FOREIGN NOTICES. 



paper, and three houses, each about thirty feet long, have been effectually fumigated with eight 

 ounces of tobacco, two ounces of Cayenne, and about four sheets of brown paper, with a handful 

 of hay to make a smoke. The expense was thi-ee shillings. The same houses hitherto have 

 required seven pounds of tobacco paper, at an expense of ten shillings and sixpence. — Zmidon 

 Gardener's Companion. 



The BorEBox Rose — Patxl's Peinoe Albeet. — Turner'' s Florist^ for November, gives a 

 brilliantly colored portrait of Paul's new Bourbon Eose, Prince Albert^ accompanied, with 

 the following remarks : 



" About thirty-five years ago, a French botanist, M. Breon, visited the island of Bourbon, and 

 found growing, in a garden at St Benoist, a rose altogether new to him. The flowers were rosy 

 carmine, beautifully cupped, and the petals remarkable for their size and smoothness. Our bot- 

 anist did not fail to appreciate this nouveaute, and sending it to Paris, it was there multiplied, 

 and scattered abroad : this was the original Bourbon Rose. It is not a species, but an accidental 

 hybrid, supposed to have spriing i:p between the common China Eose and the red Four-seasons. 



Some of our readers will doubtless remember the rose lie de Bourhon or Bourbon Jacques — 

 for under both these names it was disseminated; and it is from this rose, variously hybridised, 

 that all the Bourbon Roses have been obtained. For the few first years most of the seedlings 

 raised were of the same color as the original ; some were finer, and many were double ; one of 

 which, Augustine Leleur remains a good rose to this day. The first variation was the produc- 

 tion of kinds of a clear and beautiful silvery tint, then of a dark purple and crimson hue, till 

 now we have in the subject of this notice a flower as brilliant in color, and equal in form, to 

 almost any rose. The habit of Prince Albert \s ^vrnvi; the shoots are very robust, and well 

 clothed with large, rich, green foliage. It usually blooms in large clusters, but does not grow 

 rampant, Like Madam Desprez, but produces short, massive shoots, more in the way of Cornice 

 de Seine et Mavne, from which it is probably a seedling, although more robust, larger, brighter 

 in color and more double. As it is of dwarf habit, and blooms freely from June tiU JTovember, 

 it will probably prove an acquisition as a bedding rose. The autumn blossoms we have observed 

 are of a richer but less brilliant hue than those of smnmer. 



The history of this rose is briefly this : Mr. Paul of the Chestnut Nurseries found it growing 

 in the garden of the raiser, in the neighborhood of Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris ; and being 

 struck with the beauty and brilliancy of the flowers, purchased the entire stock, and now, for 

 the first time, offers plants for sale. 



The Bourbon Roses generally are hardy and easy of culture ; the short-wooded, free blooming 

 kinds require two annual dressings of manure and close pruning ; they are then the most beau- 

 tiful of autumn roses, flowering better and more abundantly late in the season than in summer, 

 fine flowers often expanding at the end of October." 



To Peeve:;?! Mildew. — Mildew is one of the greatest pests of green-houses and all sorts 

 of plant structures. The following remedy has been tried in the houses of the London 

 Horticultural Society, and it is thought vfill prove efficacious : " Sulphur and unslaked 

 lime put into a tub of water, in which they are quickly and intimately mixed, and the trees 

 and plants syringed with the clear liquid after these substances have settled at the bottom." 



