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the growth of others during the summer to bloom 

 the following season. When the tree is very 

 vigorous one or two of the shoots that have 

 bloomed the preceding summer may be left, the 

 blooming spikes shortened, and they will some- 

 times give autumnal flowers. This treatment may 

 be applied to Madame Schulz and Isabella Gray, 

 if they prove to be shy bloomers. The Cloth of 

 Gold Eose flourishes remarkably well in Jersey, 

 where I have heard of some very fine trees. As 

 standards, Noisette Roses require but little culture ; 

 the principal care is to be prompt in cutting off 

 the decayed and decaying clusters of flowers 

 during the blooming season; and, in March, to thin 

 out their superfluous branches. The Tea-scented 

 Noisettes are, however, too tender for this culture, 

 unless in warm situations. In a garden at Upper 

 Clapton, near London, is a standard Noisette 

 Desprez, about fifteen years old. It is a magnifi- 

 cent tree. For ornamenting wire fences, the Dwarf 

 Noisette Roses are nicely adapted, as they can be 

 trained with great facility, and they will form, 

 in such situations, a blooming boundary for at 

 least four months in the year. 



Raising Varieties front, Seed. 



But few of the Noisette Roses will bear seed 

 in this country ; the following, however, if planted 

 against a south wall, and carefully fertilised, would 



