No. 3. 



Tlie JVbisette cr Chompney Rose. 



77 



But we come to the most important part 

 of the communication alluded to above, viz : 

 the remedy for the dreadful disease which 

 is now destroying the potatoe crop. Mr. 

 Belisle's own words are, " The remedy is 

 iRis : When a farmer sees his potatoe tops 

 thus withering, he should lose no time in 

 mowing them off below the blight, and by 

 this means he will save his crop." There 

 is no doubt that under favourable circum- 

 stances, cutting off the tops will prevent 

 the disease, but the crop must be shortened, 

 and the potatoes rendered not fit for use, or 

 at least they will be lessened in nutritive 

 matter. If Mr. Belisle will call on me I 

 will show him potatoes that were perfectly 

 healthy when they w-ere dug up, but after 

 remaining up a few days, became diseased, 

 and are now rapidly rotting. Now at the 

 time these became diseased they had no 

 tops to cut off, consequently the tops did not 

 cause the disease, and " //je remedy" could 

 not be used. I will also show him a portion 

 of those potatoes which had commenced 

 rotting, but which I have stopped from rot- 

 ting; and if he will remain with me long 

 enough — say two months — I will take otliers 

 of those halt-rotten potatoes and stop the rot 

 immediately, and the potatoe shall be in ex- 

 cellent order for planting, or for domestic 

 purposes. And I will guarantee that the 

 entire cost of stopping the disease and re- 

 storing the vegetable to health, shall not be 

 more than twelve and a half cents per bushel 

 — at any rate I am prepared to take a few 

 hundred thousand bushels at that rate of 

 charge for my services, if I stop the disease; 

 if I do not, I will charge nothing. 



If Mr. B. had said that his process was 

 "a remedy," I should not so much object; 

 but to say that it, and it only, is " the reme- 

 dy," I must beg leave to put in my protest. 

 I should like to say more of this gentleman's 

 views, but my article has grown to a much 

 greater length than I had at first intended 

 to make it, and must therefore close it. 



Chemico. 



Wilkesbarre, Pa., October Isi, 1846. 



The Noisette or Champuey Rose. 



Rosa Champneyana. 



Perhaps no new roses ever excited more 

 attention than the two varieties which were 

 first produced of this interesting family. 

 When first received in France, the Parisian 

 amateurs were enraptured with it, its habits 

 being so peculiar and distinct from every 

 other class. The origin of the first varie- 

 ties of this remarkable group, has been an- 

 nounced erroneously to the world by various 

 writers. The original variety is the Champ- 



ney Rose, or Champney's Pink Cluster, a 

 rose long well known and very widely dif- 

 fused. It was raised from seed by the 

 Inte John Ciiampney, Esq., of Charleston, 

 S. C, an eminent and most liberal votary of 

 Flora, from the seed of the White Musk 

 Rose, or Rosa Moschata, fertilized by the 

 old Blush China, and as he had been for a 

 long period in constant correspondence with 

 the late William Prince, he most kindly 

 presented him with two tubs, each contain- 

 ing six plants, grown from cuttings of the 

 original plant. From these an immense 

 number were propagated and sent to Eng- 

 land and France. The old Blush Noisette 

 Rose was a few years after raised by Phil- 

 lippe Noisette froin the seed of the Champ- 

 ney Rose, and this he sent to his brother 

 Louis Noisette, of Paris, under the name of 

 the Noisette Rose. It is more double than 

 its parent, and of much more dwarf and 

 compact growth; the flowers in very large 

 dense panicles. The old Chamjmey^s Pink 

 ClusUr, although not full double, is still 

 quite a favourite for its rapid growth, its ap- 

 propriateness for pillars and other climbing 

 positions, and for the profusion of its flowers, 

 wliich are in large panicles much more dif- 

 fuse than the preceding variety. The sub- 

 sequent varieties have been produced from 

 both the primitive ones I have named, but 

 as the Champney rose produces seeds far 

 more abundantly than the Blush Noisette, it 

 has doubtless been the parent of much the 

 greater number. 



To develope the beauties and admirable 

 qualities of the Noisette Roses, proper at- 

 tention must be paid to their culture; the 

 soil must be warm, dry at the bottom, and 

 well mellowed and enriched with old well- 

 rotted manure, or black mould from the 

 woods to the depth of two feet; they will 

 not flourish in a wet soil, and if the location 

 is eit-het a wet or heavy soil, a quantity of 

 sand must be mixed with it sufficiently to 

 lighten it, and render it completely perme- 

 able, so as to allow of the free passage of 

 all rains through it. 



The perfume of the Musk Rose is very 

 apparent: its tendency to bloom in large 

 clusters also shows its affinity to that old 

 and very remarkable rose, but since its in- 

 troduction to France so many seedlings have 

 been raised from it, and so many of these are 

 evidently hybrids of the Tea-scented and 

 other roses, that some of the roses called 

 JSoisettes, have almost lost the characters of 

 the group; for, in proportion as the size of 

 the flowers have been increased by hybrid- 

 izing, their clustering tendency and the 

 number of them in one corymb has been di- 

 minished. — Prince's Manual of Roses, 



