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ing how the former ought to be pruned freqiientlj'', while the latter 

 should be very little pruned; and mentioned how, by twisting the long 

 shoots together, a continuous succession of flowers was obtained from 

 the same shoot. He detailed a method of growing inoss and Provins 

 roses, by obtaining plants with good shoots, and laying these shoots 

 round the sides of the pots when there was quite a mass produced of 

 shoots and flowers. He approved of syringing in tiie afternoon; was 

 confident that the leaves ahsorl)ed a great deal of moisture, which he 

 considered necessary to the health and vitality of the plant. 



Mr. Russell could not see how roses, taken up and forced at once, 

 though sometimes successful, would always be as certain as those potted 

 oft' for a twelve-month and properly managed; he wished to know wheth- 

 er the recommending such a system was the result of successful prac- 

 tice; and illustrated his remarks by making a comparison between the 

 vegetable and animal world, and showing that, where two men had to 

 run a long race, the one who had been best prepared by previous exer- 

 cise, would be likely to secure the 2irize,and suffer least from the exces- 

 sive exertion. 



Mr. Stormont did not comprehend what sort of pits would do for the 

 forcing of noisette roses, if they were never pruned. Mr. Adams show- 

 ed that taking up roses, and forcing them inunediately, was contrary to 

 nature; that allowing the top temperature to rise before the roots were 

 made, destroyed the success of the whole undertaking; that syringing 

 might be done at any time, and was very beneficial to a sickly plant, 

 even when the sun shone; and that he considered the moisture on the 

 leaves to be chiefly evaporated, and not absorbed. Mr. Judd stated 

 that the remarks he had made were the result of practice and observa- 

 tion combined. 



Mr. Ayres showed that there was no analogy between the new system 

 of forcing roses and the coiling of the vine, as the nature of the roots in 

 the two cases was different; that the talk about the new system being 

 troublesome was nonsense; that it had answered when the other system 

 had failed; and that, in reality, little more was necessary than plunging 

 them in the hot-bed, flowering them, planting them out into the border, 

 pruning them and taking them up again, and potting when wanted. — 

 Gard. Mag. [Our own ideas on Mr. Judd's essay are, that, so far as his 

 practice applies to China and noisette roses, it is very good; but his 

 mode of treating moss and Provins I'oses we do not believe will be so 

 successful, as by spring plants well established in pots. — Ed.] 



Pansies exhibited at Egyptian Hall, by Mr. Rogers, florist. — May 

 2, 1838. Enterprise, Master[)iece, Hecuba, Lord Glammas, Prospero, 

 Nonpareil, Incomparable, Cicero, Royal Lilac, Beauty of Tottenham, 

 Lady Blessington, Corinna, Desdemona superba, Immutabilis, Donna 

 Maria, High Admiral, Purpurea perfecta, Frogmore Beauty, Colum- 

 bine, Nabob, Queen Victoria, Purpurea elegans, Achilles su{)erb, Goli- 

 ah. Queen of Scots, John Bull, Wild's Defiance, King's Alfred, Bac- 

 chus, Wallace, Shakspearc, Comus, Royal purjile, Aurora, Minerva, 

 Moinus, Somnus, Cecilia, Samson, King, Josephus, Homer, Flora, 

 (Rogers's) Hollis's Flora, Mountjoy's Flora, Cupid, Jim Crow (.?) Bat- 

 tersea Beauty, Politer, Emma, Incomparable Vesta, Romeo, Lilac Per- 

 fection, Expression, Fair Rosamond, King of Oude, Pizarro, Paragon, 

 Blucher, Apollo, Susannah, Prince Eugene, Crocea superba, Hounsley 

 Hero, Rainbow, Pensillatum, Lady Peel, Duke of Marlborough, Duke 

 of Northumberland, Richardson's Adelaide, Claude, Caravan, Gem, 

 Emperor, Diomede, Brutus's Scots Helen, Countess of Bridgewater, 

 Countess of Verulum, Cato, Andromache, Enchantress, Matchless, Po- 

 mona, Superba, Radical, Jack, Atropurpurea, Beauty of Esling, Crom- 

 well, Chimpanzee,'-(?), Coronet, Horace, laxiflora, Nimrod, Beauty of 

 Dalston, Paris, Theresa, Glaucus, Battersea, Hero, Dean superba. 

 (^Gard. Mag.) 



