8 THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. [January, 



repotting is required it must at this time be done, introducing them into heat 

 and moisture, as before. Do not wait until all the plants are in a fit state for 

 potting or growing, but attend to each as it comes to require it. The stronger 

 the plants grow, the greater the profusion of flowers they will produce. The 

 flowers are borne upon two-year-old stems, in pairs or threes, at every joint, 

 from the top for at least three-fourths of their length downwards, and en masse 

 have a very rich appearance ; in a dry and cool place they will keep fresh for 

 four or five weeks. 



Dendrobium nobile is, among flowers, as much the gardener's friend as the 

 Black Hamburgh Grape among fruits. It is not requisite to pot it every year; 

 one good potting in sound, lasting, porous material will serve for two years at 

 least. The above treatment is applicable to the following species and varieties: — 

 Dendrobium nobile, and nobile intermedium, D. ccerulescens, D. Wallichianum, 

 D. Linawianum (moniliforme of gardens), and many others. 



W. Moobe. 



THE NEW ROSES OF 1867. 



ECENTLY I have given an alphabetical list of forthcoming New Roses, with 

 the raisers' descriptions, and it may prove interesting to lovers of this flower 



V^Sf to hear something of the novelties of the preceding year, from my own 



observation. I buy every year some forty or fifty of the new varieties. As 

 a matter of business, half that number would suffice ; but I must confess that 

 rose-growing has always been a hobby, as well as a matter of business with me ; 

 and the extra plants admit of my mounting my hobby in my own way. True, 

 "they cost money, but what hobby does not ? Then, again, one knows beforehand 

 what this hobby will cost, which certainly gives rose-growing an advantage 

 over some hobbies — horse-racing, to wit ; and there is no fear of breaking one's 

 neck or blowing one's hand off in rose-growing, as is possible in hunting or 

 shooting. If there is no strong excitement here, no display calculated to call 

 down plaudits from our fellow men, there is a refined intellectual enjoyment to 

 be found in it, healthy mental exercise, and plenty of muscular exertion, if we so 

 will it. So, at least, I have found it over the last thirty-three years, and con- 

 stantly meet with fellow-workers who speak of their experience in similar terms. 

 I had better flowers, and more of them than usual from the novelties of 

 1867. Perhaps the brood was not above the average in quality of sorts, but 

 the plants were better, to begin with. To digress here, for a moment, — how is it 

 that nearly all the new roses are described as "vigorous," when often one-third 

 of them will hardly grow at all ? Do the raisers delude themselves by dealing 

 in hopes, instead of with facts, or do many kinds really vigorous when beginning 

 life anew from the seed, fail and sink under the fast life which, if there is 

 anything in them, they are often compelled to lead ? Certain it is that some 

 roses at four years are as old or older than some men at fourscore, This is a 



