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every county in England. The position of the ledges being of course 
varied, to show the inclination of the strata ; and a label being pasted on 
each ledge with the name of the earth, rock, or mineral inclosed. Models 
of this kind would be very useful to all scientific cultivators of the soil, as 
it is of great importance to know the nature of the sub-soil before apply¬ 
ing manure. I was also much pleased with an Indian watering engine, 
made &f wood, and costing only six or seven shillings, which appeared to 
throw up water as well as any of the costly brass and iron machines now 
in such general use. 
August 10 .—Stirling to Edinburgh .—We dismissed our carriage at 
Stirling, and returned to Edinburgh in a steam-boat down the Forth. 
ON THE CULTURE OF ROSES. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
{Continued from p. 270.) 
In my previous paper on this subject I have divided the roses of which 
I mean to treat into the hardy and the half-hardy, and I have already 
described three of the hardy kinds ; viz, the common cabbage or Provence 
roses, the moss roses, and the French or Provins roses. I shall now 
proceed to the other hardy kinds ; viz. the white roses, the damask roses, 
the Scotch roses, the sweet-briar, the yellow roses, and the climbing roses. 
The common white rose (Rosa alba ), has been cultivated in British 
gardens above three hundred years. It is frequently found semi-double, 
growing without any culture, and apparently half wild. Many varieties 
and hybrids have been raised from it, some of which are of a delicate 
blush colour, and some decidedly pink. They all, however, preserve the 
glaucous, mealy foliage of the original species, by which they can always 
be distinguished at first sight. One of the finest of these roses is called 
Blanche Superbe, or Blanche de Belgique, and it has very large double 
flowers of the purest white. Fatima has its flowers tinged with pink in 
the centre. Princesse de Lamballe, Queen of Denmark, and Zoraime, are 
fine pure white roses; and Viridis is curious in its flowers, appearing 
green till they are fully expanded. All the roses of this division make 
good standards; they flower abundantly, and require to have their strong 
shoots cut down to six or eight buds, and the weak ones to two or three 
buds. This pruning should not be delayed longer than the first or second 
week in November, if performed in winter ; or the first week in May, if 
postponed till spring. 
