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JOURNAL OF HOETICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GAEDENER. ( September 24, 1868. 



growth, all that can be desired. This year, however, it is not 

 distingaishiag itself as an autumn bloomer. 



Mademoiselle Bonnaire was most lovely in its first blossoms. 

 I wonder we do not hear more about this kind. The flowers 

 are somewhat of the colour of the old Blush, and perfectly 

 shaped. It bloomed very abundantly in June, but is in a 

 north-east bed, and is not doing well at this period of the 

 season. 



Scsar des Anges, next to the preceding, had plenty of huge 

 buds, but not one developed into a blossom. Perhaps on a 

 wall it might do better. 



Alfred Guloinh. — Glorious. Perfect in shape, colour, fulness, 

 and everything. I lament that I have it on a Briar instead of 

 a Manetti stock, but will have it on that this year. I think the 

 colour is most inaccurately described in the lists as fiery red. 

 It is exquisitely soft. The nearest approach to it is a very 

 good high-coloured bud of Charles Lawson. 



Charles RouiUard has had only one blossom. It is a well- 

 shaped Rose, of a colour I do not much fancy. It has grown 

 luxuriantly, making many shoots 4 feet high. It is on the 

 Manetti stock, and has been much troubled with mildew. No 

 signs of blossom on its tall shoots. 



Leopold Premier, planted next to it, has not borne well, and 

 its buds have never once opened. 



Camille Bernardin was, I thought, in summer a much over- 

 rated Rose. I set it down as a faded G&a&iaX Jacqueminot, 

 but It has done beautifully this month. Its blossoms have 

 been double the size of the summer ones, and it is now covered 

 with buds and blooms on the top of shoots 4 feet high. 



Exposition de Brie. — In every respect much the same as the 

 former Rose. 



Prince de Porh'a.— Ditto, but brighter in colour ; perhaps 

 not quite so double. 



Madame Victor Verdier. — A magnificent Rose. With me 

 better than Senateur Vaisse, opens more freely, and grows far 

 more luxuriantly. 



Madame Vidot, Madame Eifers, and Comtesse de Chabrillant 

 have all done badly— poor blossoms, stunted plants. I shall 

 try them against a wall. 



Beauty of Waltham. — A valuable Rose, from its freedom of 

 bloom aud growth. Its blossoms are too loose, but it is very 

 sweet, and blooms well in the autumn. 



Prince Camille de Buhan has done badly, though it is on 

 the Manetti, and is against the wall. Its blossoms have been 

 starved, and ragged-looking, though with the richest treatment, 

 and the plant looks unhealthy, although it has made some 

 strong shoots. 



Duchesse de Caylus, Francois Lacharme, and Gahrielle de 

 Peyromiij, all in north-east "beds, have bloomed abundantly 

 and beautifully in summer (the last a splendid, large, double 

 Eose), and all look rather unhealthy now. 



Fisher Holmes and Professor Koch are both far too dull in 

 colour to please me, and 'they both show centres the moment 

 they expand. 



Madame Charles Wood.—A. grand Rose in every way. In 

 my present garden it has always a very curious, but very beau- 

 tifully mottled, appearance. It baa bloomed more freely in 

 September than in June. 



Comte Caronr and Sonretiir de William Wood I do not like. 

 The first is too thin and flabby, and the second has always a 

 bnrnt-up look. 



Souvenir de Dr. Jamain is beautiful when it first expands, 

 much the colour of the old Tuscan ; not a bit the bluish colour 

 as described in Eose lists. It is a very free grower and autumnal 

 fiowerer. 



Francois Arago. — The same may be said of this — a very fine, 

 double, dark, almost plum-coloured Eose. 



Pierre Notting has done splendidly. Curiously enough it 

 never would open in the far-more favoured locality where I last 

 resided. It has grown luxuriantly on the Manetti stock, and is 

 now covered with buds and blooms. 



I will only notice further John Hopper, with me perfect in 

 every respect ; and Victor Verdier, with a beautiful shell-like 

 blossom, but wretchedly poor growth. 



The creme de la crrme, at least for this part of the country, I 

 consider to be Alfred Colomb, Pierre Notting, Gloire de Tijon, 

 John Hopper, Mar§ohal Vaillant, Lord Clyde, Dr. Andrp, Jean 

 Eosenkrantz, Madame Victor Verdier, Camille Bernardin, Ex- 

 position de Brie, Charles Lefebvre, Franqois Arago, Charles 

 Wood, RiisUtou Radclyffe, Gabrielle de Peyronny, and Madame 

 Charles Wood. 



My only excuse for troubling 70U with this paper is the hope 



it may be of use to people having a bad soil and climate like 

 myself, to whom lists from more favoured localities are com- 

 paratively of but little use. I should have been glad of such a 

 paper myself last year from a neighbour. — Q. Q. 



NOTES ON PEACH AND NECTARINE 

 GROWING. 



These are two of the most deUcious fruits : they are both 

 objects of my predilection and care ; and both can with proper 

 treatment be grown out of doors, in the south of England at 

 least, without the aid of glass. The French are said to train 

 their trees better, and to grow better crops out of doors than 

 the English. This has been properly accounted for by Mr. 

 Fleming, of Cliveden — namely, the superior French climate, 

 and the particular devotion of the French gardener to wall- 

 tree training. As to the French gardens, gardeners, and gar- 

 dening being generaUij better than the English, I am informed 

 by " D.," of Deal, and others who have visited France and its 

 nurseries and gardens, that such is not the case : on the con- 

 trary, the general gardening is slovenly, even in the vicinity o{ 

 Paris. Of course, there are splendid exceptions. Of their gar- 

 dening I myself have no knowledge. With regard to the man- 

 agement of the above fruit trees out of doors, I believe we may 

 learn a profitable lesson from the French gardener. 



As we cannot manage Peaches and Nectarines till we procure 

 them, I will give a selection of such as I know to be good. 



Peaches. — Early York, Early Alfred, Grosse Mignonne, 

 Royal George, Noblesse, in all respects first-rate ; Chancellor, 

 Red Magdalen, Violette Hative, Stirling Castle, Barrington, 

 Bellegarde, and Princess of Wales, a splendid late Peach o£ 

 great size, great beauty, and of fine flavour. If later Peaches 

 than these are wanted, Mr. Rivers in a letter speaks in the 

 highest terms of these — Lord Palmerston, Mr. Radclyffe, and 

 Lady Palmerston. These three, he says, will take us into 

 October, and as late as Peaches are good out of doors. I have 

 others not yet proven, as Stump-the-World, Dr. Hogg, Early 

 Victoria, Prince of Wales, Salway, Walburton Admirable, and 

 Alexandra Noblesse. The above have not yet fruited. For 

 the size of the trees none have borne better crops than Stirling 

 Castle, apparently of the Royal George race and good ; and 

 Early Alfred. The tree of the former is scarcely 18 inches 

 high, and bore eleven Peaches, being planted about Christmas; 

 and the latter, a beautiful and first-rate early Peach, in its 

 second year bore seventeen fine Peaches. The tree is 28 inches 

 high, and 42 inches wide. The largest Peach of the Princess 

 of Wales, not yet ripe, measures every way 9i inches. 



Nectarines. — Elruge, Violette Hative, Pitmaston Orange, 

 Red Roman, Rivers's Victoria, and the White Nectarine, an 

 excellent bearer and delicious. The following have not yet 

 fruited : — Balgowan, Prince of Wales, Rivers's Orange, Rivers's 

 Pine Apple ; No. 12, a seedUng of Mr. Rivers's ; Murrey, and 

 Rivers's White. -■'•* 



The proved and unproved Peaches and Nectarines are full o£ 

 triple buds on firm, well-ripened wood. Of these I hope to 

 speak hereafter. The reader may select with safety from those 

 I have proved, and will find it difficult to beat such. ^ 



Planting. — I think that people plant, in cold soils and 

 climates, their Peach and Nectarine trees too deeply. I found 

 here that the trees planted in the soil produced large wood 

 which did not ripen. I therefore last autumn moved all my 

 trees, cut their roots much shorter, and planted them almost 

 on the surface of the soil, placing over the roots a little soil, 

 and on the top of that three shovelsful of lime rubbish. Con- 

 sidering that the trees have been here only one and two years, 

 it has answered well. I sent six fruit of Royal George and six 

 of Noblesse to Blandford Show, and won an extra prize with the 

 former. The trees from which both lots were gathered were 

 planted about Christmas. Peaches from my old trees at Rush- 

 ton had to succumb to them. I only allow my trees about 

 18 inches of border. I prefer root-pruning and feeding from 

 " hand to mouth," to allowing the roots to ramble all over the 

 garden. To have good wood and fruit we want plenty of fibrous 

 network, and not huge perpendicular and horizontal roots. Of 

 course, roots so curbed require in hot dry summers good mulch- 

 ing and plenty of water. I think it is a good plan to annually 

 remove trees that produce large succulent wood destitute of 

 triple eyes, till they come into bearing. My maiden trees, 

 bought two years ago, are now full of triple eyes on good wood. 

 I attribute this result to removal, root-pruning, and a hot, dry 

 summer. I expect to be able to show the champions of French 



