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SUMMER TREATMENT OF AURICULAS. 
The summer treatment of these plants is an important part of their 
management. A full north aspect is the best situation for them; 
they should have a free circulation of air, as cool and moist as can be 
obtained, during the months of June and July. The requisite is a 
standing rendered worm-proof by a good layer of coal-ashes, free 
from any filth; or, what is better, small brick-rubbish from the kiln, 
if it can be procured. 
M^hen the plants are arranged, the pots should be closely sur¬ 
rounded with boarding about two inches higher than the rims; this 
will tend to keep them cool at bottom, and in a great degree prevent 
rapid evaporation. The best and most convenient mode of protect¬ 
ing them from storms, heavy rains, and as shades, &c. is, wood 
shutters of weather boarding, hung on hinges at back, and resting 
on a slight framework in front, to lift up and let down at pleasure. 
The height in front from the base should not exceed twelve or four¬ 
teen inches, and, to insure a ready fall for the water, something more 
than double that height at back. Respecting the latter height, much 
will depend on the width of the border appropriated to the purpose. 
An erection of this kind costs but a trifle, and will be found use¬ 
ful as a shelter for garden utensils, such as small hand-lights, &c. 
when unoccupied by the Auriculas during the winter months. 
J. T. Neville. 
ROSE LANEI. RAISING SEEDLINGS. 
Moss-Rose Lanei is certainly a very distinct and beautiful Rose, 
whose habit of growth is compact, and it is an abundant bloomer. 
The foliage is very sweet; so much so, that in the neighbourhood of 
a bed of standards in our nursery, last season, the air was quite loaded 
with delicious perfume, until the foliage began to assume the hue of 
autumn. 
Now a word or two on seedlings generally. It will be found that 
very double flowers (which I prefer) bear seed vary sparingly; and 
that semi-double ones, like Celine, Gloire de Rosamene, &c. are too 
uncertain to produce double varieties, although they bear seeds in 
great abundance. I have tried many experiments in this delightful 
department of Rose-culture, viz. in crossing and raising new varieties. 
In November I collected my seed, put it into flower-pots mixed with 
sand, and placed it in the open air until it was sown, which was in 
the beginning of March, in beds in the open ground ; and in April 
the seeds began to vegetate, and in June some of the young plants, 
especially of the Bourbons, were in bloom; these, however, did not 
bloom then sufficiently strong to enable me to judge of their qualities. 
I did not find these seedlings to damp off, and we did not remove 
them until the beginning of the following March; for the smaller 
plants would have been thrown out of the ground by the winter 
frosts. This, of course, only applies to the hardy varieties; tender 
sorts are easily discerned, taken up, potted, and kept under glass 
during winter. H. Lane. 
The Nurseries, Great Berkhampstead. 
