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placing in a back row in the winter fruiting-house. 

 It is a sure fruiter under Jamaica treatment, and does 

 well in a ten-inch. pot. The section to which it 

 belongs should be a sufficient guarantee of its keeping 

 qualities. 



Lady Beatrice Lambton. — This large, hand- 

 some variety was raised at Lambton Castle by Mr. 

 Stevenson some twenty years ago ; but the credit of 

 bringing it before the public is due to Mr. Hunter, 

 the present gardener, who has exhibited remarkably 

 line fruit, weighing from seven to ten pounds each. 

 It is described as being of tall growth, with dark 

 green leaves, covered with an unusual quantity of 

 whitish mealiness. Fruit pyramidal with a small 

 crown, and closely set in the foliage ; pips broad and 

 flat, orange-coloured, bright yellow in the furrows ; 

 flesh pale yellow, abundantly juicy ; flavour rich and 

 excellent. Mr. Hunter reports its average weight 

 to be nine pounds, the heaviest he has cut weigh- 

 ing eleven and a half pounds, as being one of the 

 handsomest of the large varieties of Pine-apple, free- 

 bearing, more robust in growth and less spreading 

 than the Smooth-leaved Cayenne. Mr. D, Thomson, 

 the great authority on Pines, is now fruiting it 

 extensively, and speaks very highly of it. It should 

 be classed with the winter fruiters. 



White Providence.— Though thig Pine is now 

 seldom met with, the fact that it produces the largest 

 fruit should give a few plants a place in large collec- 

 tions. It is a tall, strong-growing variety, with broad 

 mealy leaves, is easily grown and fruits freely. The 

 fruit is oval, with large nearly flat pips of a reddish- 

 yellow colour ; flesh white, sweet, and juicy, but not 

 highly flavoured when ripened in summer. It is of 

 no value as a winter Pine, and does not keep long. 



There are several other distinct varieties, such as 

 Moscow Queen, Enville, Black Prince, Prince Albert, 

 Globe, and Prickly Cayenne, which might be de- 

 scribed ; but as they are not in every respect equal 

 to the kinds which have been proved worthy of a 

 place in this list, their enumeration only will suffice 

 for the guidance of those who may wish to give them 

 a trial in their Pine-stoves. 



THE EOSE AND ITS CULTUEE. 



By D. T. Fish. 



ROSES FOB PILLARS, PYEAMIDS, Af^CHES, 

 AUBOUBS, TENT-BEDS, RUSTIC BESTS, &c. 



WHILE Roses multiply and increase at a ratio 

 and improve with a speed far exceeding all 

 the most fervid imaginings of the older Eosarians, it 

 is more than doubtful whether our use and enjoy- 



ment of them is so appropriate and pleasing as 

 theirs. Under the Roses was with them synonymous 

 with the sw^eetest rest and most satisfying pleasure ; 

 and they took pains to get under them. Hence the 

 prevalence of arches, arbours, and covered seats in 

 gardens. To these, philosophers came to think, poets 

 for inspiration, lovers for sweet fellowship, and the 

 uneasj' for rest. With the abolition of arbom-s, 

 shady flower-covered verandahs, and garden seats, 

 much of the restfulness, and not a little of the sweet 

 cultured enjoyment of the old-fashioned gardeners 

 of the older gardens, has passed away. The best of 

 gardens have now, certainly, more of promenades 

 than quiet resting-places such as those of which 

 Moore sings — 



" In the time of my ciiildliood it was like a sweet dream, 

 To sit under tlie Eoses and hear the birds' song. 



Long, long be my heart with such memories filled ; 

 Like the vase in which Eoses have once been distilled 

 You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will ; 

 But the scent of the Eoses will hang roimd it still." 



And thus may the memory of some of the Rose 

 bowers or arbours in which Addison, Shenstone, 

 Wordsworth, Scott, or ]\Ioore sat or walked, cause a 

 revival of this innocent and useful form of garden 

 ornament and furnishing ; for assuredly Roses never 

 look more truly "the glory of the day" than when 

 they shelter us with their verdure and beauty from 

 the noonday heat at midsummer, as we sit or walk 

 under their shadows, or gaze up at them flooded with 

 light or pearled ovev with rain or dewdrops. 



While the foundations or base-lines of arches, &c., 

 must of necessity be highly artificial, the art should 

 be as much as possible concealed by the Roses, so 

 that the results in general landscape should look- 

 natural. To achieve this is most difficult ; still it is 

 more or less possible, and should be aimed at by 

 landscape gardeners. The weakest point in most 

 gardens, from a picturesque point of view, are the 

 Roses — stiff, squat, or formal to a fault, as a rule. 

 By twisting them over arches, allowing them to 

 wander -wild and free over arboui'S, covered ways, 

 and seats, the Roses in our garden may be made to 

 equal, if not rival, in the same wild luxuriance and 

 artistic effects, those occasionally to be found in 

 out-of-the-way places. The highest art in the 

 matter of Rose - training is, as it were, to "clothe 

 upon art with nature." 



This is very difficult, next to impossible, in regard 

 to pillar and pyramidal Roses, but becomes compara- 

 tively easy in regard to the covering of arches and 

 the clothing of seats and arbours. 



Pillar Roses. — The distinguishing feature of 

 these is uniformity of breadth, as far as may be, 



