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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
Horatius to dedicate the golden rose with a snow-white lily to 
Icativity and love, and then give attention to practical matters — 
“ Neu desint epulis rosse, 
Neu vivax apium, neu breve lilium. 
Oiiines in Damalin putres 
Deponent oculos ; nee Damalis novo 
Divelletur adultero, 
Liiscivis bederis ambitiosir.” 
Carm. i. 38, 15. 
i'he yellow teas differ in habit and merit considerably, but all 
except one are somewhat tender, and to enjoy them thoroughly, it is 
necessary to plant them out in a span-roofed house, or to grow them 
in pots with the aid of a good brick pit. The free-growing sorts 
make fine standards, and are unequalled as wall-roses, for they run 
to a great height quickly, and flower abundantly if the points of 
the shoots are pinched out as soon as the rods have attained their 
full length. The weak growers make neat bushes if regularly pruned 
back to promote a sufficient growth of side-shoots, and they are 
most prodigal of their flowers in autumn if out of doors, but when 
grown under glass they flower delightfully in the month of May, 
and again in August. The English brier is the best stock for all the 
strong-growing sorts, and of all roses in the world that thrive on 
the brier, no matter what the height of the stem or the aspect, or 
even the relative purity of the air, Gloire de Dijon surpasses them 
all in hardiness and general usefulness. Indeed, we place Marechal 
IS iel, which we class as a noisette, 
second in rank of relative merit to 
this most thrifty of the teas, and 
although for the present no one 
will agree with us, the time will 
come when all ex- 
perienced rosarians 
w’ill declare the 
judgment to be 
correct. The weak 
growers do well on 
the Manetti brier, 
and all do well on 
their own roots, 
and their own are 
tlie best roots they 
can have when they 
are planted in open 
borders ; because 
as they are likely 
to be killed to the 
ground - line in a 
severe winter, they will renew themselves from the roots, and 
I'ecover in one season, but if on foster roots they never recover — 
i t is the stock alone that survives. As the weak growers make 
good pot plants, and the strong growers run fast and soon cover a 
SECTION OP nOSE-HOrSE IN THE NURSERY OF MESSRS. 
VEITCH AND SOX. 
