61 Noisette Rose, to flower low, in beds. To effect this, 
the Noisette Rose should be wholly pruned back, in February, 
to within six inches of the ground. When it has made shoots, 
six or seven inches long, which will be towards the close of 
April, the ends of the strong shoots, or suckers, should be pinched 
off, which will cause them to push forth laterals. Their growth 
should be examined every fortnight, during the summer, and as 
such strong shoots show themselves, past the stipulated length, 
they should be pinched off, and a multitude of dwarf free-flower- 
ing lateral shoots will be produced in succession, till frosts prevent 
it. We cannot convey to our readers an idea of the immense mass 
of flowers thus produced, in beds of this rose, from the early part 
of June through the whole of summer. A large bed has, at 
this moment, upwards of five hundred flowers and buds on every 
square foot of its area. A single shoot only has one hundred 
and twenty. 
62 Noisette Rose, to propagate. In February, when it has 
been cut back, as above directed, the branches, which have been 
cut off, should be shortened to a bud, at their lower ends, cut to 
proper lengths, potted, and then plunged in the tan bed of a 
stove, where they will root freely in a short time, and may be 
planted out in the following May. If the plants be not required 
till the following year, the branches, as they are cut from the 
old stocks, in February, may, without any sort of dressing or 
preparation, be laid in a trench, in a cool shady situation, and 
half of them will grow, and be fit for transplanting in the follow- 
ing spring. A w hole hedge of them was so propagated last year. 
63 Sowing Small Seeds. Instead of covering flower seeds, in- 
discriminately, the eighth of an inch deep, or even more, when 
they are sowed, such as are very small, should not be covered 
at all. The inequality of the loose surface of the soil forms 
ample covering for them, when watered, however delicately 
that watering may be effected. We sowed seeds of Nierembergia 
phcenicea, in April, and sprinkled a very small quantity of fine 
compost over them; not so much as entirely to cover all the 
seeds, but even this was too much. They were submitted to a 
hotbed for a month, and then put in the open air, in the shade, 
a fortnight longer; after this the young plants, which were abun- 
dant, were wholly drawn from the seed pots and transplanted. 
The surface of the soil in the seed pots was then slightly stirred 
116 61, 62, 1. Markham. 
