October 2, 18G6. ] 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



255 



queen of flowers. My stock consists of between throe and 

 four hundred plants, all on Briar or Manotti stock**, and I can 

 give no preference to either stock, as both succeed well in a 

 rather stiff retentive soil.— Wm. M. Wardrop. 



VARIETIES wniCH SUCCEED. 



HARDY 



* Anna AlcTi.'tT 

 Alfred de Boueemont 

 Baron Rothschild 



* Baronno Prevost 



* Beauty of Waltbam 



* Charles Lefobvxe 

 Dnohess of Norfolk 



1 tachess of Sutherland 



* Central Jacqueminot 

 Genoral Simpson 



* Jules Margottin 

 Jem Bart 

 Jean Goujon 



* John Hopper 

 Sing's Acre 



* La Brill inte 



■ i eopold Premier 



* Lord Macaulay 

 La Fontaine 

 Lion ties Combats 

 Lord Polmerston 



* Madame Boll 



" Sdadame Boutin 

 Madame Cailbit 

 Madame Charles Wood 



PEBFSTUAXiS. 



Bfadame do l ! imbac re - 



* Sfad&me Charli Crape] ; 

 Madame Sonpert 



9 Dfadanie Victor Verdior , 

 Madame Julie Daran 



* Mdlle. Bonnaire 



'■ i \ lillant 



* Olivier Delhomme 



* Paul de la M.-illeray 

 Pauline Lojofiezeur 



* Pierre Xotting 



Peter Lawson 



* Prince Camilla de Rohan 



* 9enateur \ 



Souven - de I ad3 Eardlej 

 Souvenir de I !oi tte Cavour 

 Triomphe da Villecresnes 

 Triomphe de Paris 



* Turcnue 

 Vaiuqueur de Goliath 



* Vicomte Vigier 



* Victor Verdier 

 Comtesse do Chabrillant 



* Maurice Bernardin 

 Wm. Griffil 



* Madame Clemence Joigneanx 



Catherine Guillot 

 Emotion 

 Louise Margottin 



BOURBONS. 



• Model oi Perfection 



* Sir Joseph Paxton 



HYBRID CHINA. 



Comteaae de Laoepede 



HYBRID BOURBON. 



Charles Lawson * Coupe d'Hrl-.'- 



Perraa 



TEA. 



Gloire de Dijon 

 All of the above mentioned are good, and I have put an 

 asterisk to those which I consider the most choice. 



THE FOLLOWING DO NOT SUCCEED. 

 HYBRID PERPETUALK. 



Anna des Dieebach, tender. 



Auguste Mie, will not open. 



Baronne Hallcz, very liable to mil- 

 dew. 



Baron de Heekeren, tender. 



Cardinal Patrizzi, tender. 



Caroline de Sansal, bad opener. 



Colonel de Rougemont, tender, and 

 a bad grower. 



Comte de Xanteuil, opens badly. 



Deuil de Prince Albert, worthless. 



Duchesse d'Orleans, opens badly. 



Due de Rohan, opens badly. 



Due de Cazes. thin in petal. 



Emprreur de Maroc, tender. 



Francois Lachanne, weak grower. 



Grant des Batailles, very liable to 

 mildew. 



General Castellane, bad grower. 



General Washington, will not open. 



Gloire de Santenay, weak grower. 



Louise Peyronny, tender. 



Louis XIV., weak grower. 



La Ville de St. Denis, will not open. 



BOURBONS. 



Souvenir de la Malmaison, opens badly. 



HYBRID CHINA. 



Blairii No. 2, tender. Fulgens, tender. 



Brennus, very liable to mildew. Juno, will not open. 



HYBRID BOURBON. 



Paul Ricaut, tender. 



Lord Raglan, very liable to mildew. 

 Miidamu Furtartn, had constitution. 

 Madame Knorr, weak grower. 

 Madame Maseon; weak grower. 

 Madame Pauline Villot.weak grower. 

 M;idume Viil-il, Ici-l constitution. 

 Madame Wm. Paul, opens badly. 

 Monsieur de Montigny, tender. 

 Mathurin Regnier, bad constitution. 

 Monte Christo, bad grower. 

 Mrs. Rivers, unsatisfactory. 

 Ornenient des Jardins, tender. 

 Paul Dupuy, bad grower. 

 Pius IX., coarse. 

 Prince Leon, unsatisfactory. 

 Professor Koch, opens badly. 

 Queen Victoria (Raul's), tender. 

 Scaur des Anges, will not open. 

 Souvenir de la Reine d'Angleterre, 



will not open. 

 Triomphe de TExposition, bad 



grower. 

 Vaingueur de Solferino, worthless. 



AN ORNAMENTAL FRUIT FOR THE DESSERT. 



EvEr.y one who has much to do in providing or arranging the 

 dessert is always on the look out for something fresh, either 

 useful or ornamental ; and to add to those fruits in general 

 use, I would recommend Queen Anne's Pocket Melon. This 

 Melon, as is well known by most gardeners, is not new, but a 

 variety which has been little cultivated of late years. When 

 neatly arranged with other fruits it is one of the prettiest 

 objects that can be placed on the dinner table. 



The plant is easily grown like other Melons, either in pots or 

 planted out in the ordinary way. If grown in small pots, with 

 stems about a foot high, and about live or six fruit on each of 

 the plants, these are objects of great attraction, and are sure to 

 please the most fastidious. The average size of fruit obtained 



by pot culture is that of a small Orange, and they are most 

 beautifully striped with red and gold ; the aroma, too, is most 

 delici as. The Bruit from plants planted out will be about 

 double the size of those produced By pot plants', but equally 

 useful and ornamental. This miniature Melon is, I believe, 

 of very ancient date, and is like an " old coat " or " old song," 

 destined to bee ime quite in tho fashion again. — John Pkf.kins, 

 Tkornham Hall, Eye. 



THE .GARDENS OF NUNEHAM PARK, 



■ ■ IBINGBON. 



A change visit made recently to tho gardens of Nuneham 

 Park enabled me to glean a few facts that arc worthy of record 

 in The Journal of Horn cci i 



The park and grounds occupy some 1500 acres. The dwelling- 

 house is situated on the right of the railway from Didcot to 

 Oxford, and can be seen immediately after passing Culham 

 station; it stands on a sloping ground which reaches *'■ rn 

 to the river Thames some distance below. About three miles 

 to the west is Abingdon, and about seven miles to the north is 

 Oxford, glimpses of each of these places can be obtained from 

 the grounds through openings in the trees. The pleasure 

 grounds are very extensive, and well kept; lovely woodland 

 walks stretch away to considerable distances from the dwelling- 

 house. The flower garden comprises a small raised terrace 

 garden, and a good space on the lawn on the north side of the 

 house. The recent rains had done much to destroy the effect 

 of some very pretty grouping of the bedding plains, the general 

 arrangement doing great credit to the skill and taste of the 

 gardener, Mr. James Stewart. I was very much struck with a 

 row of a dwarf-growing Campanula, forming a third row in a 

 ribbon-border, having a profusion of large, bell-shaped, lilac 

 flowers. Mr. Stewart said the variety had been raised at Bo- 

 wood, near Calne, the seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne, 

 and was known as C. Eowoodiana ; it grows about 9 inches in 

 height, has a very close and compact habit, and blooms all 

 the summer. Pulmonaria cserulea variegata was very effective 

 here as an edging plant. It appeared to be benefited by having 

 a good deal of shade thrown on it by some neighbouring trees. 

 The pale yellow and. bright green marking of the foliage was 

 very distinct and effective. Those who depreciate the useful- 

 ness of the much-abused Iresine Herbstii should see it growing 

 here when its beautiful foliage is lighted up by the afternoon 

 sun ! From whatever point it was looked at it was the most 

 striking plant in the garden. Where it looked most effective was 

 where it was most open to the influence of the sun when at tl e 

 meridian. Mr. Stewart recommends that strong plants should 

 be bedded out, and kept well watered every night, except in 

 wet weather ; the shoots should also be pegged down as soon 

 as they are of sufficient length. 



I never saw the old scarlet bedding Pelargonium Attraction 

 finer than I saw it here. It was flowering as freely as a Nosegay, 

 the trusses were large, and raised upon strong footstalks well 

 above the foliage. It is one of the very best of the older kinds, 

 and will hold its own against many of the new kinds for some 

 time. Cloth of Gold Pelargonium has failed here, as in many 

 other places; but Golden Fleece does remarkably well. Verbena 

 Velvet Cushion has also proved a conspicuous failure, mildew 

 attacks it so ruthlessly as to completely destroy it. 



In the friendly shelter of some overhanging trees there was 

 growing against a wall a large and luxuriant plant of the Ne- 

 paulese shrub Benthamia fragifera. It stands the winter at 

 Nuneham Park without any protection, but it has not as yet 

 produced fruit, or even flowered. It has been known to ripen 

 its fruit against a wall in Devonshire. 



The kitchen garden has the reputation of being one of tho 

 best walled-in gardens in England. Pears are very largely 

 grown here ; it is computed there are nearly 120 sorts in culti- 

 vation. A large number are grown on the walls — in fact, as far 

 as wall-fruit culture is concerned, Pears seemed to predominate, 

 and many of the trees were laden with fine fruit. From some 

 reasou the fruit of Duchesse d'Angoulemo has prematurely 

 fallen from the trees this season, both from the wall and from 

 pyramidal trees. Mr. Stewart has, therefore, been compelled 

 to gather a great deal of the fruit of this variety comparatively 

 unripe. The Winter Nelis Pear cannot be induced to fruit 

 here on a south wall ; it should be on a west wall, where it fruits 

 readily. 



Figs are very largely grown here : a wall of the Brown Turkey 

 was a sight in itself, the trees being heavily laden with remark- 



