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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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a supply of this esteemed vegetable about Christmas should 
lose no time in sowing the seed. The French Bean is one of 
the easiest vegetables to force provided it is always kept grow- 
ing, but in the winter season it must not be subjected to any 
kind of check, because once its growth stops it never does so 
well afterwards. It isin temperature and watering that checks 
are most liable to occur, and those with no perfectly heated 
forcing places should take care that they do not begin at this 
season with a higher temperature than they can afterwards 
maintain. It is always safest to begin with a low temperature 
and increase it afterwards. Any French Beans sown for pro- 
ducing before the new year are all started into growth in a 
cold frame, and by being kept a little close now and near the 
glass they grow strong and sturdy, and they go on rapidly 
when they are placed in a little beat. Now and always we 
start them into growth in 3-inch pots, placing eight or ten 
beans in each pot, and using a light rich mixture of loam and 
old Mushroom dung. One hundred pots give many dishes, and 
this quantity put in every three weeks will keep up a good 
supply, but for affording a smaller supply four dozen pots will 
be found very useful. Every person who has suitable accom- 
modation should grow a few pots of French Beans, as two or 
three pots can be placed in one corner and two or three in 
another, and in this way the space they take up is hardly ever 
missed. We force ours chiefly on shelves in the Pine stove 
and in the beds of Melon and Cucumber pits, and all of these 
places answer the purpose very well. 
As soon as the plants begin to look crowded in the small 
pots they are transferred to 8-inch pots. A few crocks are 
placed at the bottom of each, and a little rough manure and 
turf is placed over them, and the plants are then shifted with- 
out breaking the ball of roots. Light rich soil is again used 
in potting, and little water is given until the roots take hold 
of the new soil; after that they are never allowed to suffer by 
want of water, and on all fine days they are lightly syringed 
to prevent red spider doing injury. This is the only insect 
that troubles them. They should not be syringed much when 
in flower, and at that time liquid manure should be given 
them. The pods should never be allowed to become old on 
the plants, especially at first. or they will not continue bearing 
for any length of time. 
In the month of November and after that we do not start 
them into growth in a cold frame, but in a house very slightly 
heated, always taking care not to give thema “quick start” 
in a high temperature. They will start freely into growth in 
a heat of 50°, and they will grow to maturity in an average of 
60° or 65°. When French Beans are placed in early vineries 
great care is necessary to prevent red spider from gaining a 
footing on them, as it will quickly reach the Vines and may 
do much harm to them. The Beans may be started into growth 
in an early vinery in spring, but we do not like to trust them 
there to make their growth. Osborn’s Forcing and Fulmer’s 
Forcing are both good varieties, and may be depended on for 
giving a supply at all seasons.—A KITCHEN GARDENER. 
THE ROSE ELECTION.—No. 4. 
MAny thanks to “D., Deal,” for his kind acknowledgment 
of the election labours. It is unnecessary to allow that there 
is a large amount of work in it, but perhaps without it or 
something similar I should be often like Pickwick’s fat boy, 
“in the arms of Porpus ;” the thorns of the Roses, I suppose, 
help to keep me awake. 1 cannot now say on whose authority 
I gaye the credit of Lord Macaulay to Mr. Ward ; it was so 
stated last year and passed without challenge. Souvenir 
d’Elise was also last year given to Marest ; the latter I find 
given to Marest in Ellwanger & Barry’s catalogue, the only 
catalogue that attempts to give the raisers of the older varieties. 
Tf “D., Deal,” can prove that these two raisers’ names are 
incorrectly given now would be the time to make a note of it. 
To “A Lover or RosE SHOWS” in reference to duplicate 
Roses, he may judge for himself by consulting the poll, in 
which the votes given to each of these Roses separately mark 
the estimation in which each is held. As I make it out, Fer- 
dinand de Lesseps is far and away considered the best of that 
set ; Eugénie Verdier, Baron de Bonstetten, and Alba Rosea 
of theirs ; so that were I asked to give an opinion I should 
give the general opinion as evidenced by these votes. In the 
case of Kugénie Verdier I might qualify it by stating that 
I personally consider Marie Finger the more robust. 
Lastly, to “ONE OF THE MILLION” I may say that the 
general exhibition varieties being fairly set at rest for a year 
or two by the present election—though of course it will not 
agree with the opinion of any separate elector—I propose, with 
the consent of our Hditors, to have next year a smaller election 
of the best exhibition varieties of recent introduction, and also 
one of garden varieties. This I fancy will enlist our friend 
Rey. W. F. Radclyffe’s sympathies, and I venture to predict 
that not a few in the forty-eight will obtain honourable men- 
tion even for their garden qualities. By-the-by, has our friend 
tried Marie Baumann on the seedling Briar? If so, I hope he 
has changed his opinion about this brilliant jewel of the Rose 
tribe.—JOSEPH HINTON, Warminster. 
In the following closing returns of forty-eight varieties the 
Roses are placed as the first best twelve, second best twelve, 
and next best twenty-four exhibition varieties. 
My, JOHN FRENCH, Gardener to Rev. J. P. Tomlinson, Rooklands 
Devon. 
1. Marie Baumann 7. Etienne Levet 
2. Maréchal Niel 8. Fran¢ois Michelon 
8. La France 9. Louis Van Houtte}! 
4. Charles Lefebvre 10. Madame Victor Verdier 
5. Baronne de Rothschild 11. Marguerite de St. Amand 
6. Alfred Colomb 12. Ferdinand de Lesseps 
13. Marquise de Castellane 19. Comtesse de Serenye 
14, Malle. Marie Rady 20. Marie Van Houtte 
15. Dupuy Jamain 21, Victor Verdier 
Souvenir d’Elise 
. Reynolds Hole 
16, Catherine Mermet 
17. Comtesse d’Oxford 
18. Devoniensis 24. Dr. Andry 
25. Horace Vernet 37. Senateur Vaisse 
26. Auguste Rigotard 38. Pierre Notting 
27. Amelie Hoste 39. Camille Bernardin 
. Abel Carriére 40. Duchesse de Vallombrosa 
Duke of Edinburgh 
Duc de Wellington 
Souvenir d’un Ami 
Niphetos 
Edouard Morren 
Mdue. Marie Cointet 
Le Havre 
Malle, Annie Wood 41. 
30. Capitaine Christy 42, 
- Beanty of Waltham 43. 
32. John Hopper 44, 
. Madame Charles Wood 45. 
34. Monsieur Noman 46. 
. Mdle. Eugénie Verdier 47. 
36. Prince Camille de Rohan 48, Monsieur E. Y. Teas 
My. J. Smita, Warminster. 
1. Maréchal Niel 7. Fran¢ois Michelon 
2. Charles Lefebvre 8. Mdlle. Marie Rady 
3. Alfred Colomb 9, Xavier Olibo 
4, La France 10. Abel Grand 
5. Triomphe de Rennes 11. Marquise de Castellane 
6. Marie Baamann 12, Beauty of Waltham 
13, Edouard Morren 19. Lord Macaulay 
14. Fisher Holmes 20. Madame Charles Wood 
15. Baronne de Rothschild 21. Mdlle. Eugénie Verdier 
16. Annie Laxton 22, nateur Vaisse 
17. Général Jacqueminot 23. Souvenir d’un Ami 
18. John Hopper 24. Céline Forestier 
25. Jules Margottin 387. Victor Verdier 
26. Anna de Diesbach 38. Devoniensis 
27. Centifolia Rosea 39. Princess Mary of Cambridge 
28. Comtesse d’Oxford 40. Madame Willermoz 
29. Duc de Wellington 41. Pierre Notting 
30. Dupuy Jamain 42. Madame Lacharme 
51. Hector Jacquin 43, Ferdinand de Lesseps 
32. Louis Van Houtte’ 44, Etienne Levet 
33. Paul Neyron 45. Duke of Edinburgh 
34. Souvenir de la Malmaison 46. Dr. Andry 
35. Madame Margottin 47, Capitaine Christy 
36. Gloire de Dijon 48. Emilie Hausburg 
Mr. ROBERT CRAIG, Gardener to General the Hon. A. Upton, 
Levent Hall, Westmoreland. 
1. Maréchal Niel 7. Lord Macaulay 
2. Alfred Colomb 8. Louis Van Houtte 
3. Edouard Morren 9. Marie Baumann 
4, Exposition de Brie 10. Pierre Notting 
5. Hippolyte Jamain 11. Reynolds Hole 
6. La France 12. Prince Camille de Rohan 
13. Gloire de Dijon 19. Etienne Dupuy 
14. Baronne de Rothschild 20. Francois Michelon 
15. Boule de Neige 21. Duchesse de Morny 
16. Camille Bernardin 22. Madame Hippolyte Jamain 
17. Comtesse d’Oxford 23. Sénateur Vaisse 
18. Dr. Andry 24, Xavier Olibo 
25. Belle Lyonnaise 37. Felix Genero 
26. Baron de Bonstetten 38. Francois Louyat 
27. Baronne de Maynard 39. Général Jacqueminot 
28. Capitaine Christy 40. John Hopper 
29. Centifolia Rosea 41. Leopold Premier 
30, Charles Lefebvre 42, Lord Clyde 
31. Charles Rouillara 43. Madame Clémence Joigneaux 
32. Clemence Raoux 44, Madame George Schwartz 
33. Duc de Rohan 45, Mdlle. Annie Wood 
34, Duke of Edinburgh 46, Monsieur Noman 
35, Elie Morel 47, Rey. J. B. M. Camm 
36. Etienne Levet 48. Thorin 
Mr. Francis A. Dickson, The Nursery, Chester. 
. Baronne de Rothschild 3. Duchesse de Morny 
. Charles Lefebyre 4, Duchesse de Vallombrosa 
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