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cinth succeeds the Crocus, the Verbena succeeds 
the Hyacinth, and this lasts the whole year ; 
then the Anemone succeed the Narcissus, and 
the Narcissus taken up, makes room for the 
Early Ten-week Stock ; the China Aster goes 
in when the Anemone comes out; the Wall- 
flower succeeds the Snowdrop ; the Turban 
Ranunculus succeeds the Wallflower, and the 
Wallflower, when potted up, makes way for 
the Phlox Drummondii, which lasts till all is 
over. Numerous Annuals offer a varied choice. 
Each of the plants we have mentioned affords 
an opportunity of showing one's taste ; and 
the flower garden, with all the plants we have 
mentioned, will form no small delight to the 
admirers of the fancy mode of carpeting the 
ground with the blooms of living plants. 
THE PINE APPLE, AND DISROOTING. 
Much stress has been laid on the production 
of two or three heavy Pine Apples, which were, 
in fact, the fruit of several plants that had stood 
over without fruiting for some time, and were 
planted out in a dung bed, not in pots, and 
submitted to what the Pine Apple wants, 
plenty of heat, until they yielded the produce 
which made so much noise. These plants were 
not disrooted, it appears; and the fact was 
made use of to show up, as it were, the folly 
of disrooting ; but without sufficient cause, 
when the object of disrooting is considered. 
A man who grows Pine Apples must first 
make up his mind what he is going to grow 
for — size, or rapidity of supply. The market- 
gardeners, who have been ridiculed for not 
producing Queen Pines of five pounds, and 
Providences of ten or fifteen, have several 
things to consider. First, they want Pine 
Apples of a marketable size ; second, they 
want. them of good flavour; third, they want 
them at the particular season when they pay 
best. These considerations induce them to 
strike their suckers as quick as they can, 
grow them as fast as they can, and when they 
have got them about the size they want, to 
throw them into fruit at the proper season. 
Now the disrooting is intended to hasten the 
fruiting, and nothing else. Root-pruning trees 
is no new mode of promoting their bearing at 
an early age. Mr. Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, 
has practised this so successfully with Pears, 
that some that would grow in a peck pot would 
produce a basket of fruit. The cultivators 
of Pines for market calculate their time so 
well, that the supply at market, or to their 
customers, rarely varies much, either in weight 
or period of ripening. Yet these persons are 
taunted with not knowing how to grow fruit, 
merely because a gentleman's gardener, who 
has no season in particular to produce fruit 
in, can grow them larger than the market- 
gardeners choose to do. Many of the gentrj', 
who always- grow for size, hardly know the fla- 
vour of a good Pine Apple ; for, as has been 
well observed by some writer, large fruit are 
invariably less high-flavoured than small fruit 
of the same kind; and the good folks who 
supply the market not only hit the size that 
everybody wants to buy, but the flavour which 
everybody wishes to enjoy. The only ques- 
tion, then, for the consideration of the grower 
is, does he want size or rapid growth ? Does 
he want Pines for the continued supply of a 
family, and all sizes, many months in the 
year, or require them all at once, when they 
bring most at market? If he requires to sup- 
ply in small quantities and constantly, he must 
grow several kinds of fruit. He must have 
plants of all sizes ; he may let them take their 
chance. Some will be rising to fruit at all 
seasons, which is just what he requires; and 
they will most likely be fine fruit, because 
they will not have been hurried in their 
growth. But it is wrong to conclude, be- 
cause Pine growers do not bring large fruit, 
they cannot do so ; when all their system is, 
and their object is, to produce plenty of it at 
a right season, and of the marketable size, 
which is always at such seasons in demand. 
RIBES SANGUINEA FLORE-PLENO. 
The Ribes sanguinea with some of its 
seedling varieties, is a pretty object among 
flowering shrubs ; but a double variety, 
figured in Paxton's Magazine the last month, 
is very striking, if the representation be cor- 
rect ; the flower would individually remind 
one of the double scarlet thorn, but the 
bunches, or racemes, of bloom are very long 
and handsome. This is one of the most 
rapidly growing of the ordinary flowering 
shrubs ; and seedling varieties differ in shade 
from a bright red to deep crimson, and from 
that, through all the grades of lighter colours, 
up to white ; this latter being called Ribes 
alba, or, as if in the spirit of contradiction, 
Ribes sanguinea, var. alba. The present variety 
is exceedingly showy, and is represented as a 
brilliant scarlet crimson. The original plant 
of this was found among a hundred seedlings, 
in the garden of the Earl of Selkirk, Kirkcud- 
bright, by Mr. David Dick, who supposes 
one of his predecessors had sown them. These 
he caused to be planted out, and when they 
flowered this was among them. The racemes 
of the flower are represented to be three to 
six inches long; but certain it is that the plant 
will supersede the single ones, if it be only 
half as good as it is said to be. It is longer in 
bloom, and three weeks later coming into flower, 
than the single ones, and is, on that account 
alone, more valuable, if it were no better in 
