336 Roses in Selkirkshire, etc. 



The photograph of the Oak, taken from the haugh to the 

 southward, shows chiefly the long upright branches which 

 must always have been there, but have only latterly become 

 the principal growth. Tlie remains of the large branches 

 are covered with the young shoots which the Oak has the 

 power of throwing out from old wood. 



It is known that one of the row of Lime trees stood to 

 the east of the Oak ; it has been long blown down, but the 

 gap it left is even now visible in the branches. The Lime, 

 to the west of the Oak, impinges upon it very much, but it 

 would not be safe to cut it down, as it is very probable 

 the Oak itself would blow down in that case. The seat 

 under the Oak is regularly carried away by every unusually 

 high flood. 



Roses in Selkirkshire, etc. By Miss Russell. 



Dr Hardy mentions, in connection with the last visit of 

 the Club to Selkirk, the free growth and flowering of the 

 Roses at Sunderland Hall, and also at Ashiesteel, which he 

 visited some days later. But it certainly is not generally 

 known in the country how very well suited to Roses the 

 soil is. 



On the contrary, when Dickson of Tielfast, who, undoubtedly, 

 is one of our best Rose growers, on one occasion sent Roses 

 for exhibition to a Galashiels Flower Show, the comment of 

 a local paper was, that they were far finer than anything 

 that could be grown in the district. The advantage Belfast 

 has, in common with other places near the sea, is the 

 comparative absence of spring frosts; but, on the other hand, 

 they do less harm in late and high-lying places than in 

 early ones. 



Except in spots where the soil is gravelly — and it is on 

 these soils that the use of manure comes in, soap-suds being 

 one of the best — the country round Galashiels seems to be 

 specially adapted for Roses, much of it being heavy clay, 

 ou which the nurserymen, to do them justice, lay great 

 stress. 



