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require thinning out, so as not to be crowded, and then 

 shortened to within five or six buds of their base. Trained 

 as pillar-roses, they give flowers often too abundantly ; so 

 that they are small and ill-shaped : it is, therefore, often a 

 good practice to thin the flower-buds as soon as they can 

 be distinguished. 



" I shall now proceed to give a list of those roses, from 

 which, in combination with others, choice seedlings may 

 be raised. 



" The Duke of Devonshire, in a very warm and dry soil, 

 will produce hips in tolerable abundance; and, as it is 

 inclined to be striped, it would possibly form a beautiful 

 combination with some striped rose, which should b^ 

 planted with it. 



" Riego, which partakes of the Sweet-brier, might be 

 made the parent of some beautiful brier-like roses by 

 planting it with the Splendid Sweet-brier. 



" General Allard, a hybrid rose, from which Monsieui 

 Laffay raised his perpetual rose, Madame Lafiay, is much 

 inclined to give a second series of flowers. This rose 

 should be planted in a very warm border, or trained 

 against a south wall with Bourbon Gloire de Rosomenes ; 

 and, if carefully fertilized with it, some beautiful crimson 

 autumnal roses would probably be originated. Chenedole' 

 may also be subjected to the same treatment. What a 

 fine autumnal rose one like it would be!" Rivers. 



