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THE PLOEAL WOELD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 



one uith the cup with the hole in, then you 

 ■will see the difforenco.— Old Friend. 

 Loni:on Rosr.s. — Perliaps a few wurda from atowii 

 gardener in a small way, may amuse or instruct 

 others in a like situation. I have about forty 

 Idnds of roses, several plants of some. First, 

 as to General Jacqueminot. This rose has not 

 done well with nie, and I fear is not quite 

 hardy. I have lost three plants (worUed 

 dwarfs) out of six. Gloire de Dijon is excellent ; 

 five dwarl.s stood the winter out of doors, in 

 the pround, merely covered with a little hay. 

 S. de Leveson Gower, M. Vidot, J. Margotlin, 

 C. Patrizzi, dwarf standards, moved in the 

 autnnin, remained sreeuin the shoots through 

 all the frost, as also did Wm. GrifHths, J. La- 

 fitte, Alex. Bachmcteif, and M. Doniase. My 



* ref.k(m as follow.';. All were worked 



plants, and the stocks, l\Ianetti, were not killed, 

 but only the bud. Hybrid perpetuals- E. Berg, 

 mann. Mad. Campbell, l{eine do Guiliioticre, 

 Atii'uate Mie, some are still living of this sort, 

 the.^ame Baronne Prevost, D. P. Blanche Vibert, 

 B. Dupetit Thouars; this does not do well, 

 the buds crack. Justine also Is not of much 

 account. If you think proper, I will give you 

 a list of sorts, and my experience with them, in 

 a future number. Let me suggest you would 

 be conferring a great pleasure and profit upon 

 amateurs, now the rose season is eommg on, 

 by a paper upon the newer sorts, and, indeed, 

 afew notes on some of the old ones, which are 

 not yet surpassed, if equalled. It would enable 

 us to look out for, and note down, those varie- 

 ties worthy our future acquisition. — W.D.P. 

 [All you have to do is to get the roses that suit 

 you on their own roots ; then you will find the 

 General the best you have. If amoutc our 

 readers there are anj' who still question, as 

 they did, the policy of growing roses on their 

 own bottoms only, we suggest to them a revi- 

 fion of the winter's work among the roi-es. 

 Where are the worked plants now ?] * Illegible. 

 BlBDS iTi" Gaedens. — Pensioner. — We cannot 

 advise any meddling with biros or nests. We 

 believe there are not enough birds in our par- 

 dens, else we should have less insects. The 

 passion of destruction entails large penalties 

 on horticulture; when it finds gratification in 

 shooting and trapping birds. We sat with Mr. 

 Holland one day last suirimer close beside a 

 batch of roses smothered with green -fly, and 

 we saw the sparrows stripping them off the 

 shoots by wholesale. "We concluded there- 

 from that given more sparrows, the fly would 

 not have acquired such a mastery as almost 

 to kill the roses as they were doing. We 

 have carefully taken note of the visits of bull- 

 finches to fruit-tri es, and observed as good 

 or better crops in seasons when the bullfinches 

 uiost abounded. Depend upon it the Almighty 

 has established a fair balance amongst all his 

 creations, and if a bird takes a gr;iin of corn 

 or a ripe berry, it has long ago paid for it in 

 the desi ruction of a million vermin. Do away 

 with your scarecrows and bird-elappers, and 

 attend to cultivation, and you will have bettrr 

 crops than people who waste their time in tying 

 bits of tin to horizontal thieads to frighten 

 birds away. Bead this from the papers :— 

 " The authorities of Lyons have issued a decree 

 against bovs being permitted to meddle with 

 birds' nests in that department, and jiarcnts, 

 as TTell as schioluiasters, are rendered respon- 

 sible for any such delinquency of these juve- 

 nih-s. The document asserts thattne destruction 

 of birds is the ruin of fiuit-trees, ina«nnich us 

 their proper prey, caterpi lars, chenilles, etc., 

 etc., are infinitely more noxious at this period 

 of the year than the feathered tribe in summer 

 or autumn." 



Insect.? and Rose Leaves.— TF. D. P.— The in- 

 sect is Julus terrestris, or mangy many-feet, 

 a feeder on roots, and to be eradicated only by 

 perseverance in detail, there is no specific 

 against it. Try jiieces of carrot or potaio 

 buried in the soil, with a slick to mark where 

 each trap is. The leaves are mddewed and burnt. 

 We suspect you have been drenching them with 

 water unseasonably ; while wet, the sun has 

 caught them and caused scorching, and being 

 niuible, through feeble root-action, to appro- 

 priate the water, they have acquired milnew. 

 Both affections will pass away with this splen- 

 did weather; you have simply to leave them 

 alone. The roses you name are perhaps good 

 in London, but we cannot speak positively ; it 

 is not such eas}' and quick work to prove roses 

 in a way (o determine their suitability to bo 

 generally rceommended in such a work as this. 

 H. P. De la Keine d'Angleterre is fii\st-rate 

 in town, and so is Ravel ; we seem to recollect 

 recommending them both. The list in Mr. 

 Cranston's book is the record of a conscientious 

 man's experience, but it does not agree with 

 our own observations in the suburbs of London. 

 It is, in fact, a ii.^t for the Midland counties. 

 Many of the roses he recommends for towns, 

 are of no use near Lojiuon, but are "good in 

 Mr. Cranston's district. 



Wai.tonian Case. — M. A. II.T. — A temperature 

 of C0° is quite enough for half-hardy annuais, 

 and you will now get heat enough in the case 

 without burning the lamp if the case is in a 

 greenhouse. It will be useful now without 

 artificial heat for striking cutiings and starting 

 seeds all the summer. If your seedlings are 

 drawn, it. is because they are too darK and 

 close ; if they come up unevenly it is because 

 they are covered too deep. In former volumes 

 the fullest particulars have been given ol the 

 management of the case, and of propagating 

 plautshyit. Subscribers who have recently com- 

 menced, would do well to order the former vo- 

 lumes, as they are full of valuable articles on ele- 

 mentary gardening, and their cost is but a trifle. 



Beer from Peashells. — Pnmex. — Beer can be 

 manufactured from mangold wurtzel. Gibbon 

 Merle says it is made by fermenting the hquor 

 obtained by boiling mangold wurtzel in the 

 same way as for malt and hops. There is no 

 doidjt that the quantity of saccharine matter 

 is nearly the same in the beet and the mangold 

 wurtzel. But the nearest approach to genuine 

 beer is obtained from pcashells. This is made 

 by putting the green shells in a boiler, and 

 pouring on water till it reaches half an inch 

 above the shells. Letthem simmer three hours 

 and add a decoction of sage leaves as a substi- 

 tute for hops. Ferment it with yeast in the 

 usual way. 



Caekion MANrKES. — B. S. — Whereveryou apply 

 bullock's blood, the .'■oil will become a sour, 

 soddened, fil'hy piste, in which no tree will 

 make a healthy root, and, therefore, you must 

 not exjicct fruit from the pear-tree s and vines 

 you have drenched so liberally with the san- 

 gidnary garbage. You may have subscribed to 

 the Fi.OKAL WoKi.D, but it is certain you have 

 not read it, or you would have paused before 

 poisoning your trees in the vain hope of getting 

 more fruit. 



Watkr. — F. F. — Hard well-water is not good for 

 plants. AVhy not pump it up, and expose it to 

 the sun one day at least before using. 



TAKiotis — F D. P. — -There is no one living who 

 can tell doxible from single stocks, either in the 

 seed-h'af or afteruards, till they show for 

 bloom, else you would never see at the nur- 

 series whole batches of single stoclcs put asde 

 out of sowings made for the choice Stock. 

 Thanks for the enclosure. 



