THE 
NOVEMBER 20, 1875.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
649 
y rable occa- 
sions draw t ghts entirely o t warmt 
that is required, but a place of shelter from the heavy 
autumnal very severe frosts n these 
quarters they can remain until wanted to start into 
growth rom eight ele s gene 
rally to bring Roses into full bloom from the time they 
are started, an nted in bloom d 
rt them, Abou 
away all weak or watery growing — and shorten 
the points of all the shoots, more esp "d such as = 
we ér, to o pru 
as hard as you would for a m owing роодо 
Have at hand a ball of cord a ome bast or other 
not 
them 
much light = а езе keep them e until the 
buds begin t = burst strongly all over the plants, t 
air must iven as weather permits. Carefully 
a cold puni and always shut up early to 
чараа the naturalheat, In the morning you wi 
nai i" fing oe edges of the leaves covered 
With beads o of dew, and all bearing a fresh and 
lving appearance, 
neto а 
xious grower will hene to keep 
= n ordinary look-out for that m hateful 
all pests "to t )—the 
Which coils itself in the half-expanded otn -— if 
fot detected, drills i way into the hearts of the 
ch оя г less injured, ne fall 
besides, the foliage will; и а riddled and un- 
c appears there 
enemy will be fo lurking, and a simple pres- 
^ between the forefinger and b is the best w 
mute b reenfly will sometimes be found 
: if they cannot be kept under with 
ъс ing or two will soon settle them 
Invariably found, as the plants gained strength 
good from a tolerably coarse rose water- 
‚САП Was more effectual than syringing. 
as buds appear well above the foliage 
be trained into а pyram 
idal shape 
IE care to distribute regularly the Howes buda ai all 
over your plants. First have some neat sticks at 
hand, such as small Osiers 
q 
ow colour before t many of the 
pee will allow of something being bon around the 
bud, thereby to delay its ie 
cause an otherwise flat 
нш well апа carried good foliage as well as good 
blooms. As the plants come ро bloom n fuy will 
benefited by a little shading fro 
When the plants have done blo ooming = them 
йз -ashes or some other suit- 
all dead flowers, ма give copious 
upplies of kehrt or a mul ro наан 
xs t er the sam "ge e, f 
atering and rains will wash it in, Most of the vitis, 
it they have made good growth, will require 
nis best done from July to September, 
especially with the Roses, а 
performed up to the middle of October. 
At the comme ent of this paper I t the 
quickest method of E vt a collection ха to pur- 
establi in pots; but p 
ed рі 
as follows, ааа not fit for early tute the first 
ay carry a fair A un A blooms. ive 
is to "E up from the 
+h 
mended for the 
be pruned hard ponere sprin; 
If it is required to have flowers Y^ ҮА the season 
it will e them sooner than already 
pê 
detrimental to о blooms, the flowers coming very 
sparingly and 
There are Tm other enemies to the R ides 
greenfly, the Rose maggot spoke off, hich are 
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де St, ү ыг гаа Miss In am, 
enir a 
Gr. fo 7 M Сеш, Coombe Bank, Ki ington om 
ANDRE LEROY. 
ANDRÉ LEROY, born at Angers August 30, 1801, 
the day sacred to St. Fiacre, patron saint of ^p 
was | both son and grandson of nurserymen. — Hel 
ше 
which he left when piter to study tent gar- 
dening at home. He then went to Paris to 
his knowledge Pilastre to 
his friend, André Thouin, Member of the Institute, 
rd мату. of е at the Museum of Natural 
tory entleman received him 
kindly, and М "V to his nephew, Oscar 
Leclerc Thouin, gardener-in-chief, and who afterwards 
og! , 
another, Through A uin, nephew, Oscar 
Leclerc, and - celebrated naturalist Bosc, he made 
acquaintance of several botanists, pomologists, 
n alt by his mc 
her son to be still too small ; he extended them until 
they became the largest then known his 
was not yet CMM: He undertook 1 numerous jour- 
wn instruction and for commercial 
what was done in other. 
ME e and 
visi 
England, nde "land, vem any, de pe 
land, &c. He always procur m n new plants and 
ees he coul p = 
vided him with hints wit! a en 
ing. The obligations which ае нь Vendée 
Poitou owe to him for wor this 
ciently appreci is vast n 
f proportion to the business done, 4 е е: Ley 
о 
therefore conceived the = in 1847, of foun 
was contracting f 
his — 
ound on which 
of the Revolution 
e. 
tural establishme 
of cases of trees were sent ann 
fruit trees, or a number of two-year c О 
A. Leroy'snursery became the 
t extended over 
more 
were — ди onit. Its fruit trees 
varieties, and the number of Pe plants cul- 
Gesiod in the open air was also very considerable, 
