Oetober 31, 1867. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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thoy were for sale), and other stock that was for sale, may be 

 legally removed by the touaut. Trees, i-c, planted merely to 

 sell their produce, wo think, cannot be removed by the tenant. 

 It is most advisable, huwovor, both for the landlord and tenant 

 to have on amicable arrangement, so that the landlord may 

 have those trees left which he may desire.] 



^VHAT QUALITIES SHOULD A BEDDING 

 TKLAUGONIUM POSSESS .' 



I SEE at page -'70 of The Jouunal ov HoRTicnLTUBE, that 

 Mr. Wills niak-os I'elargonium Miss Watson the bntt to shoot 

 at. Mr. Wills's opinion is in opposition to that of such men 

 as Messrs. Kyles, Gibson, 1). T. Fish, .T. & C. Loo, the liev. 

 J. Dix, and others of equal standing, who have, with at least 

 twenty other judges, at all the principal shows (including the 

 Manchester National, Royal Horticultural, Royal Botanic, 

 Crystal Palace, York, Peterborough, itc), conferred upon Miss 

 Watson the higliest testimonials — viz., tirst-class certificates. 

 And yet Mr. Wills condemns these beautiful round leaves with 

 their highly defined colouring, because he happens to have a 

 plant with round leaves of little more substance than tissue 

 paper and no constitution. It this had been his opinion pre- 

 vious to September 17th, why did he boast that Northern Star 

 was to be the winner, or, at least, so near in the race as to 

 require a good judge to distinguish the winner ? I leave it to 

 judges of greater talent to decide, if there was a good leaf on 

 either Northern Star or Florence at the Kensington Show. 



As to the round-leaved Pelargoniums, especially for bedding 

 purposes, everyone who knows anything of Pelargoniums chooses 

 the round-leaved kinds, for the simple reason they have gene- 

 rally the finest constitution. It was only at the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society's Meeting of October 1.5th, that a first-class 

 certificate was awarded to Ealing Rival, a variety of the same 

 type and class as Miss Watson, with its fine distinct colouring, 

 and, undoubtedly, it is well worthy the recognition it received. 



.\3 to the decision of the judges on September 17th, I beg to 

 differ from Mr. Wills. I am quite willing to leave my case in 

 the hands of the gentlemen I have mentioned in the foregoing 

 part of this reply, and it is to them I appeal for a settlement 

 of the matter as to the merits of Miss Watson as a bedding 

 plant. Men of ability and standing who are quite disinterested, 

 and whose names I can mention if required, will testify to 

 having seen it growing ontside as freely as Tom Thumb, and, 

 moreover, that it pro%'es most effective at a distance, where 

 Mrs. Pollock, Lady CuUum, Lucy Grieve, Florence, and any 

 others yet in commerce, are a mass of confusion and ineffec- 

 tive. I think the plants exhibited October 1.5th, will set the 

 matter of constitution at rest, they being well over the sides of 

 the pots and in good colour for the season, though they had 

 been taken from the parent plant only ten weeks. I doubt 

 very much if Northern Star would make plants of the same 

 strength in twenty weeks ; but if Mr. Wills will wait patiently 

 I will let him see the beautiful Miss Watson, as Mr. Robert 

 Fish and Mr. !>. T. Fish justly term that variety, from 2 to 

 3 feet high within the twelvemonth. 



I am of opinion that Mr. Wills's Golden Zonala ought not 

 to be exhibited against the Variegated Zonals, and all the best 

 judges will agree with me. They form two distinct classes. 



In conclnsioa I beg to say, that in my opinion Louisa 

 Smith and Perkins's Victoria are but second-class plants. Miss 

 Watson and Mrs. Dix are a hundred per cent, superior to the 

 two. — JoHS Watson. 



NOTES IN .JERSEY. 



Havixo had occasion to visit Jersey, and having read with 

 much pleasuri! an article in your .lournal on Mr. Pond's green- 

 houses, I think that, perhaps, a few more particulars concern- 

 ing the horticulture in this island may not be altogether un- 

 interesting to your renders. 



On the Ifith of October I attended the .\utumnal Horticul- 

 tural Exhibition held in the public market. There was but a 

 very meagre show of flowers compared with the fine shows we 

 have in England, the Dahlias and Fuchsias were, however, very 

 good, the former being much admired. The fruit, Jersey's 

 great boast, was magnificent and such as one rarely meets with, 

 especially the Chaumontel Pears, which were extraordinarily 

 fine, and rendered almost ugly by their huge proportions. 

 These Pears are now being sold at from 30s. to £ 4 per hundred. 



Mr. Pond carried off about a dozen prizes, and received an 

 extra prize for some most beaatifal black Grapes. An im- 



mense Pumpkin weighing 85 lbs., and some Indian Com, ex- 

 hibited by Mrs. Macreight, attracted much attention. 



Mr. Tidey exhibited some honey made this year by his 

 Ligurian bees (referred to at page 17), which, together with the 

 octagonal super in which it was contained, weighed '21 lbs., 

 and he estimated the weight of the whole hive to be 100 lbs. 



It is surprising to me that these bees are not more sought 

 after in England than they are at present. The queens are sin- 

 gularly prolific, and the outlay on the first hive would in a very 

 short time be repaid with ample interest. — C. B. Eduam. 



DEPTH OF PLANTING ROSES. 



" Will Roses on the Briar suffer, if planted rather deeply — 

 say from 4 to 6 inches ? " 



One would at first sight think that four words would answer 

 so simple a question. I think, however, it is better not to be 

 so concise. 



I learned two grand facts from books, and, I believe, the rest 

 I owe to experience. I learned from Mr. Rivers's book that 

 Manetti Roses must be covered at least 1 inch over the point 

 of nnion; and from The Journal of Horticcltdre, that if you 

 plant a Briar Rose deep you wLU first have weak wood and poor 

 flowers, then weak wood and no flowers, and then death. I 

 found that to be quite right. 



There is an omission ;in Mr. Rivers's, Mr. W. Paul's, and 

 Mr. Cranston's excellent works, as to the proper depth to plant 

 Briar Roses. Probably they omitted it because different pieces 

 of ground differ so much as to situation and quality. Briar 

 Roses, and I believe other stocks, have an affinity for clay, so 

 that more liberty may be taken in such land, than in that 

 which is of interior quality. If there had been no gardeners nor 

 spades, all seeds must have dropped on and rooted from the 

 surface. Our hedgerow trees, and most of our noble forest 

 trees originated from dropped seeds. These have noble sur- 

 face roots. Every one has seen the roots of Elms coming up 

 through the grass in all directions round the trees. 



All vegetable nature sighs for the surface, but we bury rather 

 than plant. In my opinion 4 inches is as great a depth as 

 Roses on the Briar should be planted. I think shallower 

 planting better, provided the planter will dry mulch in winter, 

 and wet mulch in summer. A Briar Rose does not like its roots 

 being burned, and hence it likes mulching. To avoid burning, 

 and escape mulching, people sepulchre it. Hence the rind is 

 soon covered with serge or lichens, and the tree deteriorates. 

 There is only one thing against shallow planting, and that is 

 the troublesome suckers ; serge and lichens betoken want of 

 free drainage. — W. F. Radclytfe. 



THE SCALE INSECT. 



Havino a strong fancy some years since to grow a collection 

 of Oranges, Lemons, Shaddocks, Citrons, &c., I procured all the 

 best varieties I could hear were in cultivation. For a time 

 I was delighted with them. The beauty of their foliage, the 

 perfume of the flowers, and the golden fruit pleased every one, 

 and as they sold freely, I increased the stock. Whether from 

 the stock being larger the plants received less attention, or from 

 some otfher cause, I cannot tell, but they became infested with 

 scale, which spread to Fig trees and other plants. 



I had them carefully washed with warm water in which 

 quassia chips had been boiled, and to which soft soap had been 

 added, as used for aphis, but with little effect. I then had 

 them sponged with a strong solution of Gishurst compound 

 leaf by leaf, to the great disgust of the boys employed. This 

 appeared to clean them, but before they were all finished the 

 first-cleaned wanted doing again. I began to think no plants 

 would pay for the trouble these caused, and that no one would 

 long persist in their cultivation, as it appeared next to impos- 

 sible to keep them clean. 



Seeing Mr. Rivers's notice of Mr. Saunders's recommendation 

 of methylated spirits of wine, I tried it on a badly-infested 

 plant, wetting the leaf well with a large camel-hair brush. I 

 used a very soft brush, because I was anxious not to injure any 

 of the insects by mere friction. In a few hours I, or rather we 

 (for Mr. Barron, of Elvaston, was with me), examined the leaves 

 carefully, and found about one-third of the insects dead. A 

 second dressing killed the greater part of these troublesome 

 pests, but still there were a few alive, and I came to the con- 

 clusion that, as it could hardly be supposed a whole collection 

 of plants would be as carefully wetted as the leaves we ope- 



