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THE FLORIST. 
I strongly advise your readers who are rose gi'owers to try this 
plan, and to plant only on very shallow and dry soils, to curb the 
tendency of the plant from making gross wood, which, as it cannot 
rij^en, will not produce blooms. If we can get the current 
year’s wood tolerably hard and firm by August, then I have no 
doubt but that each eye, or a good number of them, will throw 
out spurs, producing from one to three on each bloom, as mine 
have done. I am of opinion that a month’s fine dry weather in 
July or August, is what this rose requires to prepare for blooming, 
and during that period I recommend all artificial waterings to be 
withheld, until the wood assumes a reddish brown hue, and cuts 
firm, after which water may be given frequently, and even manure 
water to encourage vigorous blooms. It is quite probable also 
(au experiment I am now about trying), that ripened buds taken 
from these shoots, and inserted in the Bauksian, Boursault, or any 
congenial stock growing against a wall, may succeed in producing 
clusters of bloom earlier in the season, possibly as early as May or 
June. I will merely add, that when in perfection it is the queen 
of yellow roses, being a bright golden yellow, and possessing a 
most delicious and powerful perfume. S. 
COBSHAM COURT, NEAR CHIPPENHAM, 
The seat of the Right Honourable Lord Methuen, is a place very 
little known, although situated close to a railway station, and but 
nine miles from the first-class stations of Bath, and four from 
Chippenham. It is not five minutes’ walk from the town of 
Corsham, from which it is quite concealed by large trees, prin¬ 
cipally yews, formed into high banks. The principal entrance is 
on the south side by a carriage drive though an avenue of fine old 
elms. A distance of about 300 yards between the entrance gates 
and the front of the mansion adjoining the drive are several very 
fine specimens of trees, especially Cedar of Lebanon ; the most 
handsome Salisburia adiantifolia I have seen, about thirty feet 
high, and a very fine Catalpa syringicfolia; some very large 
Myrtles and Magnolia grandiflora, growing against the south wall, 
which, with a slight protection in winter, had not been injured 
for many years, were last winter killed to the ground, and to all 
appearance quite dead until about midsummer, when they all 
began to throw up some very strong shoots from the bottom, and 
now promise to soon fill the wall, if we escape such seasons as the 
last. 
The inclosure in front of the mansion is thickly planted on one 
side, to shut out the sight of the farms, and on the other the 
parish church, which joins the pleasure-ground wall. 
The mansion is a large and beautiful pile of buildings of the 
mixed style of architecture. The north front was re-built about 
fourteen years ago, has a noble appearance, and shows plainly the 
skill of Mr. Yelemay, the architect. From this side is seen the 
