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TIE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONIC 
should add, that the best varieties for this purpose are 
the Black Hamburgh and Foater’s Seedling ; Madres- 
field Court forces well, but as time is i 
well to plant Pe best of those which ri 
The last-named and Muscat of Alexandria would do 
well if time were not an 5 G. Wythes 
THE ROSARY, 
THE RELATION OF STOCK AND SOIL AS 
REGARDS ROSES, 
Wuar is the beat stock for Roses? I was asked 
this qaestion a few days ago, and my querist in- 
pt ‘hating regard to the soi 
are grow. We can se 
upon a light and sandy soil, nor will the Manetti 
do satisfactorily on a stiff clayey loam. Now, it is 
very evident that if we intend working our Roses 
stocks, we must pay due regard 
m neui 
afford satisfaction. If growers 
mind they would have fewer failures, and not be ao 
ready to condemn an because it did not 
succeed — them; nor would they express the 
se at apparent differences of opinion. I 
greatly wah that all writers would give the class of 
soil they find ae 3 stock to thrive eri when 
recommending ver another 00 
simply advise a ge k and say nothing of ie soil ; 
consequently, when a reader tsion this upo 
description of soil, he gets more or less disappointed, 
and also discredita the practical knowledge of the 
of bloo the Manett 
in various forms, iks. de la Grifferae, Poyil, and 
others, It is quite as much, if not more, a question 
of soil than of stock, for unless the latter does well, it 
writer. 
without saying, n we should hardly =" such 
grand stands s both from Briar 
save many disappointments, and also check slighting 
remarks upon the advice of really practical and com- 
petent growers, whose o only fault was the omission to 
side advice. At the same — note the varieties or 
ons that thrive best on any one stock if tw 
are being used. R 80 universally grown thas 
the most reliable guide close to him in 
nineteen cases out of twenty. A, P. 
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, 
EDINBURGH 
Bracuyctorris REPANDA, — The 
thie genus of Compositse _ are but jorra found 
par our gardens, and although they gresi 7 
said to 3 to much fro 
floriat’s view, yet they are decidedly 
wor thy of a — in eo 
in 
panicle, and the A 
those of . under which they are etimes 
Placed. They are white in colour with valid 3 
and rese 
rful fragra some m 
plant flowering here is about 
* in height; and a well-flowered specimen should 
active object. It is a native of New Zea- 
land, introduced about 1830, 
mbers of 
CLE. 177 
Vaccinium erythrinum, — This winter - flowering 
species is a native of Java, and i is of a aaa pee 
wood retain this colour for some time, it has always 
8 Meran eee appearance. The flowers are borne 
minal racemes, the corollas are of a e. coral- 
orig and contain a large — 5 nec 
— i is ry easy, a compos sp port ions 
peat and loa — —.— 8 — essential 
points. mperature is requisite. The 
plant now Rowering so is about 7 feet in height. 
Napoleona a.—A few flowers “i this remark- 
able plant have already been e Palm- 
house, where, slong with the —— species 
— imperialis, it occupies a N position in one o 
e beds. N. cuspidata was at firat grown under the 
name of N. imperialis, ＋ when these plants are seen 
growing together, it is easy to no 
distinct species in flowers, foliage, and habit. 
a description and figure of both species, I may refer 
your readers to p. 656 of the twenty-fifth volume of 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle, new series, May 22, 1886, 
They are natives of Calabar, and require a brisk tro- 
pical heat, the flowers appearing over a very long 
pe These are axillary, and Sir W. Hooker, in 
t “The 
— 
th 
genus has, since their introduction , attracted the 
— on of botanists in no ordinary degree, on 
account of the ex atructure of their 
flowers, and scarcely two of them have described it 
in the same way.” The species under notice has the 
larger — and 2 but are deserving 
of cultivation, not only on account of their 3 
liarity, but of their banig; — the length of ti 
during rat flowers are produced, 
Calliandra hematocephala, -mi s is certainly one 
of 2 mos am showy of our — ering stove- 
plants, and will, with its numerous inflorescences, 
which are produced in atalked globose heads, do 
much to add brightness to the stove at this season. 
The plant is of a shrubby habit, with dark evergreen - 
lea 
near laments of 
the numerous stam are scarlet 
with dark pin-head- like anthers, 
is extremely easy, a 
in colour, capped 
The cultivation 
ness of habit and floriferoneness. Plants were 
received at Kew fr the Mauritius in 1857, 
bat it is even now very rarely to be met with, R, L. 
Harrow, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
HOME GORRESPONDENGE, 
E COWTHORPE OAK.— I 8 your readers 
e l the absence of an ord 
ar this ven rable t tree was planted. 2 there is 
gs per foot in Oaks 
in the neighbourhood, of large diameter, then I think 
the number of circles in such timber mi taken 
n By then 
making this the multiplicand ‘et 5 factor 8, we 
Or should we take 
HILL’8 “ EOEN.“ Mr. Douglas (p. 5 is Aes on 
right in his surmise that I was not a 
existence of an edition of Hill's Eden “dated 17 7. 
It ie not mentioned by Pritzel, Dryander, Johnson 
Jackeon, or any other bibliographical authorities I 
have consulted, 
him th t Seporintendens of 
other — his 
gardens, as Banks did — fn 1 However, 
I have yet had an nity < consulting the 
accounts 71 his life and ger 
Gentleman's Magazin — e, which 
possibly — more puie in 
other points. Mr. Doug 
botanical moe but many 
of the unfavourable criticisms of his work seem to 
have been — and to have originated in ill- 
—— and dislike n rather t 
cause, 20 far as 
no woodcut figur 
the worst of it, is proved by the following — 9 
fro om Johnson's History o li ing. 
“He had a diepnte with Garrick, having published 
a pamphlet i in 1759, entitled“ To David Garrick, Ee , 
the petition of I, in behalf of herself and sister,” in 
which he charged that actor with pronouncing many 
words spelt with I as if the vowel U 
h Garrick replie hac im is one of 
“If tis true, as you say, that I ve  injare a letter, 
Tule my notes soon, and I h or the better; 
May the 3 as we ‘ar of men, 
Hereafter be fixed * the . 
Most eras h that they both ave — due, 
And may — be m for U.“ 
Hill was ambitious of becoming a * * the 
Royal Society, but was . an took his 
revenge in a clever and scathing — e of some of 
the papers published by the Society, W. 
Hemsley 
A FINE PINUS EXCELSA,—Seeing some beira 
spondence on 
when it was only 18 inches high, J. H, B., 
money, 
OURING OF APPLES.—I am no 
nthe notion that it is the conatituents of 
the soil which inflaence che colouring of Apples, 
ed i 
nary 
3 are 
lan 
5 until a 
then to rem 
all at once, and y expose t 
pod bs "Thie 1a the method of many of the leading 
