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earlier period, and set growing early in January, a greater degree of heat being 
employed. 
A span-roofed house, sloping to the east and west, is the most suitable for pot- 
roses. The plants should be kept as close to the glass as possible, and there 
should be the choice of giving either top or side air, or both when required. 
It should be mentioned that some roses produce finer flowers in pots under 
glass than in the open air, and different varieties are thus influenced by the 
varying systems of cultivation. The groups of roses best suited for growing in 
pots are Tea-scented, Hybrid Perpetual, Hybrid Bourbon, Noisette, and Bourbon, 
and to these should be added the Moss, on account of their beauty and distinctness. 
Certain kinds of roses which grow and flower freely (the Chinese and Tea- 
scented especially) may be so managed as to produce flowers throughout the 
month of December. The plants which have flowered in May may be used for 
this purpose. It is only necessary to keep the successional flowers which arise in 
July and August suppressed in the bud state, when fresh shoots will push forth 
terminated with flower-buds. The plants should be placed in a tolerably warm 
and dry house at the end of September, and the flowers will expand slowly and at 
intervals up to Christmas.— William Paul, Pauts Nurseries , Wcdtham Cross , N. 
THE EVERGREEN GARDEN. 
-^ME have elsewhere* invited attention to the importance of what may be 
Jl/ called an Evergreen Garden, as a part of the decoration of a pleasure- 
ground, and altogether independent of the necessary ordinary planting. 
The latter may, indeed, at the same time be enriched to any degree by 
the introduction of choice materials ; but on this point, we would here only further 
remark that great care should always be taken to select subjects which are hardy 
in the locality, so as to avoid the mortification which results from the destruction 
by frost of more or less developed specimens. 
What we mean by an Evergreen garden is a grouped selection of well-tried, 
hardy subjects, of various forms and colours, arranged after the manner of a parterre, 
and such as may be a source of unalloyed gratification throughout the severest 
winters. Its plan may be formal or picturesque, its extent may be limited or 
extended, its furnishing may be carried out in a more or less lavish style ; but 
laid out with any reasonable degree of taste, planted with even ordinary care, and 
furnished with but a limited selection of the fine evergreens which are available 
for such a purpose, the result cannot be other than to add a feature of extreme 
interest to the other enjoyable elements of a garden. 
Such an Evergreen Garden as we contemplate, that is to say, one thoroughly 
well furnished, would be perhaps a costly one ; but, once provided, it would be 
found well worth its cost. There is one very obvious advantage in associating 
together choice subjects of this class, namely, that they then produce a garden 
See Gardeners' Chronicle , 1871, p. 169-171. 
