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JOURNAL OF HOETICULTURE AND COTTAGR GAKDENER. 



[ October aj, 1867. 



lUcrn. They were placed very dope together, which, while it 

 added to the effect, certainly did uot add to the comfort of those 

 who, like myself, wished to examine them individually. Let 

 me say that I have never seen such a collection as M. Souchot 

 staged. There must have heen three hundred spikes, and each 

 spike in itself perfect. As I had afterwards an opportunity of 

 seeing some with M. Souchet himself, and had a talk with him 

 about them, I hope ere long to enter more fully into the sub- 

 ject, especially as this year the greater part of my collection has 

 perished by a disease as unaccountable as the Potato disease. 

 M. Eugene Verdier's collection was good ; but there was as great 

 a distance between him and M. Souchet as we see sometimes 

 in England in exhibitions between the first and second collec- 

 tions. Growers of Gladiolus, as I have before mentioned, must 

 bear in mind that M. Souchet does not sell except to four or 

 five Paris houses, and must obtain the bulbs through them. 

 Of these houses, the Verdiers, Eugone and Charles, are well- 

 known distributors of M. Souchet's varieties. 



I may also say that, fine as some of M. Souchet's Gladioluses 

 of last year were, they are quite eclipsed by some of the present 

 season, which are perfect marvels of beauty. We are some- 

 times reminded how much better thiugs are shown in France, 

 and Roses are taken as an example of this. All I can say is, 

 I have never seen it ; and the Koses exhibited were neither 

 in themselves nor in their " setting up " to bo compared to 

 those shown at the Crystal Palace about a fortnight before. 

 They were placed in long, zinc, semi-circular tubes, and were 

 to my mind slovenly in the extreme. None of the new varie- 

 ties were shown, and very few even of those of last season. 

 Dahlias were there too, but such flowers ! There was not one 

 in the lot which obtained the first prize that either Mr. Turner 

 or Mr. Keynes would have admitted into his stands. Green 

 eyes, sunken centres, flat plates prevailed, while there was 

 no order or regularity in the matter of placing them in the 

 stands. They were shown in a sunken frame in moss, and 

 were altogether very inferior. Not so, however, the double 

 Zinnias. I do not know what became of the tirst and second 

 collections, for I searched in vain for them ; but in the third 

 " exhibit," as it ia now called, there were some really splen- 

 did double flowers, especially in scarlet and yellow ; and if 

 the others were as far ahead of these as M. Souchet's Gladi- 

 oluses were of the rest, they must have been fine, as, indeed, 

 I was informed they were. It will thus be seen that, as far as 

 my judgment goes, there were only two flowers in which we 

 were surpassed by the French exhibitors, and in one of these 

 by one exhibitor only. The Zinnias were probably due to the 

 cUmate ; but I do not see why we should be behindhand in 

 the Gladiolus, so " Excelsior ! " must be our cry ; and if more 

 encouragement were given to them perhaps we should see better 

 results.— D., Deal. 



WHITE ZONAL PELARGONIUMS. 



I SEE at page 253 you have recommended Purity and Virgo 

 Marie as our two best White Zonals, and " D., Deal" at 

 page 234, speaks of Purity as the only advance on Madame 

 Vaucher. My experience of it has been quite the reverse. I 

 had two good pl.ints of it which I shifted into lOinch pots. 

 One of them I planted out, and I kept the other for the con- 

 servatory, but it is now on the rubbish-heap. 



In the beginning of June every point appeared to be throwing 

 up a flower-truss, but as time went on, and it should have been 

 in flower, only five or six trusses came the length of flowering, 

 and miserable they were, with only a dozen flowers at the 

 most, and those with serrated edges. 



I kept it on till August with no better success, when I dis- 

 carded it ; but the one I planted out has done very well. Still, 

 the trusses are poor, having only from half a dozen to a dozen 

 flowers on each. The habit out of doors is good, but in-doors 

 the plant is very leggy. 



Upon the whole, I count Madame Vancher superior, both in 

 flower and habit, as a pot plant, and in flower superior to Virgo 

 Marie ; but I consider the latter has a better habit, and flowers 

 fiiUy as freely.— G. McD. 



Monster Pears.— There were exhibited in the shop of Messrs. 

 Le Coruu, seedsmen, St. HeUers, Jersey, last week, four Chau- 

 montel Pears which for size and beauty excelled any hitherto 

 known in Jersey, renowned as that island is for the quality of 

 its Pears. These four specimens weighed respectively 19 J, 



21 1, 24?, and 30{ ozs., making the almost incredible total 

 weight of yei ozs. ! The three first mentioned, weighing 

 (').';; ozs., had grown on a single eye. They were grown in the 

 grounds of Mr. G. H. Herman, Her Majesty's Solicitor-General 

 for the Island of Jersey. 



CULTURE OF ROSES ON THE MANETTI 

 STOCK— No. 5. 



Let me hope that the preceding observations, which are the 

 result of long, extensive, and expensive experience, may ad- 

 vance the Rose cause and create better rosarians. By rosarians 

 I do not mean possessors of large stocks and good ground, nor 

 do I mean simply winners of Rose prizes, but workers. A 

 constant succession of noble Roses throughout the season 

 requires great labour, but ''Labor omnia vincit." 



I will now give a list of the best Roses in each family. 



SUMMER ROSES. 



These are now to a great extent superseded by Hybrid Per- 

 petuals, Tea Roses, and Tea-scented Noisettes ; still, some of 

 them should be retained, as they have not yet been matched. 

 They are very hardy, and useful for bouquets, as cutting them 

 for flowers does not injure their future prospects. I do not 

 recommend them to persons who have only room for a few 

 Roses. Hybrid Perpetuals are the best for them. 



Provence. — The Cabbage. 



Moss Roses. — As Madame E. Cry is the only good autumnal 

 Moss Rose, we must have the summer Moss Roses or none. 

 The following are the best : — Common Moss, Gloire des Mous- 

 seusses, the finest ; Laneii, a good pole Rose ; Nuits d'Young, 

 Baron de Wassenacr, Captain Ingram, Vandael, White Bath, 

 and, curious, W. Lobb. 



Damask. — La Ville de Bruxelles, Madame Soetmans, one of 

 our finest white Roses. I keep only this and Schismaker, which 

 is of a pure slate colour. 



Gallica. — I name first two of the best variegated Roses that 

 we have. These are CEillet Parfait, rather tender, but extra 

 fine ; and Tricolore de Flandres, large and beautiful ; others 

 being Boula de Nanteuil, Kean, La Voluptc;, Triomphe de Jaus- 

 sons, and Schismaker, pure slate. 



Hybrid China. — General Jacqueminot, and Madeline, varie- 

 gated. 



Hybrid Bourbon. — Charles Lawson, Conpo d'Hubu, and Paul 

 Ricaut. 



Austrian and Banksian Eoses are now superseded by such 

 fine autumnal yellow Roses as Solfaterre, Gloire de Dijon, 

 Triomphe de Rennes, and Marechal Niel, which is blooming 

 well and growing finely on briars in my gardens. It is a 

 glorious Rose. 



AUTUMNAL ROSES. 



Macartney. — Maria Leonida, veiy beautiful, but not a show 

 Eose. It is a creamy white, with a blush centre, and vermilion 

 stamens. 



PEErETUAL Moss.. — Madame E. Cry. 



Perpetdal Damask. — Mogador, a fine bedder when on the 

 Manetti. 



Hybrid PERPETnALS. — Some of these, no doubt, will be super- 

 seded in due time. They are, however, good, and the best at 

 present. Achille Gonod ; Alfred Colomb and Charles Rouillard, 

 the best two of their year; Alfred de Rougemont, Alpaide de 

 Eotalier, Alphonse Belin, Anna Alexieff, Auguste Mie, a fine 

 autumn Eose, Baron Adolphe de Rothschild, Baronne Pel- 

 letan de Kinkelin, Baronne Prevost, Beauty of Waltham, Ber- 

 nard Palissy, Black Prince, Camille Bernardin, Caroline de 

 Sansal, Charles Lefebvi'e, Charles Wood, Comte de Nanteuil, 

 Comtesse de Chabrillant, Dr. Andry, Due de Cazes, Due de 

 Rohan, Duchesse de C'aylus, Duchesse d'Orleans, Duke of Wel- 

 lington, Dr. Spitzer, Empereur de Maroc, BugAne Verdier, 

 Francois Lacharme, Gabriel de Peyronny, Goneral Jacqueminot, 

 George Prince, Gloire de Dueher, Jean Cherpin, tine colour, 

 not full ; Jean Rosenkrantz, John Hopper, John Keynes, Jules 

 Margottin. Lady Suflield, La Duchesse de Moruy, La VUle de 

 St. Denis, Leopold Premier, Lord Clyde, Lord Macaulay, Ma- 

 dame Boll, Mad. Boutin, Mad. Charles Crapelet, Mad. Charles 

 Wood, Mad. Clemence Joigneaux, Mad. Emain, Mad. FiUion, 

 Mad. Freeman, Mad. JuUe Daran, Mad. Knorr, Mad. Moreau, 

 Mad. Elvers, Mad. Victor Verdier, Mad. Vidot, Marechal Vail- 

 lant, Marguerite de St. Amand, Maurice Bernardin, Monsieur 

 de Montigny, Pierre Netting, Prince Camille de Rohan, Rushton 

 Eadcljffe, Senateur Vaisse, Souvenir de Dr. Jamain, very beau- 



