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3 against each other. 
SEPTEMBER 5, 1874] 
THE * GARDENERS’ 
‘CHRONICLE. 
307 
EK 
. ane we is, in my opi eithe mere 7 less 
than a hyb fpa, g an pecasiopal bloom in 
autumn, and ought never to have been allo to win 
prizes as 2 a Tea Rose, W. Paul, Waltham Cross. 
Rose w s of R Th 
two titles represent two ideas that cannot be antago- 
ic, but are yet distiuc ing as. s 
indl a great deal mor x 3 instance 
Paul’s happy thought of a garden of cut Roses at the 
recent meeting of the Regent’s Park Botanic Society 
show of Roses—one illustration, and appa- 
ry ss zaw pleasing one, of what may 
and effective display of cut 
It was par the admiration of the evening, 
k of the town = . -It was a new idea, 
ut logically it can hardly be 
said to have competed oan far less ‘condemned, the 
ods of R i 
usual met ose showing. l re- 
yealed the epay of cut Erp for broad and massive 
H erved a as received renee 
matter 
v se 
are not even protests against, far less pa for, 
the generally established mode of Rose showing. 
have their merits, which are quite independent of 
Now it i bine the two 
showing Ros at purpos 
I unde i. tt is twi ama exhibit the individual 
ht artillery of ridicule 
pare ven lines of show Rose 
boxes to sample cards of buttons in a draper’s shop 
Well, the illustration cuts two ways, a shall urge 
e cynic ow a better way of p g sample 
buttons for use as samples and illustrations than those 
same cards posing the draper 
tebe pe his buttons, would his bewildered customers 
thank him for such an exhibition of art? 
just so 
ther 
all the co 
should te set a 
is cient now wit 
with the artistic grouping of Roses for show, whic 
would, in so far as it operated, tell only and wholly 
against merit alone being the determining quality i 
the decision. are shown that the highest cultural 
skill may be exhibited a wW. esen 
mode of showing them jurors and the 
gt nables the 
public to concentrate their attention on these Ferae ; 
Those 
ae 
any 
wers and foliage aad go 
a 
R n 
toa show mere the word ‘‘ merely ” 
for o th ms no reason why almost 
tiny Roso show should at likewise aaa a show 
of Roses. Let us hold fast to a system that has 
largely made our Roses what they are, and helped to 
develope an ersal taste for 3 but let 
us also link o; ery other mode of displaying 
and exhibiting them. The mo igre these methods 
er. P given a charming 
place the everlasting Palms and 
sit as a nightmare on the brai 
Wreaths, e grasses, bouquets (bridal, 
high” button-hole}—all of Roses, should = eat 
their place and for the 
view, 
Mi ia 
, and the 
is it an easy matte 
highest decorative account ; they we far from being 
so docile in the 
ha nd of bit 
as may other 
urselves, but 
owers, 
it is 
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neithe mon 
acquired, Our facetious Tod, Mr, She Hibberd, 
'be 
suggests that the Roses 
paed t to yademiapa without trepanning. The wir 
is, however, largely indulged in alike by the 
Ros 
bouquetist and 
~ 
4 
the Ros 
any ees 
asily 
2 
ao 
= 
e dapor tor. 
n bec 
a a pete cup of = 1 a phe ona po of spotless 
erdure, De T) Fish 
iebald 
aes us two Prats growing on the sa 
s,—A correspondent recently for- 
me haulm, 
the one being of the usual green colour, the other 
the seeds in eac 
case hei reen. No 
The only other explanation is that 
of reversion, an 
is is borne out by 
the pe Ren h letter from Mr, Laxton, though we 
Fic. 66.—8 
ICOLOR-PEAS, 
eA nene in the dark as to the cause of the rever- 
510 
‘I have frequently seen, in crosses obtained from the 
very curious things. 
and on 
ally aa with 
Stam aie 
Effect of Heat and Drought in Retarding 
h has been 
Agoia many of these way, 
occasion I brought some up to the Scientific 
tween 
mmit have a curious cross now 
Tall Sugar.and Purple-pod which has produced a Poias 
u; 
pod I may state that a g many of these 
curious things ‘have Bet abroad also, by being accident- 
other Peas 
when sent out, Some have 
o me “obtained in this way.” T. Laxton, 
Potato a nai! 
Wher 
and done by those well ee for the task, as has 
bee 
n the case with r 
on the subject ; 
s 
egard 
may seem superfluous for pelii rs to offer an 
still, ree ng 
e so muc said 
e Potato disease, it 
emarks 
heat in the garden in question to have been greater 
also. -The reaaees is about 200 feet above sea level, 
trow ridge, sloping by cliff or sha 
he sea or town on t 
blowing on the exposed sp ust be in as a 
degree freed from all matters save, such as rise 
town or can ofi t The Potatos 
row of Jersey Blues 
red once a day regularly over pe 
leaves during the drought took the disease, but a 
three 
(if any) of the oF se on them, though it has 
many weeks in neighourhood. The effect of the 
heat on these Potatos i in the early summer was such 
as nearly to destroy those m 
leaves turned papie and the growth was checked, 
a brought growth 
the return 
of drought. They trong vigorous plants, the 
doubtfal bit of disease being i in ai jaos clump where I 
as given, and the 
are nll but P healthy, and 
itr coloured as almost to resemble 
ead-fruit.” 
matter oblige the writer by information whether any 
object would be eet to be gained by preserving these 
tubers for s 
Hydran g m Sore ing by a cottage near 
s struck with the great beauty 
U 
inqui informed that i an to assume this 
— about four years since, and that it has incr 
depth of colour annually since. The plant is a large 
ace a younger plan struck therefrom, 
blooming near pereee Shine pie rete Besser oon WB. 
roe ee a deeper blue than any we have seen 
fore. 
Horticultural Heresies. — The Rev. T. 
Bréhaut is not s pi eee in his ideas regarding the 
efficacy of ber flo a 
in m bee considerably 
a 
me the 
employed in the paint in t 
one for the trees, for it completly tely killed back te 
rhage of the Peach trees which i 
t to 
scale on one of 
as been 
thet tikkess + a 
spider and tip Two years : since, this next winter, 
we painted t f the Peach and ees my 
which were affecte d with brown and mussel scale, w 
oe ered ot and they were cotnphebily hated 
f both, oil and olive oil I have used with 
pain e nd parafin n is also a | deadl but 
these are no 
ble on 
wi 
th soft d hot water, 
scalding hot and without stint ; this is Ban 
other and , red. 
jder} has w spei decid on any of the Vine men 
utu 
e I mean to use hot water 
pr iter tice ‘to any dressing whatever; it has 
advantages of being very cheap, most cleanly, and 
p, mo 
perhaps the most elective insecticide at our command 
for the purposes under notice, A, P, 
e Exhibiting. — Would it 
not be a vast 
