Jnno 17, 1876. 1 



JOURNAX OF HORTICULTURE AND COT PAGE GABDENEB. 



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liberal— its firate being £12, £6, £5, and £3, with others in good 

 proportion — we think it is most deserving of encouragement. 



FBAGRANT BOSES. 



I HAVE waited for some of the known authorities in Rose 

 culture to take up Mr. Camm'a subject — fragrant Roses ; and 

 as this is not yet forthcoming, and as I have long interested 

 myself by specially noting, year after year, all the best Roses 

 known as to their fragrance, I beg to offer for the benefit of 

 your readers a list of the most fragrant of those Roses other- 

 wise also most desirable and good ; and though smell, like 

 colour, is hardly a sense to be dogmatic about, yet I do offer 

 the list as quite trustworthy :— Abel Grand, Bessie Johnson, 

 La France, Comtesse C. de Chabrillant, Edouard Morren, 

 Centifolia Rosea, Franvois Miohelon, Jules Margottin, Louisa 

 Wood, Mad. C. Joigneaux, Alfred Colomb, Beauty of Waltham, 

 Dr. Andry, Duo de Rohan, General Jacqueminot, Mdlle. Marie 

 Eady, Marie Baumann, Senateur Vaisse, Camille Bernardin, 

 Duohesee de Caylus, Charles Lefebvre, Louis Van Houtte, 

 Mad. Victor Verdier, Claude Levet, Fisher Holmes, Duke of 

 Wellington, Duchesse de Medina Cceli, Prince Camille de 

 Rohan, Pierre Netting, Vicomte Vigier, Xavier Olibo, and Mons. 

 Bonoenne. All the above are Hybrid Perpetuals, and are, so 

 far as I know, the most delightfully fragrant ; at the same 

 time and in all other respects they are the most to be desired of 

 the Roses actually in cultivation. 



I would remark there are differences in the character of the 

 scents, though I think, broadly speaking, they may be reduced 

 to a family of two, La France and Abel Grand representing 

 one character or type, and Louis Van Houtte and Vicomte 

 Vigier the other, though I know not which type is the more 

 dehoious. 



As to Teas, Madame de St. Joseph, Devoniensis, Goubault, 

 Souvenir d'un Ami, Marfichal Niel, and Madame Margottin 

 are the most delicious ; but I must add many Teas have little 

 floent, and some few are even offensive at times. — AiiATEnR. 



DOUBLE PYBETHRUMS. 



Not greater is the difference between the common Daisy and 

 the most perfect German Aster than exists between the com- 

 mon Pyrethrum and the beautiful double flowers which have 

 been exhibited at South Kensington by Messrs. W. Kelway 

 and Sons. The improved varieties of the double Pyrethruma 

 are, when well cultivated, border flowers of great value and 

 usefulness, and will find their way into all gardens where hardy 

 flowers are cherished. The varietiea referred to were not flat 

 unsymmetrical blooms of dingy colours, but were handsomely- 

 shaped blooms, perfectly double, and in colour clear and 

 decided. 



We have here a class of plants which are deservedly rising 

 in pubUe estimation, for they are free in growth, hardy, effec- 

 tive in the garden, and attractive when used as cut blooms, for 

 which purpose they are particularly adapted, as they last and 

 travel well. These plants are of the most easy culture, and 

 will contribute a valuable feature to mixed beds and bordera, 

 where they are certainly worthy to have a place. To grow 

 them to perfection, however, they should be cultivated in beda 

 to themselves, where deep and good soil and a liberal supply 

 of water can be given (liquid manure occasionally), and such 

 blooms will be produced that wOl grace any exhibition of cut 

 flowers. 



When kept in pota they can be planted at any time, but 

 established plants are best increased by division in the spring 

 just when they show the signs of growth after their winter's 

 rest. They will flourish in any ordinary garden soil enriched 

 with manure, and will bloom from May through the early 

 summer months if duly supplied with water. As they grow 

 each stem should have a separate stake, or the heavy heads 

 injure each other by being battered with the wind. 



The following varieties are the best down to the present 

 time; they vary in colour from pure white to rich crimson, 

 with shades of yellow and lilac. The blooms are as perfect, 

 large, and full as are those of quilled Asters, and they are 

 made known simply because they are worthy of being grown 

 by all who ornament their gardens with hardy border flowers. 

 Paul Gsurnal, bright pink; Capt. Nares (Kelway), crimson ; 

 Duchess de Brabant, rose ; Mons. Barrel, purple crimson ; 

 Ceres, flesh ; Adonis (Kelway), bright rose; Nemesis, rose and 

 bronze; Imbricatum, crimson and white ; Mont Blanc, white; 

 Wilhelm Krumper, mauve; Galopin (Kelway), crimson 



scarlet; Cleopatra (Kelway), white tinged yellow; Eugenie 

 (Kolway), white; and Duchess of Edinburgh (Kelway), rose 

 and white. The above are varieties of undoubted merit, and 

 if justice ia done them in cultivation they cannot fail to give 

 satisfaction to thoae who posseaa them. — J., Battersea. 



EAVAGES OF THE GOOSEBEERY BOEEB. 



The Gooseberry is very extensively grown in the village of 

 Grindleton, four miles from Clitheroe, and the gardens are 

 this year visited by a pest which threatena to annihilate the 

 crop. It ia in the shspeof a greenish white grub or caterpillar, 

 which perforates the fruit, and this then falls off. So exten- 

 sive are ita ravages, that one man estimates that there are now 

 six hundred quarts of Gooseberries lying under his trees, and 

 my informant says that he has forty dozen quarts (the Goose- 

 berry is here sold by the dozen quarts) under his own trees. 

 As 1 have not seen the pest I do not know whether it has legs 

 like a caterpillar or is like a maggot, but I fancy it must be a 

 caterpillar, as my informant says that when it has finished 

 one berry it goes to another. 



This pest is quite new to me, as, although I have grown thia 

 fruit for rifty yeara, I never saw anything of the sort either in 

 my own garden or in the gardens of any of my friends ; but 

 it seems to have been known for some years at Grindleton, 

 though never to the same extent as thia year. I am sending a 

 man for some of the berries with the pest in them, and mean to 

 send you some specimens, for I fancy they cannot be generally 

 known, or I should have seen some notice of them in your 

 columns. The only pests to the Gooseberry here are the 

 caterpillar of the sawfly and the green aphis ; but this pest at 

 Grindleton is represented to me as far worse than either or 

 both together. I recommended my informant to scrape up 

 all the Gooseberries from the ground, and either burn or scald 

 them immediately. — J. G. 



[The Grindleton pest is the caterpillar in its young state of 

 a small pretty moth, called by entomologists Geometra vanaria. 

 The caterpillar is commonly known as " the Gooseberry Borer." 

 The berries with the caterpillars in them should be gathered 

 together and destroyed, for they will speedily give biith to 

 moths. The moths will appear at the end of this and in the 

 next month, and children and others should be employed to 

 catch them. The moth is thus described by ProfesEor West- 

 wood, with a coloured portrait, in his " BritiBh Moths and 

 their Transformations:" — "This common insect measures 

 about IJ inch in expanse. The wings are ashy white or pale 

 ashy brown, with four generally equidistant chocolate-coloured 

 patches on the costa (front edge), the third of which patches 

 is slender and oblique, and the fourth larger and rather square. 

 Adjoining the second is a dark mark like the letter < thus 

 placed ; beyond this is a row of minute dark dots placed on 

 the veins ; the hind wings are nearly immaculate, but with a 

 small dusky spot in the middle. The caterpillar is brownish 

 or greenish (those sent to us were green) spotted with black 

 and slightly hairy, with a pale dorsal line and yellowish lateral 

 lines."] 



OUE BOEDEE FLOWEES— DVULAEIAS. 



A SMALL group of spring and early summer-flowering hardy 

 herbaceous plants, chiefly from North America, introduced 

 more than a hundred years ago, but are very rarely met with. 

 They are well adapted for either rockwork or border culture, 

 where they have an elegant appearance when thf>y have at- 

 tained their growth. Under favourable circumstances the 

 taller kinds will grow nearly 2 feet in height. They require 

 liberal treatment and thorough drainage. The ground should 

 be broken up to the depth of 2 feet at least for their reception, 

 and should have some good sandy loam, a little peat, with a 

 portion of well-decomposed manure worked in for them to grow 

 in ; when well established they last many years. The plants 

 are liable to be attacked by slugs, and should be carefully 

 watched while the shoots are in a young state. 



Increase is effected by root-division, which ia best done 

 when the plants have matured their growth. They enjoy the 

 full sunshine, and should not be crowded or shaded by other 

 plants, otherwise they will not be seen to the greatest ad- 

 vantage. The dwarfer kinds are fine objects on the rockery, 

 and in the border Uvularia perfoliata when well established 

 baa a very elegant appearance ; the same may be said of 

 U. amplexicaulis. 1 look on this as the best of the group, and 

 not despisable for exhibition purposes. U. flava ia of very 



