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highly productive of wood and flowers. The operation is per- 

 formed about the end of January ; and all the wood of four 

 years' growth is entirely cut out. This deserves the particular 

 attention of the British gardener, and equally so the statement 

 that " at the end of eight years the plants are taken up and 

 renewed." 



To cause roses to flower in the autumn, " we prune them 

 back in the spring, as soon as we can discover their flower- 

 buds ;" that is, the flower-buds are cut off, and the effort of 

 the plant to produce others is not attended with success till 

 late in the season. Stocks of the dog-rose are obtained from 

 the woods and hedges; sometimes these stocks produce 

 suckers the year after budding, and if these are laid down 

 their whole length in spring, and covered with an inch of 

 earth, leaving only the extreme end of the sucker above 

 ground, as is done in laying plum and other stocks for fruit- 

 trees, each eye will form a cluster of roots, and a very fine 

 shoot, which may be taken off the ensuing winter, and budded 

 the following spring, though not so successfully as after two 

 or three years' growth. But as it is well known, both on the 

 Continent and in Britain, that grafting or budding roses never 

 succeeds any thing like so well on young wood as on wood 

 of two or three years' growth, and as stocks of that growth 

 are easily obtained from the woods and hedges of both coun- 

 tries, it can seldom be worth while to propagate stocks in 

 gardens. In Paris, however, this is done to a small extent, 

 and the sort propagated is the single cinnamon rose, which 

 produces vigorous purple shoots without thorns. 



30. Account of several New Chinese and Indian Chrysanthemums, 

 with additional Observations on the Species and Varieties, and on 

 the Management of the Plants in Gardens. By Joseph Sabine, 

 Esq. F.R.S. &c. Secretary. Read January if. 1826. 



Long and minute descriptions of twenty-one sorts are given, 

 most of which have been introduced by the Society, but some 

 by other individuals. The use of such descriptions is to 

 enable any person who reads them, to determine the sorts 

 already in possession of the Society, with a view to adding 

 to their number; but though these descriptions are probably 

 as well drawn up as such details can be (for it is in this kind 

 of minute and accurate detail that Mr. Sabine's forte lies), 

 we doubt their fitness to answer the use intended, without the 

 aid of coloured plates. The same remark will apply to 

 Mr. Sweet's descriptions of hybrid geraniums, from which 



