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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, December 29, 1857. 
for every foot in height. Nothing better could be 
done uncler the circumstances : but if they die, and I 
am alive, I shall tell how they look, or do, or did. 
The lesson to be learned from these Deodars is this— 
that young plants of them, and of all other Conifers, 
or, indeed, of any choice trees or shrubs which are 
nursed at home, before they are finally planted out 
where they are to remain, should not be temporarily 
put on deep soil, or where they can strike down their 
roots freely, and that they should not remain more 
than three years without being transplanted; but the 
best way would be to plant them in rough, shallow, 
wicker baskets, and the bottoms of the baskets to be 
plastered with clay, so that the new roots could only 
find their way out by the sides ; the baskets to be set 
on a hard bottom ; and a very loose compost to be set 
all round them, and inside the baskets. If our trees 
had been cut round in the usual way, and without 
knowing the roots were chiefly down from the centre 
of the original balls, we should have been deceived, 
and very little advantage would be gained by the 
cutting of the very few side-roots. 
We learned a very important lesson from the Roses, 
and one which is in direct opposition to the generally 
received opinion, my own mature opinion among the 
rest; but having had a special opportunity, I was 
unwilling to let it slip without experiment. Some of 
them, or, indeed, the greater part, were removed about 
the middle of September without any pruning; and 
some of these have the leaves, or most of them, as 
fresh now as they were then. Two or three standards 
of Auguste Mie never lost a leaf by the change at that 
early season. Some were pruned nearly as closely as 
for winter pruning ; and some were merely stripped of 
their leaves. The whole were taken up and put in 
their new places during the first fortnight of De¬ 
cember. 
We had thus a fair opportunity of judging of the 
best way to treat Roses on being transplanted at the 
right time, say in November. If, then, it be a sign of 
the best management to have the most young roots, 
those Roses which were pruned in the hardest had a 
decided advantage. They made fresh white roots 
from two to six and seven inches long in the interval, 
all over the old black roots ; and those from which the 
leaves were stripped were, at least, as well rooted, if 
not better, than others which had all their leaves 
green to the last. There was no opportunity of testing 
whether Roses on their own roots were better than 
budded ones. The whole were budded, or worked, 
plants ; but the Manetti stocks rooted much more 
freely than the Dog Rose ; and yet none of our Roses 
hardly live on the Manetti, after three years, on this 
light soil. And this leads me to try one more experiment 
with it before I discard it. First, I shall make a score 
of cuttings of it myself; which, I shall warrant, will 
never make a single sucker from the wood: and they 
all say it does not sucker from the roots. Secondly, 
I shall graft half a score or so on pieces of the Manetti 
roots: and leave the grafted part “ between wind and 
water,” or just at the surface of the ground. When 
one puts the grafted (or budded) part of a Rose, or 
an Apple, or an Oak, well under the surface, roots 
will issue from the grafted or budded part, as surely as 
leaves will come on the branches : therefore the test of 
merit.or no merit, is left undecided. I always thought 
—and I am of that opinion still—that it is the slovenly 
way of making cuttings of the Manetti from heeled 
shoots, and from undisbudded pieces of the shoots, 
which makes all the difference. No one can prevent 
a heeled cutting of any 'plant from making suckers 
after a while. Therefore, no stock should be made 
from a heeled cutting. And all Roses on their own 
roots come better, and pay better, from heeled cuttings 
for the same reason—they will make suckers; and 
every time you transplant them, they will yield in¬ 
crease by rooted suckers ready to your hand. Rut 
the commonest Willow in the parish, will never make 
a single leaf, as long as the world stands, if the buds 
are first picked out from a yearling shoot. Y'ou may 
make such Whllow cuttings from five to ten feet long, 
and they will root as “ freely as Willows,” but never 
make a leaf, or sucker, or side-shoot. Then, suppose 
you were to graft them with other kinds of W illows; 
would they make suckers after aw'hile ? Never. But, 
suppose you were to knock off all the heads, after ten 
years, how would the Willow stumps, or standards, 
fare after that P Why, they would die down inch by 
inch; and, last of all, the roots would die also, sooner 
than force one latent bud. Then, if that be so—and 
there is no doubt about it—why should we ever see a 
sucker on a Manetti Rose ? Why, indeed ! But that 
is the question ; and the next is, will the Roses do on 
the Manetti, in the Experimental, provided the 
Manetti is first prepared there P I think they will. ; 
But if I order a thousand Roses on the Manetti in the 
meantime, the agreement shall be no pay for any one 
of them, if a single sucker be seen from them in three 
years ; and not only that, but a compensation for 
damage and loss of garden time shall be sued for. 
After all is said, there is a sad tale about stocks for 
dwarf Roses, in some parts of the country. A new 
Rose comes out; and straightway it is budded on all 
suckers of the old French kinds, about a place : and in 
two years, the suckers from these either kill the new 
Rose, or destroy the stocks; the only comfort is, that 
one can thus test a new Rose very cheap; for none 
but your cheap dealers would stoop to cheat you. 
D. Beaton. 
THE NODE, 
This pretty residence of W, R eid, Esq. is close to 
the highway between Welwyn and Hitchen; being 
three miles from the former, and about seven miles 
from the latter. The neat picturesque mansion, a 
small lawn, a very effective flower garden, a much-in¬ 
little-space garden behind it, some glass houses, and 
very commodious offices, are all clustered very con¬ 
veniently together; and yet, though so near, each can 
be examined separately—care being taken that the 
artistic and the beautiful are not brought so closely as 
to clash with the ideas of the merely useful. All this is 
concealed from the passing traveller by means of a 
small, well-managed plantation close to the highway. 
Though the estate altogether is not large, yet if a 
person can be pleased (as a sensible man should be), 
in looking on a fine extended landscape, and so far 
appropriating its beauties and interest as to makq 
them his own, then I do not see—farther than that 
the proprietor should be able to say, “ Such and such 
fields are mine,”—that the interest of the Node, and 
many charming places something like it in extent, 
would be in the least increased, though told it was the 
centre of a demesne with many thousand acres every 
way round it. It is very doubtful if many, who really 
possess all these advantages, realise so much pleasure 
from looking at their rich gardens, and the picturesque 
woodland scenery of old England, as many others do 
■whose hearts glow more warmly in sympathy with the 
beautiful; though, with the exception of the earth 
contained in a few flower-pots, they may be safely 
written down as ‘‘landless men.” 
The boundary plantation, where it joins one part of 
the lawn, shelves down into a deep irregular dell; and 
but for the noise of a passing carriage, you might, in 
the secluded spot, fancy yourself in some wild lonely 
tarn. Winding walks have been taken through this 
