20 THE FLORIST. 
places is of great depth and marly In texture, and the growth of the trees. 
shows that it is admirably adapted for fruit culture. The Apple, 
Pear, Peach, and Apricot may be called heavy soil plants, in the order 
in which we have placedthem. The Plum will bear a wider application 
of soil than other kinds, while the Cherry prefers one more sandy, or 
where the drainage powers of the soil are more complete. 
(To be continued.) 
THE ROSES OF 1859. 
How times are changed! One used to say, some years ago, to a brother 
Rose lover, ‘‘ Have you heard if Laffay has. brought out a good Rose this 
year, or Desprez?’ and then perhaps the reply would be ‘‘Oh yes! you 
must get that wonderfully fine Rose of Laffay’s, Dr. Marx, and Baronne 
Prevost of Desprez ;” and so it went on from year to year—a few very 
fine and distinct Roses now and then making their appearance, their 
advent only known to the ‘“‘upper ten.” ‘The contrast is so great at 
the present day that it seems scarcely credible. In the autumn of 
1858, the French Rose growers sent out for the first time about 70 
varieties, all with new names but not all with new features. In this 
list of ‘‘ threescore-and-ten ” we have 40 kinds of Hybrid Perpetuals, 
four of Damask Perpetuals, 12 of Bourbons, 10 of Tea-scented, two of 
Noisettes, one China, and two summer Moss Roses. In this list are 
doubtless many really fine Roses, although not differing to the extent 
one would wish from the varieties we already possess. Judgment must, 
however, be suspended, to a certain extent, tillnext season, for our poor 
new Rose is dreadfully tortured before she shines in England in her full 
beauty. Let us look at the “‘ modus operandi.” She (7.e. a Rose-tree of 
a new kind) is sent over to England about the middle of November. 
If her master to whom she is consigned is merciful, she is planted in a 
favourable border, and suffered to bloom there the following season, 
as well as her torn rocts and long exposure on her journey will allow 
her, and she will perhaps give flowers approaching in beauty to their real 
_ character. But if her master is a new man, anxious about propagation, 
woe be to her; she is crammed into a pot, placed in a forcing-house ; 
all her shoots are cut, or rather shaved off closely, and she is forced 
unnaturally into putting forth leaves and shoots at Christmas. The 
shoots cut off are immediately cut up into single buds, and at once 
grafted on that-*‘ bubble,”* the Manetti Rose stock. The young shoots 
in February from the original trees are also grafted on the ‘‘ bubble;” 
even the tops of the young grafts are in the spring transferred to the 
“ bubble ;” so that a large number of young plants are produced, but 
the character of the Rose is not brought out. This must be waited for ; 
so that, in reality, the Roses introduced in the autumn of 1858 and 
propagated in 1859, will not show themselves to perfection till 1860. 
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* Vide Mr. William Paul’s ** Rose Annual.” 
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