////•; (;.tRj)/':\J':A's moxthi.v 



l.\/<in/i. 



j^rowitiu', cithiT in dcnsf ^hadc or thick woods, 

 but mostly on tlic trees overhanging' streams or 

 on the ('(!•_'(' of forests. 



DISEASE OF THE MARECHAL NIEL. 



HV W. "\V., DOIIU'S FEKUY, N. Y. 



llavinji read witli interest the remarks ot" your 

 correspondents on the above subject with some 

 ditlidence, in regard to rushing into print and 

 ditHculties, &c.. I am induced to send you ray 

 experience in the hope that the disease may be 

 well detined, and some one prescribe a I'emedy. 

 Two years ago I had a very line plant on a 

 Manctti stock, which showed all the symptoms 

 described by j'our correspondents. The stock 

 outgrew the rose three to one, forming an excres- 

 ence at the point of union, and the gradual decay 

 of the plant was the result. I had at the same time 

 plants worked on LaMarque and Solfatene, 

 which were in excellent health, and are yet, being 

 entirely free from any appearance of disease. I 

 have noticed the same disease, or the same cause, 

 produce the same effect in other grafted trees 

 where the stock has not been suitable from some 

 cause to the growth of the scion. I have also 

 noticed that a very little neglect in disbudding 

 old plants in the early part of the summer, when 

 they are usually put outside or the sashes taken 

 off, will cause the decay of the leading branches 

 farthest from the base of the plant, the sap 

 preferring to support a lot of younger branches 

 nearer the roots and leaving the old ones to die 

 or starve. It is not my wish to raise any point 

 for controversy, but I would certainly advise 

 anyone who intends growing the Marechal 

 on light, sandy soil, to keep from planting 

 imported Roses. In the hands of our loading 

 tlower-growers on strong clay or loamy soils 

 they do well for a few years and are replaced 

 from time to time; but in my opinion, better re- 

 .sults could be obtained under any circumstances 

 with plants worked on the strong growing varie- 

 ties of the Noisette class. 



Haarlem and Utrecht, in 1H74, and got large- 

 silver medals as first jjrizes. Again we showed 

 two collections at Haarlem in Ik7'), and got (In- 

 lirst and the second pri/c JJoth the lots exhib- 

 it rd at till' last international spring show at 

 Amsterdam (1^77) which got the lirst and second 

 prize, came from our iiur-^i ly. 'I'hese lots seem 

 to have attracted very much the attention of 

 the visitors — at least they were sjioken of m 

 various horticultunil ]iiTiodicals. and illustra- 

 tions given of such pairs of Hyacinths cultivated 

 in a double glass, in the Gardener''s Chromde, 

 1877, page 591, and the Gardener''s Magazine, 

 1877, page 202. Both these illustrations, how- 

 ever, are not correct as to the form of the leaves. 

 Of these you find an exact ligure (No. 47 l)age 

 11:5) in our German catalogue, 'M)'.'> C. An Eng- 

 lish edition of this catalogue is in preparation- 

 In the said catalogue you find some details as to 

 the management of this method of culture, which 

 you will find differ evidently of what is said' 

 about the matter in the Gardener''s Jifatrazine, 

 1877, page 2(»1, and the Gardener^s Chronicle^ 

 1877, page 632. Till now no other house here- 

 seems to have made a specialty of this method 

 of culture. We have alwaj's ready a number of 

 double glasses to suit our customers. The form 



1 of these presently used is a perfection (at least 

 as concerns a legacy) of the old Dutch forms 



, which we used hatf a centmy tigo, when the 



! under part had an inverted funnel form, in which 

 there was more and better room for the flower 

 of the so-called antipodean bulbto develop itself. 

 In the new form it sometimes occurs that tJie 

 flower develops so long, that it is obliged t<» bend 



; upwards with is top to find room. 



This method of cultivation, to be done well, 

 claims much attention, but gives, by the extra- 

 ordinary effect, no small satisfaction. 



We suppose the above particulars will be suf- 

 ficient to clear up this matter. 



ANTIPODAL HYACINTHS. 



BY J. II. KRELAGK, HaAKLEM, IIol.LAND. 



In reply to the inquiry made about this article 

 in The Gardeker's Monthly of November 

 last (page 329), we can say that we re-introduced 

 this ver}' old Dutch method of cultivation some 

 years ago. We exhibited collections of Antipo- 

 dean Hyacinths at the horticultural shows at 



TUBEROUS — ROOTED BEGONIAS AGAIN. 



BY AV., NOKTOLK. VA. 



Vour correspondent, on page 2 oi' .lauuary 

 Monthly accuses me of over-estimating the 

 value of the above acquisition to our list of plants 

 for our-door culture. As he is from England 

 quite recently, he ought to know better than I 

 of their merits there ; but on page 202 of the 

 September number of ''y/te Garden.'''' 1877, pub- 

 lished , at I>ondon. I think an unpredjudiced 

 reader will find my statement'- in part, if not 

 wholly siihstantuited •. and 1 suppose the au- 



