A south border well trenched and manured is probably the best position for Roses, and if it has a good slope to the front so much the better. Plant vigorous kinds, beginning at the back with crimsons and darks of any kind, next row to be pinks or light reds, third row scarlets of shades, and front row flesh-coloured and whites, or the whole of these in proportionate numbers, mixed plant for plant. Let them be planted, say, 4 feet apart, placing a quantity of good turfy loam about the roots of each as the work goes on. Mulch well with rotten cow-manure; and just before the buds begin to open give a soaking of manure-water, and a display of Roses may be had equal to any show of flowers which one can conceive. As to pruning, thin out the weakly shoots, cut the strong ones moderately back. The front of the bed, by pegging, may be 1 or 2 feet high, the second row 3 feet, the next 4 feet, and rising a foot or two as taste and position may dictate. Such a bank as we have in view, treated thus, shows Roses to the best advantage. Standard Roses, we are glad to find, have lost much favour during the last three years. Frost, we believe, has had something to do with this change of taste.

Boss.