January 18, 18!7. J 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTDSE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



43 



Tomafo.— 'Orangefield Dwarf, Hathaway's Excelsior; if a 

 yellow be wanted Green Gage. 



Vegetahh' Marrou-. —Cnsts.'edi, 'Long White. 



In herbs are new Fern-leaved Parsley, Sweet Basil, Sweet Mar- 

 joram, Summer Savory, Aaise, Angelica (a biennial), Borage, 

 Caraway (biennial), Coriander, Dill, Pot Marigold, Purslane 

 (green and golden), and others, continued solely by seed. 

 Many may be raised from seed of the perennial class. I treat 

 Sage and Thyme as biennials, sowing in spring, having plenty 

 of green for catting by autumn, and cut entirely for drying the 

 following year and destroy. 



Potatoes. — Early and for forcing: 'Veiteh'a Improved Ash- 

 leaf. Sei-o}id t'arhj : Lapstone, or its improved form Yorkshire 

 Hero, Rector of Woodstock. Main crop : 'Saowflake, Walker's 

 Early or 'Prince Regent. Rhubarb. — 'Johnson's St. Martin's, 

 the finest forcing and early kind ; Monarch, a very large green 

 kind, and late. 



Those distinguished by a star are considered most desirable, 

 and are intended to express the limit of kinds for general 

 purposeB. — G. Abbey. 



THE NEW EOSES OF 1876. 



The Lyons Rose-growers, who send out annually novelties 

 in Roses, announce this autumn the sale of many which have 

 already obtained certificates of merit. 



We shall commence with the gains of M. Antoine Levet of 

 Boate d'Heyrieux, Montplaisir, Lyons. 



Mdlle. Lazarine Poheuu, Tea. — Plant vigorous, very free- 

 flowering. Flower medium size, full, fine form and handsome, 

 and of a beautiful orange-yellow colour. This beautiful Rose 

 was awarded a first prize at the special exhibition of Roses at 

 Lyons in the month of June last. The same grower also sends 

 out the following : — 



J/me. Sophie Tropot, H.P. — Plant vigorous, almost without 

 spines. Flower large, full, fine form like the old Cabbage 

 Rose, and of a beautiful bright rose colour. Very effective. 



ilme. Gabriel Fournier, H.P. — Plant vigorous, with straight 

 branches. Flower very large, full, of fine form and dark rose 

 colour. This beautiful plant of the highest merit has obtained 

 a first prize at the exhibition of Roses at Lyons in June last. 



Souvenir de Paul Dupuij. — Plant very vigorous. Flower 

 very large, C> inches in diameter, very full and of good form, 

 dark velvety red. This, though not a Hybrid Perpetual, will take 

 its place among the most beautiful varieties of hybrid Rosea. 



From the establishment of Madame Ducher of Lyons the 

 following three Roses will make their appearance : — 



Souvenir de George Sand, Tea.— Plant very vigorous, with 

 short branches. Flower very large, full, of very fine form 

 like that of a Tulip, yellow tinged with salmon ; the reverse 

 of the petals banded with lilac. 



Triomphe de Milan, Tea. — Plant vigorous ; branches short 

 and straight. Flower large, full, of fine form, white with a 

 deep yellow centre. This is a very beautiful and fine variety. 



The stock of the beautiful Tea Rose Mme. Welche, named 

 after the wife of the Prefect of Lyons, and which obtained a 

 first prize in the month of June at the Rose exhibition at 

 Lyons, has been sold to Mr. Henry Bennett of Salisbury, Eng- 

 land. The sale of it will deprive us, no doubt, for some time 

 of the pleasure of having thij beautiful Rose in the nurseries 

 of our French rosarians. 



M. Ph. Eambeaux, Rue Neuve Charpennes, Lyons, informs 

 OB that he will send out the following two new Roses : — 



M. Druet, H.P. — Tree very vigorous and very re-blooming, 

 with elegant foliage. The flower of this Rose, raised from 

 Dnohesse de Cambacires, is of a globular form, recalling the 

 colour of the old Cabbage Rose, with a very decided carmine 

 centre. 



Madame Paiivert. — This is a new variety of the Bengal race, 

 very vigorous, and very re-blooming. The flowers are very 

 lari!e, elegant, and very full, white with a pale rose centre. 



The Horticultural Association of Lyons nominated at its 

 sitting of the 15th October last a special committee, com- 

 posed of Messrs. Eemaix, L. Charlin, and Guillot fils, to exa- 

 mine on the spot and to give its appreciation of a seedling 

 Rose obtained by M. .Joseph Schwartz, rosarian of Repos, 

 Lyons. This new Rose, named Cnmle.-!se Pdza du Pare, belongs 

 to the section of Teas. Its branches are erect and branching. 

 The young foliasje is at first purple, then passes to a brilliant 

 green. The buds are long, on stout footstalks. The flower is 

 Bolitary, large, globular, full, of the colour of the China Rose 

 with a coppery yellow ground. The plant is very vigorous, 



very re-blooming, and flowers abundantly. This was raised 

 from the Tea Comtesse de la Barthe. 



The conclusion of the committee with regard to this new 

 Rose is, that it is a plant of the first order, and one of the 

 most beautiful obtained in the Tea section, meriting a prize 

 of the highest class. 



A beautiful new Rose has also been obtained by M. Liabaud 

 which bears the name of Emma Hall. It was awarded a prize 

 at the Lyons exhibition, and is in form like La France, with 

 a beautiful deep rose colour. The plant has a fine habit, and 

 it is said is very beautiful. ^t"°i 



At present we know of but two new Roses obtained by the 

 rosarians of Brie, and they will not be sent out till next May 

 as grafted plants by M. Cochet, the rosarian of Suines. The 

 first, which is a seedling from the beautiful Rose Charles Mar- 

 gottin, is a very vigorous plant with very straight branches 

 and magnificent foliage. The flower, of good form, is very 

 large, full, very deep red, and the reflex petals bright salmon. 

 This beautiful new Rose, which we have seen and appreciated 

 in the nurseries of the raiser, will bear the name of Madame 

 Bonnier. The second, which will be sent out at the same time 

 under the name of Madame Eoclicr, is a magnificent plant 

 raided from Triomphe de I'Expositiou, extremely vigorous and 

 very free-flowering. The flower is large, full, of good form, 

 and it? colour is of a beautiful bright rose with pale silvery 

 reflex. Thi3 F.ose was awarded a first prize at the Exhibition 

 at Brie-Comte-Robert in the month of July last by a jury 

 composed of Messrs. Levesque, EugOne Verdier, Hippolyte 

 Jamaiu, &a. — {.Journal des Roses.) 



(To be continued.) 



PLANTING EAELY POTATOES. 



While it is pleasant to see " A TouNo AiiiTEnB" taking an 

 interest in this important esculent, and disposed also to give 

 information as to its better cultivation, it is not desirable that 

 erroneous teaching should be passed in silence. 



The unsound portion of the advice on p. 3.3 is that suggest- 

 ing the desirability of planting early kidney Potatoes 6 inches 

 deep in January, instead of permitting the tubers to make 

 some growth in a light place out of the ground preparatory to 

 planting them. 



I can conceive a position where kidney Potatoes, without 

 having pushed their eyes, might be planted 6 inches deep in 

 January — namely, in a bed of leaf soil at the front of a south 

 wall. There they might grow, and possibly produce a crop ; 

 but in ordinary open positions, and in ordinary soil, and that 

 "ordinary" being, as it so often is, more or less close and 

 heavy, the probability is that not more than 50 per cent, of the 

 sets would grow at all. Strong-growing round Potatoes would 

 grow under that treatment, but the more tender early kidneys 

 would, many of them certainly, refuse to do so. Should the 

 season prove very cold and wet failure must follow that mode 

 of planting, and even under the influence of favourable weather 

 the crop would not be more than half a success. I write on 

 this subject after much experience, many trials, many failures, 

 and some successes in Potato cultivation ; and I would firmly 

 impress on all never to plant early kidney Potatoes, and espe- 

 cially early in the season and deep in the ground, before the 

 tubers have made some growth out of the ground. 



Early planting is not produotife of early produce. So con- 

 vinced am I of that, that I should not hesitate, were I residing 

 near a " A Young Amateor," to enter into a mutual arrange- 

 ment with him to this effect. We should both take our sets of 

 early kidney Potatoes from the same stock. He should plant 

 his share 6 inches deep on the first day of January, the sets 

 then showing no signs of growth ; and I would plant mine 

 three months afterwards (the first day of April) on the same 

 plot of ground, and I should confidently expect that my crop 

 would be ready for digging before his, and also be more pro- 

 ductive ; in other words, my sets would grow more effectually 

 out of the ground than his would in it. My reason for arriv- 

 ing at this conclusion is that I have tried the experiment 

 repeatedly, and in every instance the results have been in 

 favour of having encouraged a healthy growth of the sets 

 before they were planted. 



But while I should not hesitate to enter into a friendly 

 competition under the conditions named, it does not follow 

 that I in all cases advocate planting so late as April. I attach 

 no importance to a mere date for the sowing or planting of 

 any crop, and especially early Potatoes. A week sooner or 

 later is of trifling import compared with the state of the 



