136 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



for the Marechal. He had tried the recipe, as I 

 now advise my readers to try it, and had first per- 

 plexed and then pleased me with the prompt suc- 

 cess of his enterprise. 



The Banksian Rose is also a most genial stock 

 for the Marechal ; and if any of my readers are 

 the happy proprietors of the former, under glass, 

 I advise them by all means to bud the latter upon 

 it. A gentleman residing near Darlington has 

 kindly sent me some interesting particulars as to 

 the success of this combination. In July, 1867, 

 Mr. Spence, a nurseryman, budded M. Niel upon 

 the Banksian Rose in his greenhouse. In 1868 he 

 cut 120 fine blooms from the tree and sold them 

 at Newcastle-on-Tyne for 5s. per dozen, and also 

 sold 500 buds to nurserymen, reserving a large 

 supply for himself The present length of the 

 stock is 9 feet; the circumference 2^^ inches; the 

 length of the scion is 40 feet, and the circumfer- 

 ence 3 inches. But in my own county, Notting- 

 hamshire, I am proud to say, has been produced 

 the specimen, par excellence, of this magnificent 

 Rose. Mr. Henry Gadd, gardener to Lord Mid- 

 dlcton, at WoUaton Hall, near Nottingham, is the 

 artist of this masterpiece, and he has favored me 

 with the following account of it. Marechal Niel, 

 a dormant bud on the Brier, was planted in a cool 



