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size the egg of a turkey, or rather, in my eyes, of 

 a roc. 



Alas ! this tree perislied years ago. Its fate 

 was the common lot of its race — to be cut down 

 by cruel frost. And yet I would advise amateurs 

 to do as I do, persevere in growing it. One year's 

 harvest will be recompense enough for the plough- 

 ing and sowing of a decade. If other Roses 

 boast of their fecundity, this may answer, as the 

 queen of beasts to the fox : " My children are few, 

 but they are /ions." Try it on a south wall; try 

 it on veranda and arcade (I have seen it flower- 

 ing freely on the latter) ; try it budded on the 

 Celine Hybrid Bourbon, which is also most con- 

 genial for Climbing Devoniensis ; try it on the 

 Banksian and Manetti stocks ; try it on its own 

 roots, protecting it during the winter months with 

 some good thick surface-dressing. I do not recom- 

 mend matting, or other material, which keeps 

 Hght and air from the plant. A sickly unnatural 

 growth is often caused thereby, which renders the 

 plant more powerless than ever to resist its ene- 

 mies — insects and vernal frost. 



Rose No. 2 (No. i in merit) of the trio referred 



to is Marechal Niel. Since the time when, a baby 



in floriculture, I first began to " take notice" of 



, Roses, more than thirty years ago, three new 



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