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THE FLORIST. 
I have lost no Roses under my north wall, but I have lost four or five 
under my south wall It is the worst place to winter tender Roses, 
such as Teas; and for this further reason, that while the heavy rains 
are driven by the south-west wind over the north wall, and so miss 
the plants, they are driven into the plants under the south wall. A 
south wall is the most insidious wall in every garden. The sun comes 
out sometimes in winter and often powerfully in March, dew falls in 
the forepart of the night, hoar frost comes on at the turn of the night, 
and from radiation or transition from heat to cold, plants or trees, 
easily excited, suffer much unless they are of robust constitution. I 
believe that these are the two reasons why I have never seen the Cloth 
of Gold good, or good for any length of time, or the British Queen good 
at any time, under a south wall; while I have seen them both flourish 
in places where the aspect is severe. If any of your readers should 
have experienced different results, they would much oblige me by 
stating them in the Florisi. 
As regards the British Queen, I am certain that burying her crowns 
or muffling them up in winter is destructive of her welfare. The 
robust Queens in my other garden were two-years old plants half dead 
with the winter of 1859. 1 simply opened a hole, trod her in tight, 
and ordered my groom to put a little fresh cow manure round her 
roots; they will be in the same place all next summer, where they 
may be seen. My home Queens are canary birds : did the cow-dung 
make the difference? 
W. F, Radclypfe. 
MANETTI ROSE STOCK VERSUS DOG ROSE. 
AovERTiNGto an article in one of your former numbers, “ Rosa spinosa,” 
the writer of it puts me very much in mind of the man in TEsop’s 
fables, who blew hot and cold in the same breath. Had he -simply 
given your readers a description of the soil in which the Manetti 
flourishes best, and instanced the success which Mr. Francis has had 
in growing it in poor soil, it would have been all very well; and I for 
one should have been glad to hear that that gentleman had succeeded 
in making a beautiful Rose garden out of a piece of barren land. But 
he then goes on to endeavour to make your readers believe that Mr. 
Raul, from having a prejudice against it, has sacrificed a fortune, and 
thrown the trade into the hands of his neighbour. He draws another 
breath, and then candidly informs us that the Dog Rose is more suitable 
for strong land, and gives it some excellent recommendations, viz., that 
it is durable, produces larger flowers, and that it will remove at almost 
any age. He then gives an instance where the Manetti did not succeed 
with Mr. Lane, who is known to be a large Rose-grower ; and lie then 
winds quietly up by informing us that the Dog Rose succeeded so well 
with him that he did not require it. But his worst argument in favour 
of his pet stock is, that he tells us of one place where he thinks it would 
have answered, but the workmen did not like it, and so gave it a " sly 
kick.” 
