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realise high prices in the early season. 

 These houses are equally adapted to 

 chrysanthemums, cucumbers, and grapes, 

 and such other plants as nurserymen 

 grow in great profusion in the neigh- 

 bourhood. 



Outside the soil is cropped with apples 

 ■on high standard trees, and roses, both 

 dwarf and standard, in great numbers, 

 the chief variety being La France, which 

 are sent by hand to Covent Garden or 

 to private customers in the early morning 

 of the day on which they are likely to 

 be at their best. The standard briers are 

 purchased from men who cut them from 

 the hedges and sell them at a penny each, 

 while the dwarfs, which are chiefly 

 teas, are grown from cuttings or grafted 

 on briers grown from seed, both methods 

 being far superior to that of growing on 

 the Manetti stock. The Manetti is found 

 to be too vigorous for the tea rose, 

 which, so delicate in constitution, is more 

 easily overpowered. 



The rose may be induced by good 

 culture to grow almost anywhere, except 

 in the vicinity of smoke, if the soil is 

 suitable. This should be of a rich, clayish 



