two or 

 three of a kind ; and though we should never be without 

 flowers, we should never have much of a kind. The j)rin- 

 cipal care required while the pots are out of doors, but pre- 

 paring as it were for use, is as respects the watering, for 

 they soon dry ; and with all our care things are stunted quite 

 enough in pots without any starving for want of moisture. 

 The watering, however, is easily enough managed where the 

 pots are kept well together ; and when the plants of any one 

 sort are coming into flower, it is time to look to the beds and 

 borders, to see what looks the most untidy, for not a day 

 should be lost A\T.th anji^hing in its prime ; it should be at 

 once put in the most conspicuous places, and something of 

 less consequence removed. The diversity of colour is the 

 great charm of a flower-garden ; and if the place occupied by 

 a yellow to-day is furnished with scarlet or blue to-morrow, 

 it makes it almost like another garden. 



