170 ZH 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 7, 1875, 
VARIETIES OF PERFUME IN 
THE ROSE 
SWEET-SCENTED Roses we must all take an interest 
in, and I am sure none do so more than our lady gar- 
deners, whose delicacy of discrimination in all matters 
of form, colour, and the exquisite ere grace of 
its petals, as for its proverbial sweetn 
The well-known perfumes of Hower such as 
Mignonette, .Musk, Heliotrope, Verbena 
deavour to make a classifica- 
ein 
fication, л feeling sure, to “highly” cultivated 
Tea and 
subdivided i in an 
would here ТЮ ѕоте ee — 
T with the well-known Sweet B 
. Sweet Briar. —The garden dips 
2. Moss Rose-bud scent.— Common Moss and 
family. 
3. Austrian Briar scent.— Copper Austrian and 
family. 
4. Musk Rose scent.— Narcissus, old Musk and 
am 
ented. E a ae 
ringent, Seriem 
scent ; od monthly China à it MD ot i 
7. Damask кере scent,—Rose d i, &c. 
8. Scotch Rose e UE Pa dy 
9. Violet scented. White ia. 
10, Old Cabbage Манаа ч well-known double 
| ee 
8 
i: 
о 
un 
Ф 
Uu 
rovence. 
1r. Otto perpetual scent. — Charles Lefebvre, 
Yes Knorr, &c. 
rue perpetual scent, — Chabrilland, Pierre 
Notting, 
Old Tea scent. — The old yellow Tea or Mag- 
ч, Rose, and others almost unpleasantly strong for 
some tastes. 
Sweet Tea scent.—Goubault, Maréchal Niel, 
I5. Hybrid Tea scent.—La France; Bessie John- 
tarine, or fruit scent. — Socrates, Jaune 
— “Aline Sisley, &c., and a new variety which 
17: The Ve rdier 
scent. —Represented more or less 
h 
deli scent wie a a suspicion of turpentine 
kespi Recent 
The petals of the е varieties have on 
or vesicles, 
containing the highly volatile essence, under the 
i distinctly visible, "Those on the foliage of 
oss are almost visible to the naked 
tory organs, the interesting question, Which are the 
weetest Roses? may be readily settled. To m 
taste, and by the same rule, the following are the most 
deliciously and powerfully scented :—La 
Goubault, Devoniensis, Maréchal Niel, Bessie John- 
son, Madame Knorr, Pierre Notting, and Charles 
vre. As a rule nearly all the dark Roses are 
hybrid papata might still further be 
manner. j 
along the surface of the pond as 
Patural History, 
THE WATER SHREW (Sorex fodiens).—Somehow 
about oc a 
à mid in 
its habits, that really very few country eris whose 
Lan] 
eyes and ears are ever open, know much about it. 
have searched in vain for it, until I had come to the 
conclusion that it must be a nocturnal animal, there- 
fore not visible at all by daylight. Iam glad, how- 
ever, that in this I am mistaken : it is not exclusively 
a nocturnal feeder. The small field shrew is very 
common, so common, in fact, that although we do 
not often see = in our rambles, yet we hear its peculiar 
ge «m of life and merriment 
amon dry leave water 
shrew is equally full or life and fun, only it 
home as its sister on dry 
Uu 
of 
with the flag (Iris), ‘but “thee iiiter part of the pond 
itself was covered with Pon -— (Potamogeton 
natans), and a (Lemn Or. 
For some time I d what cere small path- 
ways were intended for ; ce 
as some aquatic 
animal was 
bes habit of. using enl but I could 
Ple the water 
st plan, if you 
not niens 
rat or some rs creature: The 
ish much abo oor or field natural 
s I saw moving beneath the water first 
one, then жй joined by another, until а small and 
—of what I 
happy family were seen sportin 
judged to be water rats, although their bodies were 
covered wit te air — "mosse TUS a 
~~ appearance to the animal. Presently 
en rapidly сате over tha Potamogeton, ү picking 
tisfied 
up! here and there some insect ; 
it was- по toi get a RUN dt eis a Sa олт of 
oe shrews. Co to a part of the pond where 
the surface was not covered with any plants, it swam 
to the side, and I had пын 
of their swimming pow 
saw any animal swim with the ease and freedo 
shrew. Judging from a distance, 
of ы s to be ex 
the 
rper eade Орнында 
of 
The motion is very graceful, it prs зза without 
ort. 
re water- ра vegetable iconic like = water 
I 
rat, or do they live upon insects and worms? 
ve they live though not ic en сва worms 
amused, un 
margin of the po Є formalin 
of ча snout, it is evidently pim - rooting about in 
search of food i Those I so attentively 
wa wan were not long in coming ш the muddy side, 
menced, somewhat like swine e when Eire 
co 
in the m ima tu urning over the grass 
t mud in search of 
| account of the 
has this -— it ea nee и itself dry, It 
dive with eas ne dive after a stickle. 
back, but it did = табе in capturing its prey in 
this instance 
visited my arwi made а on another 
occasion, about 7 o'clock in the evening, to le 
ereer, more about their habits. 
w rain com ll 
they number amongst their enemies the vigil 
The following graphic description of this interesting 
p little bow — by Mr. D 
ing. elicious e evening, 
Apri = — before sunset, strolling in ey 
looking into the clear vti ri 
o 
A 
is 
@ 
rapid motion ie su 
down cautiously a <a 
arp nose out o 
su it. 
run a little on the surface 
tl e 
timidly and hastily to shore, but with the greatest 
ution, and hastily plunge in agai uring the 
hole "€ spring of thi year, I constantly 
visited my new nie er water 
he looks y, оп acco arly cluster of 
of the pear 
minute з ау; € adhere to зу idly eee er 
him all over. He very r though 
he appears to — 5 d "ы eR is des 
discernible,” 
otices of Pooks, 
numbers of he HN Horticole (English 
edition) for Ma d June, which have only just 
reached us, contain. coloured „plates of Arae aria 
Rulei, P ered 
kind, with linear grass-like leaves, wes eg fifty 
years ago, but lately T Roezl), 
Dicksonia. асса (а me Tree Fern from 
edonia, with Mos 
Rheum nobile. 
—— The London did dne (29, Wellington 
Street) isanewly-issued periodic cal 
to London and sightseers generally. It give 
principal sights and. places of иргей 
in and about London, апа агае the best modes of 
getting about. 
The Bulletin dA rloriculure for July contains 
x Interesting ipon of Sas NM n held at Aude- 
arde by the Soc matters, 
uch 
s White hing the trunks, as a preventive of 
the ill-effects of drought, was recommended. 
p o! and other subjects were 
port is given of M. ltet's famous 
c A re M. 
nursery at Troyes, and a bein? of the cultural pro- 
cedures recommended by Mr. Rivers 
—— The 5'ournal of Botany contains an article on 
some new Chinese gau. by Mr. Le Marchant Moore 
one on a new species of Seam discovered by the € 
d v 
Тош Stuart м n n Asia Minor, an 
of botanical in 
r |  —— The coloured plates in age Hori and Pomo- 
| Zogistof the present month are devoted to Genista. 
virgata and Dr. Hogg Peach. oo is a hardy. 
with persistent greyish green leaves, most 
bighly-colo yellow flowers. The Mu is a 
y-coloured fruit, ripening early, D 
full flavour, It is stated to bear a well. It is 
of Mr. Rivers’ seedli 
~— The Gardener Gorden НЕ. ай current month opens 
with a sensible article on 
