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classes. There was an extraordinary competition in the class for 
a pot of Musk, Mr. Perry, an amateur, winning with a plant fully 
a yard high. The Show remained open for two days and was 
well attended. 
STANDARD ROSES AT RATHRONAN MANOR, 
CLONMEL. 
ANXIOUS to see a superior stock of standards well grown in 
Treland, and to inquire into the mode of procedure, I visited 
the beautifully situated country residence of “Judge” Gough 
as he is popularly called here, and was shown over the gardens 
and grounds by Mr.:Mulcahy,*by whom they are managed. 
We were struck at the entrance by the tall colonnade of 
stately Beeches, and with their gently undulating grassy 
slopes on each side of the avenue. The lawn was studded here 
and there with old majestic-looking forest trees that must 
have braved many a storm and seen years of time and change. 
After a look through a carefully cultivated vegetable and fruit 
garden, well-stocked vyinery (the Grapes. being a heavy crop), 
and one of the most neat and tasty greenhouses it has been our 
lot to see, we come to the pleasure ground and flower garden 
terraced immediately in front of the mansion. This space is 
divided into two squares, and along the margin of these we 
found the immediate object of our visit, a profuse bloom of 
healthy and well-grown standard Roses—a splendid contrast 
with the carpet bedding and subtropical gardening. Four 
beds of Tuberous Begonias particularly were also very striking. 
There are peculiar circumstances where the Rose must be 
cultivated as a climber, as on walls, trellises, or pillars—cases, 
and too rare, where it should be employed asa bedder. None 
can compare, however, in my opinion to the standard shape 
and habit of growth. As there are always beginners in Rose 
culture, and as the present is the season for budding, a few 
notes thereon may be seasonable. 
Attempts are sometimes made to bud on the Briar where 
found growing, with the view of transferring when established ; 
but such experiments are generally not repeated. A better 
plan is to collect a sufficient number of clean, healthy, and 
sufficiently advanced Briars in the autumn, and transplant 
them in lines in acool and rich border of the vegetable garden, 
trimming the roots and heads with judgment. There they grow 
luxuriantly, and the superfluous buds are rubbed off, leaving 
only shoots on which you intend to operate. In July they are 
growing vigorously, and as soon as buds are sufficiently ad- 
vanced they should be inserted. If you have them not, no 
gentleman or gardener will refuse them to you. Success in 
budding very much depends on the state of the weather, dull 
damp weather conducing much to success; but it should ever 
be borne in mind that your main object is to insert the bud on 
the stock as it was growing on the parent stem, and to take 
every precaution that it receives few checks. Anything that 
induces reciprocity of sap-circulation between stock and bud, 
as damp moss, a Cabbage leaf, &c., in parching weather will 
materially conduce tosuccess. Rather than attempt describing 
the process of budding, I say to beginners, Go and insert half a 
dozen buds under the direction ofan expert, and you will, after 
understanding the object in view, be ever after able to do it 
for yourself. 
At Rathronan, the soil being of a loamy nature, the Dog 
Rose answered admirably as a stock. In adjoining localities 
Roses only succeed well on the Manetti. For instance, at 
Minella Gloire de Dijon, John Hopper, Jules Margottin, Fran- 
gois Arago, and many others were found only to succeed well 
on the Manetti stock by the intelligent head gardener there. 
As to soil, nothing is better than a good old loam with a suit- 
able admixture of old decayed manure. The typical manure is 
one or two-years-old hotbed, well decomposed. Thus prepared 
as here, the new Roses are removed as required from their 
lines in the vegetable garden border ; and with due attention 
to pruning and disbudding for some time until the requisite 
form and shape are attained success will in nine cases ont of 
ten reward your exertions. 
The following are the principal’ Roses that flourish well as 
standards in this part of Ireland— 
Hybrid Perpetuals.—Beauty of Waltham, rosy carmine ; 
Charles Lefebvre, velvety crimson; Hugéne Appert, dark crim- 
son ; John Hopper, rosy crimson; Jules Margottin, cherry ; 
Baron Rothschild, carmine ; Madame Victor Verdier, vermilion ; 
Madame Rivers, flesh ; Sénateur Vaisse, scarlet; Victor Verdier, 
cherry rose ; Miss Ingram, white, with centre flesh. The fore- 
going are old-established favourites, and the following are 
very superior kinds more recently introduced—Etienne Levet, 
almost thornless, carmine red; Ferdinand de Lesseps, purple ; 
Edouard Morren, glossy pink ; Alfred Colomb, fiery red ; Abel 
Grand, silvery hue ; Capitaine Christy, flesh, shaded to rose in 
centre ; Boule de Neige, small flowers, pure white ; Docteur 
Andry, brilliant red, imbricated; Duke of Edinburgh, fine 
vermilion; La France, lilac rose; Madame Marie Cointet, 
bright rose ; Madame Lacharme, a fine white ; Francois Miche- 
lon, deep red, seedling probably of La Reine ; Centifolia Rosea, 
clear rose, very fragrant. 
Noisette.—Céline Forestier. Bowrbon.—Baronne de Boumont, 
light rose; Narcisse, primrose yellow; Triomphe de Rennes, 
canary yellow. Maréchal Niel and Gloire de Dijon and other 
climbing, pillar, and Moss Roses are well represented at Rath- 
ronan.—W. J. M., Clonmel. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
JULY 23RD. 
THE tables surrounding the Council-room were quite filled with 
plants, cut flowers, and fruit, some exhibiting superior cultiva- 
tion, and others being new and submitted for certificates. There 
was also a good attendance of horticulturists, and the meeting on 
the whole was a successful one. 
Frouir CoMMITTEE.—Henry Webb, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 
Mr. Clark, The Gardens, Melton Constable, East Dereham, sent 
five varieties of Melons, two of which were seedlings, named 
respectively Melton Gem and Melton Favourite, neither of which 
was of great merit, but a letter of thanks was awarded for the 
collection. Mr. W. Wynne, The Gardens, Worthorpe Road, Stam- 
ford; Mr. Andrew Donaldson, The Gardens, Stoodleigh Court, 
Tiverton ; Mr. William Chapman, West Park, Salisbury ; and 
Mr. J. Lane, Pyrgo Park, all exhibited seedling Melons, none of 
which were of sufficient merit. Messrs. Veitch & Sons exhibited a 
Pine Apple from Peru grownat Wycombe Abbey. It has a smooth 
leaf like the Smooth-leaved Cayenne, but the flavour was inferior. 
Messrs. Charles Lee & Son, The Vineyard, Hammersmith, sent a 
fruiting branch of Lawton Blackberry. Mr. Killick of Langley, 
Maidstone, sent a branch of Loddington Seedling Apple, showing 
its wonderful fertility. Messrs. Rivers & Son, Sawbridgeworth, 
sent eight varieties of their new seedling Nectarine, and seven of 
Peaches. The most remarkable of the former were Humboldt, 
Byron, Stanwick Elruge, and Dante. They aiso sent two dishes 
of Cherries Late Black Bigarreau and Gros Ceeuret, to which a 
cultural commendation was awarded. A few dishes of Doyenné 
d’Eté Pears were sent from the garden at Chiswick, which were 
quite ripe. 
= FLORAL CoMMITTEE.—Dr. Denny in the chair. Lady Dorothy 
Neyille, Dangstein, Petersfield, sent some remarkable Cocks- 
combs, the colour ranging from crimson to orange, and be- 
sides the large terminal combs smaller combs were freely pro- 
duced from the stems of the plants quite down to the’soil. A 
vote of thanks was awarded. A similar award was made to 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, who exhibited wonderfully well- 
grown examples. of Celosia pyramidalis. The plants, although 
only grown in 5-inch pots, were luxuriant and_well-furnished 
pyramids 4 feet high, and were covered with bright crimson 
plumes. <A variety so good as this is and as well grown is very 
valuable for decorative purposes. Messrs. Veitch also exhibited 
a new Torenia Baillonii, the tube of the flower being almost 
black, and the segments deep yellow. The Committee desired to 
see it again. They also exhibited a splendid basket of the dwarf 
and extremely floriferous hardy shrub Olearia Haastii, for which 
the thanks of the Committee were recorded. 
Mr. G. F. Wilson, F.R.S., exhibited a splendid specimen of the 
Swamp Lily of North America, L. superbum, to show that it could 
be well grown in a pot. The two stems were 8 feet high, and 
contained about two dozen of beautiful flowers. A vote of thanks 
was awarded. Blooms of a seedling Lily were submitted by Mr. 
Wilson as having been raised by Mr. J. H. Mangles, Haslemere, 
and supposed to be the result of a cross between L, dahuricum 
and L. elegans. The flower is 6 inches in diameter, has narrow 
waved petals, bright yellow, and richly spotted. 
A wonderfully strong example of Disa grandiflora was sent by 
Mr. Speed from Chatsworth. The stem at the base was quite an 
inch in diameter, and was surmounted by eight fine flowers. A 
cultural commendation was awarded. Some fine pans of the same 
fine terrestrial Orchid were sent by Sir W. Marriott, Bart., Down 
House, Blandford, who was awarded a vote of thanks. 
Mr. H. J ames, Castle Nursery, Lower Norwood, exhibited the 
seldom-seen Oncidium curtum, the single spike containing upwards 
of twenty chestnut-coloured flowers with yellow lip; also O. pre- 
textum superbum, with very rich brown sepals and yellow lip. 
Mr. Smith, Caledonian Nursery, Guernsey, sent spikes more than 
6 feet high of Sparaxis pulcherrima covered with large rosy lilac 
bells: Itis a striking plant, and is probably hardy in Guernsey. 
It was:introduced from South Africa in 1866. A vote of thanks 
was awarded. - Messrs. F. & A. Smith, Dulwich, sent about eighty 
Balsams, very sturdy well-grown plants with large double flowers 
