Odlober 29, 1874. ] 



JOURNAL OF nORTICULTUBfi AND CiOTtACjE CiABbfeNER. 



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In July I planted innners of President, Sir J. Paxton, Vicom- 

 tesso Hfricart de Thnry, and I)r. Hogg. President has already 

 taken the lead ; its crowns are finer, and the crop will bo 

 larger thiui the rest. They are planted in triangles of a 6-inch 

 base, with a clear distance of 2 feet from chimp to clump. 

 Next Juno they will have all the appearance of two-year-old 

 stools, bearing a heavy crop of fine fruit. The year following 

 the produce will be more numerous but smaller, and as soon as 

 it is gathered the plants will be cleared off. By planting annu- 

 ally and removing biennially I can get more and better fruit 

 than by any other way, using President as the staple crop. 

 With heavy ground I should certainly not rely on President, 

 neither could I get such good crops with any kind by one 

 year's runners. — J. WiiiGHT. 



GIVE AWAY YOUE SPAKE PLANTS. 



At this season many plants in gardens, both large and small, 

 are dug-np and thrown out. In the garden here (Ramornie) 

 some thousands of bedding Geraniums, etc., are annually 

 thrown out ; those for next season being propagated by cut- 

 lings. This year intimation was sent to a number of schools in 

 the neighbourhood that, in order to encourage a love of flowers 

 among the young, any scholar coming to the garden between 

 5 and 6 r.Ji. would receive a present of two Geranium plants. 

 Some hundreds of children have come, and have been made 

 happy by getting two plants for their own, to watch and care 

 for. I write these few lines in order to suggest to others a 

 pleasant way of disposing of their surplus stock. — A Lovee of 

 Children. 



PROLONGING THE BEAUTY OF CUT FLOWEBS. 



FtiLL of this subject, we happened to mention it to an " old 

 lady," who " had sailed her east and sailed her west," and 

 immediately on hearing it she used the usual interjection, 

 " La — that is simple enough ! When I was on the Continent 

 many years ago I noticed a French housewife filling a vessel 

 with boiling water and immediately plunge some faded cut 

 flowers therein. Curious to get the reason, I made inquiries 

 of the woman why she used hot water. Her reply was, ' Why, 

 they last much longer, madame.' " We thanked the " old 

 lady" for her information, and at once proceeded to make the 

 experiment. We therefore cut the following flowers : — Salvia 

 patens. Mignonette, Stocks, Asters, Petunias, Roses, Tagetes 

 pumila. Calceolarias, Pentstemons, and Phloxes of sorts, and 

 placed them on a garden seat fully exposed to the sun during 

 one of the hottest days of the past July. The following day 

 they were taken, looking withered and almost dead, and plunged 

 (the stems) into a quantity of boiling water. In a few minutes 

 the effect was wonderful; the stems stiffened, the flowers 

 opened, and the leaves became healthy-looking and wax-like 

 in appearance. They lasted much longer than we expected ; for 

 after ten days had fled they were as fresh-looking as ever. — S. 



VINE GRAFTING. 



Last year I gave an account in this Journal of the effects of 

 grafting a Madrestield Court Vine on a Black Hamburgh. Both 

 Vines are in the same position as last year — i.e., the Madres- 

 field Court is in a large tub, and the Black Hamburgh in a pot. 

 The Madresfield Court is grafted on to the Black Hamburgh, 

 the ends of both Vines being allowed to grow beyond the graft. 

 The berries of the Madrestield Court are, again, round, or 

 rather spherical, and with but very little Muscat flavour. This 

 autumn Mr. Thornton, of the Heatherside Nurseries, has seen 

 these Vines twice, and has made the following suggestion as 

 to the cause — that, as the Madresfield Court is a sport, and 

 the Black Hamburgh probably a true type, the sap of the Ma- 

 dresfield Court as it passes through the Black Hamburgh 

 undergoes a change, and as it returns to the Madresfield Court 

 carries with it the properties of the Black Hamburgh; which, 

 if it is the case, may lead to further discoveries in plant culture. 

 The leaves of the Madresfield Court, however, have undergone 

 no change either in shape, or, when mature, in colour. — 

 Obsekvek. 



A Veteran Rose-Ghoweu. — At the recent meeting of the 



Eoyal Isle of Wight Horticultural Society, the first premium 



for Roses was awarded to Mr. Edward Meehan, who for nearly 



. forty years has had charge of the gardens and grounds of St. 



Clare. During this time he has been one of the leading ex- 

 hibitors in the above Society, and, though the competition 

 has been often severe, he has, with few exceptions, taken the 

 first premiums for Roses as a regular thing. We think this 

 feat probably unequalled by anything in the annals of com- 

 petition. To tnke a premium for the same thing — and several 

 a season — annually for a period approaching forty years, ought 

 to entitle one to a life interest in it. 



CARCLEW, CORNWALL.— No. 1. 



THE BESIDEXCE OF COLONEL TREM.U'NE. 



Cornwall presents a greater extent of coast line than any 

 other county, for, stretching as it does to the west a distance 

 of quite eighty miles in a straight line, until its extremity may 

 be regarded as a point, it has the sea on both its northern and 

 southern sides ; and it has also the peculiarity of being joined 

 by only one other county in England, Devonshire. Apart from 

 the sinuosities of its coast line, on the south side it is much 

 broken into creeks or inlets of the sea, or, if the reader will 

 have it so, small tidal rivers, which carry salt water a con- 

 siderable way inland. These are so numerous that sea views, 

 or views of tidal rivers, are so common that most places of 

 note along the south coast possess one. The large and noble 

 estuary of the Tamar at Plymouth, dividing the two counties 

 of Devon and Cornwall, has its counterpart at Falmouth, 

 whose noble harbour has been long regarded as one of the 

 most important in the kingdom, while between the two are 

 many creeks or inlets, too small, it is true, to admit the larger 

 class of commercial craft of the present day, but sufficiently 

 capacious to give an interest and importance to the landscape ; 

 besides which the bluff rocky shore, defying in many places the 

 landing of an hostile army, has also its beauties, and when we 

 call to mind the many substances of which that natural bul- 

 wark is composed, we may pause and wonder at the natural 

 riches so closely heaped together in this remote corner of our 

 island, and at the same time not feel surprised at the early 

 nations of the earth making their way thither for its mineral 

 wealth. 



But setting aside its early or even more recent history, 

 Cornwall has at all times been famed for the mildness of its 

 climate in winter, and, consequently, its suitability for the 

 cultivation outdoors of many species of plants too delicate to 

 stand outside elsewhere. But as if a sort of counterbalancing 

 agent withheld the ideal of perfection from each and every 

 place, Cornwall has also its drawbacks in the shape of high 

 and destructive winds— winds of a kind that punish with 

 great severity everything that erects itself above the level of 

 neighbouring objects, as, for instance, a tall-growing Silver 

 Fir or Douglas Pine that aspires to overtop the Oaks by which 

 its lower extremities are sheltered or surrounded, is sure to 

 have its head unmercifully dealt with whenever it shows a few 

 feet above them, besides which high winds are so common 

 that their violence is even felt in the flower garden, and sad 

 results often follow. But there are features about Cornwall 

 which cannot faU to interest the horticulturist. He sees there 

 trees, shrubs, and even dwarf plants often withstand the 

 winter, which elsewhere in England are carefully kept under 

 glass, while certain classes of plants which continue their 

 growth late in the season, never fairly go to rest, which is 

 much to their detriment, and I was told some kinds of ordinary 

 herbaceous plants had their growing period prolonged so much 

 that the usual rest Nature intended them to have not being 

 forthcoming, a sickly growth ending in death was often the 

 result. Nevertheless, there are many things to admire in 

 Cornwall, both in its natural characteristics and in the ad- 

 vantage that has so often been taken by wealthy individuals to 

 turn them to good account. Many of such places are of recent 

 growth ; others present a more ancient aspect ; and some carry 

 a history of their own backwards to a remote period. Such a 

 place is the one now under consideration. 



Carclew, the residence of Col. Tremayne, was of considerable 

 importance in the early part of the century, but to trace its 

 history further back, we may say Carclew is in the parish of 

 Perran-ar-worthal, near the south coast. St. Perran was the 

 most distinguished of the Irish missionaries who converted 

 the people of Cornwall to the Christian faith. He finally 

 resided and died at another locality in the county, also named 

 after him — Perran Tabuloe. Arwothal means " the celebrated 

 river." Carclew in early records is spelt Crucglew, which is 

 Uterally " an enclosure of mounds or barrows." 



The earliest-named possessor of Carclew was Dangeros, a 



