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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



r September 26, 1865. 



There is no doubt but that our hothouse builders like the old- 

 fashioned, expensive, heavy-raftered houses, and, of course, 

 when buililing vineries, never think of recommending any other 

 mode than training Vines and all fruit trees under the roofs in 

 the old way ; but they are men that make money, ajid have 

 but few ideas of what may be done in growing fruit ; it is not 

 their province, they are too much engaged to think of such 

 matters. The new ideas miast be carried out by intelligent 

 amateur gardeners, and such men as your correspondent are 

 the right men to do the work. — Vitis. 



LAEGE PEACHES, 



The largest Peaches I have known of this season were 

 grov,-n at Halliugbury Place, on a tree trained to the back wall 

 of a lean-to orchard-house, in the compartment used for forcing 

 Peaches so as to have them ripe in June. They were fruit of 

 that fine late Peach, Desse Tardive, and measiu'ed 12 inches in 

 circumference. It is remarkable that late Peaches when forced 

 grow to an enormous size, they ripen slowly, and seem to keep 

 on increasing in size, when early sorts in the same climate 

 have ripened, and are cleared off. They, in fact, require a 

 warmer climate than walls or common orchard-houses, for it is 

 well known that such sorts as the above, and others of the 

 same race, the Late Admirable, and the Bourdin, are apt to 

 drop off just before the period of ri2)ening, causing much 

 vexation to the cultivator. The largest Peaches gi-own here 

 were from a tree of the Golden Rathrij)e in a pot, they measured 

 lOi inches in circumference. — T. K. 



AUTUMN-BLOOMING ROSES. 



Although many persons are ready to pronounce the tei-m 

 " Hybrid Perpetual " a sham, and declare that we ought to 

 abandon it for some other more definite, I think every year 

 convinces us the more of the great value of this class for 

 autumnal purposes. I do not mean for exhibition ; for as a 

 rule (there are, of course, exceptions), the attempt, luileasfrom 

 immense collections, to gatlier together twenty-four or forty- 

 eight good Roses at any one time is a failure. A Rose is a 

 Rose at all times, a "sweet pet," a "darling favourite;" but, 

 as fond mammas cannot see tlie failure of beauty in their 

 Ceoilias and Gwendolines, even after a few seasons of London 

 life, so I fear we are apt to overlook the deterioration of our 

 chil(h-eu, when our trees, after enduring the heat of a summer 

 and blooming vigorously, vouchsafe to give us some blooms in 

 autumn. My o^ti experience on the matter is, that generally 

 spealdng the boxes put up at the end of August or beginning 

 of September contain some half-dozen really good Roses, and 

 that the rest are to be classed under various degrees of badness, 

 and this even with those who have whole acres of Roses to cut 

 from. In the same way the forced Roses are generally (I mean 

 boxes of cut blooms), while very fragrant, very charming, itc, 

 devoid of much interest to a genuine Rose-grower ; yet who 

 can go round a rosery and see the large iiowerless bushes of 

 summer Roses, and then on the Hybrid Perpetuals, and Teas, 

 and Noisettes behold blooms here and there showing them- 

 selves, without feeUug the immense advantage the latter classes 

 present ? I think, indeed, their great beauty is this, that you 

 can cut every day some three or four Roses, which, placed singly 

 in those pretty vases made for the purpose, gladden the eye 

 .and refresh the mind of a votary of the queen of flowers. 

 Very, very often these blooms are equal to any produced in 

 the summer — ^not those which may be gathered at the end of 

 August, when the sim's influence is generally too great, driving 

 them into bloom before they have time to think about it ; but 

 from tlie second week in September, or through October if the 

 weather be favourable, and even into drcaiy dark November, 

 I have had blooms of Charles Lefebvre, Seuateur Vaisse, Tri- 

 omphe d'Amiens, and others, equal to any one I have gathered 

 in the height of the Rose season, and I think such blooms 

 quite redeem the Hybrid Perpetuals from being a sham. 



I hardlj' think that one can s.afely give a list of autumnal- 

 blooming Roses. "Where a large collection is grown, most 

 probably the greater portion of the varieties wiU at some time 

 or other give blooms ; and where the collection is a small one, 

 it woidd be perhaps unwise to recominend particidar sorts for 

 this object alone. From adopting in some of my beds the 

 principle of pegging-do\ra I have had some wonderful shoots 

 from the centre of the plant ; Due de Gazes, Lord Raglan, 



Jules Margottin, John Hopper, and others having made shoots 

 of 6, 7, and 8 feet in length, and the tips in many instances 

 shooting out again and giving bloom-buds ; while, again, as far 

 as one can judge, many of the best of the newer kinds, such as 

 Duchesse de Morny. Madame Victor Verdier, Pierre Nottiug, 

 and Baron PeUetan de Kinkelin are good for this purpose. 

 Amongst those that I have found most useful in this respect 

 (my experience may not be that of others), are GenCral Jac- 

 queminot and its vei-y near neighbour Triomphe d'Amiens, 

 Charles LefebvTe, Jules Margottin, Due de Cazes, General 

 Washington (better in autumn than in summer), Senateur 

 Vaisse, Madame C. Crapelet, Baron A. de Rothschild, Madame 

 CaiUat, Marechal VaQlaut, Auguste Mie, Madame Knorr, Eu- 

 gene Appert, Geant des Batailles, John Hopper, Madame Victor 

 Verdier, Pien'e Nottiug, Baron PeUetan de lunkelin, and Caro- 

 line de Sansal. Bourbons are of course always to be depended 

 ujion ; and such kinds as Souvenir de la Malmaison, Baron 

 Gonella, and Catherine Guillot will always give blooms. They 

 are not so fragrant as the Pei-petuals, but nevertheless add 

 much to the number and beauty of autmnnal Hoses. — D., Deal. 



LILIUM CULTIVATION. 



{Continued from page 229.) 



OuT-noOE Culture. — Perhaps there is no flower so fine in 

 its season as the White garden Lily (Lilium candidum), so well 

 known and esteemed for its snow-white fragrant blossoms, pro- 

 duced in such large heads as to fit it for large central groups in 

 beds or arboretimis. 



There are many excellent hardy species and varieties of 

 Lilies, and I shall take them in the following order : — 



Liliiim caiiilidiim (Wliite garden Lily), flowers white, fragrant, 

 and handsome ; 3 to 4 feet. 



L. candidum plenum, a double form of the preceding, white 

 flowers, fine ; 3 to i feet. 



L. candidum striatum, white and purple ; 3 to 4 feet. 



L. candidum foliis luteo-variegatis, a fine variegated form 

 of the species, with golden variegation, and white flowers like 

 those of the species ; somewhat variable in character. I fear 

 that it will not retain its variegation permanently, if it do so 

 it will be a favourite. 3 to -1 feet. 



L. candidum foliis argentco-variegatis, a white or silvery 

 variegated form of the species, having white flowers ; 3 to 4 

 feet. This is not much as regards variegation, still novel; 

 the flowers, however, are fine. 



L. candidum foliis maculatis, a blotcbed-leaved kind, rather 

 more dwarf than the species, with white flowers ; height, 

 2i to 3 feet. 



Lilium hulbiferutn, orange red, dwarf, and fine; 2 feet. 



L. bulbiferum umbellatum, orange red, splendid ; 2 feet. 



L. birlbiferum umbellatum fulgidum, a dwarf form of the 

 last with flowers of a richer hue ; 18 inches. 



L. bulbiferum imibellatum pimctatum, a spotted variety of 

 umbellatum, and very fine ; 2 feet. 



The last four have a splendid effect. They vai-y in height 

 from l.J to 3 feet, according to soil, &c., and have dark gi-een 

 glossy leaves and magnificent terminal racemes of rich orange- 

 red cup or saucer-like flowers. In herbaceous borders, and 

 early groups in the flower garden, they are gorgeous. 



Lilium aurantiacum, orange yellow; 3 feet. 



Lilium atrosntiguineum, blotched brown on orange-red ground ; 

 height, 18 inches to 2 feet. 



L. atrosanguincum rubens, orange red, blotched crimson ; 

 height from 18 inches to 2 feet. 



L. atrosanguincum Vulcan, very like the last. 



Lilivm venvstum, little different from the well known Orange 

 Lily (Lilium aurantiacum), flowers orange; height, 18 inches 

 to 2 feet. 



Lilium kamtschatlcensi', orange; IS inches. 



The last six have saucer-like flowers like the four preceding 

 them, and might not inaptly be termed the " cup " section. 



Lilium Thuuberqianum, and its variety gi-andiflorum, already 

 described, and not distinguishable from venustum. 



Liliuvi jyojiijjonium, yellow ; 4 feet. 



L. pomjionium aurantiacum, orange ; 4 feet. 



Lilium caimdcnsr, shaded orange ; 3 to 4 feet. 



Lilium chalcedonicum (Scarlet Martagon) , brilliant scarlet; 

 3 to 4 feet. 



Lilium coldiicnm, rich yellow, finely spotted ; 4 feet. 



Lilium ]\[arta!iou, purple ; 3 to 4 feet. There was a double 

 variety, which I believe is now lost to cultivation. 



