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or Triomphe d' Angers, &c. &c., would be one of 

 the finest garden ornaments it is possible to con- 

 ceive. To make these varieties grow with the 

 necessary luxuriance each plant should have a 

 circle, three or four feet in diameter, to itself ; 

 and if the soil is poor it should be dug out two 

 feet in depth, and filled up with rotten mature 

 and loam. This compost must be laid consider- 

 ably (say one foot) above the surface of the sur- 

 rounding soil, so as to allow for settling : in shallow 

 or wet soils they will grow the better for being on 

 a permanent mound. Plant a single plant in the 

 centre of this mound, or, if you wish for a va- 

 riegated pillar, plant two plants in the same hole, 

 the one a pale-coloured or white, the other a dark 

 variety : cover the surface with manure, and re- 

 plenish this as soon as it is drawn in by the worms 

 or washed in by the rains. Water with liquid 

 manure in dry weather, and probably you will 

 have shoots eight to ten feet in length the first 

 season. I scarcely know whether to recommend 

 grafted roses on short stems for this purpose, or 

 plants on their own roots ; this will in a great 

 measure depend upon the soil, and perhaps it will 

 be as well to try both. Most roses acquire ad- 

 ditional vigour by being worked on the Dog Rose, 

 but some of the robust varieties of this family 

 grow with equal luxuriance when on their own 

 roots; finally, for dry and sandy soils I am inclined 

 to recommend the latter. 



