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LITERARY NOTICE. 
large towns, where the air is rendered impure by the clouds of 
smoke constantly steaming into it. Others are of small size, and 
are often hemmed in by trees on all sides—on this with a neigh¬ 
bour’s favorite chesnuts ; on that with a group of sombre-looking 
firs ; and on another with a row of towering elms. And although 
we may think it not right that our less majestic denizens should 
suffer at their hands, we have no help for it. They have their 
pets, as we have ours. They find as much pleasure in the blos¬ 
soms of their chesnuts, in the agreeable shade of their elms during 
the sultry months of summer, or in the privacy afforded them by 
the impenetrable darkness of their fir trees, as we do in the per¬ 
fect form and varied tints of our roses. We cannot rid ourselves 
of their shade ; we have no right, indeed, to wish to do so. But 
we might not hesitate to dock their roots, should they, in their 
perigrinations, enter our domain to gormandize on the provision 
made for our favorites. This, we think, would be justifiable ; we 
are acting in self-defence. They are robbers and deserve punish¬ 
ment, although it must not be such as to do them permanent 
injury. Then, again, as to soils : some are sandy; others are 
clayey, wet, cold, and altogether uncongenial to vegetation. In 
a word, we cannot always suit our gardens to your roses; your 
roses must therefore be brought to suit our gardens. 5 
" The number of complaints of this kind received from ama¬ 
teurs possessing small gardens satisfy us that they are great. It 
must he admitted, that localities are often unfavorable and hardly 
capable of improvement. With this, then, we must endure, and 
seek the remedy in the choice of varieties, selecting such as our 
own experience or that of our friends point out as succeeding 
best under such circumstances. It is well known that some 
kinds will grow and flourish where others will scarcely exist. 
Were this fact taken advantage of by those who plant in un¬ 
favorable situations or unkindly soils, doubtless less failures in 
rose culture would ensue. But, it may be said, some of the most 
delicate in habit are the most beautiful of roses ; and how can we 
dispense with such? That the varieties possessed of the most 
bewitching forms and tints are most difficult of culture is, to a 
certain extent, true; but we opine that a rose which will flourish 
and blossom in a doubtful situation or in an unfriendly soil, is 
greatly to be preferred for such, to one which would only exist 
