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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ May, 
will b 9 small. In November, tlie beat should be increased, and if the plants 
have been and are well attended to, they will furnish a good crop of flowers 
through December and January. 
No plant delights more than the Gardenia in the heat from a dung-bed, and 
during the summer they will grow better in a dung-bed than in any other way. 
They should be potted in turfy peat and loam, with plenty of sand, to keep the 
compost in a free open condition. During their growing season, they require ta 
be kept well fed with liquid manure^ or with some other of the fertilizers now in 
use^ such as Standen’s manure, which suits them remarkably well. 
It seems to be almost an impossibility to keep the mealy bug off these plants,, 
and therefore constant attention is necessary, so as to keep down the intruders. 
Clarke’s Compound is the best application we have made use of for killing them,, 
but there are many others which we have not tried. 
Gardenia Fortunei brings the largest blossoms, but for general purposes, I 
find G. jiorida intermedia the best variety, taking quantity and size of blossom 
both into account.— John Standish, Royal Nursery^ Ascot. 
ROSES AND ROSE-CULTURE. 
Chapter II.— The Standard or Tree-Rose. 
Re Standard or Tree-Rose is generally admitted to be an object of great 
beauty, suited alike to the smallest and the largest garden, to the border, 
the lawn, or the shrubbery. Some of my old gardening friends tell mo 
that they remember Standard Roses being sold at a guinea each, and that 
half-a-guinea each was a very common price. Now, a better one may be pur¬ 
chased for eighteenpence. This is in some measure due to the increased 
popularity of the plant, resulting in larger sales, and partly to the improved 
methods of cultivation adopted in the Rose-grounds. Where tens were formerly 
grown we can now reckon thousands, and no one has more cause to rejoice in the 
change than the grower for sale. 
The cultivation of the Tree-Rose is simple and inexpensive, and while few 
plants grow with less attention, none will repay more liberally whatever may be 
bestowed on them. To insure the fullest measure of success with Standard 
Roses, it is necessary to consider well the locality and soil in which the trees are 
about to be placed, and to choose the kinds accordingly. In a good Rose soil 
(deep loam) and a favourable situation (pure air) any kinds will thrive ; but 
under circumstances the reverse of these, such kinds only should be planted as. 
one’s own experience or the experience of one’s friends points out as likely to 
succeed. In heavy moist soils near the sea, or in the vicinity of large towns, 
where the air becomes vitiated by the constant outpouring of smoke and noxious 
gases, the selection should be restricted to the Damask, Alba, Hybrid China,, 
Hybrid Perpetual, Ayrshire, and Sempervirens groups, and only the hardiest 
varieties of these should be attempted. Such Vvdll flourish better and yield more 
pleasure to the cultivator than finer kinds of more delicate organization. 
