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the wall ; over these a mat should be nailed during 

 frost. For forcing or blooming early in spring 

 in the greenhouse, they form beautiful plants, 

 budded on neat stems about one foot in height : 

 these, if potted in November, give abundance of 

 flowers in spring, of a larger size than when 

 grown on their own roots. Other modes of pro- 

 tection of standards and dwarf standards are, 

 either to remove them to some warm shed in 

 November, and lay their roots in damp mould, or 

 to reduce their heads and give each plant an oiled 

 paper cap. This is a mode practised in the north 

 of Italy with great success, to protect their tender 

 roses and other plants; and though paper caps 

 may not be thought objects of ornament on an 

 English lawn, yet the method will be found very 

 eligible in many cases. In March, those that have 

 been laid in the shed for protection may be re- 

 moved to the flower borders, pruning off all super- 

 fluous and dead shoots ; they will bloom the fol- 

 lowing summer in great perfection, and in general 

 surpass those that have been suffered to remain 

 in the ground without protection. Some of the 

 varieties are much more robust and vigorous than 

 others, and equally beautiful as those of more 

 delicate habits : it will therefore be scarcely worth 

 while to grow any but what are of known hardihood 

 and vigour. I have pointed out some of these in 

 my notice ; but time can only make a knowledge 

 of their habits more perfect. Budded plants of 



