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THE LADIES MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
CHANGE OF COLOUR IN PINKS. 
Madam, — I am taking in the Ladies’ Magazine of Gardening, and am 
greatly interested in the work, and find in it much useful information. I 
had some very fine-coloured Pinks last year; to my great surprise, this 
summer the blossoms are perfectly white ; to what may I attribute this, 
and how shall I rectify it ? I shall be glad to have this query answered 
in one of your future numbers. 
T. M. B. 
Yelverton Rectory, 
June 1 6 th, 1841. 
The above queries may be considered in some degree as answering each 
other. I think it very probable that the change of colour complained of 
by my correspondent, T. M. B., arises entirely from the change of soil. 
I shall, however, give an article on this subject in my next, after I have 
made some further inquiries respecting it. 
; KEEPING PLANTS IN GLASS CASES. 
Have you forgotten your promises respecting the glass-cases of Sir John 
Robinson? 
H. S. 
Shenstone, near Lichfield, 
July 6 th. 
I have not forgotten my promise ; but hoping to be in Edinburgh in a 
few days, when I shall probably see the cases in question, I will defer my 
account of them till next month. 
RAISING ROSES FROM SEEDS. 
Can you tell me how to raise roses from seed ? 
Idem. 
The following directions are those of a practical man and an experienced 
rose-grower:—- 
“ In October, I collected the ripest hips of the red officinal, Portland, 
and velvet Roses. These three sorts seed freely here. They were 
growing among the finer sorts, which seldom ripen any seed. After ga¬ 
thering the hips, I laid them on a stone-paved floor, and rubbed them 
under a brick, to soften the seed-vessels; then I rubbed them one by one 
between my fingers. Of this mass I had about two quarts. I sowed the 
seed immediately on a wall-border with an aspect opposite the sun at eight 
o’clock in the morning. The soil was sandy loam. I covered them half 
