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scription of soil also, if grown as dwarfs, they 

 will not flourish unless they are worked on the 

 Dog Eose; but in light sandy soils it will be 

 advisable to cultivate them on their own roots. 

 The freedom with which they grow in the light 

 sandy soils of Surrey points out this method of 

 culture on such soils as the most eligible. In 

 pruning, they require a free use of the knife : 

 every shoot should be shortened to three or four 

 buds. If not pruned in this severe manner, the 

 plants soon become straggling and unsightly. In 

 poor soils, they should have annually, in Novem- 

 ber, a dressing of rotten manure on the surface of 

 the bed, to be washed in by the rains of winter. 



To raise Provence Eoses from seed, for which 

 more full directions are given when treating 

 of Moss Eoses in p. 20., the Wellington should 

 be planted with, and fertilised by, the single 

 Crimson Moss, and Le Grand Bercam with the 

 Luxembourg Moss ; if seed can be procured from 

 either of these varieties, thus fertilised, some fine 

 crimson, and, what is also very desirable, pure 

 Provence Eoses may be raised. As the characters 

 of the true Provence Eose are so desirable, the 

 object ought to be to endeavour to obtain deep 

 crimson varieties, with all the pleasing qualities 

 and perfume of the original. Wilberforce planted 

 with the single Crimson Moss might possibly pro- 

 duce seed ; but this variety is a hybrid, and, like 

 many other hybrid roses, it does not bear seed so 

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