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JOUfiNAL OP HORTIOULTUKE AND COTTAGE GA14DENEB. 



respect to Koses, that this year all the growers about Paris had 

 the opportunity of sending them to the Universal Exhibition, 

 and that not on any one particular day, but at any time when 

 they were in flower, so that if anything was really good it ought 

 to have been there, and would, doubtless, have had an award 

 according to its merits. I say nothing about the Lyons growers, 

 because I know that the difficulty of sending their blooms 

 in good condition was against them. I find, then, that at the 

 Exhibition, the first prizes were awarded to Duchesse d'Aoste, 

 and Prince Humbert, both belonging to Margottin ; second 

 prizes to Madame Marie Cirodde (C. Verdier), and Vicomtesse de. 

 Vesins ; and third prizes to Madame Adele Huzard (C. Verdier), 

 Madame La Baronne do Rothschild, and Barillet Deschamps, 

 and, therefore, amongst these ought to bo found the best Hoses. 



I saw autumnal blooms of those varieties which obtained the 

 first prizes. Duchesse d'Aoste is a large, lovely, satiny rose, 

 hut I do not think its shape will quite please us, being too flat, 

 and not cupped. Prince Humbert is one of the sons of General 

 .Jacqueminot, a splendid Hose in form and appearance, very line, 

 deep, shaded velvety red. Maigottin told me with some degree 

 of pleasure, that when Chevalier Nigra, the Italian Ambassa- 

 dor, was going round this Rose made a great impression on 

 him, and he requested it might be named after Prince Humbert, 

 the son of the King of Italy ; the name was accordingly changed, 

 and he was greatly pleased when he found that it had obtained 

 the first prize. This will be, I think, an addition to our list 

 werthy of notice, but Margottin has a Rose for next season, 

 which he considers, and from a small bud I saw I do not think 

 he is far wrong, to be the best Rose he has raised since .Jules 

 Margottin, and which he believes will be found in the Rose 

 catalogues eighty years hence ; it is called Souvenir de M. 

 Poiteau. Reine de' Portugal is a yellow Tea of great beauty, 

 the darkest of the yellow Teas, and sometimes a coppery yellow 

 shaded with rose. La France is of a new race ; it is between the 

 Noisettes and Bourbons, and is, therefore, likely to be, as I am 

 assured it is, a very free autumnal bloomer. I have heard well 

 of some others. Baron de Lassus do St. Genius, was said to be 

 good ; and one of those purchased by Mr. Lee, Edouard Morren, 

 was stated by all whom I met to be an excellent flower. Mer- 

 veille d'Anjou, is. I conclude, one of Trouillard's, for I see a (T) 

 to it in Eugene Verdier's hst. Its wood is, I am told very fine, 

 and if the flower has substance enough the description sounds 

 weU, but I detest Trouillard's Roses. 



So ends my chat on Roses. What a popular flower it is, and 

 what an increasing demand there is for it. My friend, Mr. 

 Radclyli'e, has done good service by upholding the Manetti, and 

 well he may, for with him it is doing wonders, and I may say I 

 do not think I have ever seen the Manetti so managed, as it is 

 with Mr. Gill, of Blandford, from whom Mr. Radclyffe has 

 drawn so large a portion of his stock. There is a clean and 

 determined- to-grow character about them, and it does one good 

 to look at them. His soil is Ught, and he buds very low, so 

 that the Rose soon roots from the bud itself. We all live to 

 some extent in the future, and the Rose grower looks forward, 

 when winter is closing round, to the days when the spring 

 beauties of his old and new plants will reward him for all his 

 «are and attention. May many of us see them next year with 

 ourselves and our friends. — D., Deal. 



GOOD PE.VCH TREES OUT OF DOORS. 



"A SiAY-AT-noME G.uu)Enek" is anxious to know where 

 good out-door Peach trees are to be seen. There is at Lord 

 Derby's, at Knowsley, as good a wall of them as any gardener 

 coiJd desire, and such as few are fortunate enough to possess. 

 They are well trained, and clothe the wall from bottom to top 

 with fruitful vigorous wood in the finest health, and, I believe 

 as a rule, bear good crops of fine fruit. 



The climate of Lancashire is, perhaps, one of the least 

 favourable for most kinds of out-door fmits. The Knowsley 

 Peach trees show what can be done by good and careful manage- 

 ment, notwithstanding obstacles of climate. There are other 

 things, too, at this fine old place well worth the attention of 

 gardeners. — E. J. B. 



ritorious and valuable it might be." This at once releases tioe 

 makers of ground vineries from the apparent prolubition of 

 making them with one or both sides with hinges, hitherto 

 adding 100 per cent, to their price. — Vitis. 



Gbound Vineries. — It is good news for the inventor of these 

 structures and the makers of them to learn, from the Times of 

 the 5th inst., the opinion of Vioe-Chancellor Malins. In a 

 judgment delivered by him he says, " A mere improvement 

 was not sufficient to entitle a person to a patent, however me- 



A FEW KOTES ON THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



On visiting Mr. Salter's nursery a week or two ago, 1 was 

 very much pleased — as who would not be ? with a sight of his 

 Chrysanthemums, and I thought of their uiiUty as antninn 

 decorative plants. 



I saw at Mr. Salter's the use to which an ordinary lean-to 

 vinery may be turned, and the pleasing results which might be 

 obtained by a little ingenuity, and a very trifling expense. On 

 entering the vinery by the door near Mr. Salter's house, banks 

 of Jjycopods, Sedums, Saxifrages, and some of tho more choice 

 alpine plants, are neatly arranged, but the Chrysanthemums 

 are what I more particularly desire to draw the attention of 

 your readers to at this time. 



A winding or serpentine path has been made through the 

 centre of the house, and from the back wall to the edge of this 

 path were arranged in a tasteful manner the ChrysanthemumB, 

 and amongst them nearly all the finest varieties that have yet 

 been raised, and a number of them are as yet only to be seen at 

 Mr. Salter's. Chrysanthemums are also arranged along the 

 front of the house, and a few other rare and beautiful plants 

 have been added to heighten the effect. 



I thought, Could not a vinery, an orchard-honse, or any 

 other suitable glass structure, be devoted during the autumn 

 months to Chrysanthemums ? In many gardens a few Chry- 

 santhemums are allowed to grow for the purpose of decorating 

 the greenhouse or conservatoiy, but a house full of them is 

 seldom seen. Glass houses are in many cases devoted to the 

 cultivation of Azaleas, Camellias, Pelargoniums, and other 

 flowers, but a house full of well-grown specimens of Chrysanthe- 

 mums is quite as interesting and effective as any of the others 

 I have named. As they are in flower at the dullest and dreariest 

 season of the year they are the more weloomo on that ac- 

 count, and another point in their favour is that they do not 

 require to have a house almost exclusively devoted to their 

 culture. The Vines in a vinery which has been started in 

 January or February, may be pruned in October, preparatory to 

 being started at the same time in the year following. Such a 

 house will do well as a show-house for Chrysanthemums; or an 

 orchard-house might be used for the same purpose if the trees 

 were placed out of doors and the pots plunged well over the 

 rims in some light material free from worms. Chrysanthemums, 

 too, are of such easy cultivation that any amateur may grow 

 them without much chance of failure if ordinary care be exer- 

 cised and the advice which I will try to give be followed, 



I put in all the cuttings that are ready in January. Some 

 of the varieties may not be ready at that time ; the cuttings of 

 these must be put in as soon as they are so, and if they should 

 happen to very late they may be assisted with a little bottom- 

 heat. The cuttings which I put in dm-ing January, I place 

 in a cold frame, a single cutting in the centre of a 60-Eized pot ; 

 and an ordinary-sized garden frame with one light will hold as 

 many pots as will stock a spau-roofed house .54 feet by 24. I 

 plunge the pots in ashes, oi-, if it is to be had, cocoa-nut fibre 

 refuse will be cleaner. The frame must be well banked round 

 with earth, or it may be sunk in the ground, which will more 

 effectually prevent the frost finding its way in ; it should also be 

 double-matted if the frost is severe. The cuttings will strike 

 root very slowly, but they wiU grow strongly. 



After the cuttings are rooted, and as soon as the pots are 

 filled with roots the young plants are shifted. AW of these, how- 

 ever, will not be ready for this operation at one time, as some 

 of the varieties strike root more slowly than others, so that 

 there may be two or three different times at which the small 

 plants will require to be sliifted. I use 5 and O-inch pots for 

 the first shift, using the latter size for the strongest plants, 

 and I do not shift at any time until the pots are well filled with 

 roots, but they ought not to be pot-bound. I prefer using 

 7 and 8-inch pots for the next shift, as if the plants are shifted 

 into the blooming pots at this time they are apt to become 

 leggy and to lose their under leaves before the season of blooming. 

 The next shift should be into S} or 10-inch pots for the Pom- 

 pons, and llj-inch pots for the large-flowering varieties. The 

 finest Pompons I ever had were grown in llj-inch pots from 

 cuttings struck in January, on one of these plants I counted up- 

 wards of 1200 blooms expanded at one time, but such large 



