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JOURNAL OF HOBTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



147 



of ground at command, and their width by the strength and 

 length of the glass employed to glaze thtm. The uses of these 

 strnctures are similar to thoEe of the ground \ineries, and 

 althongh applied to 

 the culture of the 

 Vine, they are 

 equally applicable 

 to that of other 

 crops, Euoh as early 

 Peas, and Salads ; 

 the propagation, by 

 ontlings and graft- 

 ing, of valuable 

 plants in pots ; 

 and also for the 

 protection of the 

 less hardy plants 

 during winter. 



In fig. 1 we have 

 the representation 

 of a ground vinery. 

 The drawing, 

 which was suppUed 

 by Mr. Eendlo, is 

 not quite to our 

 mind, as it repre- 

 sents the walls of 



Fig. S. 



the structure solid, whereas we would suggest that they be 

 pigeon-holed so as to admit of that free ciiculation of air 

 necessary in so 

 small a space to 

 ensure health and 

 vigour to the plant 

 enclosed. Wa have 

 EeenatMr. Eivers's 

 an experiment with 

 these tiles erected 

 after this fashion, 

 and it succeeds ad- 

 mirably. The Vine 

 is the picture of / 



health and vigjur, ', 



and under the glass /[ 



there is the need- J^' 



ful amount ct hn- "^ 



midity to secure 

 health and keep 

 down red spider. 

 Fig. 2 shows its applioatioa to the protection and hastening 

 of Strawberry crops. Here, too, we ought to have pigeon- 



holes. Fig. 3 represents a seed-protector — a protector from 

 birds and from changes of temperature ; and in ng. 4 we have 

 the tiles used as a winter protection, by having them covered 



with any loose 

 litter. 



We v7onld 

 strongly urge Mr. 

 Beudle to adopt 

 the pigeon-holed 

 principle. It is 

 better for the gene- 

 ral hardy ose of 

 the " protectors ;" 

 but it admits also 

 of their being em- 

 ployed for fore- 

 log. When so em- 

 ployed heat may be 

 apphed by a lining 

 of heating material 

 placed all ronnd 

 them. As yet this 

 _ is but the initiation 



"f^jy* of an idea which 



^5^g==- jg capable of great 



development, and 

 we see in it a fand 

 usefulness in store for horticulturists. The 



of interest and 



great resommendations of this plan of Mr. Eendle's are cheap 



aess, durability, 

 disuse of putty 

 and paint, and the 

 total dispensation 

 with the services 

 of what are called 

 "skilled work- 

 men " in their 

 erection. The 

 material of which 

 ^ they are made is 



^ also an important 



element in the 

 question, for the 

 -' ileat absorbed by 



bricks during the 

 day will be given 

 03 at night, and 

 in this respect 



bricks have the advantage over such strnctures made of wood 



and glass only. 



Fig. i. 



EAGLAN ROSE IN CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND— THE MAOEIES. 



LORD 



I C.S.NN0T refrain from sending word to such Hose-growers as 

 the Kev. Mr. Kadelyffo, Messrs. Panl, Messrs. Lane & Son, 

 and to many other Eose-growers in the United Kingdom, a 

 brief account of this Bose at the Antipodes. Its merits as 

 regards flowering — Why, it is never out of flower here ! Plant 

 it where you like, and kick it about in any uot.k of your garden, 

 flower i; will at any time of the year. I fetl quite delighted in 

 sending you word that I gather a great number of hand- 

 bouquets daily of this interesting Bourbon Hose, and every- 

 thing bids fair for me to have a good supply during all the 

 winter months out of doors. I often thick of Mr. Badcl} lie's 

 good advice alo it Boses. It is this — " You had beiter grow 

 fifty plants of a well-known good Eose than so many bad ones." 

 To this effect he advises your (-'our'') troublesome corre- 

 spondents to grow nothing but good Boses. He is right. 



General Jacqueminot is our next favourite here. I want a 

 little more experience about the General here before I can 

 write about him confidently. Try to convince the I!ev. Mr. 

 Kadclyffe, through me, that his experience related in " our " 

 Journal, meets with due honours here. Having read his list of 

 the best Boses to grow, over and over again, it caused me to 

 procure £10 worth of Boses from a firm in Melbourne, chiefly 

 varieties recommended by him, and which have mostly bEen 

 imported from the mother country. I will wiite you word 

 about them from time to time. I shall always feel giatti.il for 

 his advice in "our" Journal about Boses. 



If I digiess a little on this occasion, I hope yon will pardon 

 me, even for entering into colonial politics. I do not want the 



Bev. Mr. Bidcljlio to think the Maories here do not under- 

 stand the scent of a good Tea Bose. Qaite the contrary. They 

 do. The missionaries deceived them some few years ago, and 

 now the poor fellows see Europeans occupying and settled on 

 their original homesteads, obtained from them, as I shall pre- 

 sently state ; it causes them to feel almost heart-broken in the 

 northern island, and this explains why vengeance is sweet to 

 them. All the outbreaks which are annually happening be- 

 tween us Europeans and them, simply arise from this fact. 

 The missionaries gave them, in their ignorance of civilised law?, 

 trinkets and toys for theit homesteads and freeholds, if I may 

 be allowed the use of the term. Hence all the bad news yon 

 hear from time to time in your English newspapers. The 

 Maories, I can assure you, are a very fine race of intellectual 

 men, no fools, since they have acquired European manners 

 and customs. Quo thing I can vouch for, at any rale, they 

 know a good Rose. 



When the Duke of Edinburgh visited ns this month (May), 

 if you had seen their display of loyalty to Queen Victoria — 

 excuse me, " Wiltshiee Eectok," for using your adopted name 

 so freely in "our" Journal on this occasion, but something 

 prompts my mind that yourself and our Eose-growing champion 

 possess an abundant store of Christian fellow-feeling iowards 

 other races of men besides ourselves, and if your pulpits vrere 

 here instead of at home, I feel you would say. Don't shoot 

 these poor fellows yet, you Europeans ; yoa know there is sal- 

 vation in store for them as well as yourselves. 



I will give you the purport of a very simple argument which 



