October oO, I860. ] 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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2. Madame Palliat. -Plan* very vigorous; flowers medium- 

 sized, globular, erect, and very well made, durl; rose. A 

 beautiful variety; very free-flowering in autumn. 



:i. Mademoiselle Nonin.— Plant vigorons; flowers medium 



sized, prod I ingly, very full, form "f : • ■, 



rose slightly tinted with salmon, a new colour. Flowers El i 

 in autumn. 



■I. Monsieur VI risancon.— Plant very vigorous; flowers erect, 

 very large, globular, fall, and beautifully soaped, deep carmine. 

 A very good variety for forcing, and blooming freely in 

 autumn. 



5. : | a. — Plant very vigorous ; (lowers erect, very 



globular, fall, and very well formed, deep rose. An 

 excelli nt plant for forcing. 



In the notes that I made at the time, I set down Antuine 

 Duchcr as a first-rate Rose ; and, after 1 had seen all the others, 

 I came to the conclusion that it was the i 

 Rose I had seen. The colour of Mademoiselle Nonin will re- 

 commend it, whik '. Plai i □ ' irge and good. I did not 

 see anything very reiuarlcablo about the other two, but thero 

 were not many blooms of them to be seen tho day I was at 

 Ducher's. 



( '■ >N"OD. 



de MontplaUir. — Plant very vigorous and free- 

 flowering; flowers large, full, and well formed, very lively red. 

 A very remarkable variety. 



7. Madame Anna Bonnet.— Plant vigorous and free-fl iwering ; 

 flowers in corymbs, large, full, with round petals, imbri 

 ilesh colo 



8. Madame J.'i'r./f. — l'laut very vigorous; flowers large, full, 

 and well formed, tender satinj Rose, a variety of the first 

 order. This variety presents the wood an i foliage of A I 



Mie ; the flowers are fuller, more free-flowering, and the colour 

 more clear. 



I am inclined to think that 7 and S will prove to be good 

 Roses, if I recollect aright. Madame Anna Bagnet is of the 

 same class as Virginal. Mad 1 is what it professes to 



be, an improved AugusteMie, an old and very favourite flower; 

 and if this maintain the character given to it, it is likely to be 

 still more so. 



Guillot I 



9. Horace Vernct. — Plant very vigorous; flowers very large, 

 with large petal;!, full, and standing well up above the foliage, 

 of a beautiful velvety purplish red shaded with dark crimson. 

 A plant of magnificent effect. 



This Rose may and will please a good many, but in my 

 judgment it was somewhat too large and coarse. However, 

 here is a point on which we differ. I see Mr. River 

 Jean Lambert and Prudence Besson into his first or select list ; 

 neither of them suits my taste, though the latter will lie kept 

 for its immense size, and because it may probably be the 

 progenitor of a larger race of Roses than any we have. 



L.vc:: ! 



10. TJiorin. — Plant vigorous ; flowers large, full, well formed, 

 beautiful pure lively rose. 



I did not see this Rose when visiting Lacharme, but he told 

 me that he had a very fine rose-coloured flower to send out 

 this autumn ; this is doubtless the plant. 



This finishes the Lyons Roses that I had the opportunity of 

 seeing. I shall, if all be well, next week take up M. i 

 Verdier's, and then the others, on which we must decide either 

 from description or the previous reputation of the rai 

 D., 1>. < '. 



VIOLA CORNUTA. 



In reply to Mr. Wills respecting the above (see page 297), I 

 have never met with more than one variety of the true Viola 

 cornuta. Like Mr. Wills. I bave had letters and specimens from 

 all parts : many of the latter proved identical with my own, and 

 many were not allied to V. cornuta at all. 



I may here state that the Viola cornuta used at this place is 

 the same as that which I saw at Messrs. Backhouse's nursery at 

 York in the spring, and which I should imagine to be the true 

 one. I have, indeed, noticed a little difference iu the shade of 

 colour of some of the flowers raised from seed, but these I found 

 in the course of the season could not be detected from the plants 

 raised from cuttings. Again: soil and situation, as it is well 

 known, slightly alter the colour, Bize, and profusion of blos- 

 soms. However, should Mr. Wills's variety not differ from 

 that used here, I shall consider it most singular and fortunate 



to think we both introduced it aftt a to tl public about tho 

 same time, and, h nt, wo have hit pon 



two really valuable Violas ; for if Mr. Wills's variety has been 

 extolled in the north, that used here has been equally so in 

 the midland countii . With outa being 



tall d V. ill ,;■,,,. , I ,'g explana- 



tion ; but it certainly did appear me to find his 



name associated with a Viola which has been known in this 

 country nearly a hundred yeai . and which, I believe, is a 

 native of the Pyrenees. However, f believe Mr. Wills is mis- 

 taken in .... i tbe one in the 

 Liverpool Botanic Gardens, and that tbe variety grown there 

 is worthless a I with his. I believe Mr. Tyerman, the 

 Curator, was at om of me that the variety 

 there was not the same as thi i n at Uuntroyde Pork; 

 but on his paying a vi it to Mr. Will- at tbe latter place, bring- 

 ing home with bim some of Mr. Wills's specimens, and com- 

 paring tl;em with his owj could di I no difference in the 

 two. He was mi ti I frith il le; it looked 

 well, and seemed quite at home, bi i gay. 



Now, it is well known to those w] o : own this Viola to 



perfection, ti , ,,! modi i ! propagation and si 



of planting out have much to do with tbe success of tbe plant, 



more particularly;' ision of bloom. In tl 



one is better i an Mr. Wills himself, for whom I have 



iiie greatest res] i ;•'. we having both been i o li ng contributors to 

 the same gardening periodicals. I will 31 of flowers by 



post to Mr. Wills, and should they differ from his I shall feel 

 t pleasure in exchanging plants with him. — E. Bennett, 

 Gardener to imbe, • <erton Hall, Worksop. 



OCTOBER CHERRIES. 



It is so unusual to gather Cherries at (his season from 

 • .il air, that I am induced to I 



you a few fruit. The drenching rain of ; (Oct. 26th), 



has made them crack, and to a certain extent has destroyed 

 their flavour. Till then they were bright and beautiful as 

 Cherries in June. Tbe origin of this kind of Cherry — the 

 Belle Agathe — is a sort of mystery. Its type seems quite un- 

 known, and its wide departure in its nature from all other 

 kinds of Cherries is. very remarkable. — T. R. 



[The Cherries were very good, and but for tho soaking rain 

 would have been superior. As it was they were sweet and 

 refreshing, and are certainly desirable to include among our 

 autumn dessert fruits. They are a small crimson Bigarreau. 

 — Eds.] 



QUEEN ANNE'S POCKET . CULTURE. 



I beg to thank your correspondent, at page 2 '". for I 

 endorsed what I said in favour of tiiis " little gem." I find he 

 is well aware of its good and useful properties, and also K 

 ol i res it is easily cultivated. I bave not grown it in 

 frame myself, but believe it would be in its glory if planted in 

 loam on a pure bed of leaves. 



To think of advancing anything more on the cultivation of 

 Melons in pots, or otherwise, than has already appeared in The 

 1 ial op Hobtictlttjke, would be simply superfluoTJ . 

 ciaUy after such excellent advice a 3 Mr. Abbey gave a short time 

 hack : but to comply with " Cucusiis Melo's" request, I may 

 briefly state that the seed is sown in the usual way in a i He 

 heat — in a mild b I v glass structure 



where a temperature of 85 70° can m i lid. When 



the plants are sufficiently large for pottb are put into 



60-sized pots ; when well roi ti a ;-l ift is given them 



2's, and finally into Hi's. I Melo 



may not call 24's "small , Hi . ... a tolerably stout 



piece of wire about 14 or 15 inches long is required, to which 

 the stem should be tied, and on the top of tbe wire three ; 

 each afoot loi 1 be fasti nedin a transverse direction, 



and bent a little downwards, and. when this has been neatly 

 done, tbe whole will he somewhat like the framework of a smail 

 parasol without the bin 



As soon as the ] 1; uts have grown about 2 or 3 inches above 

 the top of the wire, their points should be pinched out, after 

 which a sufficient quantity of laterals will soon make their 

 appearance ; one of tbe latter only should be tied to each wire. 

 Now comes the most important part of the affair, which is to 

 secure six or eight fruit-blossoms open at one time. H one, 

 two, or three only make their appearance they should be 



