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height and condition, budded with a kind adapted to it, it will succeed per- 

 fectly, never dying down, or being otherwise than healthy in sunshine or 

 shade, if only common attention be paid to keeping off the suckers that will 

 come up. This shows the necessity of raising our own stocks ; and those 

 who have specimens of the dog rose, (and few who have roses but can raise 

 up one) I would recommend to let one or more go to seed for that purpose. 

 They would be at least two years from the seed even under favorable cir- 

 cumstances, before they would be in a condition to work as standards ; but a 

 stock once obtained, can by sowing a few every year, be readily kept up. — - 

 There is no other kind fit for general use as a stock for standards, as the 

 much-of-late vaunted Manettii stock suckers worse than the dog rose when 

 trained up for a standard. Its recommendation is, that it is easily propa- 

 gated, and late in the fall other roses take easily on it. In my experience I 

 find rose buds take best about "peach-budding" time, or (in this district) the 

 beginning of September. The perpetual kinds, or Remontants, deserve more 

 extensive cultivation; their first crop of flowers should be cut off immediately 

 they begin to fade, in order to produce a succession. Another thing not to 

 do, is, to take up layered Carnations as soon as they are rooted, as frequent- 

 ly recommended — let them stay till late in the fall. Dahlias in beds often 

 look very pretty when pegged down, covering entirely the surface of the 

 ground. When growing in a warm or dry situation they produce finer flow- 

 ers on this system, as the ground is kept moist and cool. 



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The Pelargonium will, in most collections, be going out of flower. If they 

 have been grown in the house they should have all the light and air possible, 

 in order to ripen the wood well before cutting them down. A great deal de- 

 pends on this, if large, well-grown specimens are desired, as the buds do not 

 "break" well on ill-ripened wood. To prolong the flowering period of the 

 Fuchsia, keep the house in which they are growing cool and moist ; to do 

 this, shade well, and syringe two or three times a day. The German Daisies, 

 which are now coming into]such deserved request, are better turned out of the 

 frames in which they have been flowered into a frame with a north aspect, 

 where they^can be kept fronTthe sun, cool and moist. They are,"however, 

 impatient of close confinement; now is the time to propagate them by offsets. 

 Neapolitan and Tree Violets, indispensable winter flowers, should also be treat- 

 ed in the same way. Pansies, Cinerarias and Calceolarias, as they root, 

 should be : potted"and placed in similar frames, and the seeds of selected kinds 

 sown there as fast as they ripen. Chrysanthemums should never be allowed 

 to get matted in their pots, but be constantly repotted into very rich soil, as 

 theyjgrow very dwarf ;l^and handsome plants of the old large kinds may be 

 obtained by layering down luxuriant shoots of plants growing in the open 



