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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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number of Roses which are sure to figure 
> these Ap ie as they amd 
anaged pots. 
fein by Mr. Turner, proves how well justified 
was the opinion formed of it—that it will be one 
of the most useful additions to our garden 
= be inseparable from 
Rose, namely, perfume; but its rampant 
ieg perfect ala ( notwithstanding what 
has been said in some quarters), immense free- 
dom of bloom, all combine to make it a great 
E bapt ought 
ection, was especially welcome, 
one point which, as a matter of taste, I ore 
but thin ink unwise, viz, the custom of placing ro 
of scare of cut blooms in front of these exhibits, 
They are placed upon the ground, and while 
their formality takes away from the artistic 
unity of the collection, they are too far below 
enable their beauty 
i y 
be altogether wrong, but I question whether 
such an arrangement would be tolerated in a 
show; doubtless the grouping 
together of the pot-Roses and cut blooms of any 
one firm imparts to the exhibit a more 
imposing character, although, if my spren 
a number of the atl ae 
— as Paquerette, Mignonette, 
Anna Maria de Montravel, grown ‘and exhibited 
as I aren them by the Cheshunt 8 would 
make a 4 frontage, and be more 
generally appreciated by the publie than the 
boxes t Roses, and these latter might be 
more 8 y placed all together, as was done 
~ the Ponies, Pyrethrums, and other flowers, 
A few boxes of cut Roses which were ex- 
their It has generally been 
thought thet, eur you could get splendid 
blooms of Teas when grown under glass „it was 
hopeless to equal the out-of-doors flowers of 
H.P.’s; we have been often shown that this 
latter idea i is fallacious by the exhibits of other 
firms, but I ha 
or size and colour it 
would not be easy at any season or wherever 
a box 
and re e of 
had a most 
twelve m 
mixed varieties thus tr 
charming effect. But amateurs are not likely 
to be able to follow this method, as it implies a 
considerable sacrifice of w 
was an almost completo 
novelties, by which I mean Roses 
absence of 
hantress, a Tea in the 
style of Melanie, or, as it is more frequently 
called, Madame Willermoz, which may possibly 
hereafter be fo ound useful; there were many of 
the flowers of the last two years exhibited, such 
as Corinne, Clio, Marchioness of Londonderry, 
but these have been so often shown and com- 
mented upon, that it is hardly needful to add 
anything more about them. 
Thus have the exhibits at the 3 | 
given a pleasing anticipation of the 
What that season will be it is akin. | of 
course, to predicate; but if the drought which 
we have experienced now for some weeks should 
continue, with a hot sun by day and a low 
hes re at night, we must, I fear, look for 
arly invasion of mildew, and the 5 ia 
des este of the blooms. Mild Rose 
EARLY PEACHES. 
Tux large increase in the number of glass-houses 
which has taken place durin ng the last quarter of a 
century offers greater facilities for growing early 
Peaches, and if generally t * early sorts 
highly flavoured, ther 
quality when well ian” 
bridgeworth, by the new early ay 
raised of Peaches ectari 
extended the season during which age fruits 
enjoyed. Those who do no foreing, 
suitable walls outside, can now have Peaches a month 
earlier than could be had from older varieties. Some 
very early Peaches have come from America, but in 
e case of several of these, very indifferent results 
have attended hard forcing. Alexandra may be 
geen as the worst in this respect, and as 
any fail with it, doubtless its defects are 
e 
I should explain, my remarks will refer to trees 
that are hard forced, and to trees on walls, I have 
no means at the present time of testing varieties in 
cool-houses or i wets. > a few years ago I grew 
in unheated houses trees, most of the newer 
varieties, and was e lect what I con- 
the best kind. 2 forcing. Doubtless the 
newer varieties, better wood is produced, superior 
flavour obtained, and there is greater freedom from 
canker and insect pests. When the trees are in pots, 
na rk much care is required when the fruit has 
set, as the latter drop eg if they receive a check, 
and en over-cropped the fruits are s 
kinds whose only recommenda- 
tion is their earliness, Unless the quality of the 
fruit be good, they are undesirable, 
any growers are inclined to place the early 
Alexander in the first place for eee Oatside, 
or in cool houses, this variet valuable 
addition to our early Peaches, but when bea forced it 
sheds its buds so badly, and the tree is 20 short-lived, 
My favourite 
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cling-stone, and consequently has 
tion to many ; while a well-known auth on early 
Peaches describes it as inferior to Alexander, though 
it should be added that this description had reference 
o trees grown in a cool-house with merely glass 
protection 
Some friends in America who grow this variety 
Y, tell me that Amsden June is the most 
sets. I have on 
ear after planting 
—— fruits a 5 the third year ten gg the 
first of which was ripe April 17; 
the house was given a rest, 5 
no eee than fifteen 
pet 
poor crop, owing to excessive T i 
lls, last season, 
Amsden June ripe by the time kk — 
ove tried it on open walls } 
have no reason to regret doing so, The 
excellent, of good flavour, and very 
nother 
0 Cee 
1893 this variety ripened the third week in J 
being earlier, should have noes noted 
It has a 
ah 
flavour, few earlier varieties are superior to] 
Alfred, a valuable Peach for a warm wall: | 
above medium size, of g 
rich flavour—it is one of the best growers we 
Earl ignonne is a very excellent 
forcing, large, and of rich flavour; 
for 
where quality is — G. W 
ORCHID NOTES AND GLEAN 
CHE AM PARK. 
Tue favourite Cattleya N F. C. Ja 
is C. Mendeli, and in what was formerly 
Jac 
tinet * the result being that he 1 
hus ex over & 
attleya 2 C. Law 
Orchids, are in flo 
Odontogl 
Masdevallia Harryana. A 
-= has a salutary effect on the p 
ce of the common Toad-flax (wre 
which I is used as an edging, drooping 07 
the staging, and reaching to 
known fact that Orchids like tale a 
ab Linaria, which 8 
grows 
for the purpose; and as it keeps 
