GARDENING EXPEEIENCE. 



despises all new and liardy sorts. I am sometimes inclined to think that I am con 

 sidered to be a sort of half-wild enthusiast, because I take a warm interest in all that 

 appertains to fruits, and am with others endeavoring to form a pomological society — 

 the only one in England ; and I think it very probable we shall not be able to carry 

 out our idea, and I believe solely from a sort of John Bullish self-sufficiency which, as 

 has happened in other matters, I trust will be cured by your activity shaming us into 

 a like course. 



There are a few, very few, good new Roses blooming this season. The Tea-scented 

 Rose Gloire de Dijon is really a fine Rose, with a vigorous habit and flowers of great 

 beauty, like those of Souvenir de la Malmaison with the fawn color of Safrano. 

 Auguste Vacher is also a new fawn-colored Tea Rose, like Ojjhire (Noisette), and its 

 flowers are, like that Rose, not regular in their shape. La Quintinie is a grand new 

 Bourbon Rose with finely-shaped flowers of a rich crimson velvet. It is not, however, 

 a vigorous grower — and this appears to me now a most essential quality; for, with 

 Roses as with Pears, we must have only such varieties as form vigorous, healthy 

 plants. In that favorite family, the Hybrid Perpetuals, Jules Margottin takes the 

 first rank. It is like our old favorite Brennus, and as vigorous, with perpetual flowers, 

 which it gives most freely all the autumn. Sir John Franklin and Gloire de la 

 France are also two fine crimson Roses of first rate quality. Colonel du Rougemont 

 is a large edition of Baronne Prevost — a grand Rose. Madam Domage is also a very 

 good variety, resembling the latter in color and habit, with flowers not quite so large. 

 There are many other new Roses sent out by Laffay, Robert, and others, but they 

 are all fudge. They are good and pretty enough, but not sufiiciently distinct for 

 English, and, I should think, American taste, as we require something more in a Rose 

 or Pear than to be merely new. 



A CHAPTER OF GARDENING EXPERIENCE. 



BY c. n. 



Your " Hints to Beginners," in the June number of the Horticulturist, induces me 

 to state a few facts in my experience in the cultivation of flowers, &c. 



Some three years since, I was totally ignorant of the beauty of flowers, as well as 

 of the pleasures to be had in their cultivation ; but having erected a cottage upon a 

 half acre of ground, and being desirous of having it adorned somewhat, I concluded 

 to try and cultivate a taste in the floral as well as the horticultural line. I began with 

 a dozen Roses, that an amateur friend selected for me, of the following varieties : 

 Madam Laffay, Rivers, Le Roi, La Reine, Ojjhire, Phamix, Lamarque, Souvenir de 

 la Malmaison, Queen of the Bourbons, Chromatella, Mrs. Bosanqiiet, and Hermosa. 

 With " Buist on Roses,'''' and hints gathered from your magazine, I succeeded admira- 

 bly the first season. My plants grew finely and bloomed freely during nearly 

 whole season, and were the admiration of all who passed by. The following sp 



