July 1, 1876. ] 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



WEEKLY CALENDAR. 



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BvTAN 

 UAitD 



JULY 1—7, 1876. 



Birmingbam Great Exhibition opens. Spalding Show 



Gtolntjisfh' Ai^sociation at Hp.m. [ opens. 



Brockbam (Eoee), Soutbgate and Camden Park (West 



6 Sunday after Trinity. [ Kent), Shows. 



Eutoiuologieal Society at 7 P.M. 



firantbara Sbow opens. 



Royal Horticultural Society— Cut Rose Show. 



Moon 

 KiaeB. 



Moon 

 Seta. 



m. ta. 

 23 af 1 



9 

 16 

 38 



6 

 S3 

 65 



m. h. 

 16af 7 



29 K 



20 9 



55 9 



18 10 



86 10 



47 10 



Moon'a 

 Ago. 



Dptb. 



28 

 29 

 O 



1 



2 



3 



4 



Olnck 

 before 

 8un. 



4 33 



Day 



182 

 183 

 184 



185 

 ]H6 



187 

 188 



60.6' 



From observations takoa near London daring (orty-tbree years, the average day temperature of the week is 75.0°; and its night temperature 



HALF AN HOUR AMONG THE TEA EOSES. 



' MONG the many merits of Tea Eoses and 

 Tea-scented Noisettes is their suitableness 

 for covering walls high or low, and spaces 

 of a few square feet or of a wide expanse, 

 very small plants that are only a few months 

 old and a foot or two in height yielding 

 both foliage and flowers of much excellence, 

 and which are quite as admirable and useful 

 in their way as the older and larger plants, 

 or rather trees, bearing perchance many 

 hundreds of blooms. A single glance tells the experienced 

 eye what position a new sort requires, all of delicate and 

 slender growth being admirably adapted for clothing with 

 beauty the base of walls that are usually left bare by the 

 rampant growth of more vigorous kinds, as well as more 

 prominent and favourable positions. 



I have a collection of upwards of fifty kinds of this 

 charming section of the Rose family all growing against 

 walls and buildings, and planted in soil prepared for them 

 with great care. Under these favourable conditions most 

 of them have thriven very well, and when jotting down 

 their leading characteristics lately for my own future 

 guidance it occurred to me that my notes might interest 

 and assist others in forming a correct idea of the relative 

 merits and value of the various kinds, not so much as 

 exhibition flowers as for the greater intrinsic worth of 

 beauty in the expanding flower buds and foliage- points 

 which are, I think, of even greater importance, certainly 

 of greater utility than the production of fine large flowers. 

 Some stress is laid upon this matter because it appears 

 to receive very little notice ; in fact I am by no means 

 certain that in the rage for fine flowers it is not almost 

 lost sight of. What say the rosarians ? Do they plead 

 '•not guilty," and claim that all their "gems and jewels 

 rare " are of such invariable excellence in this respect 

 that official notice is uncalled for ? Of course it must be 

 granted that there is beauty in every leaf and bud ; but 

 it is undoubtedly beauty in degree — good, better, best, 

 and I suppose no one will attempt to question the im- 

 portance of some classification. 



Large numbers of Eoses are cut and sent to town 

 during the season ; and this is one, but only a secondary, 

 reason why I value beautiful flower buds and foliage so 

 highly, for it is upon the growing plant that they are 

 undoubtedly most attractive, and the estimate of those 

 kinds which I have now to give is not based upon the 

 appearance of a single flower or truss, but upon that of 

 one or more plants of each. 



Taking them in the order in which they are entered in 

 the note-book, first of all comes that fine old Rose 



Gloire de Dijon, alike excellent in bud, flower, and 

 foliage. There are several seedlings of it, most of them 

 partaking of its robust habit and fine foliage, but of in- 

 ferior merit in other respects. 



President has large buds and flowers ; loose, dull- 

 looking, and worthless. 



Safrano. — Excellent in bud, and is then most useful 

 No. 714.— Vol. XXIX., New Seeieb. 



for bouquets ; but the expanded flowers are thin, ragged, 

 and so unsightly that it ought never to occupy a pro- 

 minent position. 



Marcchal Niel. — Objection is sometimes taken to this 

 magnificent Rose because its flowers are pendant; if it 

 were of a dwarf bushy habit the objection might hold 

 good ; but in such a vigorous climber it is a decided merit 

 and not a blemish at all. A fine specimen of it which 

 was planted about three years and half ago is now quite 

 20 feet high, and has had upwards of three hundred 

 flowers open at one time this year. The effect of such a 

 mass of pendant golden flowers was as fine as it was 

 singular ; aud what is perhaps more important in the 

 ■eyes of many, they met with even more admiration when 

 cut than when suspended upon the plant high overhead. 

 I have about a dozen plants of this Rose trained to walls 

 of different aspects and in open borders, and have always 

 found the flowers of a higher colour upon a south aspect 

 than in any other position. Of a robust, free, vigorous 

 growth, with flowers and foliage of the highest excellence, 

 and very free-flowering, it may justly be termed an in- 

 dispensable sort, finding as prominent a position in the 

 select few of an amateur's garden as it does among the 

 thousands of the largest growers. 



Homcre. — This is variable in colour, but is usually of a 

 pale salmon at the base of the petals, deepening outwards 

 to a deep pink. The edges of the petals are beautifully 

 recurved. It is a charming, distinct, and most useful 

 variety. 



Isabella Sprant has nice little delicate yellow buds, 

 which are useful ; the expanded flowers are worthless. 

 The effect of different aspects is strikingly exemplified in 

 a plant of this sort, which is trained to a buttress. Upon 

 the north and east sides the growth is stunted and weak, 

 with puny worthless flower buds ; while upon the south 

 side the growth, foliage, and flower buds are as vigorous 

 and fine as could be wished. 



Belle dc Bordeaux. — A vigorous but shy-flowering 

 kind, hardly worthy of a place. 



Heine de Portugal. — Fine large buds of a coppery hue, 

 which as they unfold their broad elegant petals assume 

 a rich yellow tinge. A fine Rose with handsome foliage, 

 but apt to be petal-bound. 



Boule d'Or. — Fine pale-yellow buds, deepening in 

 colour as they expand into equally fine flowers. 



Marie Sislei). — Fine, large, pendant buds, of a lovely 

 pale pink colour. Foliage good. 



Madame Duchcr. — This has large buds of the Gloire de 

 Dijon type, but paler in colour. It is a second-rate Rose, 

 of a somewhat loose straggling habit of growth. 



Ahricotc. — Delicate fawn-coloured buds, exquisite in 

 form, and which expand into large and tolerably full 

 flowers. The pendant habit of its flowers renders it a 

 desirable kind for training upon high walls or buildings. 

 It has handsome foliage, and is altogether a fine Rose. 



Madame Coclina Noircij. — -A valuable sort, with abun- 

 dant large delicate pink flowers, handsome foliage, and of 

 a remarkably compact growth. 



Devoniensis. — Magnificent buds and flowers of a pale 



No. 139G.-VOL. LIV., Old Sebies. 



