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JOUBNAL OF HOBTIOULTDRB AND COTTAGE GABDKNEB. 



[ September 9, IS68. 



healtby grower. Jean Lambert is jast the contrary, a beautiful 

 blossom on a wretched grower. I have bad it two years, and 

 it never Krone an inch. 



Abel Grand is of a most beautiful coloar, fine eize, healthy 

 habit, but no sign of autumnal bloom. Marie Baumanu, very 

 lilie Tborin, bns dropped the leaves, and looks rather like a 

 sick turkey. Princess Mary of Cambridge is a very abundant 

 bloomer both in July aud now, but tbe individuiil blossoms 

 have not, I tbink, much to recommend them. Professor Koch 

 did very badly with mo last year against a wall, and I removed 

 it to an open border, and cut it down very closely. I have 

 been much pleasid with it. It has been full and highly co- 

 loured, and is about to give a fine second bloom. Camille Ber- 

 nardin has been most curiously different from what it was last 

 year, when it bloomed miserably in summer and superbly in 

 autumn ; this year superbly in summer ; but now it does not 

 seem inclined to stir at all, though remarkably well fed. Mar- 

 guerite de St. Amand is good in every way, I should say about 

 the best Eose of its colour'. 



I cannot induce Ci-cile de Chabrillant, Madamn Rivers, or 

 Madame Vidot to succeed even moderately well. By Mr. Ead- 

 clyffo's advice I moved thtm to a wall last autumn, but they 

 are coy beauties, and I woo them in voin. Why ia not Mdlle. 

 Eonnaire more spoken of ? It is exquisitely beautiful, and ia 

 places not subject to mildew, its enemy here, would, I tbink, 

 be about the best blush white Kose we have. JIarcchal Nicl 

 was covered with buds in spring. These were all nipped, with 

 the exception of six, which opened well. It is now again 

 covered with buds, and has one tine blossom expanded. At 

 this time of year it seems to overcome the ecragginess which 

 distinguishes it in the earlier part of the season. From Climb- 

 ing Devoniensis I cannot obtain a flower. It is on a south 

 wall, and made shoots last year 10 feet long, which I expected 

 to give blooming spurs this year; but no, nothiug but mere 

 sappy shoots and barren spurs. Tiiomphe de Eennes soils 

 something like Monsieur Noman. Madame Filliou I think may 

 go ; small, ill-formed, and hard to open. Madame Margottin 

 against a wall, and well treated, thrives badly ; the blossoms fall 

 oft before opening, and the whole plant looks scraggy. Charles 

 Bouillard has blossomed very abundantly and opened very 

 freely, but I do not care for it ; the lilac pink colour is poor, 

 and the plant is terribly given to mildew. 



But one forgets how fast tie sheets multiply when on the 

 subject of Hoses. There are many Rose-growers in Ireland 

 who could give us valuable information — for example, Mr. 

 Nicholson and Mr. Coddington, of Oldbridge, whose Boses are 

 simply superb ; but they hail from a very different soil and 

 climate from mine. As far as my experience goes there has 

 been a want this season both in size and colour.— Q. Q. 



I HAVE been a grower for nine years, and have about three 

 hundred varieties and six hundred plants, partly on the Briar, 

 but chiefly on the Manetti. This is the sixth consecutive 

 season in which I have had to contend with a long drought ; 

 this season has been the most severe trial of all, as we have 

 had no rain to enter the ground since the end of the first week 

 in May. The cold of that month and till the middle of June, 

 showed its effects in black spot, stripping some varieties of 

 their leaves. Gfiant des Batailles and its progeny I found 

 most affected. After some very hot dry weather in the first 

 week in July orange rust and mildew came on, and have con- 

 tinued their ravages more or less ever since. In spite of all, 

 with mulching and thorough watering, I have had a fine show 

 of bloom, though smaller than last year. My soil is the Devon 

 red, where not manured and worked frequently, cracking very 

 much. This season, after waiting three years, I have had some 

 splendid blooms of Hippolyte Flandrin on its own roots, mea- 

 suring 5 inches in diameter, beautifully imbricated, of a lovely 

 rose colour, and superior in shape to Marguerite Dombrain, 

 which has also bloomed well with me this season. Neither of 

 them stood drought well. Charles Verdier and Antoine Ducher 

 have both been good. NapolCon III. has proved a grand, bril- 

 liant flower, and continuous-blooming. The earlier b!o.ms of 

 Exposition de Brie were very fine in form and colour, the 

 under side of the petals a fine bronzed purple. Sophie Coque- 

 relle, a large light Eose, opens well, two or three blooms ex- 

 panding freely at one time on a truss, and it has resisted mil- 

 dew, &o., though close to Annie Wood most severely attacked. 

 Acidalie has been very beautiful, throwing up shoots from 

 4 to .5 feet high, crowned with a boss of seven or eight perfectly- 

 cupped, pure white flowers, slightly splashed with pink. Xavier 

 Olibo lias been very fine and strong in growth on the Manetti 



stock, and with me i.^ decidedly the beet dark Eose. Charles 

 Wood is very strong, blooming finely at the terminals of new 

 shoots from the root. It is kept constantly watered, is on the 

 Manetti, and in very light stony soil. My blooms of Mai£cbal 

 Kiel against an east wall, where it bloomed well last year, were 

 nearly all destroyed by the late frosts in June. It, as well M 

 one on the Manetti, are now, particularly the latter, covered 

 with buds, some nearly expanded. The latter was budded in 

 18C7, and made a shoot feet long last year, and ia trained as 

 a pillar Eose. 



Buds of all Eosea have succeeded well this year, I have only 

 lost two out of 2o0. Narcisse expanded a fine bloom with 

 eight buds just forty-two days after budding ; several others 

 are in bud. Devienne Lamy has opened this day (September 

 1st) from a bud of June lOth ; a fine-formed rich crimson, 

 somewhat like Senateur Yaisse, and it will be a very free 

 bloomer. — Ide. 



THE EARLY ROSE POTATO. 

 Havisg seen the account of the Early Eose Potatoes given 

 by " A Sdbscbibek," I also wish to say that I purchased 1 lb. 

 of the above. " Sudscbibee " states he cut his into sixty-five 

 pieces, and the produce was 41 lbs. ; I cut mine into thirty-two 

 sets, having one eye to each, all of which grew. I planted them, 

 March 25th, about 4 inches deep, in a light soil, and when the 

 tops were (i or 8 inches high I moulded them. I dug up the 

 crop on August 24th, and weighed them, having 48 lbs. pro- 

 duce from the 1 lb. Fifteen of the tubers average i lb. each. 

 It is a smooth, well-formed Potato, and not deep-eyed. When 

 cooked, it ia as good as I could wish. — A Wobcestebshibk 



SciJSCRIBEE. 



I COT 2 lbs. into sixty-four sets, and planted them in ground 

 of very moderate quality in the last week of April. Three sets 

 did not grow, and five came up yellow and died off, so that I 

 only had fifty-six good plants. All went on well until May 

 29th, when frost cut some to the ground, and some were only 

 blackened. However, notwithstanding these mishaps, I took 

 up 40 lbs. in the last week of July. There were about a dozen 

 plants which the frost did not injure, and one-third of the 

 produce was from these. Had the season been more favour- 

 able and the ground been in better heart, the produce would 

 have much larger. I believe that it is a fine Potato. — E. Nash, 

 Scedbma7i, dc, Threcltouseholds. 



I THINK "A SuBSCRiEEE " has been very unfortunate with the 

 Early American Eose Potato. I purchased 1 lb., consisting of 

 two Potatoes ; I cut these into forty-two sets, which I planted 

 on the 25th of March at 2 feet apart each way ; thirty-nine 

 sets came up. I lifted the Potatoes on the 28th of August, 

 and there were lOS lbs. 12 ozs. of Potatoes. — Abthdb Wilein, 

 Bootle. 



PLANTS LOSING THEIR VARIEGATION. 



This season some of my plants of Polemonium oairuleum 

 variegatum have reverted to the green state, not having a 

 vestige of variegation. They were all propagated from the 

 same stock. As the plant is so beautiful when in good con- 

 dition, and so useful for bedding, it will be a matter of regret 

 if this continue. Perhaps the season is the cause. Early in 

 summer my plants of Dactylis glomerata variegata and Poa 

 trivialis variegata were likewise quite green, and I was half 

 inclined to discard tbem. but I cut them in closely, and as the 

 new growth showed signs of variegation. I left them, and now 

 they are all that can be desired. They have withstood the late 

 hot dry weather well (we had on the morning of August 31st 

 a white frost). Of the Ancnbaleaved Daisy many of the plants 

 have lost all traces of their golden variegation, and some o{ 

 them have died ; they do best in a moist shady situation. 

 Bambusa Fortunei does not answer well with us as a bedding 

 plant, and is very undecided in its colour, sometimes being all 

 white, sometimes green. Sedum aizoideum variegatum has in 

 a great measure turned green, but if it would retain the varie- 

 gated character it would be very desirable as a dwarf edging 

 plant. Many plants of Arabia albida variegata hive also be- 

 come quite green, marring the effect intended to be produced. 

 Hydrangea japonica variegata has likewise lost much of its 

 variegation, and Philadelphus coronarius variegatns has in some 

 instances become nearly green. 



Other variegated plants have also shown a disposition to 



