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determination of blood to the head. Granting a 

 success, which I have never seen but once (in a 

 glorious tree of the old Hybrid China Fulgens), the 

 process of fruition would be laborious. Only from a 

 balloon, a balcony, a bedroom window, could we 

 supervise and fully appreciate such sublimities ! Are 

 we then to discard entirely those standard trees de- 

 scribed to us in the catalogue as 'extra tair? Is 

 Briareus the giant to be again buried beneath Mount 

 Etna — i.e., the rubbish heap } Certainly not. He 

 may do us good service, kindly treated, and be made 

 to look most imposing in our gardens holding a fair 

 bouquet of Roses in each of his hundred hands. I 

 mean that the vigorous Briers, from 6 to 8 feet in 

 height, may be converted into 



Weeping Rose Trees, 



which, properly trained, are very beautiful. Buds 

 of the Ayrshire and Evergreen Roses, of Amadis 

 and Gracilis, Boursaults, or of Blairii 2, Hybrid 

 China, should be inserted, in three or four laterals, 

 at the top of such standards as have been selected 

 for their health as well as their height. Closely 

 pruned the following spring, they may be trans- 

 planted from the nursery, or from the private 

 budding-ground, in the autumn, and the removal 

 must be effected with every possible care and 



