DECEMBER 25, 1875.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
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point to consider is to avoid as much as possible the 
loss of leaves, then cut off as much of the thick root- 
stock as can with safety be spared—do not be too 
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less old roots were thrown 
strong blade and great deliberation, I cut up the root 
into pieces from 1to 2 inches in length, according to 
the appearance of the buds or swellings—some of these 
may be blind, so one must look well; and at times 
wiser for the amateur, to be satisfied with one plant 
and keep all the eyes. 
fascination in seeing how ma 
make in a lump of root-stock, and one turns it round 
and round before deciding on the best angle to take 
to make most and lose least. Now I am getting 
wise, , in these doubtful. cases resist the 
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in planting each day's batch 
of cut-up roots the same day, leaving nothing for 
to-morrow, and, therefore, only lift and cut up what 
can be safely cosipleted that day. Plenty of sand is 
needed in the shallow bed of light soil, and a gentle 
watering with a fine rose when the lines are filled up 
and the bed full completes the business, A label 
By the following April, if genial weather occur, you 
will see the lines cracking, and a loop of young leaf 
coming through here and there, day by day— very 
exciting ; and then it is well to lay lightly a few Thorn 
branches over the kee cats and birds, who 
love to scrape in oose soil. 
I should much like to trace the origin of this 
Hellebore, but no one I have applied to give an 
information, Some wildly assert that it is a seedling 
of H. niger. All agree that the North of Scotland is 
some 10 miles from Edinburgh), I drove over to see 
it, and Mrs. Hogg kindly gave me a good plant (they 
had got it in Aberdeen), and from that time I have 
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buying bits wherever I found a plant ; then sending а 
clu and lastly, when enlightened by Mr. M‘Nab’s 
root hint, I went myself to Aberdeen, and, with the 
aid of a lorry from the railway, and sundry. casks and 
sacks from the docks, in which to pack my booty, I 
reached home with a really sufficient stock. These 
ellebores that sow themselves, I have 
at different times; it is, however, not 
common.” Bitton is quite an exceptional place, and 
= lhope Н. niger major will seed there also, Any to 
_ whom I put the рон first affirm that the common 
Christmas ripen seed, and then, when they 
come to think, how wish to prove the fact, they have 
to back out of the assertion, or I am put off with the 
well-known examples of Н. foetidus and Н. ne 
Which yearly have a sod o of seedlings around the 
parent plants, To be sure fcetidus is not esteemed for 
cut flowers, and orientalis does not stand in water 
light and shady beds of heavy soil: fine clumps bear- 
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ith a third protected with a few 
branches, The pods seemed to set and swell, but 
ame to nothin have tried leaving the whole 
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several gardens where Christmas 
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1 own we have been guilty of Ms unwise 
day, and lost and hurt many a 
ough we were by way of doing the plant 
all we potent Hellebores resent being 
meddled with in this way; and for one ama- 
a hundred 
idi who "ovas the plant there are un 
ho merely love the display it makes, or use 
may be of, for their po fancy. I do think it 
= a melancholy sight to a true lover of p to 
n spring to b mises and out-of-sight corners, in 
sont establishments, and see the waste - 
tion of hard-wooded, v and n plants after 
the rire J season, ey are no longer useful 
mental, shoved cist of sight until at that bbs 
in. pen re is time to attend to them ; meanwhile 
r pots are required for spring shiftings, and they 
are emery turned out Mun their roots roasting еч 
the and shivering up in the east winds ; and 
Eois an went ney can be attended to, a large рэк блл 
tion are wheeled off to the rubbish heap. Of course 
this cog not, <не еее a to bethe practice ; never- 
theless itis w happens yearly, an 
H spei and са сая tossing about in this cruel 
way, it does annoy me, for no two plants suffer more ; 
An place, and at their natural season. 
: Is the love of forcing plants a healthy an 
Phi е ? eem it is notso for amateurs, or ur 
Itis all very right in regular large 
славой, but then you will find a hothouse 
full of Eucharis amazonica = a cool conservatory for 
white Camellias hristmas К ill not be 
boc ede and therefore X in the ners borders 
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safe. І always wish that who will have birds 
in cages and chains | canaries 
parrots, and le our native larks and bull&nches 
alone, and on the same principle with plants keep to 
bulbs which have been grown tor a for 
forcing purposes, and endless exotics, and ur 
hardy plants in the Huan That i "a the place to 
appreci aia Christma and i o have 
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if the a exercise for even 
seit a ama id will be to lift off ie on such protec- 
— or, if age м; too fatiguing, — cut the flowers 
keep е buds will expand 
glasses—all they — is a slice clean cut off when 
the extremity of the iscoloured or splits up. 
I conclude with a de or two for amateurs who 
о риши, апа А ve Н, niger major to 
dis £t trea en have been 
ose of : many trea. 
added with the help of t this rer ep 3 Ж; thanks 
Mr. M*Nab, we seldom bay are we can- 
not get by exchange we do 
I. Take as matter of pese dut you have the 
e bargain in a commercial point of view, 
парни ае because— 
2. You get plants you 
3. а „ж rid of tole Tí do not нае апі 
тоот і or shelves. 
Mi Yine AE young plants that are tiec to flower, 
and may m in a few months into two 
(And here you have the best part of your bar- 
gain, for you cannot lose it). You have gained much 
knowledge about the plant so worked with, Never 
can one ow too mu ; never can we 
know all there is to be lear 
De Candolle's advice in a itle to эку Somerville 
often comes to my remembrance си І am having а 
thorough exercise about some plan 
“ Londres, ve 5 1819. 
“ Mais je vous "aer surtout à voir méme, 
les plantes à tous leurs ages, à suivre leur таркай, à 
les décrire en detail, en un mot à vivre avec elles, plus 
qu'avec les livres,” 
F. 7. Hope, Wardie Lodge, Dec. 16. 
ROSES ON THE BRIER. 
RosE growers have long complained of the losses 
they experience every year of Roses worked on the 
Brier. Some attribute this to fungus at the root, and 
are on the look-out for a remedy. On the other 
hand, it has been said that the invasion of this para- 
site must be dependent on contact of the roots win 
dung or other putrefying matter, from heavy rain 
from the employment of old stocks, from late or ill 
жели planting, the spaces left between the 
ounds, &c. The causes assigned by the Еси 
еа: on the evils of which 
seem to meto be curious, and have brought to i 
сама that I had at опе time іп ту garden a 
bed of standard Roses ; that one day I took a 
to them because they were looking wretched (souffre- 
feux). When they flowered they gave me the impres- 
sion of bouquets tied to old brooms, and when the 
n dro over, apo. but the brooms remained, 
too m all u , having cut their head 
at туг the stems in а different places among other 
shrubs, and in one the foot of an Ailantus 
or watered, nor pruned, What are we to 
infer from this? "That the UE hs injurious to the 
rier? That the Rose budd e Brier, being 
less vigorous than the latter, does м obtain for it 
à y which | 
pruning 
prune at all, and to plant pre ne trees ! 
people are now of the same opinion. Jean Side 
Monplaisir, Lyons. 
HIGHLANDS, JERSEY. 
Tuis pretty property, situated on the brow of St. 
Saviour's acing south and 
been i 
shipping coming from England and the adjoi oining 
islands are bound to pay tribute to the beauty of the 
scenery from the н; whilst from 
ws are not less attractive, as 
St. Clements, the Minquier Rocks, and the ro м 
fishing islets adjoinin ining within their limits. There 
ing t the mm 
sea- 
