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CALENDAR FOR APRIL. 
LITERARY NOTICE. 
The Rose Garden. Part XI. Air. Paril continues to invest* his 
subject with an interest at least equal to that which marked the 
commencement. In the part before us are some good remarks 
on the selection of varieties for the particular styles of growing 
the rose tree denominated standard, half-standard, dwarf, pillar, 
and weeping roses, showing the suitability of the several classes 
to one or other of these forms, which are neatly illustrated 
by engravings. Practical information of sound character follows, 
on renovating old or debilitated specimens, summer pruning, 
as inducing the production of flowers late in autumn, and the 
protection of the tender kinds from the severities of winter. 
Chapter XI introduces the reader to all the mysteries of propa¬ 
gation, the manipulation of cuttings and buds occupying 
the remainder of the first portion of the number, the entire 
preparation and subsequent management of which is given in so 
plain and understandable a manner, that the merest tyro by- 
following the directions may count on success. The descriptive 
list continues in the same accurate and concise style, affording to 
the purchaser exactly the information required to form judicious 
selections. 
CALENDAR OF FRUIT AND FORCING GARDEN 
OPERATIONS—APRIL. 
Fruit Garden. All grafting should be finished as early in the 
month as-possible, as to defer it later is in general attended 
with very little success. The early grafts should be occasionally 
looked over, and care taken that the clay round them does not 
become displaced or cracked; also, towards the end of the 
month, all buds or suckers below the grafts should be removed 
as early as possible, that they may not divert the sap from the 
graft, and thus render its union with the stock imperfect or im- 
possible. Continue to gradually thin the wood and flower-buds 
of wall and other choice trees, especially young ones, so that 
they may not be burdened with too great a crop, and also that 
