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JOURNAL OF HOBTICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



[ October 31, 1865. 



" Five premiums or rewards, of ilifferent value, were then 

 offered to tlioso wlio had the best cultivated gardens, and most 

 flowers in their courts, and about the 10th of August I in- 

 spected their gardens, and awarded the premiums. As the 

 garden labourers, fi-om the nature of their employment, had 

 some advantage over the others, they were not allowed to 

 compete with them, but were competitors among themselves ; 

 and the premimns were not confined to those who had had 

 their gardens put in form for them, but extended to the cot- 

 tagers of the three parishes. 



" The successful candidates were so elated with the idea of 

 having gained a prize, and the others flattered with the hope 

 of doing the same the following season, that the spirit of gar- 

 dening soon became general, and cuttings of fruit trees, plants, 

 and flower seeds were in great request with those very indi- 

 viduals who were most prejudiced against them at the forma- 

 tion of their little gardens. 



" The village of Stackpole was now frciiuented in the summer 

 season by the ladies and gentlemen of the neighbourhood to 

 see the flowers and improvements of the cottages ; and many 

 of the labourers, who had worked about the gardens for years, 

 and never asked the name of a plant, began to ask the names 

 of flowers that a certain lady or gentleman had admired the 

 preceding day. 



" Two years before I left Stackpole Court the premiums were 

 discontinued, being considered unnecessary ; and it was grati- 

 fying to see that the cottagers paid the same attention to theu' 

 gardens, in the evenings and mornings, as usual ; they had ex- 

 perienced the comfort and advantage arising from so doing ; 

 for their fruit trees were now in a bearing state, and their 

 market for common fruits and early vegetables was tolerably 

 good." 



It is most gratifying to find that the influence of such encou- 

 ragement is enduring, and not only endm'ing, but is contagious ; 

 for I noticed that excellent window plants, and good kitchen 

 gardening prevail over the adjoining districts, and contrast 

 most favourably with the neglect of gardening so characteristia 

 of North Wales.— G. 



NEW ROSES. 



What good is there in clairvoyance, electro-biology, or second 

 sight ? Where are those wi'etched beings called mediums, but 

 whom the United States tax-gatherers properly call jugglers ? 

 Why don't they come to our rescue ? Will Mr. Home, or 

 Alexis, or Madame Card, or even Sandy McAllister with his 

 second sight, tell us something about the new Eoses ? Of all 

 the arrant "hums" of the day this spirituahsm is the greatest, 

 for why does it not'do something useful for us ? I don't see the 

 good of setting one's sofas and round tables dancing a polka, 

 or of twitching one's legs with an invisible hand, or sending 

 tambourines and fiddles flying through the air ; and as to the 

 caUing-up of spirits, about the most sensible thing I have heard 

 of Pius IX. doing was his giving Mr. Home notice to quit. If, 

 indeed, they would tell us what Eoses to buy — which of the 

 ninety or hundred, as the case may be, are worth having — 

 which do the growers themselves know to be bad, or on what 

 do they lay the greatest stress — if any of our spirituaUsts would 

 do something of this kind for us, we should then be perhaps 

 incUned to say there was something in it. However, here are 

 the Usts ; and in spite of ''Ro.sa Anglica," or " EosA canina," 

 (which I should think means dog in the manger), I must now 

 do as I have done before. 



As when in early days (although I used not to walk the 

 hospitals, yet many a day foimd me in the lecture-room, where 

 some " don " was holding forth on one of the various branches 

 of medical science), I used often to be courteously invited to 

 come to the dissecting-room, they had got such a "capital" 

 subject |I have no doubt they say uow-a-days such a "jolly" 

 subject, but the word was not kncjwn then), and the eye of my 

 fi-iend would glisten at the thought of what cutting and hack- 

 ing there would be ; so now I, as the iuviter, must ask the 

 Mnd readers of TnE Journal op Horticultube to come with 

 me, with penknife and spade, and cut away, or dig up, or cast 

 upon the dungheap, many a limb of that vei-y interesting and 

 exciting production, the catalogue of new Eoses. 



Before I do so a word or two on those of last year may not be 

 unacceptable, that the coiTectness of one's surmises may be 

 tested. I find that those of the Hybrid Perpetuals which I 

 conjectured or thought, from having seen them, would be good 

 were »Duchesse de Caylus, »Eushtou Eadclyft'e, 'General 



d'Haultpoult, 'Duchesse de Medina Cceli, Madame C. Verdier, 

 Xavier Olibo, •Souvenir de William Wood, Charles Margottin, 

 Marguerite de St. Amaud, Jean Eosencrautz, Triomphe de la 

 Terre, 'M. Moreau, Charles Wood, Souvenir de Bemardin de 

 St. Pierre, and • King's Acre. Those marked with an asterisk 

 were praised in last week's Journal of Horticulture by Mr. 

 Eadclyffe from his knowledge of them ; whUe of those not 

 included in it the only one was Due de Wellington, of which I 

 hoped good things, and MdUe. Amelie Halphen ; for Elizabeth 

 Vigneron I had not seen advertised at the time I wrote the 

 notes. Madame C. Verdier, I am inclined to think, will be an 

 excellent Eose ; but Xavier Olibo I have not seen or heard of, 

 stiU I beUeve we shall hear of him again. 



Adopting the plan I did last year of keeping the Eoses under 

 the names of the raisers, I shall begin with the heaviest con- 

 tributor to our lists, M. Eugene Verdier. That he should send 

 out so many is, I think, detrimental both to himself and to us. 

 I feel sure that it would be far better to send out some four or 

 five than this round dozen, which fi'ightens growers. 



M. EUGENE verdier, FILS AINE. 



1. Alba MiitabiUs. — Vigorous. A seedling from Jules Mar- 

 gottin. Flowers large, 9 centimetres in diameter (about 

 'ij inches), fuU, white tinted with rose, and becoming com- 

 pletely shaded with rose in proportion to its opening. 



2. Charles liouittanl. — Plant -sagorous, about 10 centimetres 

 (1 inches), in ihameter ; form perfect, full. Beautiful tender 

 rose, more lively in the centre. 



3. Fisher Ilohiifs. — Very vigorous and free-flowering. Flowers 

 large, fine, imbricated like a CameUia, magnificent brilliant 

 scarlet red. 



4. John Grier. — Very vigorous. Flowers large, flowering in 

 clusters of six to twelve, full, fine shape, globular, sweet- 

 scented, clear red or shaded rose ; reverse of petals sUvery. 



5. Jean Lambert. — Vigorous. Flowers very large, 12 centi- 

 metres (4i inches), in diameter, full, shaded fiery red. The 

 buds are extraordinary, and resemble a pigeon's .egg. 



6. ilademvixelle ilarpuerite Dombraln. — Vigorous. A seed- 

 ling from La Eeine. Flowers very large, 12 to 14 centimetres 

 in diameter (4 J to 4 J inches), full, globular, and well-formed, 

 very sweet-scented, beautiful virgin rose, very tender and very 

 fresh. 



7. Prince de Porcia. — Vigorous. Flowers full, well-formed; 

 colour beautiful vermilion, richly shaded. 



8. Profeaseitr Duehartre. — Vigorous. Flowers large, flower- 

 ing in clusters of four to six, full, globular, well-formed, clear 

 red ; reverse of petals satiny. 



9. Souvenir d'Ahraham Lincoln. — Vigorous. A seedling 

 from Cardinal Patrizzi. Flowers medium, full, well-formed, 

 crimson shaded with red, purple, and rose. 



10. William nollisson.—Xery vigorous. Flowers large full, 

 globular, magnificent hvely cherry red. 



M. E. Verdier brought to me, as I have before mentioned, a 

 few of the above when I was at Paris in June, and of two of 

 those in his list I can speak favourably. No. 1 was an exceed- 

 ingly deUcate and pretty flower, but not very large ; I should 

 have called it a pale rose. No. 6 is unquestionably, as I saw- 

 it, a noble-looking flower. Its parentage might suggest diffi- 

 culty in opening ; but I do not think that this need be feared, 

 for the buds are of quite a different shape, long, and not glo- 

 bular, and when this is the case I do not think there is much 

 doubt as to its opening. No. 5 is a large flower, coarse to my 

 mind, and somewhat diflicnlt, I imagine, to open in our climate. 

 Of the others I know nothing. Evidently 9 is too small for 

 our requirements. I have not translated those parts which 

 have reference to foliage, for our neighbours are more curious 

 in such matters than we are. Whether thorns are red or brown, 

 straight or recurved, fohage pale green or apple green, are not 

 matters about which we take much concern, and I have there- 

 fore not burdened my paper with these matters. 



M. LACHAEME, 



The raiser of Charles Lefebvre, and the possessor of an indu- 

 bitable yellow Perpetual, desei-ves an honourable place ; and 

 one, at any rate, of his Eoses for this year is likely to add to 

 his reputation as one of our first raisers. 



11. Alfred Colomb.— Plant vigorous, having some analogy to 

 Charles Lefebvre. Flowers large, full, form of Centifolia, very 

 lively fiery red. Superb. 



12. Prudence iJfsson.— Plant very vigorous, having some 

 analogy with Souvenir de la Eeine d'Angleterre. Flowers very 

 large, nearly full, well formed, carmine red. Very effective. 



