124 



JODBNAIi OF HOBTICULTUUE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ February la, 186C. 



mach like Mitchell's Early Albion Kidney, that I do not grow it 

 now, ond I think Mitchell's the better. Myatt's Ashleaf I grew 

 when it first came out. It is a first-rate cropper ; but I gave it 

 up as being with mo deficient iu flavour. With some tubers 

 of Bivers's Royal Ashleaf I was kindly i)resented by the raiser, 

 uid I grew it for the first time this season. The Lapstone 

 Kidney deserves all the praise that is bestowed upon it ; but 

 Daintree's New Kidney (for which, by-the-by, we received two 

 lixst-class certificates at the International Exhibition of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington, la.st Decem- 

 ber, one certificate for it in its most natural condition, and the 

 other for it as a Kidney), is of the same strain, and it is earlier, 

 and a better Potato still. I strongly advise " D." of Deal to 

 give this first-rate sort a trial in his enlarged practice. I 

 never cared to give the Iviug of Potatoes a trial ; why, I cannot 

 tell. As regards round Potatoes partaking of au eartiiy flavour, 

 I have a seedling which, if I have the pleasure of presenting 

 some another year to your excellent correspondent, will, I hope, 

 serve to convince him that there are round Potatoes to be grown 

 a.s good as Kidneys. — Upwards .\nd Oswaiids. 



puttied frame presents, I will not undertake to determine ; bat 

 the result is in favour of putty, and I give my experience to 

 your readers. — G. S. 



I'EAS FROM MAY TO OCTOBER. 



There are but few who do not take an interest iu Peas, the 

 very mection of which at this time of year is enough to make 

 one's mouth water ; and as it has been a hobby of mine to 

 obtain a good succession of them, and having kept a table of 

 results, I will lay before your readers my experience on this 

 subject. 



In the first place, I may mention that I grow all my crops of 

 Peas on the natural or out-door system, having neither time 

 nor convenience for sowing under glass, hardening off, &c. As 

 early in .January as the ground is in good working condition, I 

 select a piece of a south aspect border that has been preriously 

 manured and ridged, and levelling it down with a fork, sow 

 Carter's First Crop in rather shallow drills, putting slips of 

 furze along the rows before covering up, to keep off the mice. I 

 always used to grow Sangster's No. 1 for my first crop ; but 

 Carter's First Crop is, in my opinion, far superior to it. Early 

 in February I sow in an open (juarter of the garden two rows 

 of Sangster's No. 1, each about 30 yards in length, drawing 

 the drills a little deeper and putting in chopped furze as 

 before ; but after this 1 am not so particular in the sowing and 

 protecting ; if only the gi'oimd is dug deeply, well manured, 

 and the si ugs kept trapped, there is not much danger of the crop 

 not doing well. For the succeeding sowings I generally use 

 two quarts of each variety at a time. Before the end of Fe- 

 bruary I follow with two rows of Dickson's Favourite, and about 

 the middle of March sow a Uke quantity of Yorkshire Hero — 

 a first-class Pea for flavour ; and Veitch's Perfection, two rows 

 in the beginning of April. In the end of the same mouth I 

 sow ;Bedman's Imperial ; early iu May, two rows of British 

 Queen ; and lastly, Ivnight's Dwarf (ireen .Marrow iu the end 

 of May or beginning of .June. Now, judging from the selection 

 met with in the mjijority of seed catalogues, mine to some 

 persons may seem a strange one ; but my experience of it at 

 any rate satisfies myself, and keeps the cook iu tolerably good 

 humour, considering that I have twenty or more persons to 

 supply. 



According to ray memoranda the following is the order in 

 which the several crops come iu for use — viz.. Carter's I'irst 

 Crop, May '26th; Sangster's No. 1, Jime 14th; Dickson's 

 Favourite, July 5th ; Yorkshire Hero, .July 17th ; Veitch's 

 Perfection, .July SOth ; Redman's Imperial, July 27th ; British 

 Queen, August 10th ; Knight's Dwarf Green Marrow, Septem- 

 ber 1-tth, and lasting till the beginning of October. 



The chief points in the culture of Peas are to keep the ground 

 about them well hoed, to earth thcui up a good height before 

 sticking, which should be done as soon as required ; if dry weather 

 is apprehended, to mulch with good long manure, and to water 

 them if necessary. I may add, that should any of your readers 

 think fit to try my selection, I have no doubt that with ordi- 

 nary success the result will be Peas from Mav till October. — 

 W. C. 



PtiTTYiNO Orchard-houses. — As there is some difference of 

 opinion on this subject, I directed my glazier to putty my 

 orchard-house only in parts. During the short frost in January 

 seven panes cracked. Every one was uuputtied. Whether the 

 cracking arose from the freezing of water between the laps, or 

 from the want of that resistance to the weight of snow which a 



CUTTINGS OF HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES. 



As a Rose amateur in a small way, I have noted your corre- 

 spondent " CouNTitv CnRATE " in your Journal of December 

 '2(lth, and without attempting to answer the questions generally 

 contained in his letter, yet the remark as to cuttings from Hy- 

 brid Peqietual Roses would seem to imply a difficulty, which, 

 from experience, I can say does not exist if only the most 

 ordinary care is obscr\ed. 



My plan is to take the cuttings from about the last week in 

 July to the middle of August — Paul's " Rose Garden " gives 

 the exact description of what a cutting should be. Well, I 

 simply insert from four to six, according to the size of the pot 

 which may be handy, iu a nice light mould, composed of one- 

 third of sandy peat, or any sweet light sandy stuff, the remain- 

 ing two-thirds sifted loam and a little burnt earth, just to make 

 the whole light, and calculated to encourage the quick forma- 

 tion of the rootlets. This season I filled as many small pots 

 as I could manage with cuttings from such as Charles Lefebvre, 

 Souvenir de la Malmaison, Princess of Wales, Jules Margottin, 

 Devoniensis, John Hopper, Madame Boutin, .tc. These pots 

 were plunged in the Rose-bed, well watered, and a hand-glass 

 placed over every ten pots or so ; then a sheet of stout paper is 

 covered over the whole of the glass and kept there for ten days 

 or a fortnight, or otherwise the sun would make short work of the 

 matter. Then the covering is partly removed — say from about 

 half the surface of the hand-glass, and in five weeks or so I 

 find the cuttings are for the most part struck, with here and 

 there a few which arc easily removed and not missed, because 

 from the first more cuttings are placed in the pot than are ex- 

 pected to strike root. 



About the middle of September I carefully turn out the cut- 

 tings, and place each iu a separate pot. Now, this is really an 

 operation requiring care ; the cutting will be noticed with long 

 white rootlets, so brittle that if the soil be pressed Ughtly they 

 wiU suap asunder ; therefore, I merely hold tlie top of the cut- 

 ting iu one hand in the pot, and just drop the compost with the 

 other gently, give the pot a few shakes so that the roots meet 

 the soil, and then place it, plunged to the rim, in the Rose-bed 

 wherever convenient. The sun at this period of the year will 

 hardly be too powerful to injure them if the syringe is freely 

 used. At the end of October I house the whole safely in a cold 

 frame, such as is used for Cucumbers ; but raised ou a bank 

 2 feet from the surface. Mine is but a small one, and at this 

 time holds about four or five dozen pots, each with a young 

 plant from a cutting as already explained. 



The very little trouble required in striking cuttings from 

 many of our most famous Hybrid Pei^petual Roses, to my mind, 

 renders the consideration of the question as to first budding on 

 the Manetti of little consequence. If we wish for Roses on 

 their own roots, it is quite certain that wo can always have 

 them so, except some few that will not strike, as Madame Vidot. 

 With this Rose I never could succeed ; but as the same difficulty 

 is experienced at the nurseries where every appliance exists as 

 to bottom heat, itc, this failure need not discourage an amateur. 



The following are sure to strike — viz., Charles Lefebvre, Jules 

 Margottin, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Devoniensis, Lord Pal- 

 merston, Triomphe do liennes, Gloire de Dijon, General Jaque- 

 minot, and Due de Rohan. Perhaps the Tea Roses may not 

 in cool seasons be so much depended upon as the Hybrid Per- 

 petuals. 



My idea from'ithe first has been in favour of Roses on their 

 own roots ; in short, there is iu many jilaces soil quite un- 

 fitted for the Dog Rose, and the failures must be many. How- 

 over, as a matter of taste, let every amateur try for himself, 

 aud act accordingly. — Henrv Taylor, Lower Edmonton. 



POMMIER DE PAR^UJIS. 



A friekd of mine has just handed me a list of fruits by a 

 Mr. Scott,' of Crewkerne. and directed my attention to the 

 following paragraph, " Procure your Apples grafted on the 

 ' Pomme Paradis.' " I was so astonished at seeing such ad- 

 vice that I could scarcely believe any nmseryman could give 

 such directions, my own experience is so opposed to the use 

 of this stock. Many years since I was so struck with the pretty 

 little Apple trees grown near Paris as single cordons, that I 



