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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
(May 4, 189, 
kinds, such as Countess Nadaillac and Ma Capucine, 
have succumbed in thousands, There are some 
things which I cannot understand, I have on 
y 
plants, Madame 
rine Mermet; the snow on the house 
came down on these two bushes in icicles 1 foot and 
1} foot long ; these were added to by fresh accumu- 
lations until many of the branches were covered with 
a solid block of ice; but I have just now * a piece 
from each 3 these in which not only is the w 
perfectly so oots have been formed 1 inch 
a Se em inch oo ns apparently as vigorous as usual, 
n demonstrated, I think, that 
3 e ien ioak severe frost when the climate 
May 20 last, which in many cases necessitated 
cutting away all the new growth; where this was 
the case it seems — me wing two results followed. 
nsiderable strain pon the Roses in 
— ng fresh —— rand owing to the lateness at 
which this growth w e, the wood could hardly 
be in a sufficiently pk me condition be 12 the 
influence of the severe frost; of cour 
wrong in these notions, but they do seem to 
to account for the varied condition 
for N where t ay frost never entered, and 
a Potato hakiki was blackened, i Spe not find 
that m ed losses are more than those fore baran 
years, I have only lost about 9 Teas, and 
these have succumbed not so much to the frost as to 
the ori the plants; of Hybrid Per- 
peiuals I y lost any, while Roses on the 
walls, such as Réve d'Or (planted due east), Madame 
uet d'Or, and rs of a simi 
‘sound and y have lost 
some wood, of course, but this cut out, a 
the trees are fast out. 16 p 
se de Nadaillac, Ma Capucine on the south 
plained that Crimson Rambler is not hardy, but m 
plant of it, planted in a thoroughly exposed position, 
is completely untouched by the winter, so that 
altogether I have bat little to complain of, 
rom my own limited experience, I 
now give the statemen ta t 
—_ ep temperature was 
ebruary, and which 
ical 
ine 
lants 
that I planted in the autumn : than 
the stronger plants that were planted two 
yeara since, although I bad them protected 
straw.” 
adail Cathe 
The Bride, I believe the 
be 
ard, 
ä 8 * tender kinds are killed out- 
— are almost afraid to examine 
mant buds; we bad f ka west, with stock N 
was i 
mant 
reports an extraordinary sale of L 
Sweet Briars, and says that they ought to have pro- 
pagated hit t a as some orders have to go 
unexecuted ; good news, not only for them, but 
for our peert phe ee for which these Roses will 
form a . addition. Bath is generally looked 
upon sheltered and favoured locality, but it, 
too, — “felt the severity of the past winter, for 
Messrs. Cooling & Son write, “Teas have suffered 
as much with — asin are north—in fact, we may be 
more punished, as had less snow than in some 
places; all are killed. down, and I am afraid many 
of the weakly varieties are killed outright. Per- 
uals do not appear be hurt, excepting 
a little batch we had taken up and heeled-in; 
these were all killed, strange to say. Standards, 
both H.P. s and Teas, are, I think, a g 
injured, and show it more the last few days than 
they did at first; and a good number of the Briars 
planted in the autumn are killed—all which were at 
all sappy are gone, The dormant buds, as far as we 
can at present judge, look better than we expected. 
We inspected our standard Teas yesterday, and we 
do not think we have lost more than a third.” From 
Canterbury, which, by many, is considered of 
necessity, a warm position, but is, I think, far from 
being so, for it lies in the valley and has the slug- 
gish stream of the Stour flowing through it, forming 
a little further on, those Sturry marshes which 
has made famous by his beautiful 
s, &c., so that there must be always 
pital: of damp, and it is just the position 
in which frost is most likely to be injurious. So Mr, 
George Mount says “I think everything unpro- 
tected is cut down to the snow line, I have 
never seen such havo: with the H. P. s, but am 
glad to say my Teas have escaped, for, dread- 
ing a severe winter, I went to an expense an 
ing ted Teas in 
trou! covering up 
my long border; and all my . Teas, both 
standard and dwarf I took up jast as the frost came, 
and laid down in a cool-house, and some outside, 
protected by mats and bracken. If I had not done 
so, I should not have had one left; as it is, the 
H.P.’s, both standards and dwarfs, are injured so 
that there are not many fit to send out. Iam ve 
sorry to say my strong climbing Roses (Richardson’s, 
&c.) on the boarded fences 
large to cover up in any From Reigate, 
which I think wo be regarded as the metropolis of 
Se e associated as it is with 
rown, Ridout, West, Wollas- 
I have had to prune very hard, and do not 3 i 
shall lose more plants than daik, I am uncove 
Teas to-day, and to all appearance they are all — > 
Mr. R. E. West writes: My Roses were well earthed- 
up early, and the wood was nice and hard, mainly 
due to iA — of taking out all old and sickly 
August or middle of July, according 
to the wr ae My H.P.’s appear right, 
12 A. K. hese Sa whicb, I fear, are all dead, 
my half-atandard D eas Sppear to 
have nearly all stood the * except m 
they are all dead, I believe. The tined frost 
settled all my half-standard Teas, perhaps because I 
omitted to protect them; but I know others who did 
protect that are equally un piani ” He adds, “I 
have no dormant buds.” Wild Rose 
Rose Mapame PLANTIER, 
This, one of the hybrid a section, is deserving 
of extended cult Asano 
ing e 
in the garden. Caltivated in pots and flowered i 
in close clusterz, and their 
fragrance is delinioes Z. N. 
FORESTRY, 
oh ab WOOD MANAGEMENT. 
Waite confirming a great d 
on this 8 Mr. Elwes challenges m recent 
number of the Gardeners’ — 8 ney 
one instance of woods Aves: left any ay 
rent, taxes, &c., and capital expended a 
them. As this is practical — 
that woods yield little more than would a pi 
eal of what I 
accounts for their failure from a financial point of 
view. A few reasons for woods proving unprofitable 
growing a crop ats or Turnips, on a well- 
anage ? d the latter crops be con- 
sidered intelligently grown if the cost of cal- 
tivati owi unted to half or three- 
fourths the value — the mature crop, if weeds and 
rubbish covered a co 
and early and late ripening varieties were mixed up up 
together? Would cutting or pulling one-half of the 
crop a 2 of months before it matured, and the 
and not 
Simply because its production is left entirely to 
chance, the result being that “ordinary timber, # 
Mr. ae wes pr tee it, is the principal of 
our woods, or, in other words, the greatest pre 
yoritdi of badii to the leas of timber, 
The gnarled and blasted Oak, spre Beech, 
and ragged Elm may do as objects of Y 
and in poetry, but they will not ye! g 
c. We can all admire“ 
every bole a thousand ri 
one hus the brutality to enquire of the owner, 
they pay?” Where would the farmer be if be 
allowed the sentimental part of his natare to oe N 
seed and kept his fat beasts to die of old 485, „ 
mixed Poppies and Corn- flowers 5 his corn H | 
In much the same position as th 3 
aalen we imagine 
the loss ewe and does so as 
e of the privileges still 
expects 
profit in hard cash ; a — proprietor 
ie 
