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THE CULTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ROSES. 
the China and hybrid kinds, are, in mild 
autumns, still growing, and perhaps blooming. 
Such must not be touched till the leaves have 
turned yellow, or have dropped ; but, in all 
other cases, where the leaves have faded, the 
removal is safely and beneficially done. Stocks 
may be procured and planted, and if the per- 
manent planting cannot, for any particular 
reasons, be done now, they must be temporally 
planted or laid in the earth, in a sloping 
direction, and the roots well covered with 
mould, which must also be well shook in 
among the roots and fibres. Cuttings may 
still be made of the smooth-wood kinds, and 
placed close together in pots of mould, with 
half-an-inch thickness of sand at the top. 
These pots must not be allowed to dry, but 
they may be put in a pit or greenhouse, or 
plunged under a hand-glass in the border, if 
you can answer for covering them well from 
frost. 
December. — Planting goes on well this 
month, if the weather be dry and open, but if 
wet, and the ground does not work well, it is 
better deferred; for if planting is done when 
the soil will not crumble well, and go between 
the roots, they cannot succeed. Look well to 
last month's directions, and attend to them in 
all respects, if not done before. 
SEEDLING ROSES. 
SAVING THE SEED. 
There is scarcely any one takes sufficient 
pains in saving the seed of any flower, and 
the consequence is the very great disappoint- 
ment which is experienced in the flowering of 
a lot of seedlings. We are anxious to direct 
attention to this point in Roses, because hitherto 
there has been very little care taken as to the 
quality of those called new; and if these were 
only something different from other varieties, 
no matter whether worse or better, it was suf- 
ficient to justify the raisers, in their own 
minds, in selecting it, naming it, and sending 
it out. It would be needless to inform the 
growers of collections that scarcely one in five 
is really worth the room it occupies, seeing 
how much better it could be occupied by 
growing more of the approved kinds, and less 
variety. We have seen, much to our mortifica- 
tion, a hundred Roses sent out by a popular 
grower, and very few of the number that 
should ever have been named at all. It is not 
merely necessary that a person should save seed 
from the best flowers only, but the best flowers 
should be by them.selves, or at least far re- 
moved from those flimsy kinds, which, (as too 
many are,) cannot even retain the proper form 
of the flower. Of the fifty and hundred col- 
lections shown in bunches, how difficult to 
pick out a dozen really well-formed Eoses; and 
if this be the case where a man has selected 
his best, what must be the character of the 
rest of his stock ? We may be answered 
that the season has been bad, or the time of 
year bad; but this would only be an answer as 
to particular shows, and not to all. However, as 
we are to remedy this evil, as well as to notice 
it, we will at once proceed to direct what Roses 
should be selected to seed from. Our advice 
is to attend to the properties, and, according 
to your wants, so group your Roses. Take 
those with the thickest and smoothest petals, 
so that, if there be any stamens at all, they will 
assist to seed others, or seed themselves. This 
will be going the right way to work, and con- 
trary to most of those who have professed to 
save seed ; they have for the most part been 
content to gather the berries from such trees 
as bore them, paying little attention to what 
they were; and it is not to be overlooked that 
the semi-double varieties bear seeds in great 
numbers, whereas the better Roses rarely bear 
them at all, and at all events in very small 
proportion to the less valuable kinds. This 
gives rise to the thousand bad ones, with 
scarcely half-a-dozen good ones, that raisers 
find on looking at the seed beds. As at first, in 
this present year even, people will be glad to 
save seed, and there is no opportunity of 
grouping a few on purpose, the best plan 
we can recommend, is to mark the kinds as 
they flower that are really good full flowers, 
with thick smooth-edged petals and fine tex- 
ture, and sow no seed but from them; or we 
may go further, and recommend that some one 
semi-double flower, with a fine petal, be se- 
lected, and artificially impregnated with the 
farina or pollen (which is the yellow dust on 
the stamens) of some good double Rose, or, 
vice versa, some good double thick-petalled 
Rose, on which the pistil can be well seen, 
may be impregnated with the pollen from some 
other good one which has plenty of it; and the 
seed, if perfected, may afford some chance of a 
few good flowers. The marking, however, of 
all good varieties while in bloom, may enable 
you to gather a few of the hips from them, 
and thus secure by both means together a few 
seeds worth the trouble of sowing. The usual 
plan of raisers has been to bury these berries 
or hips in mould, to rot them. We have seen 
a much quicker mode adopted, and with ad- 
vantage, — first, the berries have been carefully 
dried, and then as carefully bruised, and 
the seeds rubbed out, for the time the 
berries take to rot would be lost altogether; 
nevertheless, many persist in burying them 
from the time they are gathered until the 
spring, and then rub them out. We need 
hardly say, that if people had patience, the 
seed is as good when picked out from the ripe 
berry or pip as at any time; and we have seen 
