NEW TEA ROSE, SOUVENIR D'ELIZE. 



ought to have nothing to think of but the work before them,, which, with a ma- 

 chine of such power, requires undivided attention ; and this cannot be given with 

 the chains in such close proximity to the legs of the ploughmen as was the case 

 on Wednesday. Possibly, this objection may be, in some respect, modified with 

 the double ploughs, which allow more space between each chain. But the former 

 objection holds equally good with them as with the single plough, being, at the 

 same time, of double the importance in regard to delay. 



The Endless Railway, unsightly though it be, performed its task with perfect 

 efficiency, and conveyed the eight or ten tons' weight over the land, without any 

 material indentation to mark its pressure. The steam-engine was of ten-horse 

 power ; but, with a pressure of seventy pounds, is equal to thirteen-horse. This 

 allowed four and one-third horse power to each plough, though it was the opinion 

 of some of the farmers that it would have required five or six horses to have drawn 

 a furrow of the same width and depth on the same land. The engine consumes 

 about ten cwt. of coals per day, when at full work ; and the engineer calculated 

 that it would turn over eight acres of such land as that of Wimbish Hall Farm, 

 in the same time. 



On the whole, we consider the trial to have been a perfectly successful one, and 

 that it demonstrates, to a certainty, the applicability of steam, as a motive power, 

 to the cultivation of the land. Boydell's machine had already been tried with 

 success at Chelmsford, Thetford, and other places, upon soil both of a kinder and 

 lighter texture, and that had also been previously under proper cultivation. At 

 Thetford, as we understand, with six ploughs, it turned over twenty acres per day, 

 and had the whole power of the engine been applied, it would have completed 

 thirty acres. It only wanted a trial on such soil as that at Wimbish Hall, to 

 complete the series. We consider that and the Thetford soil as the two extremes 

 of light and heavy land, after cultivating which with success, no doubt can be enter- 

 tained of the machine working well upon soils of intermediate texture. 



Whatever defects, therefore, the machine may exhibit in this, its infancy, they 

 may scarcely interfere with the question at issue, as they will undoubtedly be rec- 

 tified as experience points them out. Certainly, we have advanced far enough 

 already to be assured that steam-ploughing is perfectly practicable. And with 

 so many mechanical heads at work on the subject, we confidently expect, ere long, 

 to see a perfect and simplified machine, applicable to all soils, and at least as 

 economical as horse-power. — London Farmer''s Magazine. 



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FROM THE LONDON FLORIST. 



This new tea rose, which is very correctly represented in our plate for this month, 

 is a seedling raised by M. Marest, Nurseryman, of Paris, and was taken by our 

 artist, Mr. Andrews, from a plant in the nursery of Standish & Noble, of Bagshot. 

 This addition to our list of tea roses is a very desirable and beautiful one, fragrant, 

 and quite hardy, which is an advantage not to be lost sight of by rose growers ; 

 for the great failing in the beautiful section of roses to which this belongs, is that 

 they are rarely hardy enough to thrive without some protection during winter, 

 for which reason we do not find them so extensively grown as out-door plants 

 as they otherwise would be, and for which their delicate shades of color and 

 delightful fragrance would render them invaluable. 



Standish & Noble pay great attention to the introduction of new roses from 



* See Frontispiece. 



