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THE FLORIST. 
florists’ flowers, with clear and understandable directions as to the 
mode of preparation, and the time and manner of its application. 
Under the directions I have observed in various publications, I have 
occasionally applied it, and have sometimes contrived to destroy, but 
always to injure the objects I intended to serve. Some of these 
results may be attributable, perhaps, to my stupidity; but as I have 
found some more experienced gardening friends in the same category, 
I may, I hope, attribute some portion of the unhappy results to the 
indefinite directions that are from time to time given. I quite believe 
great things are to be done by the proper and judicious application 
of liquid manure; but it is clear to me that, unless skilfully used, it 
is more likely to serve our floral enemies (if we have any) than our 
friends and ourselves. 
1 take the liberty, therefore, of requesting a paper on the sub¬ 
ject, and beg your attention to guano and the chemical manures in 
connexion with it. Those manures seem to me capable of a more 
cleanly mode of preparation, as well as of such specific and particular 
directions for use, that the most ignorant cannot fail properly to 
comprehend. 
Personally, too, I should feel obliged by a paper on the pruning 
of Climbing-Roses, and probably such a paper would possess a general 
interest. I have a few such Roses trained on arches, and a few to the 
wall; and do what I will, they all insist on blooming at their ex¬ 
tremities. My arches have great clusters of blooms on their crowns, 
and against my house they bloom so entirely out of reach, that, with¬ 
out a tall ladder, I never can get one for my button-hole. Will you, 
or some kind cultivator, tell me how I am to prune my plants, so as 
to make them bloom equally all over—ay ! even from the ground. 
Hadleigh, Suffolk. J. S. 
