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harnais, deep crimson; Mariolin. deep cvimson ; Elise Flory, 

 rose ; Eugene Hardy, and Infidelites de Lisette, rosy blush. 

 For edgings or small masses by themselves, the Miniature 

 China, or Fairy Roses, are pretty. La Desirue ; La Gloire, 

 crimson ; Le Pompon, rose. These and all China Eoses 

 require a light, rich, well-drained soil, and protection in 

 winter. A few inches of litter on the beds will protect them 

 sufficiently in mild situations, adding a few spruce branches 

 stuck thinly in the beds in December, removing them 

 gradually in spring. They should be pruned quite close in 

 April, and if nearly to the ground they will grow the more 

 freely. The shoots may be pegged down in summer ; the 

 effect is charming. In some instances it would be better to 

 take them up in November, lay them in a cold frame, or 

 under a wall, protecting during severe weather, and plant 

 in the beds again in March. Such treatment is necessary 

 in cold localities. 



BouKBOx. — Emotion, French white ; Baron Gouella, rose ; 

 Catherine GuiUot, rose ; Baronne de IN'oirmont, rose ; Reveil, 

 crimson ; Madame Angelina, fawn shaded salmon (too 

 tender) ; Victor Emmanuel, and Sir Joseph Paxton, purplish 

 crimson ; and Souvenir de la Malmaison, flesh colour. They 

 are best worked on the Manetti in strong ground, but are 

 good on their own roots, on light, well-drained soU. Liberal 

 treatment and close pruning are necessary. 



Tea-scexted.— Madame Bravy, and Madame Yillermoz, 

 white with rosy centres ; Rubens, white shaded rose ; Gloii-e 

 de Dijon, fawn (fine when pegged down) ; David Pradel, 

 rose ; Bougere, light rose ; Devoniensis, creamy white ; 

 Auguste Vacher, fawn ; Sombrenil, lemon ; Vicomtesse de 

 Cazes, yellow; Le Pactole, lemon, yellow centre; and 

 Abricote, fawn. Treatment the same as for the China Roses. 



Hybrid Peepetuai,. — Geant des BataiUes, Lord Raglan, 

 Marechal Taillant, Pajonia, Senateur Taisse, Le Lion des 

 Combats, Duchess of Norfolk, General Jacqueminot, Baronne 

 Hallez, Madame Charles Wood, Madame Laffay, and Charles 

 Lefebvre, all crimson, scarlet, or crimson scarlets ; Abd-el- 

 Kader, Jean Baptiste Guillot, Due de Cazes, Triomphe 

 d^ Angers, Princess MathUde, and Murillo, shades of purple ; 

 Jules Margofctin, Louise Odier, Madame Boll, Baronne Pre- 

 vost, Louise Peyronny, Comtesse de Chabrillant, Caroline 

 de Sansal, Auguste Mie, Corate de NanteuO, Madame Knorr, 

 Madame Vidot, and Adelaide Fontaine, rose and pink 

 shades; Imperafcrice Eugenie, Louise Damaizin. Louise 

 Dai'zins, Madame Canrobert, and Vii'ginale (too delicate), 

 white shades. These Hybrid Perpetuals are fine groupers. 



All the preceding are pretty nearly autumn bloomers, and 

 some of them continuous from June to November. 



Htbeid Provence. — Blauehefleur, and Princess Clemen- 

 tine are white, and make charming beds in their season, 

 when pegged down or otherwise. 



Moss. — Reine Blanche, white; Crimson or Damask, car- 

 mine; Common (not yet beaten), blush; Vandael, violet 

 purple; and Frederic Soulie. 



Provence. — Cabbage, deservedly a great favourite ; 

 Unique Panache, white rosy stripes, and the old White or 

 Unique. 



Gallica or FEENCH.^Boula de NanteuU, purplish violet, 

 shaded slate; Shakespeare, crimson; (Eillet Parfait, white, 

 striped red ; Ohl, crimson ; and Perle des Panaches, white, 

 striped pink. 



Hybrid China. — Beauty of Billiard, red. Trained on a 

 wire over a bed its effect is good, and so is that of Madame 

 Plantier, white. 



Htbrid BotTEBON. — Paul Rieaut and Charles Lawson, 

 the one a crimson, and the other rose. 



These summer Roses are unrivalled for gorgeous masses 

 of bloom in their season, and do well pegged down. They 

 arebest worked on the Manetti, except the more common, 

 which do better on their own roots. — G. Abbey. 



MES. CHITTY AND HEE CHILDREJN". 



The time has now arrived when the subscription in behalf 

 of the gardener's widow and her babes will be closed. With 

 the closing there has come, naturally and properly, the time 

 when it is meet and right to render public thanks to every 

 one of Mrs. Chitty's kind and liberal benefactors, and also 

 it is- the proper period to state, for the satisfaction of all 



those who have generously come forward to assist, what axe 

 Mrs. Chitty's plans and prospects. 



The widow thanks, from her very heart, every one who 

 has given ; she gives equally warm thanks to the wealthy 

 who have given so liberally of their wealth, and to the 

 poorest who have given as much— viz., a little of their very 

 little. From her good husband's good master, who headed 

 the list with ten guineas, and the generous widower (mark 

 the force of well-directed fellow-feeling), who gave three 

 sovereigns, to " Little WUlie Earley," with his sixpence, and 

 the " Three Workmen in a Garden," with their fourpence 

 each, she thanks all. How sufficiently can I express for 

 Mrs. Chitty the heart-cheering she has had each week, from 

 kind gifts, and sometimes from kind letters. She feels, with 

 proper pride, that he who was her husband so bore himself 

 in life as to be honoured when in his grave, and she accepts 

 all that has been given as given in testimony to his worth. 

 Those who read this wUl be glad to learn, that as yet not 

 one farthing of the money has been touched. This shows 

 plaiuly that as far as they possibly could, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Chitty have been careful and provident. 



Mr. Webley engaged at once a single gardener in her 

 late husband's place, thus assisting her with a lodger, 

 kindly also allowing her something a-week, while Mrs. 

 Webley sends two of the children to school. Upon my 

 suggestion (one which Mr. Webley approves), Mrs. Chitty 

 will presently open a shop in the village iiLwhich she resides, 

 she being well liked where she is well known. Her friends 

 best able to give an opinion, believe she wiU get on nicely. 

 Every one has been kind to her. Her excellent clergyman 

 has the care of the money ; her landlord has offered her a 

 good house, suitable for lodgers, and having a good shop. 

 " As soon as the baby can walk " (touching little domestie 

 incident), if not before, the business wiU be entered into, 

 and the shop wUl be opened. Yoiu' money, kind subscribers, 

 will thus enable Mi-s. Chitty to start in business ; you have 

 given the means wherewith the shop will be opened — but for 

 your liberality, so suitable and efReient a bread-winner 

 could not have been dreamed of. Thus the widow has found 

 warm-hearted and liberal friends near, among those who 

 knew her personally ; and equally good friends afar off, who felt 

 respect for her late husband, and sorrow for her lone condition. 



Good, kind subscribers aU of you, you have lifted a 

 heavy load of care from off a sad heai't, which if it cannot 

 beat as happily as formerly, will yet be (owing to you) a 

 peaceful, a thankful, and a contented heart. Little cheeks 

 will grow plump owing to you; and as the comfortably- 

 dressed children will walk to the house of God, their mother 

 will think of your kindness and liberality, and be saved, we- 

 trust, all her life, from that poverty which depresses the 

 mind, and is as little a friend to the soul as to the body. 



Accept, then, this letter as if written by Mrs. Chitty. I 

 thank you all for her. If the reward of our Master was to 

 follow the giving of the cup of cold water, much more shall 

 you find that your christian liberality, like mercy 



" Is twice blessed, it blesselh him that gives," 

 as well as her to whom is given. — Wiltshire Rectob. 



THE FEOST OF APEIL 30th, 



It would be interesting if some of your numei-ous readers 

 would record in your pages the degrees of frost on the night 

 of April 30th. I have heard that in Surrey and Kent it was 

 severe enough to kill the young shoots of Oaks, Walnuts, 

 Ash, &c., and to do much damage to the fruit of Plums, 

 Cherries, and Pears. 



Here, in Hertfordshire, the thermometer on the morning 

 of May 1st registered 2 7^^, or 5'^ of frost. The young shoots 

 of Oak were not injured. Walnuts had the tips of their 

 leaves blackened, but have quite recovered. The young 

 shoots of Picea cephalonica also escaped, as has aU thefruit 

 cf Cherries, Plums, and Pears. 



At Chiswick they registered 9° of frost, this must have 

 been most destructive. 



Here we had not had any rain, so that the earth was 

 quite parched. I have always found that when dry, young 

 Iruit and tender vegetation wiU bear 5"^ of frost without 

 iAJiuT — not so in moist weather. 



It wiU, I think, be interesting to some of your readei-s if 



