Jerr 30, 1859.] 
. —— ' who pos 
e facul the cannon 
coming, an 
sre the mselves : but I doubt whether his skill woul 
th 
seeing d 
ras able to 240 out to the soldiers in — for them to 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
e | and cut into gorges by torrents which expand here and 
th 
2 
“ Across 
westward, pum ng 
this portion f the glacier we proceed 
0 
d to —:S - ascent at 
work s¢ enced in ea 
— ascribe it to an 
within an 
I men- 
— 1 
as w. 
side. Our 
and perils and diticltis thickened round us 
|advaneed. The confusion of ice 4. acl 
chasms, amid w éd o 
ny 
hich we hew: very 
y 
the 
[ 
— crags, ind 
1 
is now in full 1 bloom, and well worth nipectiou. 
new line of railway from Lewes to t 
Roses, many of the high coloured ki 
} 3 
3 Plates of 1ce jntted : from t the glacier like 
inds 
in that way are 
extremely . Indeed 20 acres of land are said to be 
ros 
necessary in 
y arétes, 
. I had in this instance 
d y he 
and often, while perched upon these eminences, we 
flanked right a 8868, the dn th of which 
oma be in ferred from their impenetrable gloom. 
of ang — of a nay complexity had mis on 
e ridges wei broken i into columns, and 
were sisting chiefly of Géant 
bed of standards, con- 
des Batailles, Lord Raglan, 
General Jacqueminot, and Due hess o of No rfollk, c ied 
nearly an acre of ground 
kinds have been planted | in equal ene rt when 
in fall bloom as T are at prese rcely less 
A B which —— ae walls of 
were soaking w 
Ho — by dividing the — 
ed a honeycombs, — the im at 
which we crept ww. Our work 
difficu cult, sometimes disheartening; nev —— E 
me. oF oem —9 has“ done n man may 
Charles W been rendered highly 
Prev * buddi ding on it various kinds of summer 
and autumn Roses, some o 
bloom, the Banksi ian itself being the first. In this way 
ty not only of foliage but of flowers 
we 
sa far atime brandy had its . effect upon him, 
d he confessed. it; shat T kaen, that a contact with 
the cold ice w soon eause —— pear, and I 
resolv ed that when restored to a norma condition I 
14 hour 
fficulty an 
each „ they 
hes 
er their di and even to enjoy t 
ave missed, with all its ge stars 
ione bright and clear out of 
of 131 
meath us showed dimly through the V 
ead and spectral white, as if it ! 
m with a 
ther 
ives. “ “It was a night,” writes Mr. Wills, “1 —.— — 
the sky et jet; aka E 
the solemn glacier far 
y be given to this favourite Rose, and a long 
succession of beautiful flowers of various colours be 
secured, 
Of now comparatively well > varieties 
| Were more striking a; — Rag ka a a brilliant bene 
Ja 
„Looking now to the r 
righ ht, I sudden aly 1 
«ah hig 
gh above us, a multitude of crags and leaning 
of ice, on the stability c of whic h we cou uld no ot 
rge and double. This is said to hav 
s saved from Géant des atas; 1 — 
its flowers are coloured and 
dazzling than that variety, "or. ES 
R 
We were not long without an illustration of the E 
of our situation, We had reached a paa w 
glowing acque: min the 
of its blooms are more double this T than vend s cmd 
on the Manetti stock th 
— s 
J 
unt lying in his shro The 
Ly 
had y 
3: 
* er 
n 
p? in the — A 
re 
f us w we 
8 the ice SU 
E such 
of — te d 
MT ons 
an ‘enormous ha cip m that de 1 grew | 
a us brought us 
nte of 
ness of the p with its thousand omm 
light. Not a sound broke the T en 
he faint dashing of the * 
descending . masses broke into MÀ blocks. Onward 
NO wed 
chosen it for their inca path. We had just Dp 112 
hi — 
— 
e 
p^ ire 
— also is said tothrow s be: 
Kins ot eae 
1 
| glorious Jules Margottin too muc 
t» 
ceessfully, and the 
of | the fire as SS memi — 
Occasionally, by the 
ov 
» + leap 
ng down with a kind of maniacal fury, as if their sole 
nission was r^ —.— the e séracs to powder. Some of 
the finest Nose of its eol. 
| its magni ificent. flowers in the e grentest possi 
ance. Ade. veal Fontaine deep pink, " a form not 
that m handsome 
hem on striking the ice rebounded like elastic balls, 
lescribed paral 
unlike cem Ue car 
Bacchus 
through the air, ag smote 
he ice, and scattered its dust like « deuda in dh of 
in, 
r 
t 
deser! 
t 
var aq — a fav 
crimson ind beni — — deserves 
moap 
with the glacier, d tl 
vn than it is; roline de Sansalles, 
nit 
Dr and o 
that very moment think- 
le dreami E d t I was ring t dat on the 
of "the bd many a i grec — — 
os pes g between me and the blue 
at t 
— biv 
ence to ma 
me good co 
ntly from 
| that — 
har it was 
— g in th nd 
tres c 2 
1 — ent! lock to 
The 
was come, | 
n fire, instead of | it; 
e pleasures of memory or the luxuries of | as 
nation. s "e * Had Ihad much time for reflecting, | 
11 — never cot 
witn nessed an Triton ‘of 2 at all compa arable | to 
le blush, very — and double, is a showy and 
excellent kind ; 2 e e 
and full, ose 
its — 
mld have been sublim 
» 
Rus bie, rich deep rose, large and double, 
“My companion 1 held his breath — time, and then 
| exclaimed, * Ores errible ! ! il faw ut retou rner? In fact, 
^ 
= as if it would make an excellent show Rose 
of the few Hybrid Per 
suficie ently "ng - make a go 
fx 
lelo ape our nor 
9 bad r . qo: —2 shelter af ie 
Lal edi 
let us v 
~ scene even more than when E was contempla ting 
en 
place us 
When we heard the first — — ‘thie season ; ea of c 
üt a fe s just | acquisition. ‘its 3 less 
a counsellor as as rashness, end thought it but fair though in a different way. ie Genesal Bros, a- deep 
to wait "mtl my eompanion's terror had subsided. We pink with ie fall dowers ; General Simpson too, a 
l accordingly, and he seemed to gather courage aue apu .. ane 
and assurance. I scanned the heights po^ saw that a — "dier, i is a promising ; Lord 
little more effort i in an upw. ward direction w. 
—— bri 
n atom 
rose, — — ars to — im mprovemen: nt o 
also a 
ston, light aim de: is a pu of pion shape and — 
nly — we went forward. Once, indeed, 8 
d n the shado 
were Pete Sy I pointed this out to my companion, 
me i We gow to 
loose and threa len . 
which. quite EB our track, The freshly broken 
Abt Vt £t "AT 1 
E. 
be a fav. ; and of Madame Masson 
ness and - 
purplish crimson 2 must e 
lection ; Ma cone 
on- to its [rte 
edi 
co Leg, zo berg pak, le 
addi and so is Mathurin 
valuable sort in the way of Ww. Griffiths ; sieges de 
Monti ‘igny, Quee f Denm ark, and T Tiom 
"e gus of 
e 
= 
I 
berries e yea 
ce, but were fall of 
my 
ang ee ier — Be as to the 2 of 
r gerh in d m d estaped | i 
"t speak, o 
y noise, said m companion ; 
n such a case, I hel yy tongue an 
Hybrid etn The last is in the pat of, but a 
ns ided in -— ae ment 2 ae — acing 9» rger and 
other res superio ety. Of 
stock could carry me^ * E 4 
pink Hybrid I i jn mi Mrs. Rivers 
and Madaine Vidot, both of which are excellent in 
£41 
Alpine Cl 
: 
Á 
the meek and I found it continually m 
Piden the area of search. I was lucky enough to to fall i 
with a a very tree, which T was — to 
cat in pieces with the saw blade of a large knife; and 
p b will now know what ds pee to 5 
Let us ad Prof. Ramsa; 
d that 
3 
E pas d new Roses the 
ing crimson of g 
ay’s 
Switzerland and Wales forms by no means 
| glaciers of s 
interesting chapter in the prae, which con- 
the least i 
4 
this was the best pidce bat d 
Mr. Bal 
le F tho heights of the chief mountains in the | 
and a tab 
har f 
was sorry jJ. when half-past 12 was fair] y 
come and 
best are * 
ériale glow 2 for Anna 
Alexieff, a "E kind in the way of p M atgottin, 
and a free grower; Anna de Diesbach, hke Louise 
Peyronnet but br righter, a little coarse but certainly 
one of the largest Roses we have yet seen; Armide: 
this — resembles President eons bub isa 
ter 
p more striki is Prof. Tyndall’s description of| Among other matters the past w weck has brought us ptor — 1 i nd ngog 74 te Mange Delor 8 
l AR among the séracs of another of Messrs. Longmans’ —.— Travelling Com. white x fs but i rent} 8 wit 
Glacier erui | panions called the Sw ^ 6d.), and Dr. Henon and oth ppa 34 
hen n ! Lon the of | the opie wnat Nat ural Histo ks. A Manual > oe 
he Col du Gm x to ice by its own | Y Pr ro te mod 
Weight, reaches the hro e toe dd ide to 4E. ene j 
| led Le promontory of f 8| and their allies; ‘that stand on the n Trontior Bb 
hg Aizuille Noire. Thro ed it is forced — 25 al and Vegetable Full abont A 
falling steeply, form grandest ice fiint f Beegher's vuits, 
scades in the Alps. At as sammit € > T broken o trachan, Edinburgh ; and- — Low, 
nsverse chasms of eno and depth ; . slrendy — ced in our * at 
es between these break across a rp and form those Ivery en also forwarded t their 
© n A nam e of 510 St 162 
ied. In descending the cascade the ice is crushed i varying in price fron 1s. to the latter sum 
B riven; ruined towers, which have tumbled from | being asked for Criterion. ion that no jndg- 
summit, cumber the sl * smooth vertical SS at f apon these neveitisr 
— es of ice rise in succession — -a At The by exposure to publie com- 
of the fall the broken masses | 4 W. Por bedding 
* but the to billows shay is still gre grata and te par | xman | — Woon 8 lection of e * Cardi: — 
caverns, s is nursery is well known to uguste Mie, nne Prevost, n 
