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sideration of such features as may be on the ground. Such groups as may 

 come in the way will have to be removed farther, or suppressed. (This is 

 understood in making up the plans.) 



The laying-down of the drive and walks will then determine a more 

 correct distribution of all the single standing show-plants mentioned, which 

 may be located at irregular distances right and left along them, so as to 

 present themselves better to the eye of the visitor, but still in such a con- 

 nection with the groups near by as to form the contrasts or effects already 

 mentioned. 



How far this system corresponds with walks and drives already estab- 

 lished, or with native trees already on the ground, I shall try to explain in 

 another article. There is no great difficulty about it ; but it requires some 

 practice to bring them into the new arrangement. 



Difficulties spring up on such places only where operations have been 

 commenced without any conception or plan by some inexperienced hand, 

 where many things already done will have to be taken into consideration. 



In such cases, that occur not unfrequently, I compare the work to be 

 done as troublesome as the job of a tailor getting cloth for a coat on 

 which the owner has amused himself by sewing at random buttons and 

 button-holes on it, but expects the tailor to leave them where they are to 

 save expenses, to make them to fit together, but, nevertheless, make a 

 nice coat. - E. A. Baiiman. 



Rahwav, N.J. 



HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE NAPOLEON III. 



Perhaps there is no class of roses more generally popular than the 

 subjects of our present notice. They combine in an eminent degree hardi- 

 ness of constitution, vigor of growth, elegance of foliage, and beauty and 

 fragrance of flower. 



The term " perpetual " is, however, somewhat a misnomer ; for though by 

 attention they may be made to bloom at any season, yet they are by no 

 means as constantly in bloom as the tea or Bourbon roses. They, however, 

 have the advantage of being hardy ; and, if the June bloom is not allowed 



