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twenty inches, then prune them and replant the 

 trees, giving to each one or two shovelsful of 

 rotten manure and loam, equal parts, if the soil be 

 light and sandy ; rotten manure and road sand, if 

 it be cold and heavy ; one shovelful will do if the 

 trees are removed annually, two will be required 

 if they are removed biennially. Standards, when 

 they do not flourish and give their flowers in 

 autumn, may be treated in the same manner with 

 great advantage. 



As pillar roses some of the vigorous-growing 

 varieties are highly eligible ; they should be 

 treated in the same manner as recommended for 

 summer pillar roses, given in p. 35 : they will 

 cover a pole about eight feet high well; but 

 unless in very rich soils they cannot be depended 

 upon to form a healthy pillar of greater height. 

 Baronne Prevost, Caroline de Sansal, Jules Mar- 

 gottin, Duchesse de Cambaceres, Madame Rivers, 

 Colonel de Rougemont, Greneral Jacqueminot, 

 Triomphe des Beaux Arts, Triomphe d'Alenpon, 

 Triomphe de 1'Exposition, Madame Louise Carique, 

 Anna de Diesbach, and Lord Raglan, are all nice 

 varieties for this purpose. 



PYRAMIDAL HYBRID PERPETUALS. 



Standard roses, inartistic and unpicturesque as 

 they are, have ' held their own ' for some years. 

 It is time that some new rose idea was originated, 



