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JOUKNAL OF HORTICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GABDENEE. 



[ Febtuarj- 21, 18S5. 



has won a first-dass certificate from the Koyal Botanic 

 Society. The female parent was .-1. tricolo,-, and the male 

 A. Cri'tenon. Colour light rose, irregulai-ly banded at the 

 edn'e with white ; upper petals spotted in the centre with 

 crimson. — {Hid., pi. 2.31.) 



PncHSiAS. — Lucrezia Borgia, raised by E. Banks, Esq., 

 Sholden. Sjpals crimson, well reflexed ; petals pui-ple. 

 blotched with red. The Floral Committeo of the Koyal 

 Horticultural Society gave it a certificate. Fantiistic, raised 

 by Mr. G. Smith. Sepals crimson, reflexed ; petals, lavender 

 purple, instead of being pendant spread nearly horizontally, 

 and beneath them a second corolla with petals pendant as 

 usual.— (/6id., pi. 232.) 



Vereena— jlnnic. Eaised by Mr. Cooling, of Bath, and 

 awarded a first class certificate by the Floral Committeo of 

 the Eoyal Horticultural Society. " In our opinion it is the 

 best striped Verbena ve have yet obt.ained, the habit being 

 healthy, the trasses both abundant and good, and the colour 

 pleasing and attractive. It is a blush white at the margin 

 with a bro.ad weds^e-shaped stripe of carmine in the centre 

 of each segment. The marking is, in fact, analogous to that 

 of Striata perfeota, only in a different colour." — {Florist and 

 Pomolojist, iv., 17.) 



EOS£ CELINE EOEESTIER. 

 Theee is at page 110 of your Journal this question — 

 " Have any of your readei-s expei-ieuced this result with 

 regard to that excellent yellow Rose Celine Forestier — when 

 grown on a, wall it will not flower, or at any rate will flower 

 very sparingly?" Yes; I have experienced that result. 

 The cure is to root-prune in place, or remove and root-prune. 

 I removed mine and root-pruned, and the trees have ever 

 since flowered well. It must never be cut hard at the head 

 if removed ; after re-establishment merely cut to a good 

 eye at the top of the matured shoots. It and Mdlle. Aria- 

 tide require less cutting than other Tea Noisettes. None 

 of them want much cutting. Celine Forestier vrill flower 

 well also, if, planted in a circular bed, it is twisted like a 

 snake and pegged down. — W. F. Radclyffe, Tarrant Rush- 

 ton, Bland/ord. 



ITOTES FROM THE SHORES OF THE 

 MEDITERRANEAN. 



As one of your oldest correspondents at home I now venture 

 to convert myself into your foreign correspondent, and as 

 chance has afforded me an opportunity of visiting in this 

 and the following month many gardens and markets in ports 

 of the Mediterranean, I will send for the amusement of your 

 readers a few notes on the flowers, fruits, and vegetables 

 seen at each place. 



We arrived at Gibraltar on the 28th of January, and on 

 landing took a stroll into the Alameda or public garden. We 

 were delighted to find a most beautiful display of flowers 

 growing most luxuriantly without any attempt being made 

 at effect by bedding out. Scarlet Geraniums, 3 or 4 feet high, 

 were growing iia permanent plants amongst Aloes, many of 

 them displaying their graceful flower-stems with buds ; the 

 Almond tree flowers were just opening, and Tritonia aurea 

 appeared to be quite at home and to h.ave spread freely 

 amongst the other plants. A lilac-coloured trailing Fu- 

 maria (?) was also very showj- ; the Prickly Pears were at 

 rest ; whilst the yellow Cytisus and abundance of a small 

 •white JonquU, with a most disagreeable scent, formed a 

 pleaaing contrast to the Scarlet Gteraniums, mixed with the 

 tropical foliage of the Palm trees. We were pleased to 

 notice that several new plants had recently been put in — 

 CupressuB Lambertiana, and, we thought, Wellingtonia 

 gigantea. with several plants of, what we thought to be, the 

 Castor-Oil tree, but which, whatever tropical plant it was, 

 appeared to require protection. We did not notice amongst 

 the wild plants and weeds any thing that could not be found 

 at home. 



We visited the market at 7 a.m.. and found a most lively 

 scene, the place being crowded with Moors in their cliarac- 

 teriiftic dresj, and Spanish peasantry with their decorated 

 mulea and as.sea laden with vegetables, fruit, and poultry. 

 The stalls were well filled with Oranges, both common and 



the small Tangiers ; Lemons very fine ; but not any Limes 

 nor Grapes. Shaddocks were small. Walnuts large, other 

 Nuts small .and poor. Sugar-Cane was also on sale, but 

 poor and unripe. The vegetables were very good and abun- 

 dant — splendid Broccoli, large Lettuces, Radishes very 

 large, but exceedingly tender and well grown. Endives well 

 blanched, fine-sized fresh-grown Carrots, Turnips, Parsnips, 

 Onions, and Leeks. There were some Peas, but with small 

 and ill-filled pods, and a few haudfuls of poor Asparagus. 

 Of di-ied fi-uits Figs in various ways, Cherries, Chestnuts 

 without husks and peel, were offered in casks for cooking 

 purposes ; also Olives green and black, and we need hardly 

 say that Garlic was also there in abundance. We must not 

 forget to mention the Yams, of which there were two varie- 

 ties, and new Potatoes of a fair size. Jerusalem Artichokes 

 were abundant, but very poor in quality. The cut flowers 

 were Roses, Stocks, Geraniums, Heliotropes, and abundance 

 of the single Roman Narcissus. 



We took a peep at the poultry, but searched in vain for 

 the well-known white-fticed Spanish fowl. Strange to say 

 we could not find the smallest trace of that breed ; but the 

 birds appeared to be fair ordinary cross-breeds, evidently 

 with a strong cross of the plump, round top-knotted Polish 

 form. Hares, snipe, and quail were the only game on sale; 

 and amongst the butchers' stalls kid appeared the only 

 novelty. 



The fish on sale were small and poor, but some of them of 

 queer unknown forms — eels, soles, red and grey muUet, 

 bonetas, ink fish, bream, or rather a fish very like it, sar- 

 dines, shrimps, and oysters. 



Outside the market we found droves of she-goats, and 

 were much amused to see them being milked at each cus- 

 tomer's door as requu-ed; evidently a very excellent mode 

 of securing an abundant supply of the pirre article without 

 the assistance of the iron-tailed cow, so well known at home. 



— CtELEBS. 



COTTON SEEDS. 

 Since I last wrote I have received from Isaac Watts, Esq., 

 Hon. Sec. to the Cotton Supply Association, six samples of 

 the following kinds — viz.. Sea Island, Orleans, Peruvian, 

 Egyptian, Guayaquil, and Carthagena, with an intimation 

 that I may have more if wanted. I have now in my pos- 

 session as much as would serve about forty. If any more is 

 wanted I wUl get it. I forgot to say in my last that the 

 young plants should be carefully repotted, as they fill the 

 pots with roots. — John Ha.gtte, 36, Hlounf Street, Ashton- 

 under-Lyne. 



GISHURST COMPOUND vEBsrs SCALE. 

 In continuation of yom- answer to " Reader." in last 

 week's Journal, perhaps I may be allowed to say, that where 

 orchard-house or wall trees have been much infested with 

 mussel scale we have found Gishurst to be most efScacious 

 when applied without more water than necessaiy to make 

 a thick lather with a painter's brush on the top of the cake 

 in the box, this lather to be well painted over the stems and 

 all parts where the scale is observed, but avoiding the buds. 

 In November, 18G3, I described in this Journal an experi- 

 ment made on some old wall trees so blighted year after 

 year as not to bear at all, that a first year's application to 

 some of the trees had led to some fruit and a comparatively 

 healthy appearance of the wood, and that all the trees were 

 to be subjected to a strong Gishurst treatment, the result of 

 which I would communicate. I may now state that, with 

 this second year's application (eight ounces to the gallon), 

 all the trees bore some fine I'ruit, some of them fair 

 crops (trees which for at least eight years had not ripened 

 fruit), and that the quantity of fruit-buds and healthy 

 appearance of the wood give great promise for this year. 

 About a month ago wo washed them again with S ounces 

 to the gallon, with the exception of one Pear tree which had, 

 we Ijfclieve, never been previously treated, and which was in 

 some parts of its branches and twigs entirely coated with 

 mussel scale, to this we have applied lather from the box as 

 above described. With your permission I will hereafter 

 describe the result. — 0. W. 



