Angnst 27, 1868. 



JOUKNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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time a collection of the best vftrieties, and give the result of my 

 own experience. I have divided the selection into two classes 

 — the higher-priced, varying from 2.<. Oii. up to 7.v. C>il. each, 

 and the lower-priced ones, which can be procured at lOs-. or 12s. 

 a-dozen. 



FIRST SERIES. 



24. Due de Malakoff 



i!). 



Ida 



SECOND SERIES. 

 DOUBLE BED. 



1. Diike of Wellington 



DOUBLE BLUE. 



2. Garrick 3. Laurens Koster 



SINGLE BED. 



4. Amy 9. Ornement de la Nature 



5. Cosmos 10. Princess Beatrice 



6. Duchess of Richmond 11. Sultan's Favourite 



7. Lady Sale 12. Victoria Alexandrina 



8. Madame Hodgson 13. Von Schiller 



SINGLE WHITE. 



14. Elfrida 18. Grand Vedette 



15. Gigantea 19. Princess Helena 



16. Mont Blanc 20. Queen of the Netherlands 



17. Grandeur u, Merveille 21. Tubillora 



SINGLE BLUE. 



22. Baronne Von Tuyll 26. Leonidas 



23. Charles Dickens" 27. Lord Raglan 



24. Couronne de Celle 28. Raphael 



25. Grand Lilas 



SINGLE BLACK. 



29. Mimosa 30. Prince Albert 



31. Anna Carolina 



SINGLE YELLOW. 



82. Heroine 



It will be seen that there are very few double varieties named, 

 and for this reason, that the single are greatly to be preferred 

 both for decorative purposes and for exhibition. — D., Dial. 



THE MANETTI STOCK FOR ROSES. 



Having adopted this excellent stock for the last three or four 

 years, I am induced to give a short account of my experience 

 of it during this exceptionally dry summer, and I l:ope it may 

 serve as a hint to young amateurs like myself. 



At the end of April I wrote to a nurseryman iri Sussex, to 

 aek him if he could supply me with two hundred Manetti 

 stocks for budding this summer. His reply was, that he could 

 do so with young plants struck last autumn, but would advise 

 me to wait two or three weeks till they were better rooted. The 

 plants arrived packed in damp moss on June 7th, and were 

 immediately planted out, and watered once daily for ten days. 

 The intense sun had then completely shrivelled and dried up 

 nearly every leaf. I then left them to their fate, but to my 

 great satisfaction, a short time afterwards they recovered, and 

 began to grow so rapidly, that on August 7tli I commenced 

 budding them. In a few more days the budding of the whole 

 of them will be finished, and there are not ten out of the whole 

 number which have not proved to be admirable stocks. Such 



I consider is another striking instance of the superiority of the 

 Manetti stock. 



Mr. A. H. Kent has been to see them, and expressed very 

 strongly his confidence in the result. He will probably adduce 

 some further evidence regarding this stock in due time, i 

 might also mention that my first experience of the Manetti 

 stock was in Mr. Kent's garden, at Bletchingley. He induced 

 me to try it, and I have now discarded the Briar, except for a 

 few Tea and Noisette Roses. That the Briar was doomed was 

 not unknown to myself and other readers some time ago, and 

 Mr. Kent and the Rev. W. F. lladclyfte were those who took 

 the lead, and they deserve the thanks of amateur Rose growers. 

 — A. B. 



THE EARLY PEACHES OF 1868. 



The crop of these in our orchard houses is quite at an end, 

 and the midseason and late varieties alone remain. As the 

 open wall furnishes an abundance during parts of August and 

 September, it is only a waste of space to have such in our 

 houses. The early crop has been immense, and very remn- 

 nerative. 



Of course in such a season where water was tolerably well at 

 command, a general advance in the periods of ripening was to 

 be expected. In some cases, for no visible reason, this has not 

 been the case. Why some late Peaches bloom before some 

 very early ones is a question to be asked. How is it that, in a 

 climate like this, one of whose characteristics it is that the 

 range of the night temperature is so little comparatively below 

 that of the day, mildew should appear repeatedly during tropical 

 nights on even third growths? Only when these last rains 

 had lowered the whole scale, and introduced humidity into the 

 atmosphere did these attacks of mildew cease on Peach trees 

 in the open air. On the other hand — owing here, I think, to the 

 current of air — mildew has somewhat increased on glandlesB 

 varieties in-doors. I greatly doubt if we really know much as to 

 the causes of this disease, perhaps only so far, at least, that any 

 unequal balance between the moisture at the roots and that 

 about the leaves seems always to promote mildew. An abrupt 

 diminution of heat may in either case add materially to the 

 danger. The application of powdered sulphur as an effioacions 

 remedy for this vegetable parasite requires faith on the part of 

 the grower. It is quite as easy, and somewhat more favourable 

 to appearances, to wipe oiit the fungus as soon as it appears oa 

 such parts as we cannot remove. Of course the mildew gene- 

 rally shows on the tender shoots and leaves, which can bo 

 readily pruned away. A thin wash of some kind of size, or 

 even of oil with a very little white lead, to thicken it only, will 

 give a thin coating which evaporation will shortly remove, 

 leaving no clog or trace. Wiping the stems of in-door trees 

 after syringing them I always found very useful. Mildew is a. 

 very disagreeable check to trees. Only vigorous growers recover 

 if no notice be taken of this pest. 



As to aphides we never saw less, and of red spider remarkably 

 little. In fact, the trees are pictures of fertility and health. 



Our earliest Peach ripened on the 5th of July. As Early 

 Beatrice has done as much for several seasons at Sawbridge- 

 worth. I expect it to become ripe here soon after midsummer. 

 It did not fruit here this season from accident. 



A seedling Nectarine ripened on the 8th of July, being the 

 earliest on record here. It was extremely high-ci^i'ired, like 

 Hivers's Orange, but mottled. 



Some of my old favourites — Canary Peach, for instance — 

 have not reached a high standard for two seasons. Perhaps 

 the safest to cultivate of these earlier yellow-fleshed fruits is 

 Early Crawford. It is not very early, but generally colours 

 well, and has the Apricot aroma, which is the most striking 

 good quality of yellow Peaches, without the too often bitter 

 reminiscence which such kinds leave on the palate. 



I am a great admirer of distinctness of colour in Peaches and 

 Nectarines ; such kinds, too, are generally well flavoured. 

 Sorts of which the ground colour is a clear green, melting 

 under the sun into a bright yellow, mottled and specked with 

 brown, are always pungent and aromatic, and, when well ma- 

 tured, first-rate. The Stanwick Nectarine and its numerous 

 descendants are examples. Other Noblesse kinds which have 

 a regular pale pink skin delicately starred with rose spots, are 

 juicy and rich. The Royal George colours almost to a black 

 brown in favourable localities, and, though coarse, is yet a great 

 favourite with many. The Peaches whose flesh is of a dark 

 purple are also juicy and piquant in general. A bright uni- 

 form yellow also indicates a racy fruit. Pavie de Tonneus is a 



