A word on this subject. Deposit the heps, when 
ripe, in pots of soil, and plunge them in a dry bor- 
der. In February clean the seeds, and sow them 
in a warm situation. 
M. Laffay, the French Rose grower, has raised 
upwards of two hundred thousand seedlings in a 
single year ; whilst English garden lovers not only 
lose the pleasure and the honour of propagating 
superior varieties, hut wait with impatience to send 
their gold to him for Roses that are new. As Mr. 
Paul, in his “Rose Garden” (infinitely the best work 
ever written on the culture of the Rose) justly says, 
“Why should France labour alone in this field? why 
should she have all the fame, reap all the profit ?” 
The Rose which we now figure — “Geant des 
Batailles, or in plain English, “Giant of the Battles, 
combines two qualities which, we believe, renders it 
superior to every other in cultivation. These are, 
brilliancy of colour, and continuity of flowering. It 
is pronounced, by the first authority of the day, “the 
most brilliant, the most beautiful, ever beheld ” 
Seen in its highest perfection, we can accord it high 
praise ; but, in the majority of soils, its true colour 
is rarely developed. Here is a field for experiments , 
something wanted, and doubtless this something can 
be added. Without entering on the abstruse sub- 
ject of colour in flowers, we can assert, from experi- 
ence, that the red colour of flowers is increased in 
intensity by their growth in strong red loam. If 
this advantage be dependant on the colouring mat- 
ter of the loam, oxide of iron, such ingredient may 
readily be added. Again we say, here is a held for 
experiment ! 
