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bipinnately sected. The umbels are from 10- to 20, not have shade and shelter? are they less worthy than free from cauker as these, unless it were those in the 
rayed, emitted from the dilated spherical head of a 
common peduncle, Dr. Falconer calls the plant 
Narthex Asafeotida. 
Rebíetos, 
The Rose Amateur's Guide, &e. By Thomas Rivers. 
12mo. Longmans. The Fourth Edition, corrected 
and improved. 
Catalogue for 1846 of Selected Roses cultivated for Sale. 
By ‘thomas Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, 
We need not say that the work at the head of this 
notice is indispensable to all lovers of the Rose. The 
favour with which it has been received by the public 
renders all expression of opinion on our part super- 
fluous, Mr. Rivers is well known as a nurseryman of 
great experience and high character, and as the pos- 
sessor of one of the best colleetions of Roses in the 
world ; from no one, therefore, will advice be obtained 
which can be received with more entire confidence. 
Among so much that is useful it is difficult to point out 
what possesses most novelty for the amateur ; but per- 
haps we may point out as a part of the more interesting 
subjects in this edition, the selections of Roses for par- 
ticular purposes, and the author's observations upon the 
eultivation of Roses in pots. Upon this head we find 
the following statement :— 
* Qultivation of Summer Roses in Pots.—For this 
purpose, a selection of the finest double varieties are 
alone eligible. Plants worked on neat stems not more 
than four inches high, and with fibrous compact roots, 
so that they will admit of being placed in the centre of 
the pots, should be potted late in October, or early in 
November, in twenty-four sized or eight-inch pots, in a 
compost of loam and rotten manure, or loam and leaf 
mould and manure, in equal quantities ; if toa bushel 
of this compost half a peck of pounded charcoal is 
added, it will be improved. After potting, they should 
be placed on slates, and then plunged in sawdust or old 
tan, so that the surface of the mould in the pots is 
covered about two inches in depth with the material 
used for plunging. A sunny exposed situation is Letter 
than under a wall, for when placed near a wall the 
branches always incline from it, so that the plant, in 
lieu of being round and compact, as it ought to be, 
becomes one-sided ; in February following they may be 
pruned in closely, i.e. to within two or three buds of 
the base of each shoot, and remain plunged during the 
summer ; additional vigour may be given by removing 
the sawdust or tan from the surface of the pots in 
Mareh, and substituting rotten manure; during the 
summer all suckers must be carefully removed, and in 
June, July, and August all luxuriant shoots shortened, 
by pinching off their ends, and superfluous shoots 
nipped in the bud ; so that each plant is made to form 
a neat compact bush, not too much crowded with shoots. 
If this is properly attended to, they will scarcely require 
pruning the following spring, but only a few of the 
shoots thinned out, i. e. entirely removed. These 
plants will require abundance of water in dry hot 
weather in summer, and once a week in June and July 
they should be watered with guano water, 1 lb. to 
twelve gallons of water will be of sufficient strength ; if 
not placed on slates, the pots must be removed once a 
fortnight to prevent the roots entering the soil under- 
neath the pots, which will give them much additional 
vigour: but the check they receive when removed is 
very injurious; this must, therefore, be careful 
guarded against. The above treatment is also appliea- 
ble to Moss and Provenee Roses on their own roots, 
which, when required for forcing, may at once be 
removed from the plunging-bed, after having remained 
there one summer, to the foreing-house ; those required 
for exhibition only, may also remain there till near the 
blooming season, when, if it is wished to retard them, 
they may be placed under a north wall, if to lerat 
‘the gaudy but odourless Tulip? the Carnation ? the | 
| Auricula ? All these have shade and shelter in their 
| blooming season. Why, then, have we neglected to give 
| it to the Rose simply because fashion has not led the 
way. We well know how frequently rain and wind de- 
stroy nearly all the flowers of our summer Roses ; how 
easy, then, would it be to erect a light shed covered 
with canvas, something like those used to cover Tulips, 
when in bloom. An erection of this kind, 30 to 40 or 
50 feet long, and from 8 to 10 feet wide, would admit of 
a path in the centre, and a border of Roses in pots on 
each side, If the weather should be unfavourable, 
their flowers would expand in perfection, unscathed by 
those summer storms of wind and rain, peculiar to our | 
climate, so fatal to flowers, and, above all, to Roses: 
and if, on the contrary, we have ‘real merry days of 
June, with a glowing and unclouded sun, how agree- 
able would be the shade of the * Rosarium, how | eau- 
tiful the tints of the flowers thus shaded, and how de- 
lightful their perfume ! If the weather is warm and 
dry, Roses placed in a temporary erection of this kind 
should be carefully, but not too abundantly, watered 
every evening, and, what is better than saturating the 
pots with water, the central path should be sprinkled 
two or three times a day, and water poured on the 
ground between the pots.” 
New Garden Plants. 
50. Srexocarpus CuxNINGHAMI. Mr. Cunningl 
garden at Elvaston Castle in Derbyshire. The Peach- 
wall was also a bright example of skilful culture, many 
of the trees were covering 420 feet of wall, beautifully 
trained, and without a diseased leaf, loaded with fiuit, 
The other fruit-trees were equally well managed. We 
could not help remarking the Cranberry bed, such 
things are not so common as they deserve to be, con- 
sidering the abundance of useful fruit, which are pro- 
duced with scarcely any trouble. The plants in this cne 
were loaded with fruit, and Mr. McEwen informed us 
that a great number of bushels are annually gathered. 
There is a number of huthouses for the culture of 
Pines, Grapes, Peaches, Figs, &e. Pines are exten- 
sively cultivated, and probably, as a whole, they are not 
surpassed in this country. The plants evinced high 
cultivation; and the fruit then ripe was abundant and 
arge. Mr. McEwen generally adopts the pot system 
of culture, although he occasionally plants some of them 
out, on which plan he has some at present promising 
well for another season. One house is entirely filled 
with a Nerii Fig, which is 30 feet long and 18 feet wide. 
This fine tree girths 21 inches in the stem, and pro- 
duces annually a large crop ; indeed it never fails. 
Figs are largely cultivated here, being a very favourite 
fruit. There is one tree on the open wall covering 
between 600 and 700 feet of surface. Peaches are also 
largely forced. ‘The crop was nearly gone, but there 
could be no mistake as to the health of the trees and 
Stenocarpus. Greenhouse-tree. (Proteads*.) New 
Holland, 
Mr. A. Cunningham discovered this tree on the banks 
of the Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, Not, however, 
meeting with it in flower, he took no further notice 
of it in his Journal than to remark that “ itis a slender 
tree, of most remarkable habit ; with leaves large, from 
the extremities of the branches, glossy and lobed, or laci- 
niated. Had he seen its blossoms, elegantly arranged in 
eandelabrum-like umbels, clothed with the most vivid 
ra t silky pul he would assuredly have 
ranked it among the most important of his numerous 
additions to the Australian Flora. Two rooted plants 
were sent home and cultivated with great care by 
Mr. Smith. For fine flowering specimens I am indebted, 
in August, 1847, to the kindness of Messrs. Weeks and 
Day, irom the greenhouse of the “ United Gardener: 
Society,” King’s-road, Chelsea, and I learn that its blos- 
soming is considered to be owing to the plant having been 
much eutin for the purpose of increase. The great heat 
and much sun of the present season have, also, no doubt, 
contributed to its flo 
at the Birmingham Botanic Garden, under the care of 
Mr. Cameron. The handsome evergreen, glossy foliage, 
has long recommended this plant to the attention of 
eultivators, and now that its beautiful inflorescence is 
known, there can be little doubt but the demand for it 
will be in proportion to its loveliness.— Bot. Mag. 
51. ÆSCHYNANTAUS PULCHER. Beautiful /Eschynanthus. 
Stove Epiphyte. (Gesnerads*.) 
This splendid plant was sent from Java to Mr. Veiteb, 
of Exeter. It is chiefly distinguished from Æ. Lob- 
bianus by its broader leaves, shorter tube of the calyx, 
quite glabrous and very mueh more exserted tube of the 
corolla, It flowers in June and July.—Bot. Mag. 
Garden Memoranda 
Petworth.—The seat of Colonel Wyndham. adjoins 
the town of Petworth, aud is one of those priueely resi- 
dences of which our English aristocracy may justly be 
proud. The deer park is a very extensive one, and is 
kept in superb order ; the turf throughout its whole ex- 
tent exhibits none of those evidences of neglect, either 
in tufts of Couch Grass, groups of Nettles, Docks, or 
they may be removed ta the greenhouse, or to any pit 
or frame under glass. 
* With the exception of the Moss and Provence Roses, 
which are, and always will be, favourites for forcing, 
summer Roses are not so eligible for pot-culture as the 
autumnal Roses ; they bloom but once, and, if intended 
for exhibition, it is so extremely difficult to have them 
in perfection in any given day: if the season is cold 
and cloudy it is most difficult to bring them forward, as 
fire-heat in summer is injurious to Roses brought from 
the open air, and, if dry and hot, it is equally difficult 
to retard them; at least this can be done only for a 
very short period. 
* Moss and Provence Roses that have been forced 
have generally been thought to require a season's rest ; 
but with the following treatment this will not be re- 
quired. Presuming that they have bloomed in February 
or March, they should have their shoots shortened to 
within two or three buds, re-potted, and placed in a 
cold frame, plunged in the before-mentioned materials, 
and, towards the end of April, placed in the open air, 
as before directed ; if carefully attended to during the 
summer, the plants will be sufficiently vigorous to bear 
forcing again the ensuing season ; those plants intended 
only for exhibition, or to bloom at the usual season 
without forcing, may be shifted annually towards the 
end of September, the earth shaken entirely from the 
roots of the plants, From 8-inch pots they may be 
shifted into 9-inzh or 16-sized pots; and it will not be 
advisable to place them in any of the larger-sized pots, 
unless plants are required of extra size, as they become 
heavy, and difficult to move with safety, 
* There appears to me much room for improvement 
jm the pot culture of summer Roses. Why should they 
such weeds, which obtrude themselves too 
often in such situations, betraying bad keeping and bad 
taste. The whole of the drives through the extensive 
grounds are as clean and as smooth as a flower garden 
walk, and free from weeds. In the park are some of 
the largest and loftiest Silver Firs in England, with 
stems perfectly straight and smooth. The Spanish Ches- 
nuts have also attained an enormous size, so have the 
Cedars of Lebanon, which we believe have here risen 
to a higher altitude than anywhere else in this country. 
These magnificent trees are everywhere grouped in 
arge masses over the park, which may well be said to 
partake of the grand and the picturesque, as thers s 
scarcely anything in nature that we can so long admire 
with perfect purity of feeling and genuine enthusiasm, 
as these noble examples of the taste of our forefathers 
which have stood for centuries the terrific storms which 
in many instances have desolated our parke, and left us 
to lament what ages alone ean again build. Everything 
at Petworth is on a scale of great magnificence, and 
sueh will be believed when we state that the kitchen 
garden contains l4 acres within the walls, and the wholeof 
this is in the highest possible keeping and cropping. The 
establishment being on an extensive scale, an enormous 
supply of fruits and all kinds of culinary articles is daily 
in demand ; this large area of ground is intersected by 
eross walls, thus affording an opportunity of cultivating 
an abundance of wall fruit, which Mr. McEwen does 
with equal care and success. The Apricot wall was a 
distinguished evidence of this, being destitute of decayed 
branches, which are so common in almost all gardens. 
Y 
We never remember to have seen any So completely 
* See Lindley's * Vegetable Kingdom " for an explanation of 
these terms. 
their d capabilities. There is upwards of 
100 lights of framing, and numerous pits in which 
Melons, Cucumbers, anc articlesare abundantly pro- 
duced. Heaths, Pelargoniums, and other showy plants, 
are cultivated in large quantities chiefly for decoration. 
In the framing ground we observed several tanks in 
which are collected all the draining of the manure, 
which Mr. McEwen applies liberally in the foreing of 
Strawberries, Figs in pots, and other fruits, with great 
suecess, A limited space will not at present permit 
us to deseribe at large the merits of this establishment, 
which for extent and sterling good gardening is not 
exceeded by any similar private establishi.ent in the 
country.— R. G. 
scellaneous. 
Sale of Camellias, &e.—A large quantity of Came 
lias and other plants from Belgium was brought to the 
hammer by Messrs. Stevens, on Friday and Saturday 
last. Four good Plants,— Ochroleuea, Imbrieata, Stri- 
ata, and Tricolor, fetched 11s. ; Conchiflora and Pres- 
ton’s Eclipse, 8s.; Grand Frederie and Ochroleuca, 
12s.; Grunelli and A fl 5.5 Donkelærii (4), 
Tricolor (3), Oehroleuca, Double white, Imbrieata, 
Striata (2), Triumphans, Punctata, and Maria Doro- 
thea, 16s.; Sweetii, Colvillii, Youngii, Punctata, Leeana 
superba, Decora, and Double white, 14s. ; Resplendens 
aud Colvil's Sweetii, 13s. ; Imbricata, Tricolor, Vic- 
toria Antwerpensis and Speciosa, 18s. ; Coelestina vera 
and Mira, 9s. ; Altheeflora, 5 feet high, 13s. ; the larger 
variety of Punctata, 13s. ; Florida, 6 feet, lls. ; Gru- 
nelli, 5 feet, 19s. ; Sweetii and Bruceana, 5s. 6d. 
"Woodsii, 4 feet, 7s. 6d.; Triumphans, do., 8s. 6d. 
Punetata, 53 feet, 10s Double white, 4 feet, 7s. 
Duchesse d'Orleaus, 6s. 6d. ; Lady Henriette, 5s. 64, 
Fimbriata, 5s. 6d. ; Elegans Chandlerii, 7s. ; Rollinii 
and Gilesii, 6s. ; and finally Palmer's Perfection, Don- 
kelærii, Sweetii (Colvill’s) and Hosackii, 9s. 6d. Various 
other lots of sinaller plants fetched from 1s. to 2s. per 
plant ; Indian Azaleas and Rhododendrons, from 7s. to 
15s. a lot of 4 plants; Liliums lancifolium rubrum, 
album, and punctatum, from 10s. to 20s. a lot, of from 
2to 3 plants. The total amount of the sale was about 
2002. for 321 lots. 
Winter Culture of th» Mignonette.—Few flowers 
are more esteemed for bouquets in winter and early 
spring than the sweet-scented Mignonette (Reseda 
odorata); it is also very useful for the decoration of 
the drawing-room and conservatory at those seasons of 
the year. Although the Mignonette is not a delicate 
plant, yet itis not generally seen in the perfection to 
which it might be brought by the simple method of 
culture I am about to deseribe. ‘lo flower at or soon 
after Christmas the seed 
ning of August, in pots of 
soil should be good loam, moderately enriched with 
rotten dung, and kept open by a pretty liberal inter- 
mixture with old mortar or lime rubbish. It is essen- 
tial that the pois be thoroughly drained, and upon the 
drainage a handful (more or less, according to the size 
of the pots) of one year old pigeun’s dung should be 
placed. After sowing the seed, set the pots where they 
will not require frequent waterings, too much moisture 
beingextremely injurious to Mignonette ; for this reason, 
therefore, it will be safer to place the pots in a frame 
or pit, where they niay be covered by the lights in 
rainy weather. As the plants increase in size they 
should be gradually thinned, ultimately leaving three 
or five in each pot. The principal point to be attended 
to now is judicious watering; by this I mean giving 
water only when the plants really require water, and 
then in sufficient quantity to moisten the whole of the 
soil—not dribbling a few drops over the plants to-day 
to prevent them irom being dry to-morrow—a practice 
too much followed with plauts in pots. Pinch off any 
premature flowers that may appear, keep the pots free 
from weeds, and far enough asunder to prevent the 
plants from being crowded, and when they are removed 
to winter quarters, set them near the glass in an airy 
situation. A few of the plants might be placed in an 
intermediate house, or other situation rather warmer 
