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from which it was raised ; stems and buds 
occasionally mossed in streaks. 
Panache deMeaux. — A small double silvery 
white Rose, with red blotches and stripes ; 
not abundantly mossed, but very distinct from 
any Eose yet out. 
Rose Willisonii. — A curious cutsemi-double, 
purple striped Rose ; a thornless plant, with 
willow-like leaves ; very extraordinary. 
Weeping Hose. — This is a Boursault, with 
large globular flowers, of a delicate blush, in 
graceful clusters ; the plant is nearly thorn- 
less, robust, and even more pendant than the 
Ash ; we may, therefore, expect to see Rose 
Bowers equal to those of the Ash ; no collec- 
tion ought to be without it as a weeping plant; 
and as the Rose, in a dwarf state, creeps close 
to the ground, it might be planted to fall over 
rocks, or banks, &c, so forming a very in- 
teresting and novel object. 
Victoria Ayrshire. — Fine rosy lilac, very 
double, in large graceful clusters ; the plant 
will grow twenty feet in one season; the finest 
Ayrshire Rose known. 
HORTICULTURAL NOTES. 
- Storing Potatoes. — Whether the rot 
among the Potatoes is, or is not, so severe as 
some of the papers would indicate, we will 
hardly question at present ; but we are quite 
convinced that half the mischief that occurs 
among the crops, arises from the careless man- 
ner in which the tubers are stored. See the 
manner in which they are pitted, and the quan- 
tity of growth which has taken place when 
they are opened ; all this growth has altered 
the character of the Potatoes. They are, never- 
theless, sent off to market with all their stems 
rubbed off, and were there no detriment to them 
as food, there must be great damage done to 
them as seed ; yet we find people buying at a 
time of year when none but exhausted ones 
can be had. The proper way to store 
Potatoes, is to lay them on a dry floor, and 
when they are for seed, they ought to be 
exposed to the sun and air until they are 
pretty well green outside, the same as when 
they are found growing above the surface. 
But whether for seed or eating, nothing can 
be better than a dry floor, and they must be 
moved, from time to time, to prevent them 
sweating. If any of the Potatoes have been 
affected by the disease said to be now preva- 
lent, they should be picked out, and when the 
rotted parts are cut away, the remainder are 
just as good as sound Potatoes. 
The Properties op Flowers and 
Plants. — Before any production can be ad- 
vanced in quality, it is necessary to point out 
what properties will be permanently esteemed 
by the public; for, until that is done, those who 
raise subjects from seed cannot tell which they 
are to encourage. They will generally select 
the largest and most gaudy, instead of the 
best, and no perceptible improvement will be 
accomplished. 
Guano and Potatoe Crops. — Much has 
been said about the Potatoe murrain, and we 
are told it is a new and extraordinary disease, 
never known until recently. Is there any con- 
nexion between the new system of manuring 
and the new disease ? We may be told that 
the failures take place where no guano has 
been used ; but, it is not so clear that the seed 
may not have been grown with guano, or come 
from others which had been so cultivated. We 
do not believe in the pretended extent of the 
mischief, and we do believe a good deal of 
what there is occurs where guano has been 
used; but, suppose it did, that would say no- 
thing to implicate guano, while there was 
one field or acre that was affected without the 
connexion being traced to it. Guano, like all 
other exciting manures, may change the cha- 
racter of a plant, and render it more susceptible 
of damage. The Auricula, when excited by 
poultry dung, is very apt to go off with just 
such a rot as now affects some of the 
Potatoes. 
Writers on Gardening. — When gar- 
deners attempt to enlighten each other upon 
the subject of any particular practice, they 
should bear in mind the fact, that their fellow- 
craftsmen have been educated in the same way 
as themselves, and that they do not require to 
be taught again. In an expensive Garden 
periodical, therefore, it seems out of place to 
read one paper upon the treatment of Brocoli, 
and another upon growing the Violet ; one 
long yarn, as the sailors say, about growing 
Heaths, and another about Vines, when all 
these things have been taught to perfection by 
authors far better versed in practice, and better 
able to write. It is not so in a work designed 
for the multitude of amateurs, and working or 
under-gardeners ; the former, anxious to learn 
anything as easily as possible, because they 
know but little, the other equally desirous 
to profit by reading what head-gardeners 
too often keep them ignorant of, for interested 
purposes. In a work like the present, we are 
anxious to give everything plainly, beginning at 
the beginning, taking the inexperienced ama- 
teur through the most level path, and intro- 
ducing him to the Science of Gai'dening at the 
very threshold. The object is to make him 
acquainted with the very first steps. The 
journeyman-gardener will find useful hints, 
which will forward him in his profession, and 
the finished gardener may learn something 
about the culture of Florists' flowers which has 
not ■ hitherto been attended to, even by the 
heads of the profession, as we should like to 
