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Joxe 1, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
683 
or double, in very equal pee see. and present 
almost all ax pence ret of observed in 
cultivated; Ros Flowering comme 8 as has 
been ‘already add, in the ‘ta ic and even a few 
those plants which are most desirable as far as 
doubleness or colou is concerned, and those 
which will produce 41 ee decorative effect possible. 
Seeds should be sown as soon as possible after 
months after sowing. This ocity is one of the February, in — r pans, placed on a hot-bed, 
most remarkable and — features of this in a greenhouse; but in this latter case they should 
new type, in which, in fact, the Rose assumes some be pl c glass, to guard against 
of the 2 of an annual. It r: very nching. Germination begins usually pre a 
curious to see mall Rose tree, perhaps only fortnight after sowing. If the young plants are left 
about three * higb, with a very 4 * in the pots in which they were raised, 1 ee 
a few small leaves, put forth, in flower even at the end of two months, M 
Fic, 100.— A PRECOCIOUS ROSE. 
less than three months numerous flower-buds, 
n into pretty little 1 Roses 
thelsize of a florin or of a half-crown, and resembling 
p Lawrence’s Bengal e, or eyen 
de Mai. The accom- 
appearance of a young plant raised from 
January 15, and ich expan its flower 
three months later. Blooming is T through- 
out the summer, but is naturally more ndant in 
the second year, when the plant ee the corymb 
character peculiar to polyantha, as shown in 
the illustration. This is the proper time to select 
a pee 
— 5 
(SEED SOWN JANUARY 15, FLOWERED APRIL 15.) 
Vilmorin even exhibited at the Socié:é Nationale 
i sigs de France two small ym one with 
white, another with rose-coloured fi wers, which, 
sown on ag 8a 1, were in flower, one pea epai 28, 
ch 31. At the same time, and 
lants 
of the 
which are not re-planted, it is much better to prick 
out the plants nto pots, and even to pinch 
them in, to induce a branching habit, to 1 them 
in a frame, and, if possible, on a am to 
growth, and to harden them of before 
l them out in the open ground in May. 
Judging by the habit of other — Roses, 
these new Roses will probably not survive uninjared 
th etimes occur in the 
We think, then, that it would be vege = give 
protection in winter by using a good covering of 
litter or of dead lar ves. To propagate 4 E 
ted to as in “the cave of “sae! Roses, 
8. Nona he — 
AMERICAN NOTES. 
(Fro * à 
ROSE BELLE SIEBRECHT. 
Wuar is to be done? Thie Rose is prer i the 
novelty of the season, and bas been lar, distri- 
merica under the above title, — will 
nown here 
name in England, Mra, W. J, € 
do not desire to enter into cag dis- 
e rights or wrong of the case, 
Priority of mame deserves respect, if only to 2 
matters; but as has so often been the case with 
must sometimes be 
it is 
before now, the rule 
~ with thie Rose we 
— over the eran 
decidedly a popular vai 
ety—and 
aer vedly so for its fine form na deine distinct 
colour; there are, we can eafely say, thousands of 
people ‘who know it by the name I have used against 
hun ps only tens, who know it as Mrs. 
ul act for the 
English accept the facts, and adopt the 
better known nam 
Tun New Lon l Garver. 
It is a matter for congrat n that the raisin 
of fands voy the 1 — pr 1 — 94 erect | 
gardens is progressing most 8 
12000 — ly now r bta 
that it y be 8 5 that the pat eg 
City will ge shortly an equal tering with 
other large cities of the w ada There is a talk o 
uatic garden a leading * 
whole, and as there 
v the length of 5 garden, it would 
seem that nothing could be more fitting, 
as the summer- heat favourable to the 
ment out-of-doors of the more tender species; of 
course, a winter pi 
regia will flourish super PLR treated, 
evidenced in the water ene ens of William — 
& Co., N. J. 8 b- 
lished several beautif rep — — 
gardens, (See ante, p. — May 18, 
Tun WEATHER. 
Talk of ns in Eogland! em my this? 2 
May 10 the te nN 
northern States, Owing to the lateness of starting 
into growth, the Peach trees t damaged, and 
the present prospects for that crop are excellent. 
Tur Batpwin APPLE, 
hile this is mo of the highest table quality, 
as llent 
still it is a standard fruit, and 
poin originated abo 
bas many exce 
It 100 y and was 
into by one Thom a surveyor 
ho predilection for that tree. 
Colonel L, Baldwin, of Woburn, Mass., had a large 
number of his or grafted with the new 
variety under the name of “ Pecker.” The el 
and his family distributed it largely, and it gradually 
ame kno wn as the the Baldwin. The he local historical 
on the spot of iecovery. The Bald iwin stands 
at the head of all rice Eogland Apples, bears abun- 
dantly, and is largely cultivated in the north 
any other, and where it is a 
winter Apple; but 
the autumn or early winter. 
