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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COT PAGE GARDENER. 



( November 18, 1875. 



9. Souvenir de P. Neron 

 10. FriinroiB Michelon 

 *11. Etienne Levet 



12. Mailame G. Schwartz 



13. Baron de Bonstettea 



14. Capitaine Christy 



15. Comtesge d'Oxford 

 IG. Reynolds Hole 



17. "Wilson Sannders 



18. t^ir Garnet Wotseley 

 10. Comtestje de Nadaillao 



20. Belle Lyonnaise 



21. President TLiera 



22. An^uste Eigotard 

 2:i. Anuie Lastun 



24. Baron L. Uxkull 



25. J. S. Mill 



Rev. E. N. PocHiN, 



1. Marqnife de Castellane 



2. Lonia Van Hontte 

 S. Edouard Morren 



4. Panl NtTon 



5. Catherine Mermet 



6. Madame G. Schwartz 



7. Comtesse d'Osford 



8. Frani;oi8 Michelon 



9. Ktit-nne Levct 



10. Capitaine Christy 



11. Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier 



12. Emiiie Haasbargh 



Barkby Vicarage, Leicester. 



13. Ferdinand de Lesseps 



14. Belle Lyonnaise 



15. Andrt- Dunand 



16. Madame Hippolyte Jamain 



17. Madame Lacharme ifor colour) 

 IH. Abbi- Brammerel 



19. Mdlle. Marie Cointefe 



20. Baron Bonstetten 



21. Etienne Dupuy 



22. Thomas MiUs 



23. Le Havre 



24. Reynolds Hole (oncertain) 



25. Claude Levet 



Rev. F. H. Gale, St. 



1. Marquise de Castellane 



2. Comt esse d'Osford 



3. Ferdinand de Lesseps 



4. Frauijois Michelon 



5. Miss Hassard {very sweet- 



fcented) 



6. Mdlle. Eugenie Verdiei 



7. Princess Beatrice 



8. Rev. J. B. Camm 



9. Madame G. Schwartz 



10. Perle de Lvon 



11. Edouard Morren; 12. Paul 



Nt:run, large and coarse, in 

 fact '* two bloated aristo- 

 crats " for my taste, but 

 must be inserted as useful 

 exhibition Roses. 



Julian's, Buntingford. 



13. Annie Laxton 



14. Louis Van Houtte 



15. MdUe. Mai-ie Cointet 



16. The Shah 



17. Etienne Levet 



18. Revnolds Hole 



19. Richard Wallace 



20. La Soaveraine 



21. Queen of Waltham. 



22. Capitaine Christy 



23. Duchess of Edinburgh, h.p. 

 2L Star of Waltham 



25. Hippolyte Jamain 



Shirley Hibberd (T.), is also 

 a little gem. 



Rev. H. DoMBRAiN, Ashford, Kent. 



Mr. 



1. Etienne Levet 



2. Frant^ois Michelon 



3. Louis Van Houtte 



4. Marquise de Castellane 



5. Ferdinand de Lesseps 



6. Catherine Mermet 



7. Mttrie Van Houtte 



8. Comtesse d'Oxford 



9. Mdlle. Eupenie Verdier 

 Itl. Reynolds Hole 



11. Soupert et Netting (MosE 



12. Paul Neron 



ROBSON, Torquay. 



13. Baronne de Bonstetten 



14. Bessie Johnson 



15. Belle Lyonnaise 



16. Duchess of Edinhurgh 



17. Capitaine Christy 



18. Francois Coortin 



19. Madame Berard 



20. Madame Nachury 



21. Madame Lacharme 



22. Marie Ducher 

 i) 23. Louisa Wood 



24. Souvenir de P. Neron 

 26. MdUe. M. Finger 



UKCEOLINA ATJREA (PENDULA). 

 Veey pretty are the bright golden yellow flowers, beautifnlly 

 tipped with green, of this plant in October, produced, as they 

 are, in an umbel 9 inches to a foot in height, from which the 

 flowers (seven) droop in a very graceful manner, the flowers 

 following each other — seldom more than three being fully 

 developed at the same time. The flowers are produced before 

 the leaves, those succeed them ; hence the plant requires to be 

 kept moist and in a light position during the winter months — 

 in fact at all times ; the leaves are not unlike those of the 

 Encharis, but smaller. Uroeolinas only require to be duly 

 supplied with water dming growth, withholding it when the 



' leaves commence turning yellow, and during rest water is re- 

 quired only to keep the soil moderately moist. Ours have no 

 water given them, but the pots are placed where they are sub- 

 jected to a damping overhead twice daily, and the soil does not 

 at any time become dust-dry. I am no believer in Carlyle's term, 

 "dry as dust" applying to bulbs, or anything else when at 

 rest, or only to those which, in their natural habitat, have 

 considerably more warmth than is afforded them in a culti- 

 vated state ; for if they do not grow they mature, and we give 

 complete dryness as an equivalent for the greater warmth and 

 some moisture of the torrid zone during the resting period. 



Drceolina anrea is a stove bulbous plant, but will do well in 

 an intermediate house, in a cool stove, or warm greenhouse, 

 and a C-inch pot is suflieiently large for it, with efficient 

 drainage, and a compost of turfy yellow loam three parts, one 

 part each leaf soil, old cow dung, and silver sand. Potting is 

 best done when the plant is in free growth, as it roots freely 

 some time before throwing up the flower stem. 



Propagation is effected by offsets, which may bo removetJ 

 at the time of potting, putting each in a pot separately, and 

 of about three times the diameter of the bulb. The bulbs do 

 not quickly arrive at a flowering size. The flowers of this plant 

 are very ornamental, coming in at a time when flowers are 

 scarce. — G. Abbey. 



PEACH CULTURE— ESTIMATE OF SORTS. 



The culture of Peaches on open walls has been attended 

 with so many failures, even in the most favourable localities, 

 that it has long been regarded as a very speculative affair 

 upon which the most skilful practitioners enter with a certain 

 amount of hesitation. An immature wood-growth, gumming, 

 canker, mildew, curled and blistered foliage, attacks of aphides 

 and red spider, are the chief evils affecting the health of the 

 tree ; untimely wet and cold weather are those which are most 

 hurtful to the crop. A strong conviction of the prevalence of 

 much ignorance of the best means of combating these evils, 

 induces me to prefix the estimate of such kinds as are most 

 worthy of notice, with a few brief cultural hints not given fully 

 in former papers, and which are of the highest importance. 



Immatube WooD-GRowin. — Eegarded superficially, this evil 

 might be said to arise from a cold dull autumn or the tardy 

 falling of the foliage; but there are other influences often at 

 work very early in the season of growth which affect it much 

 more seriously than the declining temperature of autumn. As 

 the tender spring foliage unfolds itself aphides may frequently 

 be found attacking it, almost singly it may be at first, but 

 swelling to countless numbers with surprising rapidity. The 

 foliage then soon becomes contracted and curled, the growth 

 crippled, stunted, and checked so severely that it often makes 

 very little way till midsummer, and then, unless an unusually 

 favourable autumn ensues, the remaining season of growth is 

 too brief to admit of its becoming thoroughly matured and 

 ripened. A close watch must therefore be kept, and the foliage 

 cleansed from its insidious enemy before it has time to do 

 much mischief. Do not wait till the foliage is curled and 

 the growth crippled, but be prompt in applying the remedy 

 which Nature has provided ready to your hand. Syringe with 

 clean water, follow this with a sponge and more clean water, 

 examining and sponging every foul leaf, then repeat the 

 syringing, taking care to well wash every part of the tree. 

 This is a somewhat tedious operation at a busy season of the 

 year, but it is most effectual and sure. I had to do it repeat- 

 edly in the spring and summer of the present year, and am 

 well rewarded for my pains with a tine, strong, clean growth, 

 firm in texture, ripened to the tips, and full of promise for 

 another season. Winter dressings may destroy such insects, 

 eggs, or larva as are deposited in the joints and angles of the 

 branches, but I never have found them quite effectual as a 

 preventive of summer blight, and do not advise them for 

 healthy young trees in full vigour. 



The foliage when young is as sensitive and delicate as the 

 flower petals, and sustains much injury from the least ex- 

 posure to cold east and north-east winds. Let me give an 

 example of this. A fine young tree of Dr. Hogg Peach, 

 planted in a snug corner against a south wall, with a vinery 

 sheltering it on the east side, had its foliage so much affected 

 by blister and curl in the spring of 1874 during the prevalence 

 of a north-east wind, that the growth became swollen, crippled, 

 and stunted so much as to affect it for the entire season. I must 

 confess I was puzzled for a time. There was the tree in one of 

 the most sheltered positions in the garden, especially guarded 



