300 Review of Loudon^s Gardener''s Magazine. 



culture, their heads being pruned every season, and the surface of the 

 ground constantly manured. In this we have yet much to learn from 

 our neighbors. With us the general mode is to plant a tree, and leave 

 its after-growth to chance. Of course I now allude to amateurs and 

 those gentlemen who amuse themselves by being their own gardeners ; 

 and, perhaps, this hint may induce them to give all their trees and 

 shrubs some little annual notice." 



We have frequently heard it stated, by many of our amateur 

 gardeners, that tree roses are of very short duration in our ch- 

 mate ; that from some causes they suddenly died off before the 

 cultivator was even aware that they were in an unhealthy state. 

 These causes have been by some attributed to the effect of cU- 

 mate — by others to their cultivation — and by many to improper 

 stocks, on which they are budded. We have not had sufficient 

 experience to allow us to offer any information on the subject ; 

 but so far as we have grown the tree roses, we have found them 

 to flourish equally well with the dwarfs. The severity of 

 the last winter, which, as almost every one knows, was un- 

 precedented for its duration, as well as for its intensity of 

 cold, left unharmed some dozen or more of tree roses, among 

 which were two or three hybrids that were fully exposed to 

 the weather. The ends of the shoots were killed more or 

 less, as were also the dwarf ones, but they grew as well and 

 flowered as freely as ever we have seen them. We are 

 rather inclined to the opinion of the author of this paper, that it 

 is more from neglect than from any efiect of climate or soil. It 

 is too often the case that after a plant is set out, whether it be a 

 fruit tree, a vine, or a shrub, nothing more is thought of it, unless 

 it be the thought of wonder and astonishment that it should not 

 flourish and bloom as well as those under the care of the experi- 

 enced cultivator. It is impossible to expect plants to grow of 

 themselves ; they need care and attention, and, unless they have 

 it, they must not be expected to repay the cultivator by either 

 brilliant blossoms or vigorous growth. We do not hesitate to 

 say, that tree roses will live to as great an age and blossom as 

 finely in our cHmate, as those mentioned in the above extract. 



Numerous beds of seedling China roses {Rosa indica), and 

 the tea-scented China roses (R. indica odorata), were in full luxu- 

 riance of bloom on Sept. 10th, which was attributed to the su- 

 periority of the climate. Those httle petty jealousies which 

 are too common among our gardeners, it will be observed-, by 

 the following extract, tend to have no good effect upon the ad- 

 vancement of horticulture or floriculture : — 



" Some most superb varieties were among them ; but M. Hardy is 

 rather chary of his roses, and does not like them to he distributed 

 hastily, patronising the old fashioned idea of possessing what his neigh- 

 bors have not. It is amusing to find very prevalent here the little 

 jealousies and envyings that at one time were so common among our 

 florists. If a rose that has been raised from seed by M. Hardy is praised 



