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JODBNAL OF HOBTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



( October £8, 1869. 



ne33 of position ; set nnd beni] the stpnis in a lifelike manner. 

 Fur tUia tho wire stems are n great advantage. Tbey also con- 

 ttibttte to the durability of the leaves, nhicb, it preserved nitb 

 -no sapport save their own stems, are soou broken unless ex- 

 treme care is taken. 



"The beauty of Oak leaves is mnoli enhanced if clnslers of 

 acorns in their cups are introdnoed among them. The cups 

 must be punotured with an awl, to admit the end of the wire 

 that is to serve as a ?tem, and the acorns then glaed to the 

 .inside of the cups. AVhen these are dry, wind the wire with the 

 brown worsted as in uniting the leaves. Uirch burrs mast bo 

 glned directly to the wire, which it will bo convenient to wind 

 with the worsted, and form into a branch before the glueing 

 xakes place. They are a pretty addition to branches of the 

 golden Birch leaves. The red berries of the Black Alder, and 

 tbo scarlet and orauce seed vessels of the Celastrns scandcns 

 (Climbing Bitter-sweet), gathered before the frost has touched 

 them, will keep fresh and bright on thoir own stems a long 

 time, and add much to the beauty of any collection of leaves. 



" These boughs and garland."!, arranged tastefully in vases, 

 •jjrcoping around pictures or statuary, or hanging upon the 

 walls of a room, seem to lend it tho sun.'iLine of a perpetual 

 Indian summer. The most desirable leaves for this purpose 

 uro those of the Oak, Maple, Elm, Sumach, Birch, and wild 

 ■Cherry ; thiugh contributions from woody shrnba and garden 

 baflies never come amiss, if of substantial texture and smooth 

 ■anrface ; and green leaves of Fern — fronds of the common 

 Brake — with their long plumes of verdure, make an agreeable 

 contrast to more brilliant colours and more fanciful shapes. 

 -Fern leaves should be ironed in the same manner as other 

 foliage; but they need no oiling, and if not hung where the 

 air is intensely hot and dry, will remain handsome several 

 months. 



"It is a mistaken notion that autumn leaves neod varnicli- 

 ing. Varnish makes them brittle, and more liable to crack ; 

 while t)i6 excessive lustre that it imparts is unnatural. Oiling 

 •gives suffi jient polish, deepens, clears, and preserves the colour.', 

 and keeps the tissues somewhat elastic. When the leaves get 

 dusty, wipe them with a damp cloth. If they curl, damp thfm, 

 •aud place the branch for a few hours between papers under a 

 pile of heavy books. 



■" The cliiuged leaves of autumn may also be used for other 

 ornamental purposes. Small wreaths to surround unframed 

 .jjictures can be made, fastening the wired stems by sewing, or 

 •by winding with worsted, to a narrow circle of pasteboard, or a 

 ring of wire-taste; the Samach, Elm, or Cherry leaves are 

 best for these. And carving may be successfully imitated with 

 Oak leaves and acorni'. Tor this, glue the under surface of the 

 leaves to a picture- frame of pasteboard, or of wood stained a 

 (iark colour; cut the acorns, and Ihtii' cups also, in halves, 

 and intersperse them among the leaves, glueing Ihem in a Hat 

 'position, and then varnieh the whole. The same work makes 

 H pr«tty front for a bracket. And little sprigs and branches of 

 Staple, Elm, or Cherry, with their natural stems, moy be ironed, 

 raai then fastened with gun tragHcanth to the pretty white- 

 wooded boxes, letter-cases, and other articles that are prepared 

 iar painting and decalcorainie ; being afterwards ligUtly var- 

 nished, or not at all, according to fancy. Sprays of Maple or 

 Elm, or Oak leaves and acorns, may, in the same way, orna- 

 ment pasteboard or wooden slips for letter and card racks ; the 

 lining, which should be of the same shade as the leaves, being 

 iirflt glued to the frame. — .\snie G. IIale."' 



HOSES-MANETTI STOCKS— STANDARDS-NEW 

 VARIETIES. 



AiTnouon many of your readers will, perhaps, be getting 

 -%ired of hearing so many ditterent experiences in the matter 

 of Boses, yet, as I believe there aro more persons interested 

 «hont R ises and Pelargoniums than about any other flowers, 

 I will risk the chance of being tedious, and add mv own ohser- 

 -rationa to those which have already been called forth in your 

 .Journal by my friend ■' D.," late of Deal. 



I will begin by saying a few words about the Manetti stock, 

 »8 I have now had an experience of seventeen yenrs with it, 

 •and have, therefore, some knowledge of i!s value. In the first 

 ftlaoe 1 am far from agreeing with Ihoso who say the Eiiar is 

 ■doomed ; because upon all strong lands the Briar is a far better 

 (Stock than the Hanetii, but the especial value of the Jlanetti 

 is that it will suit soil where the Biiar will not thrive. Light 

 loicn, sandy soils, and soils with too much peat — all can be 



made with proper care and attention to grow good Rosea on 

 ■ ho Manetti stock, while on the Briar these would only have a 

 struggle for existence. Another great advantage is, that aa 

 the union of the stock and scion in the Manetti ought to be 

 planted at least from 'J to '.i inches below tho surface of the 

 ground, it afTords a great protection against frost. In the 

 winter of I8i'.0 I had only two standards left alive out of siity, 

 whereas, though all the planta I had on the Manetti, except 

 very few, were cut to the ground, they all sprung up again and 

 bloomed fairly the very next season. 



Another advantage is, that in nine caeeg out of (en Rosea on 

 (he Manetti stock puUi out roots of their own above the nnioD, 

 more especially the stronger kinds, such as Madame C!£mence 

 Joigneaiix, Charles Leftbvre, John Hopper, Gloire de Dijon, 

 S:c. 1 have removed in the autumn planta only planted the 

 previous spring, and the roots from tho Rose were nearly as 

 strong as those of tho Manetti slock. I have my piejudices, 

 too, against standards. I mean tall standards ; dwarfs may 

 be admissible, but I think a tall standard is quite the ugliest 

 form in which a Rose can be grown, is liable to every breath of 

 wind, and cannot be protected agaiust King Frost. No donbt 

 there are a certain number of positions, as the centre of a 

 large Hose bed, where tall standirds may be made use of, but 

 I have never yet been able to almire long lines of tall single 

 standards by the sides of walks, tied to stakes far larger than 

 the stem of the Briar itself, and only looking well during the 

 short period of their blooming. 



Still, in strong soils, especially clay, with stifl subsoils, the 

 Iklanctti stock is of no use, and thero the Briar will thrive, and 

 what is more to the point, produce Cm rcoknred Rosea than 

 any light soil will, however well the Hoses on the Manetti 

 stock are manured. But I look upon it that the Manetti baa 

 done more to popularise the Rose than iha Briar, because it 

 enables amateurs by means of tho two stocks, whatever may 

 be the character of their soil, to grow Roses with advantage, 

 audit has enabled nurserjmen to increase the stock of new 

 Roses much more rapidly by grafting in heat in tho spring; 

 and a much greater number of good buds may be obtained in 

 the same space of time from the Manetti than tho Dog Rose. 



I have heard some objections made to the Ma'jetii on the 

 score of fuckers ; but this is always due to bad management. 

 In tho first place, it never sends out root suckers like the Dog 

 Rose ; secondly, if tlie stock is planted deep enough, the eyea 

 below the bud do not push ; and thirdly, all eyes ought to be 

 taken out of the stock before planting. As a proof how little 

 troublesome the shoota of tho Manetti are, out of anew quarter 

 of '27iO Roses, planted in the spring of this year, I only had 

 two Manetti shoots; whereas from a'x dwarf standards in one 

 of the beds, planted in the ruiJdIe of some Roses on the Ma- 

 netti stock, I had to remove tivo or three suckera from each 

 stock in the course of the summer. 



Some persons, too, have thought that because the Dog Rose 

 is a native (f Great Biitain, and to be seen wild in nearly 

 every hedge, that it must be hardier than the Manetti ; but in 

 the winter of 1800 I had the Dog Rose slocks themselves 

 killed, whereas some large old plants of ilanetti that were 

 allowed to grow wild, in order to take cuttings from them, were 

 hardly ii.jured at all; and in the hedgerows about here all the 

 old wood of the Briars was killed, and only the younger and 

 stronger plants survived. 



Having said so much about the Manetti, I will curtail my 

 remarks on the Roses, but with to ask, before leaving the snb- 

 ject of stocks, why more trial has not been given to the Celine 

 stock, which is a very free and suiface-rooting kind, a strong 

 grower, and suits the dwarfer kinds of Bourbons better than 

 tho Manetiiv I should like such kinds as Madame Vidot, 

 Madame Furlalo, end Louis XIV. to have a (.ood trial on this 

 stock, as I think it would much increase their strength and 

 vigour. 



Now. as regards well-known and well-established kinds, aa 

 .T"hn Hopper, Cbsrles Lsfebvre, Senateur Vaisse, Ac, I can 

 only ssy ditto to Mr. Burke wi'.h regard to what has bten said 

 about them. Madame V;dot and Ccmtesse de Chabrillant 

 have done exceptionally well with me this year. Madame Fur- 

 lado si ill fails to grow, and though I think it one of the most 

 benutilul Roses grown, I am every year more out of heart with it. 



Wo have had a great accesfi^n rf strength in pink Boscs 

 lately — Marguerite de St. Amand, Princesso Mario de Cam- 

 biiige, Abel Grand, Monsieur Non)au,Elie Morel, and Baronno 

 de EothschilJ. The two most perfect blooms of Roses that I 

 think I have seen this year, weie both Baroune de Rothschild, 

 which I saw when helping to judge tho nurserymen's cla:sea 



