O(2 THE FLORIST. 
which is asked for a rare Pinus or Orchid, and may reproduce your 
favourite varieties on the hedge-row briar or-the Manetti stock; by the 
easy, interesting, and sure process of ‘budding,’ ata very small outlay, 
and to almost. any extent.» But» be cautious, my, Spades, unless; you 
have a taste for rubbish; not to order your Rose: trees, nor your any- 
‘thing else, from those Cheap Jacks of the Floral Market, who profess to 
*be so much more liberalthan their neighbonrs... Buy, good. razors; /O 
my friends, as ye love to enjoy your breakfasts with a temper smooth 
as your/chin;;and. buy good Rose trees, O ye amateurs, as ye hope to 
»dook, gladly on your feast of Roses, when ‘the time of Roses” shall 
come. The prices charged by the best growers are quite low enough, 
and you will believe one who has bought and buys largely, to ensure a 
good article to the purchaser and a fair remuneration to the seller. 1°" 
For ornamental purposes, as a cut flower, what have we so 
effective as the Rose—whether in the bouquet (Mary Johnstone 
fecit) of some ball-room helle, herself 
«A Rosebud set with little wilful thorns, 
And sweet as English air can make ‘her,”® Ci 
in the elegant vases of the drawing-room, or, as I most rejoice’ to ‘gee 
them, in the cups of silver, won by their ancestors, upon the dinnér- 
table. and. with the dessert? When Horace invites the friends “of 
Plotius.Numida to celebrate with appropriate honours the return of that 
distinguished officer from Spain, he bids them to have abundaticé “of 
. Roses at their feast. (“‘ new desint epulis rose”); and when he’ ‘essays 
to cheer up Sam, in the person of Q. Dellius, he recommends him “to 
_lose.no time in giving an order for, Roses C flores amcnos Serre Sube 
Kose”)... Without endorsing his. other recipes for driving ‘dull ‘care 
away, | may sympathise with him, I hope, in his love of the Rose ; 
-and I like to. fancy him, calling upon his friends to pass the’ Falernian, 
and, haying preyiously proposed to them his favourite toast, * pulchroe 
| puellor, novies honorate,” ‘the Ladies, with three times threé,” 
requesting them to drink without heeltaps (the latinity for heeltaps is 
Jost) “‘, Vivat Regina Florum,” “ Long Bloom the Roser 
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- Thave been asked’ to make a few:remarks on. the subject of growing 
Roses for exhibition, but have ‘occupied your 'time:so’ long, that I-must 
“transfer to Mr. Evans ‘the ‘consideration:of: this topic in his Jecture..on 
~ “ Shows and Showing.” I’ must not,’ however, defer, or the time, of 
planting Roses will be past, to give, in’ compliance with another: request, 
a list of twenty-four Roses which seem tome, when shown -in, their 
~ most perfect state, to be the most beautiful of all—of all, 1 mean, which 
I have myself proved. 'Some‘of them may:soon be displaced by those 
glorious improvements, which come to us! every season, «and, which: give 
an additional charm to’ Rose-growing ;:\ but: as» yet they are -unsur- 
passed, and like the four-and-twenty blackbirds: baked in! apie, are a 
dish, or as we should term it a par, quite pt to he set) before a 
king. i oor shan 
rihedr pene tance Rosns. ; sdT 
Noisette, Cloth of Goldi ): i boamem noted: . 
Tews, Adam, ee lato Gloire de Dijon seelq lt aoe 
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