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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jasvanv 1, 1887. 
I may add that in my experience it is the most 
effective substance that is to be had for the destruc- 
tion of fungoid and insect pests in the soils, and 
applied to the fallow as above, at the rate of about 
5 tons per acre, there need be little fear of finger- 
and-toe. “Farmer,” in the “ North British Agricul- 
turist.” 
ROSES. 
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ne e STANDARDS, DWARFS, AND‏ 
JTUMNAL ROSE SHOWS.‏ 
o charmingly upon Roses 
But, 
Whether this arises 
a 
standards (p. 782, vol. xxvi.). He disfranchised them 
many yêars since, and lo! they have disappeared. 
Even Canon Hole's semi-classic Briermen, sneaking 
into church to find a job, have vanished, as have also 
the quarters of standards we used to see. 
man 
have the ree’ of seeing only what re wish to see 
= up and down the е and are likely to do so 
i a good many years to come, ud AE 
T «Wi Rose's " tafanchisemen t and his assertion 
that it has disappeared ying of its mop-headed 
acres of ugliness out of si ‘ight for e 
Well, on the principle of speaking Ji of the dead, 
9 ‘me add that the veteran rosarian, suffering from 
eumatics ‘or set ih with lumbago, and not a few 
E gentlewomen who have loved Roses all "red 
ives; will miss the live sticks: that raised the Ros 
-up to their level, obviating the necessity for them to 
to con пег. 
"But “Wild Rose,” E content with hunting 
'standatd Roses out of t with anathema 
‘on their ugliness—the wikis. vue of all—also 
reasons as if they were too tender to live; cannot 
` be protected; norrise up Phenix-like from their ashes 
—I beg pardon, snow line—like dwarf Roses. 
But with all due deference to “ Wild Rose,” the 
` time of cold is of far more importance in this con- 
nection than the snow line, as the former will be 
found rather hugging dwarf Roses on the surface than 
killing standards at the higher, and, on the whole, 
ard or more above 
` dry bracken into the head of a standard as to muffle 
up a dwarf with a forkful of litter? The former is 
equally effective—probably more so, from its dryness, 
than the latter, and has carried thousands and tens 
of thousands of standard Tea and: other tender 
Roses through some of our severest winters—Mar- 
gottin’s unique and unassisted slaughter of the 
— notwithstanding. As to dwarfs, though 
` the standards are not yet kors de combat, these are no 
: doebt increasing, а the more of them the n н: 
have ny ت‎ contended there is room and place 
= both’ and there is poise 
`4 "ote against the other, as 
ame one must of m ity usurp the place of 
и i and the two exist, if at all, in 
e garden drawn. Far different 
'perishing of the Manetti has also been greatly 
exaggerated. Mr. B. Cant's statement at the annual 
meeting of the Rose Society, of Roses on the Manetti 
lasting twenty years, may suffice to reassure alarmists 
on this head. A better or more trustworthy authority 
could hardly be cited. 
show of Roses at Edinburgh 
* Wild Rose ” refers to a different exhibition. 
I was not only there, but helped to judge the Roses, 
and therefore ought to know something about this 
And I have no hesitation in saying that many of the 
blooms and whole stands were quite equal to not a 
few seen in June or July. Neither was it needful to 
Fig, 3.—crocus IRIDIFLORUS. 
Fic. 4.—A, CROCUS VALLICOLA; B, С. NEVADENSIS; С, C. CARPETENSIS. (SEE P. 9.) 
go so far for a case in point. For over twenty years 
I have been familiar with Roses in September an and 
even in October, of excellent quality. 
But were it otherwise, the fact would furnish us 
with an additiona 
mo one half of the time and talent 
uc 
а garden and show flower 
se in waa i 
are by no means the raré aves ' 
nor the dismal failures “ Wild Rose " assumes. When 
ephemeral in 
' nee to the Billbergias in particular, as the bracts 
first, and A. К. Williams of the second—that the 
first was occasionally shown, and A. K. Williams, and 
indeed any other Rose, can be grown as a garden 
Still I consider this capital representative of that 
flower, Gloire Е EO equa Пу good as a climber 
or а bush, an illiams, or ro Rose, will . 
climb if you йй һеїр it with a nail and a thread 
or a tie, and donot cut it back; so that I fail to see 
can unfair in citing Gloire de Dijon аз а fair 
ample—the first in existence, in fact—of a garden 
Rose: and A. K. Williams as one of the very best 
exhibition ones where it will grow, which is by no 
means everywhere. D. T, Fish, 
BILLBERGIA VITTATA. 
A WELL L grown plant of this Bromeliad is a con- 
plant with several erowns, all flowering at once in 
the Victoria- 
nn An MARE aa 
