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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[January, 
daily supplies for the house, and many presents in the village, I packed and sent 
away 38 baskets of Peaches and Nectarines. I must not unreasonably attempt 
a register of the many extra advantages to both gardener and amateur of a good 
Orchard-house, nor speak of pot-culture, but I may supply an omission in my last 
hastily-written paper. When speaking of the Grape crop, I had forgotten two 
trees trained on bare stems to the top of the house, and not interfering with the 
peaches, from which I took about 120 bunches, making my whole crop above 200. 
And now, in winding up the matter, I would place these facts against the 
assertion of a recent correspondent, “ M. T.,” that orchard-house fruit can be 
bought for what its culture in these structures costs. Calculating on a coat of 
paint once in three years, I cannot estimate the expense of my house at more 
than £3 a year, which the Strawberry crops would discharge or the Grapes pay 
three times over. Still I admit that great attention is required before a new 
theory can be worked out, which becomes a medium of the two recognised 
systems of choice fruit-culture in Peach-houses and on open walls.—G. D. 
CARPETING ROSE BEDS. 
’ HOULD Standard Rose-beds be carpeted during the summer ? This is a ques¬ 
tion sometimes asked, and is answered both in the aflSrmative and negative, 
each side having its adherents. Then, many rosarians, as they are termed, 
inveigh strongly against Standard Roses altogether, as unnatural in appear¬ 
ance, somewhat contemptuously denominating them “mops,” and asserting that their’ 
naked straight stems are unsightly objects in the garden. I saw a country flower’ 
garden not long since with its inevitable lines of Standard Roses planted in the' 
turf by the sides of the gravel walk, but with a small circular bed at the base of 
each. In these beds had been planted various coloured Ivy-leaved Pelargoniums,^ 
which were trained up the stems of the Roses, and so furnished them with pillars? 
of leaves and flowers. The association of the Ivy-leaved Pelargonium with the* 
Roses in this fashion quite hid the naked stems from view; and I failed te> 
perceive that the Roses suffered in any way from the companionship of the? 
Pelargoniums, as the heads were of vigorous growth and blooming freely. The? 
Pelargoniums had rooted into the superficial rich soil, and their roots seemed to? 
be close to the surface at a higher level than those of the Roses. I was* 
informed that this combination is worked out each year, without inflicting aBy 
perceptible injury to the Roses.—R. Dean, Ealing. 
ARABIA VEITOHII. 
jNE of the most charming of stove plants of the ornamental-foliage' dags’, 
and one which seems likely to remain somewhat scarce, from being difficuiM 
of propagation. It was imported some years since from New Caledonia by 
Messrs. Veitch and Sons, and has been frequently exhibited by them, 
receiving numerous medals and certificates of merit. As will appear from our 
illustration, which has been kindly lent us by Messrs. Veitch, it is a plant of 
