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JOUBNAl OF HOBTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAKDENER. 



[ Ootob«r 14, 1809. 



2 or 3 inclies below Ibe surface in planting them oat, exposing 

 tiie tender part — the collar — to a level with the surface, they are 

 at oaee attacked and nipped off by the enemy. 



If joar readers avoid inserting the plants so deeply as is 

 osaally done the grnbs will seldom interfere with them ; and if 

 « siigfat (urrow be made, say the depth that the plants stand 

 extra oat of the ground, they will be little the worse for the 

 ^lUov planting. — J. W. 



[We hope some will try this simple plan, which seams rea- 

 aaoable. — Ess.] 



MEMORIAL TO MR. JAMES VEITCH. 



Mil. JuiES Veitcd has passed from amongst us ; not so the 

 frcita o( his labours, they remain to give pleasure to nil who 

 have any taste for what is beautiful in nature. If it is true 

 tUat the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one 

 grew before is a benefactor to his race, what shall wo say of 

 onr deeeased friend? Shall wo not be grateful? and should 

 ■we not take some means to show it ? — a monument over his 

 gr«70, or a fund from which in all time coming an annual 

 award could be given to anyone who made the most important 

 'OdUition to the vegetable productions of our land, either by 

 /sew introductions, or hybridisation. Think and talk over this. 

 Tkere are plenty ready to aid any effort you " head centres " 

 may set on foot. I have had letters about this subject, and I 

 %eli«vo (here is a wide feeling about it. — W. Thomson, Tlif 

 Oardens, Dalkeith Park. 



[Heartily will we aid in promoting the acquirement of a 

 fond to be invested in the names of trustees, and the interest 

 .to ha awarded yearly in the form of a medal to the importer 

 or raiser t)f new plants who may be considered most deserving 

 of the honour. It should be named The Veitch Mepal; and 

 awarded as it would be to residents in various countries, it 

 ■would be, like the plants Mr. Veitch has introduced, an annual, 

 Ikonaarable, and enduring memorial of him in many lands. — 



GLOIRE DE DIJON AND MARECHAL NIEL 

 ROSES. 



Ix thiakiQg and writing about these two fine varieties one is 

 tempted to paraphrase a well-knowu passage, "Sure such a 

 pair was never seen." For some weeks past I have had almost 

 daily under my eye a square containing about a thousand 

 ;}lanta of the first-named sort, full of flowers, and filling the 

 air with their delicious perfimie. They are budded close to the 

 yround on Manetti stocks growing in a stiff clayey loam. Their 

 •vigorous growth is remarkable, as most of them are from i to 

 5 feet in height, each stout stem as thick as one's finger, form- 

 ing a eort of pyramid of flowers issuing from the young side 

 brandies. It is curious to observe the contrast of this sort 

 witdi other kinds of Tea Roses budded on the same kind of 

 stack and in the same square, for they have to a certain extent 

 not done well, many buds having failed ; and those that have 

 sacj!ecded, even the vigorous Climbing Devoniensis, have made 

 hut a feeble growth comparatively. \Vhy the Gloire de Dijon 

 £osa should succeed so well on the Manetti stock is one of 

 ifiose email yet interesting mysteries so often found in practical 

 horticulture, and which the saians seem not to be able to 

 account fur. Some hundredg of the Roses I have just described 

 ■were budded in August with the Tea Rose Marechal Kiel. 

 This kind of " double working," to use the gardener's phrase, 

 *ditit double-budding, on the Gloire de Dijon Rose, was, I think, 

 made public to the Rose world by my son a few years since, 

 and has brought about, and will bring about, a complete reve- 

 lation in the culture of Tea Roses, more particularly in that of 

 the most glorious of all of them, Marechal Niel. It is quite 

 feaa tliat this sort will grow and bloom well when budded on 

 the Dog Rose (Rosa canina), but it is not so lasting, and never 

 is it so compleiely at home as when budded on the Gloire de 

 Dijon. It even seems more than happy, and rejoices its culti- 

 vator by giving grand leaves, grand shoots, and more than 

 (grand flowers in atundance from end to end of the Tea Rosa 

 taeosoD, which may be reckoned from the end of February till 

 Haa end of October — earlier and later at the will of the clever 

 coltivitor. 



It is really a carions and most interesting physiological 

 question, why the Gloire do Dijon Rose should succeed so per- 

 fectly when budded on the Manetti Rose, while other kinds of 

 Tea Boeea with habits nearly as robust should fail or make but 



feeble growth. There are many anomalies in practical horti- 

 culture which the closet physiologist in vain attempts to solve, 

 and which never will be solved till we get a Darwin and confine 

 him in a large nursery garden for some two or three score years. 



Ajnopus of the change which soil often makes in vegetable 

 growth. Some years ago, a friend living in the red-soil district 

 of Devonshire planted some Pear trees grafted on the Louise 

 Bonne Pear grafted on the Quince on my special recommenda- 

 tion that no kind of Pear could do better ou that stock, and 

 that grafted on the Pear stock it bore fruit of inferior quality. 

 K few years after this period he wrote me that bis Louise 

 Bonne Pear trees on the Quince stock had cankered, and were 

 in a diseased and dying state, while those which he happened 

 to have on Pear stocks were doing well and bearing fine fruit. 

 This fact has come to my mind on observing in your pages one 

 or two correspondents complaining that Rjses on the Manetti 

 stock do not do well with them. Now, although Boses on that 

 stock flourish hero in all descriptions of soils, whether stiS 

 clay, loam, or sand, it is quite possible they may fail in some 

 few — very few— places ; it may be in the cool moist climates 

 of the north, or where there is an absence of chalk or lime in 

 the soil ; one cannot tell. .\t any rate, dwarf Roses are now 

 so cheap that a trial can be made without much outlay. It is 

 to me half amusiug to road about such things after the stock 

 has been fully tried for nearly forty years. I had at one time 

 tierce battles with the Messrs. Paul and a host of others, but 

 they have for many years rested on their oars, and have settled 

 down to earnest cultivators of the Manetti stock. Your corre- 

 spondents need not think that Rose-growers have taken to the 

 Manetti stock as a measure of economy. Dwarf stocks of the 

 Dog Rose are bought at 'JOs. per 1000, while those of the Ma- 

 netti cost more than double that sum if they are good and well 

 selected. 



I ought here to mention a fact not generally known, that 

 Moss Roses of all kinds, even the White Moss, make as healthy 

 and more vigorous plants when budded on the Manetti as on 

 their own roots; they should, &i usual, be planted so as to 

 cover the junction of the bud with the stock. It is the same 

 with the varieties of Rosa gallica, now things that have passed 

 away. 



I feel that I ought to point out a great advantage which the 

 use of the Manetti Rose stock gives. lu old exhausted gardens, 

 in which Roses on the Dog Rose barely exist, and in which 

 manure seems to have lost its stimulating etlect, the Manetti 

 Rose will flourish, and even make a most vigorous growth if 

 the soil is stirred to 2 feet in depth. I say this with confidence, 

 because I have found it do so here in soils in which Roses on 

 the Dog-Rose stock have been grown for forty years in rotation, 

 till at last they have ceased to show any vigour, and merely 

 exist. In such soils, treated as above, Roses on the Manetti 

 stock give great pleasure to the amateur by their luxuriant growth, 

 seeming to make an old Rose garden young. — T. Ritebs. 



GOLDEN CHAMPION GRAPE-INFLUENCE 

 OF STOCK. 



I NOTICE in the Journal of September 23rd, Mr. Bceord'a 

 comments on, and experience of. Golden Champion Grape. 

 My own experience has been somewhat diHerent. My first 

 acquaintance with this Vine was in the form of yonng plants at 

 the nursery of the Messrs. Osborn, of Fulbam, in May, 13("iS. 

 They had one house full of young plants in various stages of 

 growth, aud as fine a lot they were as any one could desire to 

 see. I set it down directly as a strong grower on its own roots, 

 and ordered a plant, which I received about the 1st of .\ugnst; 

 it was shifted into a larger-sized pot, and inarched on a young 

 plant of Elack Hamburgh. It did not grow much that season, 

 but this year it has run up a I'.t-feet rafter, and would have 

 gone further if it had not been stopped. The young plant on 

 its own roots made two very strong shoots in the spring, when 

 one of them was inarched on a Hamburgh, and the other on a 

 Trentham Black. It does not seem to take well on the Trentham, 

 but we must wait another year until a correct opinion can be 

 formed of it. 



A correspondent in a contemporary has strong donbis of the 

 stcok having any influence on the scion in grafting the Potato ; 

 it has in the case of the Grape Vine. Mrs. Pince's Block 

 Muscat grafted on Lady Downe's, is quite changed in appear- 

 ance, and also in flavour ; it does not look at all like the same 

 variety on its own roots, and bs far os one would judge from 

 appearance at the present time, Golden Champion onTronthim 



