Jese 15, 1895 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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er “ BELLE Se aa NEE Ms. G 
. SIEBRECH Waptry have — us 
with the ‘followin g boch relating to some 
remarks made by a correspondent in our columns. 
Commercia! men have their own standard of ethics, 
and will probably see no harm in a firm renaming a 
— s which they! have acquired the whole stock. At 
repute ation of the firm for “ honesty, integrity, and fair 
dealing” has ever been intended, Itis simplya matter 
of convenience, The Kose in question was exhibited 
ander a certain name, and more than that, it received 
under that name an official award of a Gold Medal 
from the National Rose Society. Under those cir- 
arora w is 9 inconvenient to chan 
the n actice renders aoe all 
laws 1 de ed for the general con- 
Bat a firm, especially a foreign r may 
transgress the laws even of the National Rose 
Society, and yet not be deemed criminal! Neverthe- 
less, we think we express the sense of the community 
T & Wap 
tabs ies thi is Pe to refer to several 
which a red in your valued journal upon this 
Rose, iiti geese = regret, unjaatly criticised our 
method of distributing this Rose, 
rather damaging and unfortunate for us, and while 
it does not ite Bs ae the Rose, it certainly 
ects very m upon well-established an 
well-earned 9 3 ner honesty, pista 
d fair dealinga for nearly thirty years, and w 
to say right here that before publishing such poe 
we should have expected that you would have given 
us an ora Le of explaining matters which, no 
doubt, would h revented such publications of 
maging cen on your part. 
when we purchased the entire stock of this Rose, it 
was folly agreed upon between Messrs, ALEX, Dick- 
on & Sons and ourselves that we had the sole and 
know of any rule 
was then or is now in existence, made by the National 
Rose Society, or any other Society, which ga 
es of any 
e name had 
possession of the Rose, this is simply absurd, for our 
IEBRECHT has told the story of his falling in 
love with the Rose when visiting the Messers. Dick- 
stock in transit, and also of the fortunate and almost 
marvellous recovery = enough of stock from which 
the present large number of plants that are being 
diene all over "the world 55 been raised in 
our nurseri To corroborate this statement, we 
herewith eee ie a a from the — York 
He to a reporter of which our Mr. SIEBRECHT 
gave a few facts, as stated above. The n — 
people, of course, ee to some extent on these 
statements, and such as erroneous we, of course, 
are not responsible for. > th conclusion, we wish 
aay that ne are very much ieved, and feel your 
ery keenly. Hoping 
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you may s 
t bef: } ltt l world, we remain, 
your obedient servants, SIEBRECHT & Waptey.” 
STOCK- WN May.—As we anticipated, the 
the past month show a steady 
Ada” columns we note a fall in the value of live 
stock ‘ood to the extent of £208,026; in articles 
of food duty free there is also a falling off placed at 
ee but in all gi mm raw materials 
sundry industries and cellaneous articles, 
there is a most — increase, sufficient to 
wipe out the decrease and add the excess on th 
total for May last year — recorded. More than 
that, the old gauge of prosperity, chemicals, 
Ko., is on the right side of the account; so 
also is Tobacco, an increase in the imports of 
which is supposed to a 
spending capacity of cos working classes. 
following are our nal extracts from the tabular 
summary for for the n mont 
IMPORTS 1894, 1895. Difference. 
£ £ | £ 
Total value of imports | 34,131,060 | 34,752,086 | 88,028 
(A.) Articles of food | 
aud. drink — * | | 
2 12,373,081 | 11,815,409 | —5 77,672 
a Articles of food 
and drink-dutiable 1,599,588 1,734,648 | +135,060 
Raw materials for 
textile manufac- 
tures ... ove 5,517,526 5,704,849 4-187,323 
w teri * 
sundry * | 
and manufactures 3,612,386 3,471,679 —170,705 
(A.) Miscellaneous | | 
articles 1,236,209 | 1,168,445 | —87,764 
(B) Parcel Post 47.970 1.559 ＋ 33.589 
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wall E FR 4 e 29 on” 
as against £23, 849, or zo 8 than in May of las 
It may also be w noting, in view of oe 
late strike, p! the value a ag nd shoes imported 
22 the ve months amounts to £163,037, 
e aun £172,654 in the same period last 
wae falling off which certainly was not expected. 
The figures relating to fruit, roote, and vegetables 
are always a re e., pity we have no such line as 
vegetables unenumerated,” as the enumeration 
wea re, a — to such as overhaul the annual 
agricultural returns for hints as to what to plant— 
knowing what it is that pays to bring from foreign 
lands to English markets. The following are the 
usual excerpts from the grand mass of figures for 
May :— 
Imports. | 1894. 1895. | Difference. 
Fruits, raw :— | 
.. bush. 85,214 83, 260 —1.954 
erries. j 37,115 | 11,782 —6,333 
Plums 90 805 242 —563 
Pears 10 88 259 +171 
Grapes is 1934 2,706 +772 
Unenumerated ... „ 58,775 58,965 +190 
Oni yea i 494,034 337.344 ~—158,693 
Pota ove , ewt.| 340,202 598,456 +258,254 
Vegetables, raw, unenu- £ £ £ 
merated ... , value 100,770 118,701 ＋ 17,931 
Some months si we drew attention to the 
effects * the — eats on the Orange trees in the 
Southern States of America; we now learn that, 
out of an estimated total yield for Florida of 
2 000,000 ges Lag ae has been ity 
‘tis tis true, m Palermo we learn that the direct 
trade between geh and Manchester, per Canal, is 
now a matter of great interest—it pays; and doubt- 
les egter variety of supplies will be on hand in 
— 2 of cotton. We come now to- 
Exports, 
which, as we have said, show for the month 
an increase of £860,532. The figures are— 
for past month — £18,344,744, as against 
8 The only decrease is to be found 
drink (£34,104), raw 
turers cannot supply the local custo 
that, our old friend chemicals” looms largely in the 
looks fair, for there is 
value at Pekin—all we require in return from our 
Celestial friends is that they may help to cap pes 
values in our Trade and Navigation Returns o. 
future 
RAINFALL iN TEIGNMOUTH.—The past month 
of May, remarks our Teignmouth correspondent, has 
been most cag Magn ad dry, rain having only fallen 
on og am a , May 1. I am indebted to Dr. 
the information that the rainfall of May, 
1895 b 62 inches), has in only one year during the 
last twenty-two years tnk so low in May, and that 
was in 1892, when it was 0 61 inches. 
wae in May during the same num 
wa 1878, when it was 451 inches; 
kasta for many years bax b-en 2°21 inches 
CYPRIPEDIUM GERTRUDE sae — —Tai⸗ 
fine Cypripedium was exhibited by Messrs. Hoos 
Low & Co at the Paris sn Berar whee it 
Oar French friends seem 
he 
while the 
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er at * oo e our eee ae May 25 last. 
Masere, Low’ sold, — , to 
M. Tovanizer a eee for 3000 ae = £120 
CYPRIPEDIUM VILLOSUM -A Datch correspon- 
dent has kindly forwarded a two flowered spike of 
this species, in which the oldest or lowermost flower 
presents some peculiarities. Tae upper or dorsal 
sepal is inseparate from the two conjoined lower 
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sepals for half its length. This anion has 
dragged the rest of the flower out Bap place: thus the 
two win mee instead of being nearly horizontal 
posed obliqualy aes and see 
bene — Fi — similarly drawn out of place 
that the position of the two petals and of the ‘lip 
may be thus represented „ /. The colamn is 
similarly dislocated, 
DUBLE 2 Daisy. — MM, LaxserrT, of 
ro ves, send u ens y fit 
double white Daley. Ia spite of the long time oceu - 
pied in the transit— riod t to have sent 
the plant ma Tè res. to New York—the flowers 
when they reached us y well-p 
to feat ws us in e eee L in 
the possession of so fine a variety. The great length 
of the flower-stalks, as well as the c jee. heads of 
pure white flowers, will render it very usefal for 
bouquet work. 
FLOWERS IN SEASON,—A very — lot of 
blooms of fancy Pansies comes from Mr, Jons 
Forges, Buccleuch Narseries, Hawick, 4 in- 
finite variety of colouring, and mostly of large size. 
i rethren grow these plants 
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care exercised ia choosing suitable positions for the 
plante, an unctuous, loamy soil; and plenty of cow- 
stall-manure, the paige of * as satis- 
factory here as in the may be said that 
they are scarcely e . ek the fully-exposed 
argoniams, ‘Petunia, Be- 
darted the summer months. 
Carnations reach us from Mr, Surra, gardener to F. 
West Dean Park, Chichester, in 
and white. Among 
of rose-colour in t 
flower pale, and ne deeper 
hue, fragrant, large, 125 not inclined to barst the 
calyx, with streng shoots; evidently a a 
Niphetos, yeg Reeds 
Hole, and Pride of P. were amongst 
varieties sent. Mr. Sutra ie pupil of a succesefal 
cultivator of Carnations, Mr, Jaxxixas, of Ascott, 
master of the art of cultivating 
