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roots, either in pots or otherwise. Another plan is to plant four 
foot standards for the back row, two feet standards in front of them, 
then again one foot standard and dwarf roses on their own roots 
fronting the whole ; and if there be any wall or fence, climbing 
roses may be trained over it. In planting roses, they should never 
be buried deeper than they have been used to, and where they have 
a tendency to throw up suckers, these should be removed as fast as 
they appear. Roses should also be kept in form by rubbing off or 
stopping such shoots as are not wanted ; if this is done in time, it 
will save the use of the knife, and is far better than allowing them 
to grow anyhow, and then having to cut out a great deal in the 
autumn or winter. Roses are very subject to the green-fly, which 
should be brushed off as soon as it appears. They are also injured 
by a sort of caterpillar which eats the young buds ; these should be 
hunted for and destroyed, if possible, before they have done any 
mischief. Roses are propagated by budding, which has been so 
often mentioned, and the process described, as to render it needless 
here ; they are also raised from cuttings, which root freely if taken 
off while young, and treated as directed for bedding plants. 
A very neat method of keeping a little garden in order, is by 
cultivating the plants in pots. Let a certain number of dwarf hardy 
evergreen shrubs, and a few plants of Chieranthus Marshallii, ever- 
green candytuft, yellow alyssum, and such like evergreen her- 
baceous plants ; these are to be plunged about the borders for the 
winter, the herbaceous plants being placed next the edge; then if some 
snowdrops, crocuses, winter aconites, hyacinths, and other bulbs, are 
potted, these can be plunged between them, and will flower in March 
and April. As soon as they are over, take them up, and plunge 
some spring flowering herbaceous plants such as the above-men- 
tioned, which will flower in May ; when these are over, they may 
give place to cinerarias, and these again to scarlet geraniums, 
heliotropes, pots of China asters, etc. If a succession of flowering 
plants can be kept up in this way, the garden will be always fresh 
and lively ; one pot can be taken up and another dropped in its 
place ; and thus nearly all the work may be performed in a place 
apart from the garden, which it is desired to keep in order. And, 
all things considered, this mode will take no more time or labour 
than any other. 
DIELYTRA SPECTABILIS. 
ALTHOUGH the Dielytra is properly classed as a spring- 
flowering plant, yet, if propagated by cuttings of the 
young shoots in the spring, and planted out in June in 
a sheltered situation, it will continue to throw up a 
succession of blooms till late in the season ; it thrives 
best in a light rich soil, and should be plentifully supplied with 
water in dry weather. We once saw a bed so treated, in the front 
of a greenhouse, in bloom in September, and it appeared likely to 
continue in flower much longer, if frost did not occur. To procure 
February. 
