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moisture and drought as many as five times, and probably in 

 about sixty days, or before the end of autumn, the roots will 

 have tlirown out vigorous branches, which will in due time be 

 loaded with flowers, without destroying the ability of the plant 

 to bloom again the following spring." The climate in which 

 the Moors lived — that of Cordova, Grenada, and Seville, where 

 the winter is very much like our weather in mid-autumn — was 

 very favorable to the cultivation of the Rose. In this country 

 the same results could doubtless be obtained in the Carolinas, 

 and the experiment would be well worth trying, even in the lat- 

 itude of New York. It would be no small triumph to obtain an 

 autumnal bloom of the many beautiful varieties of French, Moss, 

 or Provence Roses. Haj has also given the method of keeping 

 the Rose in bud, in order to prolong its period of blooming. His 

 process, however, is of so uncertain a character as scarcely to 

 merit an insertion here. The manuscript of De la Neuville also 

 contains particular directions for propagating roses, and for plant- 

 ing hedges of the Eglantine to protect the vineyards and gar- 

 dens, and at the same time to serve as stocks for grafting. No- 

 thing is omitted in the Arabian treatise which pertains to the 

 management of this shrub ; the manner of cultivating, weeding, 

 transplanting, watering, <fec., are all particularly explained. 

 Among a variety of curious matters, it contains the process by 

 which, for the purpose of embellishing their gardens, they pro- 

 duced the appearance of trees whose tops are loaded with roses. 

 A hollow pipe, four feet long, or more if the top was to be large, 

 was obtained, of a well-proportioned diameter, set upright to re- 

 semble the trunk of a tree, and filled with earth or sand in a suit- 

 able state of moisture. In the top of this pipe were planted seve- 

 ral varieties of roses, of different colors, which rooting freely in the 

 earth around them, soon formed a bushy head and represented a 

 third-class tree, clothed with rich foliage and beautiful flowers. 



This plan could still be practised with success ; and we can 

 scarcely imagine more beautiful objects in a lawn than a num- 

 ber of these pipes, of various heights, single and in groups, some 

 low with the small heads of the China or Tea roses, others high 



