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witness the amazing advances which 

 have resulted from their labors in this 

 cause. O that I could live to parti- 

 cipate a little longer in the glorious 

 harvest which is to be gathered from 

 the influence of this art in im})roving 

 the fruits of our land. These are bene- 

 factions which you will leave for the 

 generations that are to follow you — 

 memorials of your love of nature, of 

 home and kindred, which shall live in 

 the hearts of grateful millions, long 

 after you shall have been sleeping in 

 the dust. 



"Thus have I spoken for a long course 

 of years of the importance of this branch 

 of our duty. Thus would I preach 

 while life may last. ^ Plant the most 

 mature and perfect seeds of the most 

 hardy, vigorous and valuable varieties, 

 and as a shorter process, insurim/ more 

 certain and happy results, cross and 

 hybridize our flitest kinds for greater 

 excellence.' And should my muse be 

 able to reach you from the spirit land, 

 she would, as with telephonic voice, 

 still chant in your ears the same old 

 song, — 



"Plant the best seeds of every good fruit, 

 Good fruits to raise, some lands to suit ; 

 Fruits which shall live, their bounties to 



shed, 

 On millions of souls, when you shall be dead. 

 These are creations that do the world good, 

 Treasures and pleasures, with health in your 



food ; 

 Pleasures which leave in the mem'ry no 



Bting, 

 No grief on the soul, no stain on Time's 



wing. " 



Best way of feeding Roses. — Mr. Pet- 

 tigrew, of Cardiff Castle, who lately re- 

 ceived the gold medal of the National 

 Rose Society and a silver cup for the ex- 

 cellence of his rose blooms, told me the 

 other day that he never at any time dug 

 amongst his rose trees, but fed them 

 sumptuously by means of surface mulch- 

 ing and heavy top-dressings. That this 

 treatment suits them admirably there can 

 be no doubt, as of all the rose plants I 



have seen this season or for some years 

 back none have been so strong and healthy 

 as those at CardiflF Castle. — Cambuian, in 

 The Garden. 



Jackman's Clematis. — This well-tried 

 old variety is of all garden Clematises 

 perhaps, so far, the best for general deco- 

 ration. It grows freely in rich deep soils 

 and is at home everywhere in beds or bor- 

 ders, on wires or other trellis work, or on 

 old tree stumps, dead bushes, or as train- 

 ed on walls. The other day I saw a plant 

 of it which had been planted along with 

 the silvery-leaved variety of Acernegundo, 

 and the effect was very pretty ; but on a 

 walL, along with golden-leaved ivy, the 

 plant is still more showy, and in Battersea 

 Park it is effectively combined with bushes 

 of the golden-leaved Elder. Now, of 

 course, we shall all be very anxious to 

 secure the white-flowered C. Jackmanni 

 alba, for which Mr, Noble received a first- 

 class certificate at South Kensington 

 quite recently. Planted together, the 

 purple and white forms would be most 

 charming. How rarely now-a-days do we 

 see the double variety of C. Viticella, 

 which is most floriferous and of a mouse- 

 coloured purple hue. — The Garden. 



Rosa Rugosa. — Mr. Harvey, Aigburth, 

 Liverpool, sends us some uncommonly fine 

 fruiting and flowering specimens of this 

 valuable Japanese Rose cut from a bush 

 two yards across. On the same branch 

 with the hips are some flowers and buds, 

 and these will be continually produced 

 until late in the autumn. All who do 

 not know this rose should make its ac- 

 quaintance next season. Also flowers of this 

 rose, both white and crimson, together 

 with some very fine clusters of other fruits, 

 have been sent to us by Lady Parker, 

 from her garden at Stawell House, Rich- 

 mond, Surrey, where this rose is now in 

 great beauty. The fruits or hips are par- 

 ticularly handsome ; they are as large as 

 the largest sized Cherries, but more de- 

 pressed in form, and of a bright orange- 

 red colour, whicli contrasts strikingly with 

 the deep green of the broad foliage. These 

 are by far t^e handsomest rose hips we 

 know of, and even if this rose did not 

 bear such beautiful flowers as it does, it 

 would be well worth growing for the beauty 

 of the hips alone, — The, Garden, 



