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last are pot Roses planted this spring, and I can only speak of them as 
nice Roses. The last is very dark and rich; the two preceding it are 
good clear crimsons free from purple stain, and well shaped. Comte de 
Beaufort disappointed me last year, which shows the necessity of 
patience with tender pot novelties. 
14. Removal of Briar Roses.—Young trees may be moved every 
three years; but when they are old, and have been many years in the 
same place, it is better to root- prune them, and renew the soil around 
them carefully. In lawn holes they may be cut in a radius of 8 inches 
every year with a Grass edging knife ; and new mould and dung should 
be given to them, and an equal quantity of soil must be taken away. 
15. Hide-bound—Scoring the bark, like Apple trees, is the only 
remedy. I have found it succeed with both stocks. Manetti stocks, with 
their tough thick skins, when exposed, are very liable to be hidebound. 
16. The Briar’s affinity for Clay—I have found the poorest clay 
do good. I puta double handful of poor yellow clay to a Briar Rose, 
and found, that above the radius of the roots the stock threw out 
abundant filaments. 
17. One word to Propagators.—Send out good Roses only, and on 
good Briars. Weed out all trash from your Rosery. Do not bud large 
quantities of unproven Roses. In your Catalogues describe the Roses 
negatively as well as affirmatively. Charge a good price for a good 
article, and remember that a bad Rose, or a good Rose on a bad or 
unsuitable stock, is not worth acceptance; and that with many persons 
it will impede the purchase of Roses that are really good. 
18. One word to Purchasers.—Do not call nurserymen hard names 
because a Rose dies or does bad. They strive to please us, go to great 
expense, and often suffer great losses. As regards new Roses, they are 
obliged, by your haste for novelty, to sell by the characters which they 
have received with them from the raisers, before they have had time to 
prove them: When you get a novelty don’t neglect it, and don’t kill it 
with kindness. 
19. One word to Exhibitors—Cut your Roses for show with good 
stalks, and exhibit them with their buds and leaves fairly ; and 
remember, that “‘ Roses are not Races!” Fraud, under so fair a flower 
—a national flower—is a national sin, and a “‘ transgression in a sin.” 
Never use stiletto, pincers, gouge, or glue ; but go and return from the 
show, winner or loser, with the inward satisfaction of an honourable 
man. ‘You will never, then, have to regret, that you have partaken of 
those unworthy frauds, which are an injury to the public and the 
incipient ‘‘ caries” of so good a cause. 
20. A Restraining Thought. 
‘¢ Be this the closing tribute of my strain! 
Be this, fair Rose, of charms thy last and best! 
That when the Son of God for us was slain, 
Circled with you he sweetly sank to rest,— 
Not the grave’s captive but a garden’s guest, 
So pure and lovely was his transient tomb! 
And He, whose brow the wreath of thorns had prest, 
Not only bore for us Death’s cruel doom, 
But won for us an amaranthine bloom. 
W. F. RADCLYFFE. 
Rushton, July 12. 
