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( December i, 1876. 



refreshing. The tree is very robust, and it is altogether a first- 

 olaBs kind. I have an impression that this excellent variety 

 has been somewhat neglected. If I am right I would strongly 

 recommend all, who can afford space, to plant it, for it is 

 worthy of a place in the most choice selection. 



Balgowan. — This is another tine kind ; a note of it in my 

 fruit book for the current year states that it is " a tree of 

 wonderfal vigour, laden with an abundant crop of fine large 

 fruit, beautifully coloured, very sweet, lich, and delicious in 

 flavour. A valuable variety." The growth of the tree is cer- 

 tainly something wonderfal, surpassing all other kinds that 

 were planted at the same date. It is usually described as a 

 very hardy kind, but I have observed a greater tendency to 

 canker in it than in any other Nectarine which I have. 



Eivcrs' White. — A good and very useful sort, cropping freely. 

 The fruit is of a pale yellow colour, sweet, juicy, and of plea- 

 sant flavour. Especially valuable for its colour. The tree is 

 vigoroua and healthy. 



Stanwick Elruge. — This is a very prolific variety, but the 

 fruit was decidedly inferior in appearance and flavour to all 

 the foregoing varieties during the past season. It is only fair 

 to add that the crop was a heavy one, which would in some 

 measure account for its deficiency in points of so much im- 

 portance as size and flavour. 



Pine Apple. — This tplendid variety may very justly be termed 

 a, late Fitmaston Orange, and as such is of the greatest value, 

 for in it we have a most valuable succession to the general 

 crop. The fruit is very handsome in form and colour, and 

 Eurpasses most of the other Nectarines in size and flavour, 

 which is wonderfully full and rich. Unlike Fitmaston Orange, 

 my tree is very vigorous, and promises well for another season. 

 — Edwaed LcCKHnKST. 



GEAPES NOT COLOURING. 

 I HAVE a vinery glazed with Hartley's patent ribbed glass, 

 and I have been informed that Grapes seldom colour under it. 

 I am at a loss to tell where to blame this failure, whether it is 

 the glass, border, cr the past treatment. The Vines at present 

 are in a fair condition, and have this year borne a heavy crop 

 of uncolonred Grapes. The varieties are Black Hamburgh 

 and Trentham Black. The Trentham Blacks are as well 

 coloured as can be desired, while the Black Hamburghs in the 

 same house are as red as a fox. I intend renewing the border 

 to see if that will remedy the evil. I shall be glad to hear the 

 opinion of some experienced Grape-growers. I may mention 

 that a gentleman near has a vinery glazed with the earue kind 

 of glass. The Vines planted are the Black Hamburgh, and 

 are healthy and vigorous, and were carrying when I saw them 

 a good crop of large, well-formed bunches of badly-coloured 

 Grapes. The complaint there is the same as my own. — E. H. 



THE ROSE ELECTION— ROSES AND NOSES. 



I TAKE now the concluding portion of the Rose election for 

 1875, that of perfume. This is a novel attempt ; I am not 

 certain that it is sncoessful. Electors, not a few, appear to 

 distrust their nasal organs, and others confess to a want of 

 education of these organs as connected with Roses. Although 

 " a Rose by any other name would smell as sweet," yet it 

 would certainly appear that not a few Rose-growers allow her 

 in some degree to " waste her sweetness on the desert air." 

 There is little doubt that Rose-growers for exhibition look at 

 a Rose twenty times before appljing to them that organ for 

 which in the "Eyes versus Nose" of Cowper, "the spectacles" 

 were really intended. Few rosarians can lay claim to such an 

 educated organ as Mr. Curtis, Devon Rosery, Torqiiay ; and 

 if the wise men came from the east, at least it seems to me 

 that the appreoiators of Rose perfume dwell in the west, for 

 Mr. R. W. Beachey and Mr. Curtis are the only electors who 

 appear to have analysed the various perfumes thatour national 

 fl jwer possesses. This, their lists, the only lists of perfume I 

 bIthII print, siiflrcientiy prove. 



In undertakii;g this election I was prepared for some extra- 

 ordinary results. In my weakness I fancied the old Cabbage 

 Rose must be near the head of the poll; but it is far from that, 

 and I can only imagine that many electors have never had the 

 opportunity of testing the merits of this delicious old Rose. 

 Let me, however, first present the poll — premising that as 

 only twenty electors have ventured to give their opinions on 

 thid i:oint, I have mixed the two classes of electors together, 

 believing that there was nothing to be gained by the separa- 



tion, and that one class of nose was just as good as another. 

 The first column of figures, a, denotes the number of times 

 each Rose is named in the first twelve ; the other, B, the votes 

 in the second thirteen ; whilst the last column shows the 

 number of votes each Rose received. 



A B Tata 



Ferd. de LesBepB ..24 6 

 ComteBee Ceciie de 



Chabrillant 16 6 



Frani;oi8 Micbelon 15 6 

 General Jacquemi- 

 not 8 2 5 



(DucbeBB o( Edin- 

 burgh (HP.) ..2 3 6 

 Old Mobs 23 5 



Xavier Olibo 14 5 



Rev. J. B. Camm . . 4—4 

 Sonpert et Notting 



iMoes) 4 — 4 



j Duke ol Edinburgh 13 4 



t Madame FUlion 13 4 



Madame Willermoz — 4 4 



Mad. C. Joigneaux. 3 — 8 



(NnrcisBe 21 3 



\ Despiez a Flenr 



\ Jaune 2 1 8 



I Dr. Andry 12 3 



I Aline Sisley 12 8 



John Hopper — 3 3 



Here is a table that I feel confident will excite some surpiiee. 

 La France alone nearly achieves a first-claes certificate all 

 round, only one elector giving her a second-class vote. It has 

 not been my custom hitherto to mention these eccentricities 

 of electors ; I have no scruples on this occasion, as that second- 

 class vote was given by the returning officer, and I now con- 

 fess openly that 1 fail utterly to detect in La France the 

 exquisite perfume that most others note. Well, I suppose it is 

 my loss, but I certainly did not calculate that I should be the 

 only person to place that Rose in the second class. 



By the twenty electors, with only twenty-five Roses named, 

 the Roses named in this election amount to 154. This is start- 

 ling enough; but amongst the twelve best, ninety-two Roses 

 actually find a place. Yet again another curiosity : Oat of 

 the 151 Roses mentioned, no less than seventy-seven — exactly 

 one-half — have only a solitary vote, and of these seventy-seven 

 no less than thirty-four, though named only once, are yet 

 considered by the nominator Al, or amongst the best twelve, 

 showing at least that there is as great a difference in noses as 

 in eyes, having only one vote. All the electors are nominators 

 of Roses. 



I may here mention the electors who have assisted at this 

 election by sending in lists. They are Sir William Bagge ; 

 Revs. A. Cheales, -J. B. Camm, E. Handli>y; Messrs. Baker, 

 R. W. Beachey, H. Bennet, Blandford, Cooling, Cranston, 

 Curtis, Davis, J. Ellis, Harrison, Hinton, G. Frince, Robson, 

 Scott, Turner, and Wheeler ; and to these gentlemen, and in 

 fact to all who have in any way tended to make these elections 

 either useful or interesting, I tender my sincere thanks. 



Mr. R. W. Beachey's list and that of Mr. Curtis I append ; 

 they are both very interesting. The Roses in italics are those 

 in the best twelve. — Joseph Hinton, Warminster. 



P. S.— I have only to mention an error that has crept into 

 the other list of the newer Roses — that is, that the new Moss 

 Soupert et Notting is there called Superb et Notting. I rather 

 think it is superb, but still its name is Sonpert et Netting. 

 —J. H. 



" It was tbo lime of Hoses, 

 We smelt them as we passed," 



and I made my notes on them accordingly, but those notes 

 are lost, and being asked to re-write them I feel somewhat 

 like King Nebuchadnezzar, " the thing is gone from me." 

 The loss, however, will be small, for the subject is yet in its 

 iLfancy, and will have to be gone into more thoroughly in 

 summer days to come. The perfume of the Rose in hot 

 weather is so much more powerful, that all throush the 

 blooming season we ought to be taking nutes and storing-up 

 results to send to our kind friend Mr. Hinton for classification 

 and an'angement. I have a beautiful Marcclial Niel now 

 before me gathered in the open air on this 2Gth November, 

 and though very powerfully scented it has quite lost its rich 

 delicate summer scent, and reminds mo of Ihewooi^y flavour 

 of tea when the fine aroma is gone. As perfumed Roses give 

 off the life-feeding element, ozone, and those without perfume 

 do not, how greatly does this important fact enhance their 



