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Splendens, rosy crimson. 
Souchet, crimson and purple. 
Souvenir de Dumont d'Urville, cherry red. 
Souvenir de la Malmaison, flesh and fawn 
colour. 
Archduke Charles, rose and crimson. 
Clara Sylvain, pure white. 
Cremoisie Superieure, bright crimson. 
Eugene Beauharnais, bright amaranth. 
Madame Breon, bright rose. 
Mrs. Bosanquet, flesh colour, fine. 
Napoleon, blush, very large. 
President d'Olbeque, cherry red. 
Prince Charles, bright carmine. 
Fellenberg, bright crimson. 
Miss Glegg, flesh colour and white. 
Ophirie, bright salmon and fawn. 
Pourpre de Tyre, crimson purple. 
Zobeide, brilliant rose. 
Amie Vibert, white, noisette. 
Lelieur, fine noisette. 
Nankin, noisette. 
We will venture to say that any one who 
orders the foregoing lists of roses will have 
flowers as early as May, and as late as the frosts 
keep off, even if it be Christmas ; and if they 
order standards, they will have them all bloom 
in perfection the first season. It is to be re- 
collected, too, that as the time is approaching 
when roses are best moved, those who desire 
to grow roses should apply early, and have 
the best choice. Nurserymen generally send 
out the best plants they have, consequently 
those who are served first are served best. 
Make up your mind where you are going to 
place them. Have a little heap of well-rotted 
dung on the spot, and when you dig the hole 
for planting, put the dung into it ; cut off all 
the turned ends of the root with a sharp knife ; 
fork up the soil at the bottom of the hole, to 
mix the dung well in it ; then plant your 
rose on it, throwing the top soil that you have 
taken out in upon the top ; then drive down 
a strong stake, to which the rose-tree is to be 
fastened, to protect it from being stirred or 
disturbed by the wind, and then leave it till 
pruning time. The best stakes are iron; but 
strong ash sticks, such as are used for dahlias, 
will answer the purpose ; and the fastening- 
should be with sack ties, which last longer 
than any sort of cord : but many persons use 
wire. In the spring, when the buds begin to 
swell, prune according to the form of the 
head at present, and the form you want it. If 
the head is pretty well formed, you may 
shorten all the shoots to three eyes or two, but 
take care that the end bud is below the shoot. 
Roses have too much disposition to grow 
upwards ; and many are exceedingly difficult 
to form into a good head, on that account; but 
by leaving the end buds under the shoot, they 
grow more favourably than they do if the end 
bud is upwards. If one side of the head is 
deficient of wood, let the shoots on that side 
be left with more buds, to fill up better; regard 
must must be had to the number of shoots 
already on the head and what you want. If, 
as is the case with new roses, there is but one 
strong shoot from the eye, cut that down to 
the last three eyes, which will push strong on 
different sides of the stock ; and when they 
are cut back after the summer's growth, they 
will make two or three shoots each, and the 
second year form an excellent head. But we 
will not conclude without strongly recom- 
mending the whole of the collection to be 
procured. 
STOCK SEEDS. 
The Germans are famous for saving all 
sorts of seeds, and for the pains they take to 
produce it in good order. Some of the most 
famous, save all their seeds in pots, and have 
then the opportunity of selecting only such 
plants as they consider will bring the best. 
Say they have ten thousand pots of Stocks, and 
they select, the instant they are in flower, 
such of them as are calculated to bring the best 
seeds, and place them in a garden or a com- 
partment where they will remain undisturbed. 
All the while the enormous quantity of Stocks 
are blooming, the growers are picking out the 
best of them, and removing them to their 
destination. They are said to select none but 
very broad-petalled Stocks to save from, be- 
cause such always run double. How far this 
is true we know not, because we never had 
any direct communication ; but we have had 
opportunity of knowing that they grow their 
seed in pots, — and certainly no method can be 
better, since it gives an opportunity of re- 
jecting all that are unlikely to yield good seed, 
or of adopting such as are very promising. 
We have heard so much about the mode of 
saving seed that Will come double, that we 
hardly know how to reconcile such contra- 
dictory statements ; and we are by no means 
convinced yet, that the cultivation has not 
much more than any thing to do with single 
and double flowers, because we have divided 
a packet of seed with a gardener, who has 
had them all double while we had them all 
single ; and we well recollect a nurseryman 
who was famous for double Stocks, and 
several who had his seed could make nothing 
of them. 
THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND 
PICOTEE. 
The appearance of Enchantress a few sea- 
sons ago, was considered a great acquisition 
to the Picotee family, and this season we 
