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ТНЕ 
GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[JANvanv 22, 1887). 
ROSES. 
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MARECHAL ХТЕТ, ROSE. 
Тноѕе of our readers who possess more or less 
glass accommodation, but not a Rose-house proper, 
should purchase a few young pot-plants of the above 
much-esteemed Rose, either on its own roots or 
plants which were worked on the ey Brier last 
wn on uninterruptedly from. then 
till the fall of the leaf, and plant them бын, their 
greenhouse in good soil, taking the long Vine-like 
zontally to the rafters within 9 or 10 inches of the 
glass, and the result next April, May, and June, will 
be such as to repay them tenfold for their obo 
ЖУО, 
Tur Manfcman Niet Rose FOR FORCING. 
The Maréchal Niel has but one fault—for many 
purposes there is too much of it ; though many will 
possibly dissent from this view, and assert that it is 
impossible to have too much of such a good — 
But for buttonhole and other bouquet oo 
Maréchal is regarded by eh as being too 
and may readily be surpassed by such mere Si 
in comparison as Madame Falcot, Safrano, Ni- 
re as rushlights to a sun- 
purposes. And of single 
blooms of this Rose it тау be added that if too 
heavy Pas some kinds of bouquet-making, each flower 
is a finished bouquet, and in itself full to — 
of richest golden beauty test fragrance. 
In precociousness and proliferousness the Maréchal 
Niel is also Rose i 
vato the plant seems 
Even the smallest shoot: uce blooms 
enormous size, while the irem 8 
into bunchlets of blossom along their entire course. 
There is hardly a more magnifice 
entire range of horticulture than long ons: о 
Maréchal Niel Rose decorating roof, rafters, or richly 
clothing walls with "e ту. 
ve € on the Maréchal, but 
I wonder if any one has weighed or — the 
m weight of the produce of а I 
once being forcibly meteo by jn d. 
like n weight of a twelve-dozen box, and am sure that 
the specific gravity of its golden. harvest would so 
most rosarians that they would cease to 
marvel that so little organisable matter was left over 
for making to make presentable stems for the 
ponderous blooms 
There are three. general modes of e ачага 
Niel Roses —by ping out, specially 
lants in pots and flowering them once, "treating 
them, in fact, as biennials, and growing bush, 
standard, or елы plants in pots, and гуу зарын 
them several or many years in succession. Each 
of the system y be said to be on the whole alike 
in this rather startling engen that they only 
bloom oncea year as a rule. may be said that 
the same holds of the Maréchal Niel in the 
open ; but the surprising ү. here is that this does 
not apply so absolutely nor to the same extent to 
Maréchal Niel in the oA ob as under glass. The pro- 
babilities of the case were wholly the other эм: 
With climate ir full control it might reasonab 
have been Maréchal Niel тш 
looming as 
í 
at the 
rced into successional 
nt sight within the 
cord f 
chals aeg on the Dog Rose, in the open air, in 
the autum 
no more successful mode of forcing the 
der 
loam, enriched and slightly loosened by the addition 
є — rotten — Plant the plants at dis- 
of.a yard, " et apart according to 
че ipie the Adi roof or wall they have 
to cover, and the time хов for furnishing. In 
all case 
fi and provides against 
the с a which should be reckoned upon as a 
certainty Maréchal Niels—a sudden break 
ranches. ere is 
o be over roof 
eigen. within 1 or 2 eg ‘of the glass, after the 
manner of Peaches or Fig 
From the general оа there are many differ- 
nces and variations of eme and training. Most 
et these, however, may be arranged under the general 
well-known methods—the long rod and spur system 
of pruning and training. The first consists in bloom- 
ing a portion, or almost the whole, of the main 
shoots but once. The plants are furnished with two 
sets of w blooming an growing. 'Th 
w the current year becomes the 
shoots are cut right out to their base. "This either 
furnishes space to se growing sh 
tarted, or forces the pegs of vigorous shoots, 
that yet have most he n them to 
of t 
mature into fine flowering "аркы for the Mi au 
is system favours root vigour, and 
vitally renews the top of the Rose every year. 
By the dual process Ф severe and prom 
h t 
ailments, that of wart strangling at the а ог оп 
the main limbs. This l and an mode of 
pruning enables the cultivator ме leanne the 
warts by under-pruning, and so doing away at once 
with their restrictive force and DE effect. 
Spur pruning is so well understood as hardly to 
need erty definition. The foundation of the 
system 
of ee $c the main shoots. 
blooming shoot is cut or spurre 
ana herein the 
rred bac 
uit 
will yield a 
larger harvest of bloom than this simple one of 
spurring-in the lateral or side shoots on the main 
branches of the Maréchal Ni 
rpet 
No system 
ma b 
the life BA the maintenance of the full vigour of 
the plant. Without arme at length on the vexed 
question of donate it may suffice here to say that there 
is no better stock for Maréchal Niel Rose for forc orcing 
n that s the Gloire de Dijon. Good results have 
so been obtained from own-root Maréchals, and 
as from Maréchals on the Brier. 
Temperature, general treatment under glass, and 
forcing the Maréchal Niel in pots will furnish the 
subject of my next communication. Rosa 
. PURITY OF WATER. —Iti is re di that the ы 
вепсе. of Watercress isturtiüm. officinale) ‘in 
stream is an evidence of the pene Mente: of ei 
water, while, on the other hand, the presence of 
Duckweed (Lemna minor) is an indication of im- 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA, 
HELLEBORUS NIGER. 
Ix spite of the almost exiret severe wea- — — 
ther, the Christmas Roses are makin ga 
in the apes rere at рот 
forms 
the iius ion 
d we believe one of the plants at pre- 
sent there was sent by that gentleman from Brock- yl 
hurtin a a later in flowering than the others, lil 
and c succession of bloom : 
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plants being well furnished with “= healthy level, a 
ле — of flowers just preparing to open. I 
dar uld be kept in better health by an 
жы. ме апа леин шй up, replanting in fresh — 
rich and арчы soil; а good depth of soil 
should also be give H. caucasicus, H. altifolius 
rubra and vr are Ead worth growing, as well as 
the old niger itself—not to be despised, though 
superseded. D. 
EvcHARIS AMAZONICA. 
flower satisfactorily, t the bulbs should be Wess every 
mall ch € а а dash of соаг pot- 1. 
hould be sized, and [4 pt close to the 
tnn the bulb: 
surface of the et giving tepid water to settle the — 
ese about the after which no water should — 
be given, except а slight sprinkling overhead morning 
and afternoon in damping the house, until the roots — 
have pushed into the soil, when weak liquid manure | 
should be given when necessary until the soil is well — 
filled with roots. It should then be withheld until _ 
the flowering spikes appear, when the applications of 
liquid manure at the roots should be resumed, and — 
continued for a few weeks after the plants have gone 
out of flower, at hums time is Parra should E 
be rested for the purpose indicated—and so 
throughout the а always airing the ee 
temperature. Н. W. W. 
VIOLETS. 
Plants of Marie Louise have been yielding Us 
коет pi pm of their large dark blue and most. 
d flowers i 
Ж ау, and grown 
very bright a 
4 o'clock until pus became mE and well furnished. 
with flower-buds, when the sashes were drawn 
day and night until the approach of frost, which | 
necessitated a c "и А mats к que — pat 
frames 
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t be guarded iud. Pars ie dull ише 
терм NE И. M. | 
SCILLA BIFOLIA. 
mati 
to i 
ied 
unmolested, it certainly has no edi 
рыта etached, drooping m 
t of beautiful colour, Scilla bifolia blooms 
