368 LHe GARDENERS... CHRONICLE. [SEPTEMBER 10, 1874. 
mee Roses 
facture as many a » Sage RaR vee each ; es On OF many points a 5 and 
ie af 960,000 FARERI H i Doais, Of course we do; 
ba apis lt pode Bats oe o a as pha as ome Corresp ondence, other apes one nearly all men think 
300 hogsheads in a crop season. Some sugar estates Roses and Rose Shows.—The second proposi- | Points. But the points ‘ 
have been abandoned since the emancipation ; a few | tion which I undertook to discuss was ‘that Rose | mot meet and answer fairl 
have been newly f ; but in general ie ee lants grown for prize blooms, however fine nay lants | 00 others as to which we are general 
tion en much extended on each es The | may be, are not intrinsically so valuable as plants | have never disputed that 
sugar of the island is put up in rp ang tierces, grown otherwise.” Let me relate how the plants goa as show Roses and garden R bi 
and wherein it is shipped to Europe, which are expected to produce prize blooms are culti- | C'early asserted it. Isay that “‘ the standard of 
The Cocoa m thrives admirably in Trinidad, | yated. First of all the best aiei Rose soil, a soil | 204 Shape required at the Rose shows Shut i 
and is cultivated to great advantage in several dis- which few possess, is selected, and large quantities of of the best Roses for garden decoration.” 
tricts, either for sale in the nut, or for the manufacture | stocks are planted on it, after it has been deeply dug tad his ski all Teas are modera 
of oi of e Palms isa | ay tty red, in order that a great breadth of onl t to refer to such a 
very interesting scene, the radiating tuft nds | highly fed plants had to cut the flowers from s _His criticisms on £ 
(Palm leaves) which surmount the tall stem-like quantities of water are given throughout the | Roses den Roses,” and ‘show 
crown is so unlike any hat even a single | g ng season, ower-buds are freely removed at | Roses, d t alter or modify m 
S out conspicuously from the | an early stag th, so that each plant is allowed | tinctions I endeavoured to point o 
nding vegetation, so as to catc eye ata | to develope only a limited number ers, and ule d e, Safrano, 
great distance. In walk ie h an extensive | every appliance is resorted to to encourage a stro garden Roses as show Roses, b raed 
plantation it is strange to see very “hae the tall mala as such is necessary to get size in the flowers, | Rose growers will endorse that opinion, or that 
straight stems, like Healer A columns, unvaried by any | Mr. Prior remarks 244) :—'* Large plants may be will be found in many Ist prize st 
other vegetation, and to be canopied by the rigid produced, veritable Titans or Se eee s in bulk, but D hee Lam _ and * Marqu 
innated fronds rustling and rattling against each more pithy than woody, &c. Here lies one of rf be in his opinion ‘ doybtfa 
other as they are swayed by the breeze. Along the my objections to sale plants which have been | but they have been sho 
Sin tn in the very sand of the the Cocoa | grown for prize blooms ; the quantity of pith in | bought them through 
F st, salt not only being necessary for strong shoots is greater relatively than in mode- | iM these instances, as in many 
its healthy grow wth, but to its very existence. The | rate shoots of Roses, and the wood is less hard | Roses and good ga 
whole of the pag oa coast might be made to produce | and sound. Now what are the consequences? In | ToclassComte Raimbaud wit s 
an quantity of Cocoa-nuts, e beach is | the first place these gorged shoots do not ripen suffi- dear from old associations shows 
lined with those Palms, which grow there SITAT ciently in our climate, as in the gross shoots of Peach | favourable ae vee 
from the wreck of one a age in ag igs Sta Deter the rete een ne ee f faithfi 1 ch Sie le na 
’ position tate of the roots being equally gross, the shock of se ul chronicler o events, —_ 
they often serve as guides to the marin The finest | removal is greater, and this is a second cause of | bright, and by no ee One would 
pecimens may be seen flowering at the early age of | sufferinc. To me it is an oft-told tale, and ares think, from the whole tenor of his letter, nae om 
three years, which is very unusual indeed ; this Palm entirely with my own experience, ihat ga oe remarks of some other writers, that I was opposed 
commencing to bear fruit generally at five or S moderate sized, we -ripened shoots eg lak the improvement of the Rose, wheseat 
od of full bearing is at Ja best after removal. The “‘ Tichborne ” Plats of the always have been, advocating it, an 
when it brings forth a bunch of flowers rize-growers often die, and oftener Š years, and still am, zealously engaged in working f 
every month, ei Stacie Riini wuts on an | feeble grow e first year after removal ; some of | it. I lov x it must be upwards 
average, and so as twenty ; each tree Ša these latter die also, while those which live are longer | downwards. I have no sympathy with the so-called 
calculated to o yie foi è Aty to one hundred n n ' t in realising the desired end of soundly | progress which, in placing one foot for 
> Gio Pun to yield fruit for sixty constituted, well-shaped plants. Let us suppose— | unsound position, is compelled to 
or seventy years i st 8 Bai herb are Digest at 24 feet | which is seldom the case—that the purchaser of such | Steps. I have never objected to t 
d requ ire very ittle att arriv plants has the fine soil, can dig itas deeply, manure | ing the form, &c., of th t 
at maaharity, a Cocal or Cocot br ag an as h ; wat ly as the prize | the constitution of the plant, which the 
exellent pasture ae d for sheep, any | grower. Even then the violence of the shock these form a correct judgment of from 
mei Stora 1 Sii Paii i Pigs, & ke, also f fatten highly-wrought plants receive by removal places him | exhibition tables, 
se = rant e pulp, or x ies of the nuts | ata isadvantage. But supposing, as is usually the | after a season or two, w n't buy. 
after the oil has been express t is calculated that case, that these plants are going into a good ordinary | growers), but then the mischief is done; they have 
thirty-three nuts I gallon of oil, and the extrac- garden where the soil is only ordinarily good, and | bought them, and probably at high prices, cbs 
tion of ee. is: is rat sigh mitive sS. ~ | where amidst the numerous claims pressing upon the | the fine flowers shown—to find experience, w 
tivation of the oa Palm evidently suits the habits grower’s time and consideration they can only receive they pay for, that they are not worth the trouble of 
of a population who are indisposed to labour ; but, ordinary care and attention. Why itis like moving | growing re are, in my opinion, very fe 
; so useful are the purposes to which this tree is rom his daily table of soup, fish, | growers of ten ge standing who cannot recall many 
; applied, that it ee under any circumstances, a matter poultry: yess &e., iet of bread and cheese | instances of this ki Your correspondent, i ming 
of sur rise that it is Rot carried out ona far more r cold meat. Men, stom, seem to thrive | four Roses sent out by him, ought in common fairness 
extensive scale. well under both tonditions + i “tnt the sudden brani to have told your readers that two of them, na 
tion Pasig the one to the Stet cans hardly be acc Lord Clyde and Duke of Edinburgh, were raised 
plished without material “physical suffering, Hence me, when ee with the late Mr. G. Paul, in t 
r hold that the fact of being able to win prizes pt defunct firm of A. Paul & Son. 
with Rose blooms does not logically lead to the con. | Zauls Niruri ies, Waltham Cross, Herts, 
clusion that the prize-winner’s sale plants are the best. — It appears to me that the real issues between 
easoning m analogy, wou ny one maintain that thi” te  Controversialists in the matter Roses and 
the exhibitors of prize sheep, prize oxen, and prize | Rose shows are, on the 
pigs, produce the best mutton, beef, and pork? Now | see Rave shows permanently established on 
I argue that the exhibitors of “fat” Roses are entitled basis, and o e oth 
to all the money and all the honour of thei izes— | ing to precedent: E 
which, as ase of exhibitors of prize cattle, are | Queen Flowers firmly seated 
not won without a large expenditure of mo ey; earned aa legitimate shone. 
to assum m their “fat” flowers that their * fat” may then the more calmly survey 
[rc are better < a eee eR s plants is oe bed array, and judge with greater fairn 
nwarranta o evidence a tive positions. Here are in 
hiya bee W: Paul, Paul's Nirma, Waltham comprising, first, the old stolid massing and 
vi oie a solid sq he with exte 
B a umper. other subdivision of the whole i 
not nat Sion as a S but” ee bien Bente a Controve sae Set Led eee coloured regiments, each sup 
wore agreeable. Those brought to this coun se Mr. G. Paul, seems to forget that he was the attack- | yet capable of producing an effect of the most t 
gathered unripe, but upon being kept for stint Ca, À hig party in ths ah ersy. If he is ey puns description. I approve of the latter, because I 
they pas a xa golden colou D ie: ages the re cha mene aoa pg a bo sider we cannot too greatly develo 
p : Orrespondent tells us that | features real beaut ossesses,, 
cal-house at Kee, sg ee aie Reger he a for sas a the Rose show, but did not get you divide, dissect, A wy its parts. 
and in in man: . kei ste after so applyin g to depreciate | become sick of the monotony of th 
5 a incorrectly terms the “happy thought of Mr. lest, in fact, we would risk ft 
Sow l the ur of another grower and ex- | Sedan amongst the Roses—let every effort 
his opinion of this show (which he | made to please v variety of taste, to A 
SA ie ane are arrayed | votaries and to extend and diffuse a love of t 
e leading | Rose. To ney this is equal to saying that, 
wheaten flour can be made in 
. other kind of confectionery otgttt to 
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general opinion to that of Cikta and Rice. Foran 
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Western ney, and. Rye are to tiet abi i 
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