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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ August 28, 1866. 



Third section, open 1st of May: — Orchids, Azalea indica, 

 Tulips, ornamental plants. 



Fourth section, open 15th of May : — Azaleas indica and 

 pontica, Rhododendrons, Orchids. 



Fifth section, open 1st of June :— Orchids, Roses, Pelargo- 

 niums, &c. 



Sixth section, open 15th of June : — Pelargoniums, Roses, 

 Orchids, fruit in season. 



Seventh section, open 1st of July :— Palms, hothouse plants, 

 fruits. 



Eighth section, open 15th of July : — Aroida?, fruits. 

 Ninth section, open 1st of August : — Plants with coloured 

 foliage, Gladioli, Fuchsias, fruits. 



Tenth section, open 15th of August: — Plants, Ferns, and 

 fruits. 



Eleventh section, open 1st of September: — Dahlias, plants, 

 and fruits. 



Twelfth section, open 15th of September: — Dahlias, plants, 

 and fruits. 



Thirteenth section, open 1st of October : — Fruits and plants 

 (open). 



Fourteenth section, open 15th of October: — Fruit trees 

 trained (open). 



Exotic plants will be placed for the first two days of their 

 sections in the interior of the " Crystal Palace " in the central 

 portion. They will afterwards be replaced in the houses speci- 

 ally devoted to them. There will be a mixed jury, composed 

 of twenty-four members. The prizes will be classed as first, 

 second, third, and honourable mention. Prizes to the value 

 of 250,000 francs (£10,000), will be given ; 100 golden medals, 

 each valued at 1000 francs (£10) ; 1000 silver medals ; 3000 

 medals of bronze ; 5000 " mentions honorables." This is the 

 present intention of the Committee of Management. 



An important show of Roses at Brie-Comte-Robert has been 

 held. Roses are too well described in this Journal to be de- 

 scanted on here ; but, as one review says, a tout seinneur tout 

 honneur, let us not omit to " mention honourably " the Rose 

 raised by M. Desmazures, and called the Countess of Jaucourt, 

 which was that most approved of at the show. It is a Rose of 

 a full size, opening well, and of a tender rose-came, and belong- 

 ing to the hybrides remontantes, which we translate, rather 

 unhappily, " Hybrid Perpetuals." Is not the French term far 

 more explicit ? 



M. Andre 1 Leroy, the well-known nurseryman at Angers, 

 writes that he has obtained a second series of summer blooms 

 from the Wistaria chinensis. " The Wistaria," he says, " some- 

 times at Angers shows a few summer blooms, but these do not 

 form, strictly speaking, a second series. Let us treat it as a 

 plaiite remontant?, and, to obtain the desired result, we must 

 develope those portions of the plant which give summer flowers 

 — that is, those short spray-like shoots whose eyes, closely 

 placed, are surrounded with leaves. Generally under those 

 shoots which have flowered there springs a vigorous shoot, 

 sometimes several yards in length, which only produces 

 leaves. These useless shoots should be suppressed, unless re- 

 quired for training. By closely pinching in these gross shoots 

 (would not we imagine that Peach shoots were here spoken 

 of ?) the sap will be concentrated at the base of the leaves, 

 modifying the eyes, which generally become transformed into 

 flowers. We thus obtain a second show of blooms during the 

 summer months." M. Leroy always had in his gardens showy 

 plants of the Erythrina crista-galli, but the severity of the 

 winter destroyed them. The same thing occurs in the Channel 

 Islands, except in some peculiar cases. In France, generally, 

 this plant is cultivated in the orangeries. M. Leroy recom- 

 mends, as insuring success, the planting it out in a warm and 

 very well-drained border, and, early in November, to cut it 

 down, and cover it over with a hand-glass well piled round with 

 sand, the upper portion being left exposed. During the severe 

 frosts (he is speaking of the climate of mid-France), of Decem- 

 ber, January, and February, the glass is completely covered 

 over with stable-litter. Whenever the sun shines this is par- 

 tially removed, but afterwards replaced. In March the litter is 

 taken away, the sand alone remaining, and in April or May, 

 when the young shoots appear, the other defences are removed. 

 The shoots soon reach 6 feet, and in the course of five or six 

 years each plant readily bears twenty-five or thirty shoots. 

 1200 to 1500 flowers may be looked for on these, lasting all 

 July and August. 



M. Riviere, head gardener of the Luxembourg at Paris, highly 

 recommends the following simple plan of propagating the com- 

 mon Fig. In December some of the branches of the tree were 



buried under 18 inches of earth. They remained thus till 

 early in May, when they were dug up, and the extremities were 

 cut into portions of 6 or 8 inches long, and were then inserted 

 in a prepared border. These portions, placed at intervals of 

 10 inches, were then completely covered over by a layer of earth) 

 of about 2 inches, and slightly watered. Early in June the 

 buds broke, and pushed so freely that in four months they 

 were 3 feet high and well rooted. These young trees withstood 

 any amount of drought. 



At a meeting of the Committee of the Imperial Horticultural 

 Society, during the examination of a fine collection of Scotch 

 Hollyhocks, shown by M. Loise, of Paris, an animated dis- 

 cussion ensued as to the origin of the name, which in French 

 is Rose tremiire. Marshal Vaillant, of strategical memory, 

 and the energetic defender of the canine race, when lately 

 menaced in France — " What ! will you kill the dog of the regi- 

 ment?" — hazarded the guess that Ruse tr&miire wad derived 

 from Rose d'outre mcr, they having been thought to have come 

 from Damascus (like the Plum), in some horticultural crusader's 

 baggage. M. Brongniart (a difficult word in English indeed), 

 thinks, on the contrary, that the word is derived from Rose- 

 de trois mois. Both of these suppositions are, doubtless, in- 

 genious. M. Margottin is surprised that English cultivators 

 change the names of French plants into English ones. M. Loise 

 replies, that we are perfectly justified in so doing, as our cul- 

 tivation and our numerous seedlings create quite new races. A 

 box of locusts, from Algeria, is pronounced to be Acridiums 

 migratorium and peregrinum. They are supposed to be identi- 

 cal with those which ravaged Egypt in the days of Moses, and 

 they are certainly the same as do so much mischief in Provence. 



If it be any consolation to our hortiuclturists, our neigh- 

 bours complain as feelingly of the plague of insects this year 

 as we do, and the remedies suggested are equally numerous. 

 Of these, your correspondent, having seriously injured his 

 own trees in experimenting with salt and soft soap, thinks 

 that petroleum might form a component part of some remedy. 

 — T. C. Biieuiut. 



LOBELIA SNOWFLAKE. 



Although this was sent out last spring, no opinion has as 

 yet been given of it. Hearing such flattering accounts of it, 

 and emanating from such a respectable firm as Messrs. Lee, I 

 bought a sealed packet, but unlike many of your correspon- 

 dents who could not make it grow, to use Mr. Lee's own words, 

 it came up "as thick as the hair on a cat's back." It received 

 great care and attention as regards pricking-out, Sea., as it was 

 destined to make a row in a ribbon-border ; but I would con- 

 gratulate those correspondents who failed in raising plants, for 

 it has proved a total failure here. In habit it is upright, it 

 produces a few dirty white blooms, and half the plants are dead 

 and dying. I hope some of your correspondents will give their 

 experience of it. — Thomas Drabble, fftntkorpe, Newark, 



LAXTON'S PROLIFIC EARLY LONG-rOD PEA. 



After having grown the above valuable addition to our 

 second early Peas, we have formed a different opinion of its 

 merits altogether from that expressed by " Ax Amateur " and 

 Mr. J. Marsland at page 120. With us it has fully sustained 

 the high character given to it at the time it was sent out. The 

 pods are remarkably large and well filled, and of a very dark 

 green colour ; it is also a very abundant bearer. The flavour 

 is equal to any other Pea coming in at the same time. What 

 we have grown was from a sealed packet, and there was no- 

 mixture of Early Frame or any other variety among them.— 

 JosErn E. Olive::, Ellington Park Gardens. 



The above Pea was sown at the same time as Maclean's 

 Advancer, and was ready for gathering about a week after that 

 fine sort, and notwithstanding the very flattering account 1 

 heard of it, I must say it very far exceeded my expectation, and 

 was the admiration of all who saw it. Its height was 5 feet, 

 and it was one mass of pods from bottom to top, the pods con- 

 taining on an average from nine to twelve Peas. The soil here 

 is gravelly, resting on gravel.— T. Drabble, I! inthorpe, Newark 



The letters of an " Amateur " and Mr. J. Marsland. in The 

 Journal or Horticulture for August 14th. respecting " .Lax- 

 ton's Prolific Early Long-pod Pea," rather astonish us, as 

 our own trials and those of numbers of our correspondents,. 



