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JOUBNAL OF HOBTIOULTURE AND COTTAGE GABDENEB. 



[ Way 18, 1869. 



its roots, and it will put forth other branches, but destroy its 

 roots, while its branches are suffered to remain intact, and it 

 will die ; and I reasoned that roots buried so deeply under a 

 soil almost impervious to the action of the sun and air, must 

 fail to perform their natural functions at the proper season, and 

 thus a derangement of the system occurs, followed by disease 

 and death. Pursuing the subject further, I next sought for 

 the effect of this deranged system, and concluded I had found 

 it in the exhausted cellular tissue, which, deprived of its sap by 

 the action of the leaves, and failing to obtain an adequate supply 

 from the sluggish roots, became so weakened as to be more than 

 ordinarily susceptible of the influence of the chilling blasts and 

 climatic changes to which these trees on an exposed wall of 

 nearly an eastern aspect were subject. The sturdy Oak, with 

 ■its rugged bark, hardy constitution, and roots deep down in 

 that cold wet clay is admirably adapted not only to withstand 

 the effects of, but to thrive in, a climate and soil the combined 

 effects of which are but too often the cause of death to our 



, garden exotics. And although these natives of a warmer 

 olimate have been cultivated in this country so long, yet they 

 are so delicately constituted that unless the most genial situa- 

 tion, suitable soil, and skilful culture are bestowed upon them, 

 they are almost certain to exhibit signs of decay at an early age, 

 and when all these conditions are complied with, even then 

 failures are by no means uncommon. — Edward Luckhokst, 



• Egerlon House Gardens, Kent. 



exceeds mine, and if possible to know its age. Mine vas 

 planted in the summer of 1854, and has had nothing of any 

 kind done in the way of protection, or to promote its growth 

 since that time. — P. F., Vicar of Kerry. 



[This cannot be answered until time enough has elapsed {or 

 our globe to be circumnavigated. — Eds.] 



NEW ROSES OF 1869. 

 A LITTLE information on this subject, acquired during a short 

 visit to Mr. Keynes's Salisbury Nursery, may possibly be in- 

 teresting to some of your readers. In his trade list of new 

 Roses for 18G9 there are thirty-two varieties : twenty-seven 



' Hybrid Perpetual, four Tea, and one Noisette Rose. These I 

 saw under glass in various stages of growth ; most healthy- 

 looking plants, though, unfortunately, none in flower. 



The very intelligent foreman, Mr. Gill, mentioned to me 

 the following, most of which had bloomed, as among the most 

 promising. Bertha Baron (seedling from Jules Margottin), 

 Charles Lee, Julia Touvais, Madame Creyton, Marquise de 

 Mortemart, Perfection de Lyon, Thyra Hammerick, Victor le 

 Bihan, and Monplaisir. Monplaisir is a Tea Rose, raised by 



• Dncher, a seedling from Gloire de Dijon ; it is described as 

 " very dark salmon yellow, large, and vigorous." Mr. Keynes 



' bad not seen it in flower, but had propagated it very largely, 



" expecting it to be one of the best of the season. I was shown 

 one of the parent stocks, which was certainly a noble plant, 



■considering all the cutting it had gone through, and with a 

 4-feet-long shoot of true Gloire de Dijon robustness. The 

 Marquise was also highly spoken of as an improved Mdlle. 

 Bonnaire, of the same character, but larger and fuller. This was 

 raised by Liabaud, who thus describes it, " Fresh satin white, 

 flesh colour in centre, large and fine, vigorous, seedling from 

 Jules Margottin." A new and interesting feature this year 

 in the establishment, was a considerable number of English 

 seedling Roses, which last year's fine Rose harvest has tempted 

 Mr. Keynes into propagating. They had only been sown in 

 moderate heat this spring, but were already many of them of 

 ^sonsiderable size, beautiful little plants, and even some of them 

 with tiny buds, and showing that red would be the prevailing 

 colour. A greater contrast than these to the painful and tardy 

 growth of Rose seeds in the open border, and among all their 

 various enemies, it is not easy to imagine. There seems 

 reason to hope that in a year or two we shall hear from more 

 quarters than one of some new and good English-raised Roses 

 aot unworthy rivals of Devoniensis and John Hopper. In such 

 honourable company we shall all be glad to rank a new friend 

 from Salisbury, let us say the "Wonder of WUtshire," or a 

 " Keynes' Seedling." — A. C. 



LARGE FUCHSL\S. 

 I SHOULD be very much obliged if Mr. G. Matthews, who, as 

 appears in your last paper, wrote to you from Dunedin, would 

 state the size of the Fuchsia Ricoartoni in New Zealand, which 

 he describes as larger than any he has seen in Great Britain 

 or Ireland. Mine (about which I wrote to you once before) 

 measured last year over 100 feet in circumference, although it 

 lost considerably by having been cut away from a gravel walk, 

 and I am curious to know how far the Fuchsia he refers to 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Show of Pot Roses, &c. — May 8M. — This was one of the 

 Society's minor Shows, and owing, probably, to exkibitora having to 

 prepare for the summer exhibitions now close at hand, there was 

 rather a small display. The attendance of visitors, however, not- 

 withstanding the nnfavourable character of the day, was very good. 



The principal feature was the nurserymen's class for nine Roses in 

 pots, and though, on the whole, these were scarcely bo full of bloom 

 as in some former years, there were several admirable specimens, 

 Mr. William Panl took the first place with fine bushy plants of Anna 

 Alexieff, Paul Kicaut, John Hopper, Beauty of Waltbam ; Madame 

 Damaizin, Souvenir d'un Ami, and Charles Lawson, very fall of 

 bloom ; Marcchal Niel ; and CoeUT de Lion, fine rosy crimson. Mr- 

 Tamer was second with Madame Victor Verdier, Dr. Andry, Charles 

 Lawson, and Marguerite de St. Amand, all of which were fine, the 

 others being Madame Margottin, Soavenir d'un Ami, Celine Foreatier, 

 Leopold Hausburg. and Madame Eugene Appert. Messrs. Paul and 

 Son were third, with plants which were beantifully covered with fiowerSt 

 but these had mostly lost their freshness. In the amateur's class, 

 Mr. James, gardener to W. F. Watson, Esq., Islewortb, received a 

 second prize. The best single specimen was a well-grown, well- 

 flowered plant of Madame de St. Joseph, from Mr. Turner ; Mr. 

 W. Paul being second with La Rhone. Prizes were likewise offered 

 for twelve new Rosea of 1367 or 1868 ; and for these Mr. Turner was 

 first, and Mr. W. Paul, on whose card were the words, " not for com- 

 petition," second. Mr. Tamer had Baronne de Rothschild, large, 

 full, delicate peach ; Dachesae d'Aoste, deep roae ; ClotUde Holland, 

 blush, with a deeper-coloured centre, very full ; President Willermoz, 

 bright roae ; and Mias Ingram, pale blush. These were the beat ; 

 among the others were La France, Madame Alice Dureau, Pitord, 

 Souvenir de Frani;oia Pouaard, Marie Cirodde, and Reine da Midi, 

 but all of these were more or less rongb, and the same remark holds 

 good of several of those in Mr. W. Paul's collection. The best in 

 this appeared to be Vicomtesse de Vczins, bright pink with a salmon 

 pink centre ; Baronne de Rothschild, President Willermoz, Duchesse 

 d'Aoste ; Tea Jean Pemet, yellow ; and Tea Reine du Portugal, 

 yellow, shaded with copper colour. Madame Marie Cirodde was pro- 

 mising. In the miscellaneoas class Messrs. Panl & Son received an 

 extra prize for a collection of plants in pots ; and another extra prize 

 was awarded to Mr. W. Paul for eight boxfuls of beautiful cut blooms, 

 some of the most noticeable |being Marechal Niel, Madame Mario 

 Cirodde, peach ; Belle de Bordeaux, Madame Pauline Labontc, Celine 

 Forestier, Climbing Devoniensis, and Gloire de Dijon. 



Following the order of the schedule, Auriculas came next, and of 

 these the only collections came from Mr. Turner, of Slongh, and Mr- 

 James, of Isleworth, who were respectively iirst and second in both 

 classes — namely, that for nine edged, and that for nine aelfs and 

 fancies. In the former Mr. Turner had Miss Giddings (Read). Ex- 

 hibitor (Turner), Waterloo (Smith), Sophia (Chapman), Maggie 

 Lauder (Lowe), General Neill (Traill), Richard Headly (Lightbody), 

 Lancashire Hero (Cheetham), and Earl Grosvenor (Lees). In Mr. 

 Turner's other collection were Spalding's Metropolitan, and Tamer's 

 Charmer, much alike in colour but differing in size, and several fine 

 Alpines, as Merit, Mitre, and Jessie. 



Mr. James was the only exhibitor of Polyanthuses, and had a first 

 prize for well-grown planta, one of the most showy being Golden 

 Fleece, velvety reddish crimson, with a golden edge. The same exhi- 

 bitor was also first for Pansies in pota, Mr. Hooper, Widcombe Hill, 

 Bath, being second, and both received extra prizes for cut blooms o£ 

 the same flowers ; Mr. Bragg, Slongh, likewise exhibiting Show and 

 Fancy kinds. 



Of'Lily of the Valley, Messrs. Reeves Brothers, Notting Hill, sent 

 remarkably fine pots, and had a first prize ; and Messra. Salter were 

 second with the variet^ated kind, also very fine. 



For six boxes of Alpine plants, Mr. Ware, of Hale Farm Nurseries, 

 Tottenham, took the lead, exhibiting a numerous collection, of which 

 the moat beautiful were Erinus hirsutns, Aubrietia Campbelli and 

 ffra?ca, Saxifraga granulata. Phlox stolonifera, Phlox sabnlata Nelsoni, 

 Phlox snbulata frondosa, the intense blue Litbospermum prostratnm, 

 Sempervivnm aracbnoideum, CheliJonium majua, and Phlox aetacea. 

 The surface of the aoil in these boxes was strewed with atones ; Mesars- 

 Salter, who took the second prize, had the soil carpeted with Mentha 

 Corsica, Thymus seqiyllum lannginosus, Sedum glaucum, Saxifraga 

 hyjmoides minor, Acena novte-zealandi.'e, and Arenaria balearica- 

 The ground covering of these was neatly studded over with a variety 

 of plants, such as the Ancnba-leaved Daisy, Anbrietias, Saxifragas. 

 Sempervivuma. Seduma, and Lysimachia nemorum variegata. Mr- 

 Ware also exhibited in the miscellaneous class a fine collection, for 

 which be obtained a second prize, containing three heautifal basketsftti 

 of Phlox sabnlata frondosa, and the same number of Alyasum saxa- 

 tile compactam, together with hardy ornamental-leaved plants, as 



