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roots, and with a stem about G inches or more in circumference, 

 within S feet of the Trenthara ? I dislike throwing away so 

 very strong-growing a Muscat Hamburgh, if it would by graft- 

 ing or inarching make a good mother for tho Trentham.— 

 J. Mackenzie, M.D. 



[If the stem of the Muscat Hamburgh is deemed so valuable 

 you might turn the stem, if possible, of the Trentham Black, 

 and inarch them together. We do not see any other way you 

 can use it,_ unless you leave the Trentham alone, and fresh graft 

 the other in the spring, or inarch after growth commences. 



Wo are quite unable to account for the Hamburghs not ripen- 

 ing, when Muscats, ic, are ripe, unless the house was kept 

 too hot for them in the hot weather. Neither can we assign a 

 reason for the Muscat Hamburgh ripening uneijually, unless it 

 was that deficient moisture at the roots, combined with heavy 

 cropping, rendered the supply of sap deficient.] 



POMOLOGICAL GLExVNINGS. 

 Madame Trewe Peak.— One of the most beautiful, per- 

 haps the most beautiful and finest summer Pear we have 



seen, is a variety sent us by Mr. Eivers, and of which we 

 famish our readers with a figure in our present number. 

 As will be seen by the figure it is of good size, but it requires 

 the painter's pencil to give any idea of the colour, which on 

 the side exposed to the sun is of a brilliant vermilion crimson, 

 more brilliant even than Forelle, which is one of the highest- 

 coloured of Pears. On the shaded side Madame Treyve is of 

 a pale straw yellow, but on that next the sun, and extending 

 over three-parts of the surface of the fruit, it is as we have 

 already described it, and dotted with minute yellow dots. The 

 eye is very small and open, and set in a narrow round basin. 

 The stalk slender, half an inch to three-quarters long, set in a 

 round narrow cavity. Flesh white, like that of Forelle, melt- 

 ing like a Peach, very juicy, rich, and sugary, with a delicate 

 and highly refined aroma. A most delicious Pear, ripe in the 

 beginning of September. 



PROPAGATING VARIEGATED PELARGONIUMS. 



There is much danger of many of these beautiful plants 



being lost to our gardens from want of proper knowledge in 



those who attempt their propagation. Most persons, who either 



raise one as a seedling, or buy one as an expensive little plant, 

 are too anxious to obtain a cutting from it. Before the plant 

 has time to become strong and vigorous a miserable little 

 cutting is taken, which can hardly make root, and becomes 

 unhealthy before it has time to grow. I feel convinced this 

 practice has ruined tho constitution of plants which would 

 otherwise have produced valuable varieties. It is the same to 

 a certain extent with almost all new plants. New Roses, new 

 Dahlias, &o., which have been over-propagated, require time to 

 recover strength before an opinion can be safely formed of their 

 merits. Variegated plants, however, are more easily and 

 permanently injured. With these more particularly I would 

 say, " The greater haste, the less speed." I'ut in large cuttings 

 and you will have healthy plants. — J. R. Pearson, Chihoell. 



NEW ROSES. 



TocR correspondent " Devoniensis," evidently wants a chair 

 about Roses, and specially in reference to new varieties. I am 

 very shy of buying novelties, the per-centage of the bad to 

 the good Roses is so great. The best Roses of later date that 

 I have grown, and to which I will give a full certificate, are 

 Autoine Ducher, Alfred Colomb, Prince de Portia, and Charles 

 Verdier. Whoever buys these (being a cultivator), must be 

 highly pleased. 



Heaps of trash are sent out every year, and the prizes bear 

 no relation to the blanks. I am distressed to see so many 

 worthless Roses retained in catalogues, and such noble Roses 

 discarded from catalogues which are otherwise good and select. 

 What novelties, in their lines of colour (I include excellent 

 habit), are equal or superior to Baronne Prevost, Duchesse 

 d'Orleans, Sa^ur des Anges, Gloire de Vitry (first-rate on its own 

 roots), Caroline de Sansal, and Monsieur de Montigny ? How 

 nobly have these magnificent neglected ones acquitted them- 

 selves this critical year. These I can buy at !)((. per plant ; 

 compare with them the wretches sent out annually at 3s. CiZ. 

 per plant, or more. 



We want novelties new in character rather than in name. 

 We want not merely good Roses, but Roses better in the same 

 line of colour than those we already have. "Devoniensis " is 

 sanguine ! How long will it take to beat, in the line of crim- 

 son (I include good constitution and habits), these crimson 

 Roses — namely, Charles Lefebvre, Senateur Vaisse, Alfred 

 Colomb, Autoine Ducher, Lord Macaulay, Duchesse de Caylus, 

 Madame Victor Verdier, Madame Julie Daran, Marechal Vail- 

 lant, Leopold Premier, and Madame Boutin ? Besides these, 

 there are others very excellent in the line of crimson, as 

 Baronne Adolphe de Rothschild, Lady Suflield, and Francois 

 Lacharme. I should not like to wait for my breakfast till I 

 could produce a Rose equal to any one of the above Roses. It 

 is, however, now time to pay attention to the queries sent by 

 "Devoniensis." 



Mademoiselle .Jeanne Marix is of fine growth with fine 

 foliage. It is a most promising Rose, but I have not had a faU 

 bloom. The early blooms did not open quite freely. I expect 

 to find it next year a first-rate variety. Madame Alice Bureau 

 is a nice Rose, and is about to bloom again. It is a good grower 

 and free bloomer. La France came with one series of flowers 

 on it and has produced two more since. It has a long neck, 

 and, I think, is of Tea descent. It is distinct, and suited to 

 dry weather or a conservatory. Its petals are incurved at the 

 edges. I prefer Marguerite de St. Amand, and still more so, 

 Charles Verdier, the best Rose of light colour that has been out 

 since beautiful Sor-ur des Anges appeared. Madame Martin de 

 Besse is a splendid grower with the finest foliage, but not suffi- 

 ciently proved. I moved it, Jeanne Marix, and others on the 

 28th of August, before they had time to give a second series of 

 bloom. Madame Rolland buds well, is a good grower, and will 

 soon bloom again. Its first blooms were as good as I could 

 expect from a weak plant. Of Marie Cirodde I bought twelve 

 in dormant bud on the 6th of August. I cut them down at 

 once, and eleven are growing freely, and some may yet bloom. 

 The growth and foliage are first-rate. They were budded only 

 six weeks before I bought them. 



I met Mr. Keynes at the Blandford Show, and asked him to 

 mark the best Roses of the year in his catalogue. He marked 

 these : — Hybrid Perpetuals : Boule de Neige, Christina Nilsson, 

 Elie Morel, Louis Bulliat, Madame Rolland, Madame de Roths- 

 child, Reine du Midi. Souvenir d'Adrien Bahivet, Souvenir de 

 Caillat, and the Tea Rose, Keine du Portugal, which his cata- 

 logue describes as " deep bright yellow, sometimes shaded with 



