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deep for the lo-es, and to get something of the clayey or marly 

 kind to mix with it, it being quite useless to plant the shrub unle-s 

 it be made capable of bearing flowers, which it will not in a poor 

 hungrv soil. Roses may be trained against houses, and especially 

 the Chinese rose. In this case care should be taken to prune out 

 old wood occasionally, and to shorten the shoots so as to keep the 

 tree in bearing condition. If roses, as standards, are required to 

 be of considerable height, occasional pruning must take place to 

 keep the head in order, and to prevent one part from rambling 

 beyond another. All the roses but the Chinese bear upon wood 

 of the last year or some former year ; that is to say, there must be 

 wood of a year old or more for a little shoot to come out of to 

 bear the flowers. The height of your dwarf rose must depend 

 upon that of its surrounding neighbours : if they be low, as in a 

 flower-border or tlower-garden, the roses must be so pruned down 

 in the wniter as to leave no part of the shrub more than a foot 

 high, taking care to leave the strongest and best wood : out of 

 this wood come little shoots that bear the roses. A Chinese rose 

 will send out a long shoot from the ground in the spring, which 

 will bear flowers during the same year. If this rose stand in a 

 low border, it must be cut down to within a foot of the ground, 

 or it overtops every thing in a short time. 



398. SAGE, Jervsalem. — Lat. Phlornis fruticosa. A hardy 

 shrub of Spain and Sicily, three or four feet high, and blows a 

 vellow flower in July, August, and September. Propagated by 

 dividing the roots, and by sowing in beds prepared for that 

 purpose. Not particular as to soil. 



399. SEA-BLXKTHORX.- — Lat. Hippophae rhamoidfs. 

 A large hardy shrub from the borders of the Mediterranean, and 

 blows in April. Propagated by layers made in black heath-mould. 

 Any soil suits it, but light soil is best. 



400. SERVICE-TREE, true.—l.^.x. Sorhus domestica. A 

 tree common in England, ab ut tiftv feet high, blows a white 

 flower early in the spri-^g. and bears fruit which raoy be eaten. Pro- 

 pagates itself in forests, and is obtnined in gardens by seed, and by 



grafting on the white thoni. ]\IouNTAiy-AsH. — Lat S. aucv- 



paria. A tree common in the north of Europe, not so high as the 

 preceding one. blows clusters of white flowers in May, and bears 

 clusters of beautiful red berries in the autumn. A most orna- 

 mental tree for large pleasure-grounds. Bastard Service- 



