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depth ; plant in an airy situation, and never near a 

 tree, or any other bush which exhausts the soil, and 

 deteriorates the coloui of the flower. The best season 

 for pruning is as early in the spring as their buds 

 show a disposition to swell j in doing so cut out all 

 the dead wood, shorten any of the young shoots that 

 are irregular ; the old stinted wood should be cut as 

 near the ground as possible ; that the bush may stand 

 free and regularly, thin all over; dig in among their 

 roots every season a good supply of rich compost or 

 old manure, and stir and hoe them frequently during 

 the summer. The remarks we have made upon the 

 culture of the Tea Rose will not be misapplied if 

 practised on the Bengal, though these last are inva- 

 riably more hardy. There are about one hundred 

 varieties of them cultivated, though one-half of that 

 number will give every variety and character, com- 

 pared with which most of the others will be found 

 worth neither name nor culture. Aglae Loth^ shaded 

 rose fading to dark red, very double, and perfect 

 form. A ranee de jYavaro, sent out as a Tea, but evi- 

 dently a Bengal, of a pale rosy pink colour, very 

 profuse and double. Archduke Charles is a noble 

 variety, opening a bright rose colour, and changing to 

 crimson ; the points of the petals are frequently tip- 

 ped with bright red. Arsenie or Arsione^ is of a 

 delicate rose colour, very perfect in form, grows and 

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