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RANUNCULUS AND ANEMONE. 
The frames of Ranunculus and Anemone must have plenty 
of air, and give frequent sprinklings of water. The sashes 
or shutters should be taken entirely off every mild day, and 
in fine nights leave them exposed to the dew. Stir the earth 
among them, breaking it fine, and making all neat and clean. 
They require liberal supplies of water after they begin to 
grow. 
ROSES. 
This is the most favourable month for planting all kinds 
of garden roses, which must be done as soon as the weather 
opens, and the ground in a proper state. The earlier they 
are planted the more perfect they will flower. Never delay 
planting when there is an opportunity ; for, if delayed until 
the leaves are expanded, the bloom will be much weakened, 
and the probability is there will be no flowers, and the plants 
meet with a premature death. It has been said, " There is 
a particular advantage in planting some every ten days, even 
to the middle of May ; for the flowering of them may be re- 
tarded in this way, and the bloom of these delightful shrubs 
continue for a much longer period." One moment's reflec- 
tion will convince us that nature, while in her own element, 
will not be retarded, suppose there was no danger of instan- 
taneous death to the plants. The artificial means that might 
be judiciously adopted, with which we are acquainted, to 
keep back the blooming of hardy plants, is to lift them as 
soon in spring as is practicable, put them in boxes of earth, 
and then place them in the driest part of an ice-house, until 
the desired time of planting, which may be delayed as long 
as the required time of flowering. This will be found a true 
method of retarding the flowering of roses especially, and not 
going counter to the rules and principles of nature. There 
are many beautiful varieties of the garden rose in cultivation, 
the names of the finest of which we will give in the following 
catalogue : — 
African black, very dark crimson, compact and very double. 
Belle amabile, fine dark red, large and double. 
