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getlier with the well-known E. splendens , and E. Bojeri, are a 
set which deserve much at the hands of the cultivator ; as our 
correspondent suggests, they succeed to admiration under libeial 
treatment. The old-fashioned method of starving such plants 
upon brick rubbish and gravel is now entirely exploded. Grow 
them freely in good well-drained soil, and allow a proper period 
for ripening their wood, and a rich display of blossoms will certainly 
result. E. fulgens makes a pretty appearance when trained upon 
a cylindrical trellis, care being taken to have the points of the 
shoots distributed equally over the whole area. E. splendens is 
one of the very best plants we possess ; it is greatly improved by 
a thorough pruning every season immediately after it has flowered; 
every branch should then be shortened more or less, as may be 
required to preserve or attain the desired form, the cuts thus made 
will exude a considerable quantity of milky sap, but an hour 01 
two in the sun will dry it up, and the number of branches will 
be subsequently increased three or fourfold, a matter of much 
consequence, as it is on the ends of the branches that flowers are 
produced. It is well known this plant blooms for a very long 
period ; its flowers are first produced in pairs : these die off, and 
are succeeded by others borne four together, which, in their turn, 
give place to a third and generally final succession, when the blos¬ 
soms are presented in numbers again doubled upon those of the 
last, or eight together; hence the necessity of encouraging the 
plant through the several previous phases, a circumstance which 
should never be lost sight of by those who grow it. Editor.] 
ROSES. 
As it is only reasonable to suppose that after so fine a summer 
a reaction of the elements will occur likely to produce much cold 
in the coming winter, it may not be amiss for all interested in 
the occupants of a garden, to cast about and prepaie the leadiest 
and best means of protection wherever they are likely to be 
wanted, I am a rose-grower, and have had frequently to bewail 
the loss of fine varieties from the severity of the weather, having 
left them to their fate, through a too heedless reliance on the 
hardy character given with them, or a careless disregard of well- 
