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purchaser at Messrs. Lane’s nursery, and I read with regret what 
appeared to me wanting in that candour which ought to characterise 
all communications intended to afford information, particularly from 
nurserymen, who should do all they can correctly to inform those 
who, as readers of works like The Florist, are likely to become pur¬ 
chasers. You will oblige me by directing your reporters to look 
out for this Rose, in order that my remarks may be verified or falsi¬ 
fied, as they may be found correct or otherwise. 
June 2d. A. B. 
[We beg to inform our correspondent and all concerned, that we procured 
the drawing of the Rose in question from Mr. Holden, at a time when there was 
a difficulty in obtaining flowers to figure under our own superintendence. In 
future every thing that appears as an illustration will be from nature. We shall 
comply with our esteemed correspondent’s wish, and report upon the Rose in 
question. Our desire is to have perfect correctness; and it is due to ourselves to 
inform our readers, that we receive no pecuniary acknowledgment whatever from 
parties whose plants are selected for our embellishments.— Editor.] 
HINTS TO FLORICULTURISTS. 
I do not profess to give more than a few hints, some of which will, 
mayhap, prove serviceable to one or more subscribers to The Florist. 
The most important point in selecting a plot for a garden is, to secure 
one wdiich is well sheltered from the prevailing wind of the locality; 
if such cannot be obtained, let the first act, in the formation of an 
unprotected garden, be to plant a sufficient belt, which, whilst it 
may protect from the blast, will not, when it is fully grown, cast too 
much shadow on the ground. If, however, the garden be bounded 
by a w r all, over which the wdnd rushes with uprooting force, the evil 
may be much lessened, if not altogether removed, by placing a battle¬ 
ment, instead of the usual plain coping, at the top; and the defor¬ 
mity which a bare wall presents to the eye may soon be remedied by 
a supply of Ivy. If attention w r ere more directed than it is to secure 
shelter, fewer plants would be lost to the gardener than are now 
yearly sacrificed ; for experience has fully established the fact, that 
more are destroyed during one night’s hurrying wind, than under 
the effect of a continuing frost. By acting on this principle, I am 
enabled to grow, in this northern latitude, Wistaria consequana, 
without any protection during the winter ; and two plants have this 
year bloomed with me, though one was planted only in March of last 
year. 
Let J. S. procure a plant or two of Rose Amadice, and keep them 
tolerably well cut down, and he will find, if they prosper as with 
me, a full and long-continuing supply of fine bright flowers, “ as he 
wishes to have them,” equally all over—ay, even to the ground. 
S. S. near Lancaster, 13 th June. -- 
