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yellowish blush ; Sir Walter Scott, elegant rose. The Cro- 

 matella was looked for among the Noisettes, but it had been 

 so severely cut for propagation that it had not bloomed. Mr. 

 Rivers had been on the Continent in June, and there saw it 

 in flower, and he stated that it was as beautiful as he had 

 represented it; like nearly all the Noisettes, the plants must get 

 well established before they throw up good flowers ; Jean 

 d'Arc is a new one, yellowish white, and handsome. 



Hundreds of plants of Mad. Laflay, Rose du Roi, and the 

 older perpetuals, were flowering in the nursery rows, and 

 made a great show at this season of the year ; the first 

 named is one of the most valuable, blooming freely, large, 

 fragrant and beautiful. The budding season was now nearly 

 over ; but immense quantities had been worked. Mr. Rivers 

 recommends the jRosa Manettii as the best stock for bud- 

 ding, as it grows freely, and rapidly, and does well in light 

 sandy soils. The Boursault, Dog Rose and jRosa Manettu are 

 the three stocks mostly used in this nursery. Of that mag- 

 nificent new yellow rose, the Persian, Mr. Rivers has the finest 

 stock in the country. We have proved it the past winter to 

 be one of the hardiest roses. 



The root pruned pear trees were the next objects of atten- 

 tion ; and, as Mr. Rivers has written so much on this subject, 

 and reduced the system to practice, we anticipated much 

 satisfaction from an inspection of them in bearing ; but the 

 exceedingly dry season had been quite too severe for the 

 trees, and but a few were in fruit. The trees were from 

 three to five feet high, well branched, and but for the drought 

 would have presented a fine appearance. The trees are set 

 about five feet apart, and by means of liquid manure or 

 guano, they are induced to ripen a large crop. 



Mr. Rivers' s general stock of ornamental trees is large, and 

 contains many new things, the results of his travels among 

 the continental nurserymen. A great number of oaks are 

 included in his collection, and we noticed the new Lucombe, 

 in great abundance. A weeping variety, called pubescens 

 pendula, was very beautiful, particul-arly for a lawn, where 

 it shows with good efi'ect. All the weeping trees are now 

 much sought after for planting as single specimens. Among 

 the ornamental shrubs we noticed a purple leaved variety of 



