JOUBNAL OF HOETICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



[ July 7, 1863. 



Mr. B. E. Cant was second with Souvenir de Comte 

 Cavour ; Baron Adolphe de Eothschild, good ; Olivier Del- 

 homme ; Francjois Lacharme ; Vicomte Vigier : Vulcain ; 

 Charles Lefebvi-e : Reynolds Hole, a good pink ; Monte 

 Christo, dark ; Madame Charles Wood ; John Waterer ; La 

 Brill ante ; excellent ; Madame Ernest Dreol : Gregoii'e Bour- 

 dillon ; Souvenii' de Mous. Rousseau ; WUhehn Pfitzer, dark ; 

 and Madame Boutin, fine. 



Messrs. Paul & Son were third with President Lincoln, a 

 promising flower ; Le Baron EothschUd ; Prince Camille 

 de Rohan, very fine bloom ; Lord Clyde, good ; Madame 

 CaUlat ; Le Rhone, good, dark ; Lord Canning, a fine new 

 English Rose of Messrs. Pauls' rearing; Monte Christo; 

 Gloire de Bordeaux ; Olivier Delhomme, very good ; Belle 

 de Printemps, curiously mottled, but bad shajie : Baron de 

 Rothschild ; Wilhehn Pfitzer ; Louise Darzins ; Souvenir de 

 Comte Cavour ; Paul Despard ; and Prineesse d' Orleans. 



Mr. Standish, of Bagshot, had Gregoire Bom-dillon, Souve- 

 nir de Comte Cavoiu', Madame Standish, Charles Lefebwe, 

 Madame Boutin, Vicomte Vigier, Madame Charles Wood, 

 Mrs. Dombrain, Marguerite Appert, Marechal Vaillant, Andiv 

 Desportes, John Standish (agood bloom), Andrt' Leroy (fine), 

 Catherine GuOlot, J. F. Lombard, Reynolds Hole, Vulcain, 

 and Alexaudi-e Dumas. 



In Mr. Keynes' stand were Souvenir de Comte Cavom-, 

 Glou-e de Bordeaux. Fran<;ois Lacharme, Robert Fortune, 

 Monte Chi-isto, An(b-e Desportes, Marguerite Appert, Paul 

 Despard, Man'chal VaUlant, Charles Lefebvr-e, Tiu'enne, 

 MdUe. Julie Daran, John Standish (very good), Le BriUante, 

 Alphonse Damazin (good), Richard Smitli, Madame C. 

 Wood, and Olivier DeUiomme. 



Ml-. Cranston had La BrUlante, Madame Caillat, Camille 

 de Eohan, Comte Cavom-, Wilhelm Pfitzer. Miu-iUo, Le 

 Rhone, Richard Smith, Alphonse Damazin, BeUe de Massifs, 

 Alli-ed de Rougeraont, Archeveque de Paiis, L'Esmeralda, 

 Ducde Bassano, Souvenii- de M. Rousseau, Comte de Com'cy, ! 

 Vulcain, and Lecrosnier. 



Amongst the Roses there of last season, there ai-e evi- I 

 dently some which are destined long to remain in our c-ata- j 

 logues. Such flowers as Souvenir de Comte Cavom-, Prince 

 CamUle de Eohan, Mareehal VaiUant, Madame Boutin, 

 Madame Charles Wood. Alphonse Damazin, Adolphe Xoblet, 

 Charles Lefebvre, and Frani,-ois Lacharme are iudrsjiensable : 

 while WDhebn Pfitzer, Souvenii- de Lady EarcUey, and 

 Vicomte Vigier stand well nigh equal to them if not" quite. I 

 Thus a dozen good Roses may safely be set down as the 

 production of ISf.l. If there is a defect, it is that as a rule 

 they are not quite fijl enough, and thus apt at times to 

 open too much. Madame Charles Wood is the most ex- 

 traordinary flower for lasting that I know. I have had 

 blooms of it cut for a week without fViUing, while La Brd- 

 lante has just the opposite tendency ; the colour flies verj' 

 soon. Of them all I should fi-om present appearances be 

 inclined to fix on Fran<^ois Lacharme as the best of the lot. 



1 had intended to have given this week the details of the 

 prizes in the other classes, but must resei-ve it for the next 

 issue.. — D., Deal. 



BHOTAN imODODENDEON AT EEDLEAF. 



YouK impression of the 2.3rd of June has only just come 

 to hand, or I would sooner have replied to the coiu-teous re- 

 quest of " A Devonian," to say that the Bhotan Rhododen- 

 dron alluded to expanded the fii-st bloom on the 20th inst., 

 and the last on the 28th, thus coming unfortimately be- 

 tween two meetings of the Floral Committee, to whom I had 

 intended to sixbmit it. 



I think it is likely to i>rove identical -with the one described 

 by yom- coiTCspondent, as it is a large trumpet-shaped 

 flower, pure white, with an orange throat, and a most 

 agreeable and delicate fragrance. Each bud produced three 

 blooms. 



With regard to its hardiness, I cannot speak with the ne- 

 cessary certainty, our plant haring never been subjected to 

 the open aii- in the -winter ; but at that season it had only 

 the protection of a small lean-to, and was never covered. 

 Judging from appeai-ance. I should say that it is quite as 

 hai-dy as the Sikkim varieties I mentioned before. 



"Where it can be pm-chased I cannot say. This plant was 



presented to my employer by a lady in Scotland, and labelled 

 "Rhode from Bhotan." Perhaps these notices may elicit 

 some information on that subject. 



This has been a very fine season for the Sikkim Ehodo- 

 dendrons out of doors, and they have made a remarkably 

 clean and handsome growth, owing to the absence of those 

 piercing morning frosts in April and May,— John Cox, Red- 

 leaf. 



FiK. 1. 



PEOPAGATIO^' BY EYES. 



The facility with which certain plants are reproduced 

 from buds or eyes induces me to give a short detaQ of my 

 experience in this mode of propagation, laying no claim to 

 onginality, but simply to aid those who may not have 

 practised it. 



Vine Etes.— To propagate the Vine by the means of 

 eyes, procure a sufficiency of the wood of last year's gi-o-wth— 

 that which is removed by pruning, selecting the mediiun- 

 sized well-ripened wood. Commence v^-ith the bottom eye : 

 holding the shoot perpendicularly in its natm-al position, and 

 having the eye tm-ned from you, place the blade of the 

 knife some quarter of an inch beneath the eye, ch-awing the 

 knife cleanly through in a slanting do-niiward dii-eetion. 

 Next tiun the whole branch dh-ectly upside doivn, cutting 

 the eye clean away fr-om the same by drawing the knife 

 cleanly through the wood — in its present position closely 

 beneath it — also in a partiaUv slanting direction. i'V\Tien 

 finished the eye 

 should in form 

 somewhatresemble 

 fig.l. 



Having the eyes 

 thus properly pre- 

 pared, proceed to 

 pot or pan them. 

 I am pai-tial to the 

 latter, as when moderately shallow I can the more readily 

 command an evenness of temperature, whether the heating 

 materials be too hot or slightly the reverse, as, by simply 

 plunging the pans in the latter ease, or placing them upon 

 the siu-face of the material in the former, I can readily 

 command the desired heat. B-at whether pots or pans be 

 chosen take care to crock them well, as an excess of mois- 

 ture around the eyes is most injurious to these. 



The soil I use is formed of two parts good yellow loam, 

 one of peat, the same of leaf mould, with sand in quantity 

 sufiicient to make it nicely porous. I sift it, because by 

 doing so I am enabled better to di-vide the roots of the 

 plants than if the soil were rough. Having the pots ftUed, 

 press fii-mly each eye in the soil about 2 inches apart, 

 taking care not to have the eye bui-ied beneath the soil, 

 though no part of the wood should be visible. If the eye 

 be not fully exposed, it is liable to damp or rot off, even after 

 it has made a start to grow. 



Give gentle bottom heat, say 50°, increasing 5° weekly until 

 the maximum of 70° is attained. Care shordd be taken to 

 keep the heat, both above and below, at a moderate tempe- 

 rature, for an excess of heat often causes the eyes to start 

 prematiu-ely, and before the wounds have rooted, or even 

 foi-med the callus. 



After the fii-st fortnight or so, when it may be supposed 

 the callus is formed or that they have made good progi-ess, 

 an advance of heat -n-ith a nice growing atmosphere will be 

 beneficial to them, continuing thus unto they have made 

 reasonable growth and you siumise they ai-e getting in size 

 too large to remain advantageously together in the same 

 pan, with a view to their being readily parted for the pui-pose 

 of potting-off singly. Then small-sized pots having one 

 substantial crock in the bottom, good yellow loam, and well- 

 decomposed dung, &c., will suit them well, and into this 

 they should be cai-eftiUy potted. 



The Orange, Citron, and Camellia may be thus pro- 

 Ijagated, About the first week in March pick out a well- 

 ripened shoot, the growth of the last or preceding yeai-. From 

 this with a sharp knife simply cut out the leaf and eye, 

 having at then- base a small portion of the wood, just 

 sufiicient to give it the appearance of a cutting having a 

 small heel to it. Procm-e good loam, peat, and decomposed 

 cowdung in equal parts, with a fair proportion of silver 



