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the old soil shaken from its roots, and replaced in a pot a size smaller than that 

 in which it flowered. 



" It is then placed in the warmest part of the greenhouse, and kept shaded 

 for a few days, using the syringe rather freely until it commences to start ; after 

 which it ought to have a sunny exposure. It will now grow rapidly, when it is 

 again repotted, giving plenty of water during this time. When it has completed 

 its growth, it is placed in a cooler part of the house, and water gradually with- 

 held, to thoroughly ripen its wood, in which I think depends the main secret of 

 its successful blooming. 



"The soil which I use is composed of about equal parts turfy loam and leaf- 

 mould, with sufficient sand to keep the whole open and porous. 



" The temperature of the house in winter is kept at from 45° to 50° at ni"-ht, 

 and in the day with sun-heat at from 70° to 75°. 



" The Dougainvillea is a native of the table-lands of South Mexico, where 

 it grows in great abundance ; but it is said to seldom retain that beautiful mauve 

 color so strikingly effective when grown under glass." 



Bristol, R.I., March 17, 1S68. 

 Editors of " The American Journal of Horticulture." 



GeTitlemen, — I read in the March number the article on the propagation 

 of " Cyanophyllum magnificum " from the top of the plant. Now, as very few 

 gardeners or amateurs would like to spoil such a noble plant for one cutting, 

 a better way is to cut the plant down within a few inches of the pot, and cut up the 

 cane into eyes, like a grape-vine. Split the joints as the eyes are opposite, and 

 insert the cuttings in a slanting direction, in porous sand, so that the eye will 

 just be covered, while the part above will come level with the surface. Cuttings 

 made in this way will be rooted and ready to pot in two months, with four leaves 

 on each plant. 



I have found January the best time to put in the cuttings. Shading can be 

 dispensed with ; other directions the same as in your previous article. 



Very respectfully, Robert Hogg. 



New Roses. — The list of new roses given in the foreign journals is again 

 numerous. Over one hundred are named by different writers as of great beauty : 

 but they are probably, like some other things, valuable only to the eye of the 

 originator; beautiful, perhaps, but, as a rule, no advance. In examining roses the 

 past season, we find very few of the new ones of superior excellence, and, in 

 making a list of fifty, believe full one-half would be varieties of a dozen or more 

 years old. F. R. E. 



Rosa. — " What has become of the Austrian and Banksian roses, of which 

 so much was said a few years since 1 " — They are superseded by many of the 

 Noisette class, which are nearly as hardy, and much more abundant, besides 

 being perpetual bloomers. So, also, are most of our old summer or garden roses 

 superseded by the Hybrid Perpetuals and most hardy Bourbons. 



