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third year, and from that time the height 

 should be allowed to increase slowly so 

 as to give the lower branches time to fill 

 up the base. The after care consists in 

 giving the roots a dressing of rotten ma- 

 nure every winter, taking the soil from 

 over the roots, laying the manure on 

 them, and then replacing the soil. Any 

 good free-growing Rose should do, such 

 as A?uta Alexief, yohn Hopper, yules 

 Margottin , Berth e Bar on JV illiamyesse, 

 Madame V idot, Madame Boll,Madame 



Marie Finger, General yacqueminot, 

 Senateur V aisse, Dr. Andry, Marshal 

 V aillant, Charles Fefebvre, Madame C. 

 JV ood, Ferdinand deLesseps ,MarieBau- 

 mann, Dupuy yamain, Atmie IV ood, 

 Reynolds Hole, Gruss an Teplitz, and 

 FrancoisCoppee. Where borders of hardy 

 flowers are made through kitchen or 

 fruit gardens some kind of background 

 is needed for effect, and there is no better 

 one than a hedge of well-grown Roses. 



ROSARIAN. 



CEDARS AT GOODWOOD. 



THE GREATER TREES OF THE 

 NORTHERN FOREST.— No. 19. 

 THE CEDAR OF LEBANON (Ce- 

 drus Fibant). 



A beautiful name for the most stately 

 and beautiful tree ever introduced to our 

 country, either as a woodland or as a 

 pleasure-garden tree. Not its least pre- 

 cious quality is its hardiness, proved by 



200 years of existence in Britain, in all 

 sorts of soils and situations from the 

 chalk of Goodwood to the free Surrey 

 sands of Pain's Hill and the alluvial of 

 Whitton. Its hardiness is explained in 

 part by the fact that it is a tree not far re- 

 moved from our own regions, the moun- 

 tains of Asia Minor and North Africa 

 being geographically not far from those 



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