704 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Ocr. 18, 
knee lence had rps reached them, and that all their Po- 
tatoes were sound ; but alas! in a dri ve of eleven 
Irish miles, I found levery ane more or less te D 
wherever I saw the st ob 
get them. It would 
zai to shiners te all the v: arera y mag — 
so grandly developed, but o 
d take greater space than cou st ellaston breeder, with fine 
tian, though i stained, w. 
| iant s miry d, as very effective, the 
cup and good flame; Te 
scarlet 
Shaksp > TE 
tion n the following str 
me as remar 
fea rier e rose, which 
-Potal ae s: Lasked if the erop wassound ? Inv 
gae ‘they were perfectly so,’ but hë 
going Do T fe ñeld T I Esar ite trouble in “speedily | en 
m I deseribe it 
a | Eady Midleton, some idea ma; 
t was superb, ‘and perhaps a first-ra 
| since last yea 
appear to be searce. 
te ans ones. = were long-cupped H 
cs Paal Potter, and LT oiden ea “ 
class appears to have 
also good, e this 
Feath keiro 
co — g each e case, 
in aai 
afao] shorn that t the plague had made | 
is 
de Virgennes, , Triomphe Ro} j al 
ae Friend, with heavy and intensely dark 
+ Sur. 
Valworth in p 
varieties were few indee 3 
+ 
mn and 
idle chimeras. Som 
ravages. 
a were treated as od 
| sanan a 
my | Wilmot, 
La 
ay 
beautiful and delicate in the extre dy 
that „most pleasing of all flamed “roses, was 
han usual, 
Rose Imperial a and Arlette, but search æ be 
he erecpun of Mr. Thackera 
me g 
as all fancy, and pal Knee in 
I ted, a 
men told me 
pes ‘that ex aggera nd that 
own brain, 
ears were groundless ; ery persons have 
my, 
much cleaner 
be grown, $ though | stained, its other unique _pro- 
thos 
been obliged, from sad mamei to tell me that i 
Potatoes, which were 
right; that their g od, nee 
fectly sound when I wrote are now gone.” this noble and attractive bizarre, whilst Bases, a 
The Li hronicle says that “in the county | famed Syblomen, s appeased i rival it in grandeur of 
of Limerick, fields show unequivocal s aptos jhe | ss of groun a oa 3 
jan em feathered and a beautiful ; 
for years to come, Shakspeare, in a spiga age state, 
n (with 
before eta or anything else to beat | eh 
In flamed ro SeS, the pure fanat varieti: 
scattere d ; cer tai nly 
ea is evidently a 
Dick 
though an old sort was still at the to ‘of t 
Manteau acct as also good; a x s i 
r 
Im mperia 
and Taiao a fiam d bybio omen, was a per! rfect gem, 
Belvoir noe ions very 1 ee in a tho oy of 
with a ost e exe his 
flor 
€ aioa y ma nine tines es out of 
At Cany 3 
served, and quen damore, where 12 
acres were ned, and the d 
work on finding the plant was not worth raising ; 
the | evil was also cag at Lh a a, res aa 
kin 
was entertained. 
The Belfast Chronicle = “ that the crop is 
defeetive as rt h ented, and it RER 
be denied the rot p3 hat part is general.” 
e|the name in which he originally let 
ed rose, Violet Brun and Dayid were also rst- 
rate flamed byblomens, and Reng peed ketar, 
a being slightly stained ; t least, were 
veral of the eames Sealing ned ety F 
FI forit 3 
fiam 
Unique is Talled Belvoir Rose, but the Recs en 
detected at want Surpass Thalestris 
a 
ough i in mosteases Sahai 
Amon ie 
noticed a fathered blamed, cated La _ etait 
from what I have since learnt from M 
out the Mai 
Orleans ; however, t these alterations "may act reg t 
I 
nd | long i 
r. Gibbons, A v 
onderan 
Camillus is e and finely ra we rm rathi e 
cup for the Nottingha rire san 
mp ago, 
— at the high price of 367. pera 
was in „beautiful cha- 
i of Wales 
Moar are syno saan 
“of the two fatter 
o doubt, and the others may be proved ne 
d wel 
of the rot, t th at the purchasers are sth disap- 
pointed, « and would Aiai withdraw their agree- 
penis XVI. was beautiful, as good as it has been 
n the northern counties ; ; and asad other fine 
and | im on our fathers in © fotié ulture fam have | 
ext a Ta einen, I would add, that a list of te 
there bi a su such 
florists? Severe of six 
groping in the dark. 
owers of that period would be interestin ng to man 
WINTER FLOWERS. 
ment. y be men ntioned Britannia, | Txose who- desire, to prolong—nay, to co > 
laces.” Th j 
„an "To oor É aot tiers who rent raion] p one or two at 5 petals Ta been injured by the frost, through | the winter, must’ now make use of no 
in that neighbourhood, are sufferers to a large ex- | still it was a splendid flower. Czarrienne was very | activity t flowers, and — 
tent, the E isease having destroyed several fields, | P tty, the feathering good and dark, but rather a vision "for those intended for fore reing. To 
“We have seen some of them; they present, on Dbe. | cient in the cup, whi ch w as trian ngular, Europenne the Pong remarks may possibly be of se 
ing cooked, a derk spongy a emitting a sour | znd good ———- 
good cup. Anastasia was one of the brightest} I will pass by botanical Re and confi 
mell ; again, some are e perfect good on ones ide rst-rate, the cup Siasati to t the more pop tribes, ete 
was pure as pooaihie petals well rounded, thick and 
are far more adapted to the ir in view y 
th e Primula s sinensis ; in aa 
allowed to remain a neeo in the rni 
y br 
- | tained stock last pee tN one of pore was sent to an | 
velvety, 
. 
style of a fine Loui 
Three 
esired, this h 
flowers are 
If such is the state of affairs in urope, our trans a conspicuous chess ; wads although sige er means 
Er ends can scarcely nat of better fortune aie in in a iw neashire in a Bytes. of 12 named cult to hse y to produce it 
or the prs ew Brunswick papers are | òreecer, an two were kept in the t the period when i 
full of evidence as to the alarming existen nce of ti the | y p e ial a little management. 
Potato ideran, which, in. fact, sedy s assuredly best from seed oe 3 two 
America. From these, it app hat the disease . mie er lid ey =a saab one in March, the other in May, will suffice, under’ 
is universal in New Brunswick, in 4 kinds of land, som rac le + MrR Di om a br ree raised some cultivation, to May or ‘even Int Laon ‘per k tob 
: ate 
whatever the manure employ: d, or the seed planted ; Sopi, = pes and marking i in = way of a very e should lave been pre 
in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, V od W i 
dat Mow York died throorhdut Cañad Aei e ingto n, and will no doubt prove a valuable | the end of Sept T, by guess nt 
etna thas ag sata Seal toe. Beal evtablinhed te 5 inch and 
in England, the crop is represented as being one sorts, independent of a great quantity of pots, and an n] conditions re uired he 
my: q 
toa _ extent unfit for use. anes rf 
vertheless, we think it right | to mention that 
of ie ‘York Horticult ural. Society, that, “having 
arriv 
. tent of Soci as had been re ii esented. ainly,” 
he Sard, “a quantity í of Potatoes had rotted, aa the 
Ə 
well with 
which I only saw one, was too full of colo our, but i 
ure , fine cup, and thick Lii saw 
h to a mire. Victoria Regina i isa good sy 
- ing, sometimes with lear i 
walls covered a ich various mosses 
; | health. 
its | from 
in mpe light. 
a dark, and damp, 0 
The second stock of these intended for Ae 
should eas their gen po i the course 
3 inch to h pots, ace yor. 
objects of the caltiesinie “They shouig. as 
flower picked o: off un! ntil the e poe si 
event early Potatoes. In the late Potatoes, Sora 
e, 
variety, t 
E 
4 
hese plan 
ariy soving, T 
which: formed the staple article of commerce, ture, &c., as 
believed there was no dis We fear that| In feathered “bizarres as yal Sovereign was pretty well kno j ingly partial 
this statement applies only to the North and West abundant and good, satan ty pr one pi two where | mould. This, therefore, in j 
of England. ne Coleg: Mercury states that there artificial manures had been iet, they had e pale in | form the bulk of th com 
is - reason to apprehen x d danger in that quarter. | we a es pu aoe “state. Imperat and Pri e Ru upert | a little sound ree vere 
“ The crops rosent : —_ appearance, dli d Plant and ¢ 
adese ie = present y appe: and the ae to of 4 kares florists) was in excellent ae good sprinkling o ati usy and lively sand. ; 
It eed oe de o be pac jug ie with a a The next pre tribe I would mak a few re 
Ovr columns are so crowded, th : Svea f ~~ -| on, is the Cine h y 
RAEN = he Piena oE a 5 bi wi By tie Say Taai the palm with Royal Sove Pri es of general decoration 5 $ 
T. C lof Edi l from seed; however, as seedlings i yP 
aor “ran inburgh, to the ehair of Botan son, and is Stories one of the pier flowers of eia on as y prep nd character, i 
G y- week | its ‘class. Groo of Surpass Catafalque was | them on the meber system. 
n the eg out asa inet a post than common, and in fact it e bes , by is 
Ete some account of the proceedings o 
sion. 
LIPS OF THE MIDLAND COUNTIES. 
Ix commenting on the flowers of Nottinghamshire, I 
tter than others on the same bed, though all 
5 I observed bloo coming on 
baad 
Lucullus offset bed, an 
weak and small, gave ividenes of a superio; 
though 
may observe, that the collections generally were in 
boom cter than usual ; pre-emi 
flower ; the cup was, short, the inside „rather pale but 
beds in the neigh 
J. Wiackiay; Esq., Forest-side, who this year eclipsed 
£4 
seetaood Soni dias at touch of a 
lacing of a Picotee. 
a painter, so evenly as to remind me of a tak 
entire 
Red feathered fi owers, 
all his former good bloo ooms ; in fact his well-arranged 
i was the 
csc of all who saw it. 
_ whilst the 
abounded first-rate varieties in good strain, 
eed gee 
those of a darker shade, were ser in fy J erka 
I particularly marked a first row flower broken from 
one ¢ of Mr. Dixon’ s breeders calle d Autocrat, which was 
rwich 
“Sener Lady C Crew we, 
as pure 
sge re co 
ith pha less lovely 
mpani ons und, med b s, the most 
wate on on iat the beds cane > Cabal White, Earl St. 
— t, Lord ENetting in evs ie eel vilee, Lord 
very — pricked thickly Yaa store-pots 
but to place thet a 
e 
ale, inmate ae 
Te at resak E 
barong. —s oe the pots com 
-mehrin could 
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