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JOtJRNAB OP HOBTIOULTUBR AKD COTTAGE QABOENEB. 



[ August 6, IMS. 



Cabbage after having fed on some other Cabbage or Borecole. 

 If a bed of Eed Cabbage be in flower anywhere within a mile, 

 yonr early Cabbage will in all probability show it has been 

 injnred, and in a less degree the Broecolis and Savoys, &c., 

 will injure it; but I never yet saw a cross between a Cabbage 

 and Turnip, though, as you are aware, I am a large grower of 

 Tamip seed, and generally grow my Cabbage close to it.— 

 J. B. Peakson, Chilicell. 



from bads inserted in the Peach, neither were they so highly 

 coloured nor so luscious. Mr. Kemp also sent a Peach from 

 the tree. It was only about two-thirds the usual size, and quite 

 green and hard.— Eds.] 



BUDDING ROSES IN JUNE. 

 In yonr number for May 28th, a correspondent under the 

 above heading gave so very clear and simple a description of 

 the method which he had pursued with success, that I was 

 resolved to follow his example. About the middle of June I 

 selected buds from Gloire de Dijon and Madame Julie Daran, 

 and have been so successful as to be able to measure the growth 

 of the buds by inches, the latter Eose having already attained 

 a height of half a foot. About the 23rd of June I budded 

 another lot, and with the exception of two or three all are 

 doing well. 



There can be little doubt that early is preferable to late bud- 

 ding when the season is a very dry one. During the latter 

 half of June and the first week in July I budded about a hun- 

 dred Briar and twenty Manetti stocks. At least two-thirds are 

 growing, though the relative proportion of success is much in 

 favour of the Briar ; yet I budded on the shoots and not on the 

 stem of the Manetti. Kose-growers in this neighbourhood, 

 who have put off the budding until this month, complain that 

 they can seldom get the bark to rise freely, and when they can 

 the buds soon become shrivelled up. This result, so inevitable 

 with an almost tropical sun and a total absence of moisture, I 

 have obviated by copious watering every other day at the root 

 of each stock. The rise of sap is something wonderful, for I 

 often find that a stock innocent of its own buds in the morn- 

 ing, has put out several tiny shoots before I reach home in the 

 evening. I should like some of yonr correspondents to explain, 

 if they can, why buds " take " so much less easily on the Ma- 

 netti than on the Briar stock. 



The hot weather has produced butterflies in myriads, and I 

 have noticed a singular fact in connection with them. My 

 garden has, perhaps, five hundred Lobelia plants in it, and 

 seven or eight hundreds of other kinds of plants. I rarely see 

 a butterfly on any plant save the Lobeha, and it is no unusual 

 thing to be able to trace the pattern of the blue in butterflies 

 alone. Can you account for their singular attraction to this 

 pretty bedder ?— C. W. M., IVijlde Green. 



THE ROSE. 



AN EXPERIMENT IN BUDDING. 



In August, 1866, I budded upon Late Admirable Peach 

 Violette Hiitive Nectarine, the reason for doing so being the 

 habit of that Peach, here at least, of casting its buds during 

 winter or early in spring. 



The tree in question is one of the healthiest trees in the 

 place, and its one bad habit led me to try the effect of putting 

 a Nectarine upon it. I put in about twenty buds. They all 

 grew, but four or five proved blossom buds, which in the end 

 fell off. The remainder grew well in 1867, and were tied in. 

 This year, 1868, I left on the tree about fifty Nectarines and 

 all the Peaches, about the same number. The Nectarines are 

 quite ripe— in fact, most of them are gathered, some a fortnight 

 ago. The Peaches are just beginning to swell off, and wiU be 

 quite a month later than the latest Nectarine. 



By a person of limited means and time I think this idea 

 might be carried out with advantage much further. I cannot 

 perceive any difficulty in having by this means ripe fruit from 

 the same tree for eight or ten weeks, instead of, as before, for 

 two or three. 



I cannot see much difference between the fruit from the 

 parent tree and the fruit on the Pm -h, except that the latter is 

 larger and more coloured — a ral' ■ r singular fact, when we 

 consider that Late Admirable l\ach scarcely ever has any 

 high colouring. 



The Late Admirable Peach did not cast its buds this year so 

 much as before ; the Nectarine not at all. This is the point of 

 my experiment. Still, I think this matter worth looking into 

 by some of our large fruit-growers.— A. S. Kemp, Hauahton 

 Hall, Shifnal. 



[Mr. Kemp sent us specimens of the Nectarines. Those 

 from the parent tree were not more than half the size of those 



Having grown Boses for twenty years so successfully that I 

 have won more than thirty cups " open to all England," with 

 a multipUcity of money prizes ; havingoriginated the first show 

 of Boses, that is to say, of Koses only ; and having attended 

 since that time nearly all the great Koae shows, either as a 

 judge or as an exhibitor, — I ought to have something to tell 

 worth hearing to those who love the Eose. I will try to tell it, 

 as Bossuet preached, sans etude, familierement, de I'abondance 

 du cctiir. 



De I'abondance du caur — these words shall be the text of my 

 sermon, because he who would have beautiful Eoses in his 

 garden must have beautiful Eoses in his heart. He must love 

 them well and always. To win, he must woo, as Jacob wooed 

 Laban's daughter, though drought and frost consume. He 

 must have not only the glowing admiration, the enthusiasm, 

 and the passion, but the tenderness, the thoughtfulness, the 

 reverence, the watchfulness of love. With no ephemeral caprice, 

 like the fair young knight's, who loves and who rides away when 

 his sudden fire is gone from the cold white ashes, the cavalier 

 of the Eose has semper fide\is upon his crest and shield. He is 

 loyal and devoted ever, in storm-fraught or in sunny days ; the 

 first upon a summer's morning to gaze admiringly upon glow- 

 ing charms, and the first to tread upon the deep white snow to 

 discover anxiously what harm is done, and to give what help 

 he can. And as with smitten bachelor or steadfast mate the 

 lady of his love is lovely ever, so to the true Eose-grower must 

 the Eose tree be always a thing of beauty. To others, when its 

 flowers have faded, it may be worthless as a hedgerow Thorn : 

 to him, in every phase, it is precious. " I am no more the 

 Eose," it says, " but cherish me, for we have dwelt together ;" 

 and the glory which has been, and the glory which shall be, 

 never fade from his heart. 



Is it rare or frequent this fond and complete affection ? Go 

 to one of our great exhibitions, and you must surely bring the 

 conviction home, that true love, however rare in the outer 

 world, may be always found "among the Eoses." From all 

 grades and epochs of life, what vows of constancy, what fervid 

 words ! " Sir Thomas and I are positively going to ruin 

 ourselves with a new rosarium." " As soon as I get home," 

 says a country rector, " I shall plant an acre of my glebe with 

 Eoses." There you may see a Eoyal Duchess so surprised out 

 of her normal calmness, that she raises two pale pink gloves in 

 an ecstasy of surprise, and murmers, " Oh, how lovely I " over 

 Marechal Niel. There a Cabinet Minister stands tiptoe to 

 catch a glimpse of his brother senator, Vaisse, and wishes he 

 had a neck as long as Cicero's. Obstructing his view with her 

 ample form and bountiful bonnet, our old friend Mrs. Brown, 

 who has just had "one drop of the least as is," informs the 

 public that she " knows for facts that Mr. Turner of Slough has 

 a dead horse under every Eose tree, and Pauls & Sons has 

 hundreds of young men with gig umbrellas standing over their 

 Boses when it rains heavy." Mrs. Brown is delighted, like all 

 around, and " means to tell Brown, as soon as ever she sets 

 down in her own parlour, that Marshal Niel all over the house, 

 and Sulphur Terry round the back door, grow she must and 

 will. But, goodness me," she suddenly exclaims, " what a 

 mess o' them reporters ! " No, my dear madam, they are not 

 reporters, only spectators, putting down in their note-books the 

 names of Eoses, with an expression of eager interest which 

 says, I must have that flower or die. 



Every year this enthusiasm increases. It is not easy to 

 collect reliable statistics ; some shut their mouths closely ; 

 some open them so widely as to justify the amusing sarcasm of 

 my reverend and roseate brother, Eadcljffe, " When they count 

 their trees, they include the aphis ;" but I have obtained trust- 

 worthy and interesting information from some of our chief 

 rosarians, who have kindly answered my inquiries in a fraternal 

 and friendly spirit. Without mention of names or minute 

 details, I may state that these all bear witness to a most 

 extensive and progressive enlargement of the demand for Eoses. 

 The largest of our wholesale growers writes to me that he has 

 more than twenty acres of Eoses, and that his stock of Briars 

 and Manetti, with Eoses on their own roots and Eoses in pots, 

 exceeds one million. The young but most anccessfnl represen- 



