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being laid down a few years ago witli Huntingdon willoAv timber before 

 being properly seasoned. It having now become well dried, and having 

 large openings between every board, admits a free current of air by opening 

 a trap-hole (of 3 ft. by nearly 2 ft.) over head in the fruit room, which is 

 quite close up to the roofing, composed of small slating, and very open, the 

 air always passing through it quite as much as in any tile roof. The tool- 

 house floor is of the same material as the fruit-room floor ; there is under it 

 "a lumber store-room of some 7 to 8 feet high. This building stands quite 

 away from any other, against the east side of the garden wall, and the roof 

 meeting at a centre. Thus much for position. It is lighted from two 

 windows on the east side ; these are close to the flooring, each 2^ feet by 

 3 feet. Being so low, the light is never very strong ; but I do not look upon 

 this as being necessary. Even less light than is admitted here would be 

 quite sufficient for the purpose. This is an old building, fitted up a few 

 years ago. Owing to this part of the country being always so very damp, 

 especially in winter, I suggested this high and airy place being tried as a 

 fruit-room ; and from the trial made, it seems to answer better than the one 

 on the ground floor, where the walls in damp weather were always hanging 

 full of moisture like large drops of dew. This has not been a good season 

 for apples here, many of the fruit became decayed and blotchy while on the 

 trees ; however, those that were sound and good when gathered are as yet 

 appearing to keep well. Pears have this season proved a better crop than 

 in general. A number of young trees have produced fruit for the first 

 time.— {Gard. Jour., 1852, p. 724.) 



RosES. — The following remarks on the classification of the rose, with a 

 description of their signs of distinction, may perhaps be of some interest to 

 your readers. They are from the Garten und Blumen Zeitung : — 



M. Carriere divides Roses into seven main classes : — 



1. Perpetual or Portland Roses. 



2. Hybrid Perpetuals from Portland. 



3. Hybrid Perpetuals from Bourbon. 



4. Bourbon Roses. 



5. Noisette Roses. 



6. Bengal Roses. 



7. Tea Roses. 



Signs of Distinction. 



Class 1. — Perpetual or Poiiland Roses have fine short thorns, which ap- 

 pear very close together, cover the branches almost entirely, and give them 

 a brownish appearance. The branches grow erect. The flower-stalks are 

 short and stiff", and each of them supports usually one flower, which has a 

 somewhat lengthened calyx. For example: Duchesse de Rohan, Julie, 

 Krudner, Bernard, Favorite, and others. 



Class 2. — Hybrid Perpetuals, from Portland. — These produce erect grow- 

 ing branches, and are covered with hard thorns, which vary in size and 

 strength. They assume the same growth as the Portland Roses, have like- 

 wise a lengthened calyx, but on the top of the branches there are some- 



