October 28, 18GD. ] 



JOURNAL OF HOKTICULTUIVK AND COTTAGE GABDENER. 



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at the Crystal Prtlaee an'l Kensington Koee Shows, in both 

 cases exhibited by Mr. Cant, and I thick it will be a favourite 

 Eose for many years to come; it opens its Mooms wtll, and 

 seems to have sufficient substance of petal to stnud the siiu, 

 and the colour the most beautiful smooth satiny pink. Jlon- 

 sieur Noman is also a grand Ruse. I myself thought thove 

 were very few good new Uiiees shown either at the Cry&tal 

 Palac3 or Keufington, with the exception of Elie Morel, La 

 France, Duke of Eiiinburgh, which hus been good everjwliere, 

 Eeine du Midi, and Pitord ; but Clemence Ilaoux, Edward 

 Morren, Henry Ledechaux, Jiilii Trouvais, Julia Treyve. Ma- 

 dame Creyti.n, Tliyra Hammerick. which I believe are the best 

 of this year's Kjses, were not exhibited. I am afraid I shall 

 have to join in the verdict which places Paul Verdier among 

 the summer Rose? only; but it is so fine a Rose with me, that 

 I shall ni t give it up on that ncjount. Alfred Colomb is, in 

 my opiaior, a better Rose than Marie Baumann, as the latter is 

 too weak in the stem and hangs its head ; it is at present a 

 good race for the premiership between Charles Lefebvre and 

 Alfred Colomb, but though the latter may be the fiuer-sh.'^ped 

 Rose for exhibition purposes, yet the former is the more useful 

 for the garden. After all, when in perfection, no Rofe finals 

 Marfichal Niel, and though we are told that Gloirc de Dijon is 

 the proper stock for it, yet I have seen it on the wall of my 

 father-in-law's house in this parish, budded on the Matietti 

 stock, make a shoot this year more than 13 feet long, and it 

 had from twenty-five to thirty fine blooms the second year 

 after planting, wi'h some of the largest leaves I ever saw on a 

 Eose ; in fdot, I never Biwa plant in greater health and vigour. 

 Time and space wirn me that I must bring these remarks to 

 an end, and I will conclude by giving a list of those Roses, 

 according to their colours, which have proved most valuable 

 to me. 



Ti'kite. — Bironne de Maynard, Mdlle. Bonnaire, and Vir- 

 ginal, to which I add Souvenir de Malmaison, for thongli not 

 pure white, yet it is one of the most useful and beautiful 

 Eoses when properly managed, but it requires a shady place, 

 and must not be exposed to the full blaze of a middoy sun, for 

 this is the reason it often does not open well in the summer, 

 and gives better blooms in the autumn. Aeidalie is also 

 another of ihs same class. 



Fill!: — To the six I have already named I add Ceoile de 

 Chabrillant, still one of the best and finest-shaped Roses 

 gro^n, Alphonse Kirr, and La France. 



Rose-coloured — Madame Furtado, difEc lit to grow; Madame 

 Hector Jacqniu, though not full enough, still a beautiful Rose; 

 Madame Knorr, and Duchesse de Morny.one of the very finest 

 Eoses grown. 



Cerise. — Madame C. Crapelet, John Hopper, Victor Verdier, 

 Thorin, Madame Boutin. 



Hcarlft and Crimunn Sear!ets — Le Rhone, La Brillante, 

 Horace Vtraet, Alfred Colomb, Marie Baumann, Franr'nis La- 

 charme, Senateur Vaisap, Madame Victor Verdier, Fisher 

 Holmes, and Duke of Edinburgh. 



Crimson. — Charles Lefebvre, Lady Suffield, MJlle. Marie 

 Eady, Francjais Louvat, Bbick Prince. 



Dark Crimson. — Duke of Wellington, Lord Maeaulay, Pierre 

 Notting, Monsieur Boncenne, Xavier Olibo, Vicomte Vigier. 

 Nearly all dark Roses ought not to be exposed to the midday 

 Bnn. 



There are some very good Roses, such as Madame Clfimence 

 Joigneaux, Antoine Dncher, Madame Cuillat, and a few others, 

 whose colour it is difficult to classify. The Roses that have 

 disappointed me more than others this summer bavo b en 

 Charles Rouillard, Alpalde de Rotalier, Hippolyte Flandrin, 

 Exposition do Erie, and Due de Rohan, all of which are fiue- 

 ■weather Hoses. 



There is one class of Rosea especial favourites of mine, 

 which, in my opinion, are not sufficiently grown, because they 

 are not quite large enough for exhibition Roses, but which are 

 the most constant seoond bloomers, and are most of them 

 beautifully shaped ; I allude to the Hybrid Bourbons, as Louise 

 Odier, Louise Margottin, ModMe de Perfection, Emotion, Ca- 

 therine <-ini lot, Baronne de Noirmont, Baron Gonella, and 

 Michel Bonnet. These are more decidedly Perpetnals than 

 any, except the Noisette and Tea Eoses, neither of whiLdi I 

 have hitherto alluded to, as there are so very few that are of 

 peneral use, Gloire de Dijon and CCdine Forestier being glorious 

 exceptions. 



1 cannot conclude these remarks on the Eose without adding 

 that I strongly recommend all the lovers of the Rose to obtain 

 the Eev. S. R. Hole's new work on the Rose, which contains 



both a fund of information and amnsement, and wiiJ, I aza 

 sure, prove interesting to every rosarian. — C. P. Peach, Apph- 



tuH-lc-Street, ilalton. 



CLERODENDRON FALLAX FROM SEEI>. 



■\Vhe.n well grown there is much to admire in this planf. 

 Its noble spikes of scarlet flowers rising above its broad dark. 

 green foliage, and its easy culture, are ciualities which entitle it 

 to more extensive cultivation than at present. It is, however, 

 not often that the dimensions of the stove will allow of more 

 than a specimen or two being grown in order to complete a 

 good collection of stove plants, and such is the case at this 

 place ; I therefore determined to try to grow it in an inter- 

 mediate temperature for couservatoiy decoration. With this-. 

 object in view I raised a number of plants from seed, and grew 

 them for blooming in September and October. I believe I have 

 perfectly succeeded, because now and for a month past a length. 

 of about '20 yards in the front part of the conservatory ie 

 decorated with the gorgeous flowers of this Clerodendron, which 

 have a very pleasing tC'ect when mixed with other flowers, and 

 with foliage of a contrasting character, especially when viewed 

 from either end. I now consider myself well repaid for the 

 trouble I have taken, and shall raise some plants again another, 

 year ; but I should also like others to grow some for the same 

 purpose, therefore I will give a detailed account of the mode oi. 

 treatment which I pursued. 



The seeds were gathered from an old plant in the autumn^ 

 and in the first week of the succeeding March they were sown 

 in a pan, and placed in a heat of GO'. The soil used was 

 finely sifted sandy peat. When the seedlings came np (and 

 they were not long in doing so), they were almost immediately 

 large enough to occupy '2-inch pots, and in potting them, the 

 same kind of soil was used, with the addition of a few handfuls 

 of silver sand. They were kept in the same place until they 

 were large enough to be shifted into 4 iueh pots. When the 

 plants were again esta'olished they were removed to a more airy 

 place with plenty of light, and shaded from the midday sun, 

 but kept close to the glass. They had a temperature of 55°, with 

 air admitted both at the back and front of the house, air being 

 occasionally admitted all night, according to the weather. They 

 remained in this position up to the opening of the first flower, 

 but they were shitted into larger pots ss they required, until 

 they were in 8 and 10-inch pots, according to size ; these were 

 their blooming pots. At the last two pottingsatbiid of turfy loam, 

 was added to the compost, and one-fouith will decomposed eovt 

 manure finely sifted, also a few handfuls of charcoal broken fine.. 

 This mixture of soil will be found to improve the colour of the 

 foliage, and increase the size of the individual flowers. Water 

 the plants plentifully at the root when required, but avoid 

 syringing the foliage in the early part of the day, or even at any 

 time, as a good moist atmosphere will be sufficient for the plants 

 in thecomparatively low temperature in which they are growing. 



The principal insect enemies are red spider and green fly. 

 The attacks of the former will be best guarded against by 

 moisture in the atmosphere, and never allowing the roots and 

 foliage of the young plants to become dry. For green fly the 

 usual means of destruction by fumigation will answer; this 

 should be particularly attended to just before the first flower 

 opens, because if a few of these insects pass unobserved, by the 

 time the flowers expand there will be multitudes of them, and 

 fumigating then will bring off all the flowers which are open. 



It is agreeably surprising to notice how deceptive are the 

 heads of bloom, for what at the first appearance of the buds 

 seems to be a diminutive head of bloom becomes developed into 

 a spike of large proportions and great beauty. When raised 

 from seed, the plants do not exceed 2 feet iu height, and have 

 just enough of foliage to set ofi the flowers to the greatest ad- 

 vantage. — TnoM.is Record, Hawkhurst, 



GOLDEN CHAMPION GRAPE. 

 I HAVE heard many complaints of this Vine bting a bad 

 grower. Some canes planted last winter have made scarcely 

 any growth, and seem to all appearance scarcely worth keeping. 

 I do not think this is entirely owing to its bring a weak-growing 

 variety, as I have two Vines which were planted last winter, 

 and they have grown vigorously. May it not be in some in- 

 stances the consequence of propagating from unripe wood, to 

 which some may have had recourse iu order to meet the 

 excessive demand? Where the growth is very poor 1 wonld' 



