July 11, 1878. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 29 
good old Hessle, somewhat of an acclimatised sort, I expect 
that things will be otherwise and there will be a fair crop. 
Of Apples and bush fruit, including Strawberries, they are 
variable ; but those who in the north depend upon outside fruit 
for a livelihood will have none the best of it. The ordinary 
market gardener is the most dependant man in existence. He 
gets with his few comforts kicks from every corner. He re- 
quires all kinds of weather in season, but unseasonable visita- 
tions of either sun, rain, frost, or wind, and the myriads of 
insect pests are all against him. I may be pardoned for say- 
ing a few words on my Vines. I truly believe that I have, if 
not the healthiest, certainly one of the healthiest, vineries in 
the world. This 1 admit is rather a sweeping assertion, but I 
conscientiously believe the assertion is true. Regarding the 
crop after cutting out until my heart fails to cut more, I find 
that I have some twelve hundred bunches left, and whilst 
only as large as peas, I have them 18 inches long, and there 
are many when ripe that will weigh nearer a stone than a 
pound.” 
SEVERAL NEW ROSES have been exhibited this year, 
some of them for the first time, in a manner that affords evi- 
dence of their intrinsic merit. There were a good sprinkling 
of excellent blooms of Penelope Mayo at the National, and 
magnificent examples of it at South Kensington on the 3rd 
inst., where it was certificated. It is questionable if a finer 
trio of blooms than those referred to have been staged at any 
exhibition this year. Penelope Mayo is an improving and 
very fine Rose. Dr. Hogg, exhibited by Messrs. Paul & Son of 
Cheshunt at the Alexandra Palace and certificated, is a well- 
formed symmetrical Rose, a trifle smaller perhaps, but possess- 
ing a colour of its own, and is very dark and effective in a 
stand: it is a very promising Rose. Mrs. Baker has been 
staged in splendid form by Mr. Cranston ; and Mons. 9. Y. 
Teas has well sustained its fame as a valuable acquisition by 
its fullness, richness, and constancy. Of the yearlings those 
to be made a note of and ordered are Captain Christy’s Harl 
of Beaconsfield (Messrs. G. Paul & Son), Mr. W. Paul’s Coun- 
tess of Rosebery and Duchess of Bedford, and Mr. Tumer’s 
Dr. Sewell and Harrison Weir. No new French Roses of the 
year have as yet even nearly approached in merit those sterling 
English varieties. 
—— WE never remember observing the LIME TREES OF 
LonpDOoN in more exuberant health than during the present 
year. At the present time they are heavily laden with their 
greenish yellow flowers, which hang in countless thousands 
from the axil of almost every leaf. Their appearance is chastely 
beautiful, and their honey-like fragrance imparts to the trees an 
additional attraction. Not infrequently the trees are infested 
with insects, but this year they are singularly clean. The 
Lime is probably at the present moment the most admired 
tree in the London parks, and many a villa garden is rendered 
the more enjoyable by the presence of a fragrant and floriferous 
specimen. The Lime flourishes well in towns, but unfortu- 
nately it is one of the first trees to cast its leaves in the autumn. 
—— A CORRESPONDENT, “W.S. B.,” speaks highly of the 
great decorative value of the ZONAL PELARGONIUM APPLE 
Bossom, which he says is quite as pretty as its name. He 
describes the plant as being short-jointed and very floriferous, 
having large but elegant trusses of flowers, white faintly suf- 
fused with pink, precisely of the colour and exactly of the 
form of blossom of some varieties of Apples. “W. S. B.” 
recommends it highly for cultivation in pots for greenhouse 
decoration during the summer. 
— “I OBTAINED,” writes a southern amateur, “two NEW 
FucusIAs this spring from Mr. Cannell, both of which are 
not only very distinct from all other varieties in my possession, 
hut are most valuable for decorative purposes by their free- 
flowering properties. They are Lord Beaconsfield raised by 
Mr. John Laing, and Beauty of Trowbridge raised by Mr. Lye. 
Lord Beaconsfield has much of the old F, fulgens blood in it, 
and is vigorous in habit, the flowers being very large, bright, 
and produced in great numbers, Beauty of Trowbridge is also 
of robust yet short-jointed growth, and has flowers of great 
substance ; sepals waxy white, corolla rosy carmine. Both 
these Fuchsias, I believe, possess merit, and are likely to find 
favour as popular market or decorative varieties.” 
—— ONE of the most interesting of what may be termed 
toy plants, writes “PATER” is the ARTILLERY PLANT (Pilea 
muscosa). It is, says our correspondent, the most admired 
by his children and their youthful friends of all the plants in 
‘an occasional very large wedge-shaped fruit. 
his greenhouse. When laden with its tiny pink flowers and 
sprinkled with the syringe the pollen becomes liberated and is 
dispersed in sharp puffs precisely resembling a miniature 
battery of artillery. This affords much amusement to the 
children, and affords interest, too, to those who have long 
passed the period of boy and girlhood days, This fresh-look- 
ing free-growing plant ought to be grown wherever there are 
children to be trained to admire flowers and to take an interest 
in their nature and cultivation. 
STRAWBERRY PIONEER. 
THIS new Strawberry, sent out last year by Messrs. Veitch 
with the prestige of a first-class certificate from the Royal 
Horticultural Society, proves so good as to be a real acquisition 
among early varieties. It is as early as La Marguerite, has 
handsome conical fruit, highly coloured, firm in texture, richly 
flayoured, and with a slight acidity that is very refreshing. 
Much of the fruit has been decidedly above medium size with 
The crop was 
abundant, and the growth of the plants vigorous and robust. 
So much pleased am I with it that I intend planting a large 
bed of it, and also giving it a trial in pots next season. 
Tt is all the more welcome, supplying as it does a real want, 
for we have hitherto had no really good early Strawberry with 
large fruit that would travel well. Black Prince, Keens’ Seed- 
ling, and Vicomtesse Hericart de Thury are all undersized, the 
latter giving only a few respectable berries amongst a multi- 
tude of small ones, and the large fruit of La Marguerite is so 
tender that everyone must be swathed singly in wadding and 
be handled most carefully, or it will become bruised and 
spoilt,—_FRAGARIA. 
REIGATE ROSE SHOW. 
THE Reigate Rose Association Committee committed the indis- 
cretion of fixing on the same day with the Manchester National 
Rose Show. This of itself kept several all-England exhibitors 
away. Taken together with the earliness of the season it con- 
tributed to render the Show somewhat scanty, though the greater 
part of the Roses actually staged were of good quality. In the 
all-England amateur class Mr. Brown, gardener to A. J. Water- 
low, Esq., was first; Mr. J. Sargant was second with a box but 
little inferior ; Capt. Christy being third ; and Mr. Ridout, gardener 
to A. Haywood, Esq., fourth. A Marie Baumann of magnificent 
form and size in Capt. Christy’s box was much admired, as also a 
box of twelve Teas, shown by Mr. Brown. This has certainly been 
a great Marie Baumann year. The number of table decorations 
shown was, as usual, large and of excellent quality. The challenge 
cup of the Association, for the best box of twelve Roses, was won 
by the President, George Baker, Esq. The number of exhibitors 
was sonsiderably reduced by the unfavourable season. 
LANTANAS AND THEIR CULTURE. 
LANTANAS are not often seen well grown now-a-days, but 
are nevertheless among the finest of greenhouse decorative 
plants. Specimens of 3 to 4 feet in height and as much 
through, perfect half or rather three-quarter globes, studded 
with nearly globular trusses of bloom, which are borne in 
profusion from the axils of the leaves, render them very effec- 
tive and useful either as a decorative or exhibition plant. 
The Verbena-like heads of bloom are not only pleasing to look 
at, but in many varieties a grateful fragrance pervades the 
flower, and is possessed also by the foliage, which is sufficiently 
abundant to set off the blooms to advantage. The flowers, too, 
are in different shades of pink, red, orange, yellow, lilac, and 
white, afew varieties making a grand display in the greenhouse 
or conservatory from June onwards, forming a capital succes . 
sion to Pelargoniums, &c. 
Not the least of the merits of these plants is their easy 
culture. Being deciduous they may be stored away like 
Fuchsias in winter, not taking up room like plants of an ever- 
green character. Like the Fuchsia they require to be kept dry 
in winter, but not so dry as to cause the wood to shrivel ; they 
must also be safe from frost. Started at intervals, commencing 
with a first batch early in March, cutting back the shoots to 
within two or three joints of the old wood, and placing the 
plants in a house (as that of a vinery about to be started) 
with a temperature of 55° to 50°, sprinkling the plants fre- 
quently, they soon start into growth. When they have well 
broken turn them out of the pots, reducing the ball about a 
third, and return to the same size of pot, working the soil well 
in amongst the roots. Sprinkle the plants overhead twice 
