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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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them. After the arrangement is completed the beds must 
be numbered on a plan, and the names of the flowers 
entered in the “ Garden Catalogue,’’ with the number o: 
plants requisite to stock the beds properly—always 
allowing a few of each kind for deaths, or for giving or 
exchanging with any friend that may be disposed to barter 
with you. Where there is more than one flower-garden, 
the plants for each should be kept separate throughout 
the winter, and in spring, when they are potted off, it is 
easy to put in a few pots of cuttings to make up any loss 
that may have occurred, which, where a great quantity is 
Tequired, is almost inevitable. 5 
At this place we have four distinct flower-gardens, which, 
With their circumferential borders require, to stock them 
Properly, about 10,000 plants, and we require nearly the 
Same quantity to fill up the vases, rustic baskets, borders 
and beds scattered about the lawn. In the coming sea- 
Son, ] intend these four gardens—three of which are on 
Srass, and the fourth (will be) on gravel—to be represen- 
tative of four distinct styles of grouping; while in the 
Vases and baskets I shall endeavour to introduce those 
flowers of a drooping habit which are best seen on a level, 
With, or rather above the level of the eye, as for instance 
the whole tribe of Fuchsias and many Pentstemons, &c. 
Th one garden the flowers will be arranged in masses of 
©ne colour in each bed ;—in the second each colour 
Margined with its complementary one, as blue with orange, 
Purple with yellow, scarlet with white, and so on,—in the 
third three or four colours in each bed, with probably a 
Specimen greenhouse plant in the centre,—and the fourth, 
which will be on gravel, principally with cold colours, as 
lue, purple, and their numerous shades, which cannot be 
Properly shewn on grass, which is a cold colour. In 
this way I hope to do away with the sameness which 
Must otherwise exist among the gardens, and afford 
Visitors something to think about, and an opportunity of 
€xamining which is the most effective style of gardening. 
—This is, I think, a new idea, and I hope I shall not be 
charged with egotism for throwing it out and giving others 
4n opportunity of applying it to practice. 
The layering of Chrysanthemums, if not already com- 
Menced, should be no longer delayed. The way to pro- 
Ceed is to make an incision in the under side of the shoots, 
about six inches from the tip, and sink it into the ground, 
Placing a little fresh sandy compost round it, and either 
Pegging the shoot down, or securing it by placing a stone 
or half brick over the compost. The young plants will be 
Teady to take off towards the end of September, and will 
take beautiful dwarf flowering specimens. 
The middle of August is the best time to sow Ten-week 
Stocks to be preserved through the winter in pots, and 
Planted out in April for spring blooming. One of the 
est growers for the supply of Covent Garden Market 
Makes it a rule to sow on the 11th and 16th of August, 
and the plants generally commence blooming about the 
end of March.— W.. P. Ayres. 
ROSES IN POTS.—No. I 
Tux Rose, which has been justly designated the “ Queen 
of Flowers,’’ has, perhaps, never attained to a higher degree 
Of popularity in England than at the present time. The 
Mprovement in this beautiful genus, by the introduction 
Of new varieties, has been greater within the last few 
Years than the most sanguine Rose cultivators could have 
Xnticipated ; and the improvement in the cultivation here 
a8 been quite equal to the success in originating fine 
Varieties abroad. The adoption of a class for the exhibi- 
ren of * Roses in Pots” by the Horticultural Society of 
4ondon appears to have awakened attention to this mode 
Sf culture. Exhibitors during the past season have been 
w, because there were many misgivings on the point, 
Which want of experience and knowledge of the varieties 
st suited for the purpose tended to confirm. Those, 
however, who have grown Roses in pots during this 
Season, appear convinced that the difficulties advanced 
ate imaginary, and are looking forward to another year 
} Produce handsome plants, with more perfect flowers. 
pee in pots form highly interesting objects among the 
i Tench ; and why should they not do the same here, since 
tis allowed that our general cultivation of Roses in the 
9pen ground is quite equal to theirs? 
} One great advantage in exhibiting Roses in pots is, 
iat their true character becomes apparent ; we see the 
‘Ose as it would appear growing in our gardens, and can 
Tefer ig On the other hand, the 
Sreatest dj 
tate may require. 
exhibition at different seasons, not less than one 
dred plants should be grown, and the greater portion 
hese should be Autumnal Roses. 
ane Ut before adverting to their culture, the question may 
is Se; what varieties are best suited for the purpose? Jt 
fol 
hun 
Of ft 
_ the varieties from the sections Moss, Provence, Gal- 
amask, Perpetual, and a portion of the Hybrids, I 
se to be grown as worked plants, on stems from 
hes to two feet in height ; the others may be grown 
heir Own roots, or at the option of the cultivator. In 
Many cases, however, worked plants produce a 
lea, D, 
Would advi 
SIX inches 
On th 
Very 
Among the PROVENCE we 
mention-— 
a Adeline, bright red 
@ Blush 
a Cabbage, rose 
a Crested, or Cristata, rose 
a Emmerance, sulphur 
Sylvain, brilliant rose 
Wilberforce, deep crimson. 
MOSS. 
Blush 
Celina, rich grimson, spotted 
with purpl! 
Eclatante, bright even red 
@ Gracilis, rose 
Pompone feu, bright rosy 
rimson 
a Unique, pure white 
White Bath, pure white 
De Metz, bright rosy purple 
DAMASK PERPETUAL. 
@ Rose du Roi, or Crimson 
La Miénne, deep rose 
«@ Josephine Antoinette, blush 
@ Emili 
HYBRID PERPETUAL. 
@ Aubernon, bright rose, chang- 
ing to red 
a Clementine Duval, rose and 
lilac 
a Comte de Paris, purple and 
crimso: 
Coquette de Montmorency, 
fine deep cher 
@ Dr. Marx, brilliant carmine 
Dac d’Aumale, superb deep 
imso: 
a Duchess of Sutherland, fine 
pale rose 
Edward Jesse, dark purple, 
shaded with crimson 
ulgorie, rosy carmine 
@ General Merlin, light rose 
shaded 
Lady Alice Peel, deep pink 
a Louis Bonaparte, vermilion 
@ Madame Laffay, brilliant rose 
Mrs, Elliot, rose, shaded with 
purple 
Prince of Wales 
Prudence Roeser, pale rose, 
i whitish cast 
@ Princesse Héléne, bright rosy 
rple 
Queen Victoria, rose, car- 
mine centre 
a Rivers, bright crimson 
HYBRIDS OF CHINESE AND 
BOURBON 
Aurora, crimson, shaded with 
violet > . 
Camuzet carnée, beautiful 
peach 
a Charles Duval, superb deep 
pin! 
col. Combes, bright crimson, 
spotted with lilac 
a Comtesse Lacepéde, clear 
flesh 
a Coupe d’Amonr, bright deep 
Tose Ais 
a Coupe WH6bé, superb deep 
pink 
a General Allard, large globular 
rose 
General Kleber, crimson, 
changing to violet 
Great Western, crimson and 
purple, very large 
Henri Barbet, bright deep rose 
a Hortense Leroy, bright pale 
8 
rose 
a Lady Stuart, fine clear blush 
a Legouvé, rosy crimson 
Lord John Russell, brilliant 
rose 
a Madame Plantier, pure white 
a Madame Rameau, purplish 
crimson 
a Madeleine, flesh, edged with 
Marie de Nerroea, pink blush 
Micalea, blush rose 4 
a New Globe Hip, pure white 
princess Augusta, bright 
crimson and purple, shot 
a@ Pompone bicolor, purple and 
crimson shade 
a Richelieu, rose 
a Velours épiscopal, violet, 
velvety 4 
a Volney, very bright rose 
@ William Jesse, crimson; 
tinged with lilac 
UL 
a Adéle Prevost, silvery blush 
a Bianckefleur, flesh and white 
greater quantity of flowers, and of larger size than such 
as are grown on their own roots. 
a Boula de Nanteuil, dark 
crimsom purple 
'@ Cicero, bright crimson 
a Daguessau, deep bright 
crimson 
a Daubenton, fine bright rose 
ic de Nemours, violet and 
crimson, marbled 
a Duchesse d’Abranthes, pale 
rose 
a Docteur  Dielthim, dark 
shaded rose 
@ Fleur d’Amour, bright crim- 
ple 
a Grandpapa, shaded crimson 
@ Grandissima, purplish crim- 
son 
a Jeanne d’Urfé, rose and lilac 
a Julie d’Etanges, pale rose 
a La Calasienne, finely-shaded 
rose 
a Louis Philippe, superb dark 
‘ose 
a Nero, violet crimson spotted 
«. Phariricus, bright rosy crim- 
son 
NOISETTE. 
Aimée Vibert, pure white 
Clara Wendel, pale yellow, 
Comtesse de Tolosante, white, 
sometimes fles| 
Luxembourg, lilac rose, 
deep red centre 
Euphrosyne, pale rose and 
yellow, yery swee' 
Fellenberg, fine bright crim- 
2 
son 
a La Victorieuse, white, shaded 
with rose 
a@ Madame de Chalonge, yellow 
Miss Glegg, pure white 
@ Yellow, or Smithii 
BOUR 
a Armosa, bright pink 
Augustine Lelieur, vivid even 
rose 
a@ Bouquet de Flore, light car- 
mine 
a Celiméne, fine clear blush 
a Ceres, deep rose 
ice de Seine et Maine, 
vivid scarlet. 
@ Emilie Courtier, fine rosy 
crimson 
a Enfant d’Ajaccio, purplish 
crimson. 
Julie Deloynes, white 
a Le Grand Capitaine, fiery 
a Madame Aude, clear lilac rose 
a Madame Nerard, silvery blush 
pin 
a Paul Joseph, deep velvety 
imson 
a@ Proserpine, dark crimson 
@ Queen, buff, rose and salmon 
SE. 
Augustine Hersent, deep pink 
@ Belle Isidore, pale rose chang- 
on 
a@ Lacy Warrender, 
creamy centre 
Louis Philippe, carmine purp. 
a Madame _ Bréon, _ beautiful 
light rose 
@ Madame Bureau, pure white 
Madame Desprez, pale lemon, 
very sweet 
@ Marjolin, dark crimson 
uw Mrs. Bosanquet, pale flesh 
a Napoleon, bright pin 
Prince Eugene, crimson purp, 
TEA-SCENTED. 
a Adam, clear light rose 
@ ArchduchesseThérese,creamy 
white and yellow 
a Barbot, yellow, edged with 
white, 
‘ose 
a Belle Archinto, flesh, shaded 
a Bougére, deep rosy 
Bride of Abydos, 
a Caroline, blush pink, centre 
se 
a Comte de Paris, flesh. 
a Devoniensis, pale yellow 
@ Don Carlos,pale buff & salmon. 
a Ehza Sauvage, pale yellow, 
orange centre 
a@ Eugene Desgiiches, fine rose 
a@ Fragolotta, bright rose 
a Goubault, rose, buff centre 
Taman, rose and buff, chang- 
ing to crimson 
@ Julie Mansai, pure white 
Madame Roussell, white, flesh 
centre 
Josephine Malton, large, 
creamy white 
a Moiret, yellowish bronze 
a Niphetos, large sulphur white 
@ Nina, clear blush rose 
Pactolus, fine yellow 
Prince d’Esterhazy, large rich 
rose 
Safranot, buff and yellow 
Taglioni, creamy white, cen- 
tre buff. 
Those marked ‘a’ are large full Roses, the others are desir- 
able on account of their fine habit, distinct colour, or showy 
appearance. 
Roses trained as climbers would form very beautiful 
objects in pots. If allowed to grow to the height of three 
or four feet and then stopped, I imagine they would throw 
out lateral shoots, and become covered with foliage an 
flowers, from the top to the edge of the pot. For this 
purpose I should select in preference to the Ayrshire, 
Boursault and Sempervirens, some of the Hybrid China, 
Hybrid Perpetual, Noisette, Bourbon, and even some of 
the Gullicas that are most vigorous in growth; the 
flowers of the former being mostly small, or semi-double. 
Notwithstanding this, they are, perhaps, unequalled when 
grown as pillar-Roses in the open ground. Their growth 
is rapid and graceful, and their large corymbs of flowers 
render them a mass of beauty. Such plants as are not 
kept in pots should be removed from the ground early 
in autumn, as soon as the shoots are sufficiently ripener, 
which they generally are by the middle of September. 
It potting, the sized pots best adapted are Nos. 12, 16, 
24, and 32, according to the size and habit of the plant ; 
and these should be well drained. The soil used should 
consist of equal parts of turfy loam that has laid by and 
become mellow, and manure (the remains of a hotbed) 
so far decomposed, as to have the appearance of black 
mould. If the loam be of a hard or binding nature, a 
mixture of sand will be necessary. Having selected the 
plant, cut off close to the stock any wild suckers, and 
shorten in the roots tolerably freely. In potting, the soil 
should be pressed down firm, and afterwards watered 
through a fine rose. The plants may then be removed 
to a sheltered situation, and plunged up to the rims of 
the pots in old tan or cinder-ashes. Under this treat- 
ment, if turned out of the pots in November, young 
fibrous roots will be seen forming in abundance; they 
will appear to have quite recovered from their removal, 
and will bloom well the following summer. 
With regard to such plants as are always kept in pots, 
they may be shifted at different seasons of the year, as 
their growth may require. Supposing them to be in 
small 60 pots in the spring, they may then be shifted into 
48s, keeping all flower-buds nipped off, and afterwards 
into 24s, which will generally be found sufficient for their 
growth during the first season.—W. Paul, Nurseries, 
Cheshunt, Herts, 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
Experiments with Artificial Manures.—1 have been 
much interested in the Table of the action of Manures 
by Mr. Maclean, published in the Chronicle of July 29th, 
and I have nodoubt but'that most of your numerousreaders 
will join me in thanking you for bringing before their 
notice, from time to time, results fraught with so much 
importance to the Agricultural community: If thanks are 
due to you for thus noticing the labours of others, of how 
much greater praise is he deserving who contrived and 
carried through such a mass of experimental investigation ? 
It is from data such as those afforded by this tabular record, 
that we can alone hope to educe principles for our sure 
guidance in the scientificimprovement of agriculture. Tn 
my opinion, that man is more entitled to our gratitude, 
ina national point of view, who carefully compiles such a 
table as Mr. Maclean’s,—being the result of his own expe- 
riments, and guarded as much as possible from sources of 
error, than he who writes volumes of speculative theories. 
It is by such labours that the practical farmer may render 
indispensable service to the man of science, who, without 
it, must infallibly grope as it were in the dark in search of 
truth, and be liable to be misled by every ignis fatuus 
which flings its uncertain ray across his benighted path. 
May I indulge a hope that you will, whenever practicable, 
present your readers with similar tabulated results; they 
will not prove of passing interest only, but tend to confer 
an increased value on your esteemed periodica] when bound 
up as a book of reference. But I will not dismiss these re- 
marks without pointing out what must surely be an error 
in the table referred to, and which must tend to bring into 
disrepute a manure which almost every one agrees in 
setting a high value upon—I mean the Sulphate of Ammo- 
nia. In the Table, this substance is valued at 80s. per 
cwt., while every one knows it may be purchased for 18s. 
so that in the experiments on Turnips it appears that an 
absolute loss was caused by its application, and is the only 
instance in which such loss occurs. It seems that $ cwt. 
of sulphate of Ammonia can, under the circumstances of 
the experiment, replace about 15 cart-loads of farm-yard 
Manure; the produce being nearly the same with the 
mixture as with 30 cart-loads of muck used alone. The 
Table gives the expense of the mixture exactly the same 
as the unmixed manure, viz., 67. each per acre. Even in 
this point of view it might be useful to know, when farm- 
yard muck runs short, that it may be made to do double 
duty by the addition of sulphate of Ammonia; but the 
real cost of the mixture is only 3/. 4s. 6d., and not 67. ; 
and I submit that this must most materially alter our 
opinion, as deduced from the Table, of the economical 
application of the salt in question. A similar alteration 
requires to be made in the 28th experiment on Grass. 
I may also point out that the cost of (Guano in experi- 
ments on Grass, Nos. 6 and 15, is put at nearly double 
its present price. This reduction will, of course, very 
much enhance its value as an economical Manure, and 
will place it at once at the top of the tree. These remarks 
may serve to point out how necessary correctness is in 
every element of such a Table, and without it nothing 
will be easier than to convert that which should be the 
grand test jof truth into the parent of error.—W. H. 
Potter, Upper Fore-sirect. 
Pelargoniums.—Will you allow me to suggest the 
trial of a diluted solution of the nitro-muriatic acid 
to Pelargoniums for root-watering, where that peculiar 
disease in the leaf exists. I took one out of its pot, 
trimmed the roots, and watered it with the acid. It 
seems quite recovered ; a second, similarly treated in its 
roots, was put into the same soil, but watered only with 
pond-water ; it will go off again; both were cut down to 
3 eyes.—T. Ingle, M.D., La Hague, St. Peter's, Jersey. 
Alum useful in fixing Ammonia—I named to you the 
other day that Alum was overlooked as an agent for fixing 
the Ammonia in liquid manures, &c. and you seemed to 
doubt its efficiency. I have since proved it, and you will 
find upon trial how completely it acts, and how speedily 
it removes from a stable the strong ammoniacal fostor, 
