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the matter of selecting, rather leave it to the nurseryman, or procure 
a reliable person to select them for you. For exposed situations, take 
care to get plants from ground that lays high and exposed. Never 
coddle plants. Thousands of good specimens are killed by too much 
tenderness and coddling. The person who will take the several items 
thus briefly pointed at into consideration, and act upon them, will find 
that in doing so he will be no loser. M. Saul. 
CRANSTON’S ROSE CULTURAL DIRECTIONS. 
I can strongly recommend this cheap and excellent seven-pennyworth 
to all, who are not old hands. My experience tallies with it, and some 
hints I have gained by it. It contains observations on the selection of 
Roses—situation, soil, manure, planting, pruning, protecting, insects, 
mildew, stocks, exhibiting and cutting Show Roses, properties of a good 
Show Rose. 
It gives—1. A list of Roses to be grown in large manufacturing 
towns, with the aid of hand or bell glasses : 2. Of choice Roses, in 
addition to the above, suitable to cold climates and soils or moderately 
smoky atmospheres: 3. Of varieties, including the two former, for 
ordinary soils and climates : 4. Of varieties suitable to favourable soils 
and climates : 5. Of the finest Show Roses ; of these, which are Hybrid 
Perpetuals, I have all but seven, and they are good: 6. Of select orna¬ 
mental varieties : 7. Of the six best Yellow Roses : 8. Of climbing 
Roses, twelve in number : 9. Of twelve for a north-east wall: 10. Of 
twenty-four of the finest Perpetual Pillar Roses : 11. Is a list of Roses 
for forcing and greenhouse culture: and then the work concludes with 
a calendar of operations for every month in the year. 
His Rose List accompanies the work; it is long, but it contains all 
the best sorts. It states, before each Rose, its habit of growth—such 
as dwarf, moderate, compact, free, vigorous, robust. All dealers should 
do this, or copy Mr. Rivers in publishing an expurgated list. 
Ihere is one omission in all the Rose treatises which I have seen, 
viz., the proper depth to plant the Dog Rose, in strong or light land. 
Richlieu does not give the depth, but merely says “plant shallow;” 
and all others are silent on the subject, although it is one of the most 
important things. 
W. F. Radclyffe, 
Rector of Rushton , Dorset. 
CHRONICLES OF A SMALL GARDEN.—No. VII. 
When I look at the length to which these little chronicles are tending, 
and recollect the size of my garden, I am insensibly reminded of that 
renowned sovereign Victor Arneleus XVI., Duke of Pumpernickel, who, 
with his ten mil es of German principality, affects all the airs of a first- 
