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IRISH GARDENING. 



CiLIATLM.— White, ting-ed witli rose. This is a very 

 shrubby species, and looks well when planted as an 

 edging to any border of the taller growing sorts. It 

 flowers very freeh- from quite a small state onwards, 

 and good flowering plants can be obtained in small pots 

 (48' and 32') for use in rooms, greenhouse, or conser- 

 vatory. 



Fl LGENS. — This red species forms very attractive 

 bushes. 



ClN.NABARI.NTM. — \"er3- distinct in flowers and foliage, 

 orange-yellow. 



ROYLEI. — Sometimes classed as synonymous with 

 previous species, from which it differs in having plum- 

 coloured flowers covered with good bloom. 



D.\LHOrsi.s has good taking white flowers of good 

 substance. 



The following hybrids are good for exhibition : — 



Shilsonii (barbatuni x Thomsonii), red. 



Manglesh (Griffifhianum x album elegans), while, 

 spotted brown. 



FoRSTERiA.NUiM (Vei/chicDium x Edgesiorthii).— This 

 is very beautiful, and when well known should become 

 a general favourite. The flowers are large and 

 fragrant ; is well worthy of a place in any collection. 



Sesterianum {CUta/inii x Edge-vorthii', fragrant 

 white flowers. 



The following hybrids are among the best raised at 

 Tremough ; all have very large flowers and trusses : — 



Gill's Trii.mph. — Immense flowers of a brilliant 

 red colour ; gigantic truss. 



Beauty of Tremough. — This should become a great 

 favourite, being of a most pretty pink, margins of petals 

 of deeper shade. 



Glorvof PENJERRICK. — Pink flowers of good texture. 



Kewense {Criffithianum x Hool!ert).—Th\s beautiful 

 hybrid should be in every collection. Flowers are white, 

 flushed pink, and are of good size and substance. 



Roses. 



By O'Do.NEL Browne, M.D. 



IT was a great pleasure to see so many novices 

 showing at the recent Dublin rose show, and it 

 augurs well for the good influence that this paper 

 has done amongst amateur rose-growers throughout 

 Ireland. What particularly struck me was the good way 

 these novices went to work ; but there were a couple 

 of boxes which could have been better put up and more 

 neatly done. Let us hope that they saw how shoddy 

 their boxes looked. Now that the show is over it is no 

 use mv giving any hints on staging ; better for me to 

 trj' and help these novices with a few hints of a different 

 kind. Firstly, as to the increase of their stock for next 

 year. If you are to bud, then put on plenty of buds of 

 any one particular variety rather than a few of many 

 different kinds. Propagate varieties such as Dean 

 Hole, Lyon Rose, Hugh Dickson, William Shean, Mrs. 

 David M'Kee,! Mme. Melaine Soupert, George C. 

 Waud, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Marquise Jeanne de 

 la Chataignerye., of each a goodly number ; whilst 

 amongst Teas put on a good many Mrs. E. Mawleys, 

 Sour, de Pierre Notting, Maman and White Cochets, 

 Harry Kirk, Mrs. Myles Kennedy, and if you have 



standards for some try Mme. Cusin and Comtesse de 

 Nadaillac. Cease budding inferior sorts -the modern 

 rose has come to stay, and in a few years we shall not 

 have anything but these newer varieties. Do not 

 forget some Climbers such as the Climbing Mrs. W. J. 

 Grant, Mme. Wagram, Mme. Jules Gravereaux, and 

 Climbing K. .Augusta Victoria. Get your stocks 

 budded off as early as you can, and in budding try and 

 work from shoots which have thrown good flowers. With 

 the plants you have your time will be taken up attend- 

 ing to them to keep them free from mildew (for this I 

 ad\'ise you to spray the under surface of all the leaves 

 three nights running with pure sulphuric acid, one half 

 toaspoonful ; lyso! (to be had at any chemist's), one 

 wineglassful ; ii.'ater, preferably rainwater, 3 gallons. 

 Be careful of the acid ; it will burn everj-thing such as 

 metal if used too strong, and mind vour hands as well. 

 See to your Climbers. Remove all shoots that have 

 flowered, and lay the young ones in safely to their 

 support, and keep them plentifully supplied with water 

 lo encourage growth. Make careful observations of 

 how such and such a variety has done. This will help 

 you next year. Do not get lazy now that the show has 

 gone, and neglect your trees ; be more than attentive, 

 for you have yet to mature and ripen the shoots for next 

 year. Keep your beds hoed as often as \'Ou can, and 

 jou will be rewarded by a grand display in the autumn. 

 Do not allow hips to remain ; these if left seriously 

 interfere with your tree's nurture. Study an old hand 

 at one of your shows whilst he is staging his flowers. 

 You will learn more by watching him than by any 

 other wa\'. 



Feeding Sweet Peas. — .-V correspondent tells us that 

 when his sweet peas lag in growth he used superphospate 

 of lime as a stimulant with marked results. He waters 

 with a solution made up of 1 oz. to the gallon of water 

 and applies once a fortnight during the flowering season. 



The Tree Lupi.ve is a singularly decorative plant, 

 especiallv in the borders of shrubberies. It forms a 

 roundisli bush from two to four feet high. It covers 

 itself with abundance of yellow flowers produced in erect 

 terminal racemes. They are sweetly fragrant. There are 

 also white-flowered forms. The plants are natives of 

 California, and should, therefore, be given sunny 

 positions sheltered from prevailing winds. Lupines of 

 all kinds appear to thrive best in a soil devoid oi, or at 

 least containing little, lime. 



Oh, for a breath of the moorland, 



.A glimpse of the mountain grey, 

 Fc)r the thvme and the fragrant m^'rtle 



That scent the wanderer's way. 

 Oh, for the grey loch sleeping 



Where the swallows swim and glide. 

 For the bracken softly swaying, 



On the mountain's rugged side : 

 For the sound of the burn that wimples 



And sparkles in its fall, 

 For the gleam of the purple heather 



Where the lonely curlews call ! 



— Cuthbcrtstni . 



