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The plants shown were fine trees, three to four feet hiijh, with a 

 clean straiirht stem, siipi)ortin^ a large head, with abundance of 

 bloom. When this practice comes to be generally adopted, we shall 

 have pelarjfoiiiiims of quite another character; instead of the feeble, 

 many-sticked bushes of the present day, we sh.tll see them, like 

 roses, grown as tall standards, and really handsome objects, inde- 

 pendent of their hloo!ii. (^Gard. Gaz.) 



In connection with this, we add the following from the same paper, 

 on the subject of grafting: — 



While perusing the last week's Gazette, my attention was drawn 

 to peraml)ulate the proceedings at the Horticultural Exhibition, Re- 

 gent Street, where grafted pelargoniums were exhibited by Mr. 

 Ansell. Allow me, sir, to make a few remarks on that subject. I 

 am an under gardener in a remote part of the West Riding of York- 

 shire, and having a few geraniums under my care, I one night, not 

 knowing how to spend my solitary hours, amused myself with the 

 following novel operation: — I selected a strong bushy plant of Mary 

 Queen of Scots, for a stock; then, my next object was to procure 

 scions, according to the strength and number of stems on the stock; 

 I then proceeded with the operation, after the practice commonly 

 called cleft-grafting. After I had got the stock and scions neatly 

 joined, then, with a string of bass mat, I tied them firmly together, 

 and after that covered the operated part with damp moss; then 

 placed the plants in a shady siiuation, regularly attending to damping 

 the moss, and destroying the suckers as they made their appearance 

 on the stock; when, in three weeks, to my great satisfaction, I found 

 that five out of six had combined themselves to their fellows, and 

 are now growing vigorously. Perha])s this may be of some interest 

 ^to some of my young brothers, not much experienced, like myself, 

 to see one individual plant bearing five different colors of flowers. 

 — Id. 



^Arrangement of Jloiver-beds, according to M. Chevreul's Essay 

 on Colors. — M. Chevreul has demonstrated, in an ingenious essay 

 upon the subject, that the contrast of colors is of the greatest con- 

 se(]uence, whether for good or for evil; and that, if to dress a bru- 

 nette in sky-blue makes her sallow, or a blanch in oranjie makes her 

 firhastly, or a fresh-colored girl in white makes her red, so, to ])lace 

 discordant colors near each other, produces just as disagreeable ef- 

 fects, though not quite so |)ersonal, in a bed of flowers. We shall 

 not, just now, fatigue our readers with the philosophy of this mat- 

 ter, for which we refer them to Carson, and other divinities of the 

 toilet: it will be suflicient to point out what the gardening results 

 are, to which Mr. Chevreul's inijuiries have led. He says, that 

 what are called comi)limentary colors, always suit each other. Now 

 the complimentary color of red is green; of orange, sky blue; of 

 yellow, violet; of indigo, orange yellow; and, consequently, blue 

 and orange colored flowers, yellows and violets, may be placed to- 

 gether, while red and rose colored flowers harmonize with their own 

 green leaves. White suits blues and oranges, and, better still, reds 

 and roses; but it tarnishes yellows and violets. In all cases, how- 

 ever, where colors do not agree, the placing white between them 

 restores the effect. The following combinations are also said to be 



