JOHNSON S DICTIONARY OF MODERN GARDENING. 
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" ' To lessen evaporation, and keep up a 
constant moisture at the root of their roses, 
the Paris gardeners generally mulch them 
with half-rotten stable clung or partially rotten 
leaves.' 
" The Banksian Rose must be pruned at 
no other time, but immediately after it has 
done blooming in June, or early in July. 
" Planting. — ' On removing trees,' says 
the author of the Tree Rose, " the fresh shoots 
they have made, and the appearance of those 
which were left, will require attention in 
the application of the knife. In pruning a 
large root it should be cut to a lateral ; in 
shortening a small one, to a fibre. Where a 
plant has been examined and trimmed re- 
cently, however, the knife should be sparingly 
used. 
" ' And it may here be well to observe, 
that all cuts to remove branches, knots, or 
roots, should be cpiite clean, slanting (and 
deep enough to the stem, viz. even with it), 
and nothing left projecting, lest dead wood 
be the consequence, and the plant be eventu- 
ally injured. All wounds should be carefully 
healed, and dead wood should, in all cases, 
be removed, and living bark encircle that 
which remains.' " 
" The best time for planting is November." 
The matter, if not greatly abridged, is 
selected from the closest writers, in many 
cases at least ; for instance, the Honeysuckle 
is generally treated at considerable length, 
and it is one of those very beautiful subjects 
which will bear a good deal to be said of 
it ; we select a portion of the Dictionary 
which includes this, because we think it a fair 
sample of the manner in which the plants are 
treated, and we take the few words that follow 
to give a general notion of the Dictionary. 
" Honeysuckle {Lonlcera Periclymenum. 
— This hardy, beautiful, and fragrant flower- 
ing shrub will grow in almost any soil, and 
will thrive where few others will, under the 
shade of trees. There are the following sub- 
species : — 
" 1. Periclymenum sempervirens ; per- 
foliate evergreen ; Virginia honeysuckle, 
which always flowers, commonly called Trum- 
pet honeysuckle. 
"2. Periclymenum racernosum ; honey- 
suckle with yellowish flowers, growing in 
bunches, and a snowy fruit. 
"3. Periclymenum verticillatum, another 
tree-like honeysuckle, with inflected branches, 
and a coral-coloured flower. 
"4. Periclymenum gcrmanicum, the Ger- 
man honeysuckle. 
"5. Periclymenum italianum, Italian 
honeysuckle. 
"6. Periclymenum vulgare j honeysuckle 
with a corymbus of flower terminating the 
stalks, hairy leaves, growing distinct, and very 
slender branches, commonly called English 
hone3'Suckle or woodbine. 
" 7. Periclymenum americanum, the ever- 
green honeysuckle. 
" As to the general culture, they require 
very little : the upright sorts, in particular, 
require to have only their straggling shoots 
shortened, and dead wood cut out ; and the 
trailing kinds, which are trained as climbers, 
must have their branches conducted in a 
proper manner upon their respective supports; 
and every year all rambling shoots must be 
reduced and trained as you shall see proper, 
so as to preserve them within due limits ; 
unless you design they shall run wild in their 
own rural way, especially those intended 
to climb among the branches of trees, shrubs, 
and bushes, those also intended and trained 
annually ; laying the shoots along at their 
length, especially till they have covered the 
allotted space ; shortening or clearing out, 
however, all such stragglers as cannot be 
properly trained ; likewise such of those sorts 
as are trained against walls, &c, must have 
an annual pruning and training, by going 
over them two or three times in summer, 
laying in some of the most convenient shoots, 
some at their length, shortening or retrench- 
ing others, as it shall seem necessary to pre- 
serve regularity, and the proper succession of 
flowers ; observing, however, to train enough, 
at this time particularly, of such as shall 
appear necessary to continue the bloom as 
long as possible ; and in winter pruning, thin 
out all those left in summer which may 
now appear superfluous, and shorten all such 
as are too long for the space allotted for 
them, especially all those with weak straggling 
tops ; and nail in the remaining branches and 
shoots close to the wall. 
" Propagation is effected by layers and cut- 
tings, more particularly the latter, both of 
which readily emit roots, and form plants in 
one year, fit to transplant. Some sorts are 
also propagated by suckers and by seed. 
"PgLai/ers. — In autumn, winter, or spring', 
lay a quantity of the lower young shoots of 
the former summer, shortening their strag- 
gling tops ; they will be well rooted by the 
autumn following, each commencing a good 
plant, and should be taken off, and planted 
in nursery rows, for a year or two, -to acquire 
proper size and strength for use. 
" Hi/ Cuttings. — Any time from October 
till March, is the proper time for this work, 
but the sooner the better, and by which method 
prodigious quantities of the plants may be 
raised, as almost every cutting will readily 
grow. 
" Choose of the young shoots of the previous 
summer, the strongest and most robust, which 
