1877.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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est mistake, or that there is full value given, 

 though it may not be just as was intended. It 

 is "a fraud" and nothing less, and " they told 

 you so." 



Now, here is a rose which has been intro- 

 duced by Mr. Bull, Mr. Saul, and many other 

 men whose honor stands as high as any one's in 

 any walk of life, and who have issued colored 

 plates, showing that a rose like " Madam Falcot " 

 in golden color, had also the addition of crim- 

 son flakes. It is now said this rose is nothing 

 but the old Fortune's Yellow. It is some years 

 since I saw Fortune's Yellow. I never saw it 

 with crimson flakes, but it would often have a 

 coppery sort of tint not usual in its general 

 style of flowering. This Beauty of Glazenwood 

 is striped. I do not know the origin of the rose, 

 but I strongly suspect that a branch of Fortune's 

 Yellow produced striped flowers, and that this 

 branch was cut off", propagated, and the plant 

 named accordingly. In such cases, it is not im- 

 possible that it would run back to the original, 

 and thus it would be perfectly right to say it 

 " was nothing but Fortune's Yellow Rose; " but 

 this would not make it less just to name as dis- 

 tinct the striped form, so long as it proved dis- 

 tinct and permanent. The climbing Devonien- 

 sis was raised in just this same way. The origi- 

 nal Devoniensis is a low-growing rose. A shoot 

 pushed out of immense length, and propagated, 

 it has retained its character, and is kept as dis- 

 tinct. If it had run back it would have been a 

 misfortune — but would it have proved fraud in 

 the original raiser? Our Isabella Sprunt is a 

 sport from Saffrano in just the same way. It 

 has proved constant, but there is nothing im- 

 possible in a variety so raised running back. 

 If it did, would the good Methodist preacher 

 who raised this good rose be a fraud ? Varie- 

 gated leaved plants and striped flowers of all 

 kinds have a regular habit of running back — as 

 every cultivator knows who buys them — and he 

 buys knowing he will have to watch for the green 

 sprouts and take them off". 



Fortune's Yellow is a good rose, and ought to 

 be more grown. Though so many years intro- 

 duced, few have it. If one buy a Beauty of Gla- 

 zenwood, and it turns out to be Fortune's Yel- 

 low, the purchaser will not be badly hurt. 



Mr. Editor, I am a lover of roses, and I sell 

 roses. It so happens that I am not yet the pos- 

 sessor of a Beauty of Glazenwood. But I love 

 justice, and the management of the Gardener's 

 Monthly shows you do ; and I have thought that 



these pickings from rose history would not be 

 inopportune at this time. 



GAS LIME. 



BY GEN. W. H. NOBLE, BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 



One of your correspondents recently noted 

 and queried about some uses of gas lime. The 

 material certainly gives promise of many ; but 

 no one has yet devised enough to save the most 

 of it from the dump. If any one knows just 

 how and what to do with the thing, he ought to 

 tell us. By-and-by, I doubt not, somebody will 

 find the way to rescue from waste a product so 

 stored with elements valuable to the arts and 

 common life. 



The lime used to cleanse our public gas, from 

 things hurtful to its light, comes out of the 

 vats loaded with a host of those wonderful pro- 

 ducts, which distilled coal and coal oil have 

 yielded to the skill of modern chemistry. Let's 

 see — there is in gasoline carbolic acid; some 

 free and some gone with the lime into carbolate 

 of lime. Then there is some free sulphur and 

 sulphur acids, and sulphate of lime ; some phos- 

 phate of lime, I believe, lurks in the mass. Some 

 coal oil hangs around, and some ammonia, too, 

 is under bondage in the heap. Doubtless many 

 others of that " innumerable caravan," which 

 chemical witchery has summoned out of the 

 products of coal, slumber in the dull green pile. 



Now, one would think that such a team of 

 elements would ere this have been harnessed 

 and broke to useful work. Why ! what power- 

 ful disinfectants are those compounds of carbon 

 and sulphur— how destructive to insect life their 

 odor or touch. How nutritive, or absorbent of 

 vegetable stimulants, are ammonia or the sul- 

 phuric combinations. The trouble is, the dose 

 of each is too big. There is altogether too much 

 cure. It is allopathic with a vengeance. So far 

 as help in horticulture is concerned, we need a 

 new Hahneman, to give us a homeopathic regi- 

 men for gas lime virtues. 



For instance, when coal tar paint burns our 

 plants, who is ready to say that a little in the 

 mixture which we use would not help, while a 

 good deal hurts ? "Who has tried a sprinkling of 

 gas lime in the greenhouse, to squelch the fungi 

 or drive off" the insect pests ? 



Now, take note, I am not instructing or saying 

 this or that about gas lime, for sure. I only sug- 

 gest the likelihood of good to come from trial. It 

 is by trial, when there is a likely lead, that pre- 



