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be turned over two or three times before it is used, other- 

 wise the rank and noxious steam will kill the young and 

 tender shoots : but the hazard of this may be avoided by 

 building a wall of turf, three inches thick, from the ground 

 to the bottom edge of the frame. This will admit the 

 heat through it, and exclude the steam. The Perpetual 

 roses, thus made to bloom early, are really beautiful." 



Now, in the way of exciting the reader's emulation, I 

 will mention a few items of the opening flower-show of 

 the'Crystal Palace, Sydenhain, on the 26th of May, a few 

 years ago. The following specimens of roses, in pots, are 

 chronicled among innumerable others : 



MADAME WILLEEMOZ (Tea-scented Rose)) seven feet 

 high, with more than a hundred expanded flowers. 



SOUVENIR DE LA MALMAISON (Bourbon Rose)) with 

 thirty expanded flowers, the largest more than five inches 

 in diameter. 



PAUL PERRAS (Hybrid Bourbon Rose)) six feet high, 

 with nearly a hundred expanded flowers. 



COUPE D'HEBE (Hybrid Bourbon Rose)) six feet high, 

 covered with a mass of bloom. 



These were all raised by Mr. Paul, one of the most skilful 



