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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ NoYember 13, 1873. 



But one word about my friends the Teas. They certainly 

 will not take kindly to the Mauetti. I have given special 

 attention to this lovely, and I think hitherto much neglected 

 class of Roses ; and my experience is that when a Tea budded 

 or grafted on the Manetti is found to be doing well, it is because 

 it has discarded the stock and has made its own roots. I have 

 hitherto had nearly all my plants on the Briar or on their own 

 roots. I lelieve, however, that the Briar cutting, as lately 

 described in the .Tournal, will be the stock, as I have some 

 plants so worked which I planted this spring, and they have 

 done more in one season than those on either the standard or 

 their own roots have done in two. 



One word on the Tea Rose border. We hear too much about 

 a southern aspect. I believe it to be almost the worst that 

 can be chosen. I have seen Teas in such a position exposed 

 to the full heat of an August sun, scorched to death, and not 

 a bloom bigger than a Buttercup. My Teas are planted under 

 an east wall in a border 8 feet wide, and here they do all I 

 could wish. They get an equal share of sun and shade ; and 

 many varieties which fall almost as soon as open in hotter 

 positions, mature into fine flowers fit for the exhibition box. 

 I do not say that flowers of substance and strong growers, 

 such as Marijchal Niel, Gloire de Dijon, and others, will not 

 give magnificent blooms on a south wall, but as a rule they 

 are early and late when the sun has not so much power. There 

 are many varieties of Teas which should be much more grown 

 than they are both for exhibition and decoration. No Rose 

 is so perpetual. I have gathered blooms this week, and there 

 are plenty of buds now ready to open if frosts will allow them. 

 I append a list of kinds I grow, should you think it worth while 

 to insert it. — Edwaed Handley, Baltonshorongh Parsonage, 

 Glastouhunj. 



FOR F.XHIEITICN. 



Marechal Niel 

 Devoniensis 

 Triomphe de Reuues 

 Ct'line Fnrpstier 

 Gloire ile Dijon 

 La Belle Lyonnaise 

 Mafiame Berard 

 Soavenir (Tun Ami 

 Sonvenir d'EIise 

 Souvenir de Paul Neron 

 Ruben R 

 President 



Comte de Paris 

 Niphetos 

 Catherine Mermet 

 Madame Falcot 

 Madame Willermo:^ 

 Madame Jules Margottin 

 Marie Van Houtte 

 Moiret 

 Bougere 



Alba Rosea, or Madame EraTy 

 .Teau Pemet 

 ^Madame Margottin 



Madame Cliarlea 

 Adrienne Cbriatophle 

 Madame de St. .Toseph 

 Triomphe de Luxembourg 

 Abricott' 



BEAUTIFTIL AS GARDEN ROSES. 

 Archimede 

 Sombreuil 

 Anjjust Vaucher 

 L'Enfant TrouTe 

 Pauline Labontt- 



EOYAL HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 

 I ASK permission to call the attention of your readers to a 

 possible means of putting the Royal Horticultural Society on 

 a more satisfactory footing than its present one, in the hope 

 that some one with time and energy at his disposal may be 

 induced to come forward, take the lead, and work out this or 

 some other practicable plan of reorganisation. It is a melan- 

 choly fact that, even under the late Council, strong as it 

 was horticulturally, and hard-working and persevering in its 

 attempts to forward the interests of horticulture, a large part 

 of the great body of horticulturists throughout the country, 

 including many of its best members, held aloof from the So- 

 ciety, and neither thought, felt, nor spoke kindly of it. Under 

 the new Council, which came in after the Kensingtonian covp 

 d'i'tat,ihe fact of the small proportion of horticultural members, 

 and the loss of the valuable Assistant Secretary, Mr. Richards, 

 have alienated not a few of what horticultural friends the Society 

 had. There is no doubt that the Society has done, and is doing, 

 much good work at Chiswick, at the Committee meetings, and 

 at the country shows, but even the late Council had almost 

 overwhelming difficulties with which to contend. If for a 

 moment we consider the constitution of the Society this will 

 at once be apparent. A very large proportion of tlie Fellows 

 have joined the Society in order that their children and they 

 may enjoy the large open space and conservatory at South 

 Kensington, and for these objects they pay an admission fee 

 and an annual subscription of two or four guineas ; this may 

 seem a fair consideration, but unfortunately the South Ken- 

 sington garden stands under rather peculiar circumstances. 

 The money which bought the land came from the surplus of 

 the 18.51 Exhibition, principally consisting of the people's 

 shillings. This land, some twenty-two acres, has become im- 



mensely valuable ; it has been estimated at £300,000. Property 

 bought from such a source, and of such value, ought to yield, 

 in some way or other, a much larger sum than it does, to be 

 spent on public objects ; as it is, with the debenture debt 

 (£2000 a-year), which must be paid, with rent (£2400 a-year), 

 which ought to be paid, and with that part of the cost of 

 Chiswick garden which goes to nursery work to beautify the 

 South Kensington conservatory and garden, and with South 

 Kensington rates and taxes, there is no great amount left for the 

 great public object of spreading and helping horticulture. The 

 late Coimcil almost concluded an arrangement with the 1851 

 Commissioners, by which, in consideration of the Exhibition 

 visitors being admitted free to the gardens, the Commissioners 

 would clear the Society of the debenture charge of £2000 a-year,. 

 of the rent £2400 a-year, and give what was estimated to 

 amount to £1000 a-year more for horticulture (a settlement 

 with life Fellows was understood). This would have enabled 

 the Society to carry on vigorously, and would have fairly 

 utilised the land. Then the Kensingtonian compact vote 

 turned out the Council. It has been more than once said that 

 the CouncU made " a very poor fight." It might have been 

 put still stronger, and said, made no fight at all. This last 

 was not to be wondered at. When people know that they have 

 laboured earnestly with the single object of doing their best 

 for a Society, and devoted much time, spared with difficulty, 

 it is not they who are likely to lift up a finger to keep them- 

 selves in a troublesome post. If there was to be any fight, the 

 horticultural Fellows, who did not take the trouble to come up- 

 and outvote the Kensingtonians and the few horticulturists 

 who sided with them, ought to have made it, and by their vote 

 have kept in the Council, and have given the country Fellows 

 the power of voting by proxy. 



Now, for the future, it is my firm conviction that a state of 

 the Society is possible, free from the dead weight and inert 

 matter which clogs the present one. Consider what a vast 

 number of weU-to-do people, fond of their gardens, there are 

 now in the country ; very many of them would be willing to 

 help horticulture if it did not cost them much money or trouble. 

 I would make the annual subsciiption a guinea, and have na 

 admission fee. I can speak from my experience of a Society 

 where, simply because they think it useful and active, many 

 members have joined, and go on subscribing to it, without ever 

 going near any of its meetings ; and I beUeve a very great 

 number of Fellows would join at this small subscription. The 

 Society ought to have the old Chiswick Gardens as a home, 

 and to make arrangements with the Commissioners, and under- 

 take, for a fixed consideration, to furnish the conservatory^ 

 and to hold Committee meetings and a certain number of 

 shows at South Kensington. I believe the money from this 

 source, with that from the numerous guinea Fellows, would 

 give more free funds for horticultm'e than the Society has ever 

 yet possessed, and the Society would be a real horticultural 

 society. — George F. Wilsok, Heatherbank, Weyhridge Heath. 



COLOUB AEEANGEMENT. 

 A few simple rules in the arrangement of flower beds wUl 

 materially enhance the efi'ect produced. Among these are — 



1. Avoid placing rose-coloured next to scarlet, orange, or 

 violet. 



2. Do not place orange next to yeUow, or blue next to violet. 

 'A. White reHeves any colour, but do not place it next to 



yellow. 



4. Orange goes well with blue, and yellow with violet. 



.5. Rose colour and purple always go well together. — {Canada 

 Farmer.) 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



An invitation has been addressed through the President to 

 the members of the Royal Horticultural Society, by the Presi- 

 dent of the " SociETA ToscANA d'Ortk-dltura," to attend a 

 grand International Exhibition at Florence, which is to be 

 held from the 11th to the 25th of May next. Members are 

 also invited to exhibit at the said Show, that the horticulture 

 of this country may be represented. 



Rep-skin Floureall Potato (Buttons'). — In reference to the 

 remarks of your correspondent " W.," page .S28, my experi- 

 ence is the same as his in regard to its freedom from disease 

 but quite difl'erent as to its cooking qualities. I had some 

 the other day baked (the only way in which these large Pota- 



