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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
{ December 5, 1878. 
days of this weather with open ventilators led to the total loss 
of these fine Tomato plants and not a single fruit was saved. 
Luckily the plants along the front of the house were quite 
unaffected and afforded an ample supply of excellent Toma- 
toes, owing, no doubt, to not being immediately under the ven- 
tilators, and also to the prompt exclusion of cold draughts as 
soon as the disease was perceptible upon the wall plants. 
Due attention being given, then, to the exclusion of cold 
eutting draughts, a three-light garden frame or two would 
afford enough fruit for the requirements of an ordinary family. 
In such frames it would, I think, prove a good plan to treat 
the Tomato as a trailer, for from the tendency of the stem and 
main branches to emit roots I have no doubt they would lay 
hold of the soil like the Cucumber, and the fruit could of 
course be reacily kept from contact with the soil and exposed 
to the light on blocks or inyerted pots just as Melons are. 
Vick’s Criterion Tomato proves to be a real acquisition. It 
is a strong grower and bears abundant clusters of large round 
fruit, most of it without any indentures, and of a peculiar 
crimson hue when ripe that renders it distinct from all other 
Tomatoes. The first batch of plants of it have been in bearing 
for quite four months, and were so satisfactory that next sea- 
son preference will be given it for the general crop, with afew 
plants of Orangefield for early fruit—EpDw. LUCKHURST. 
ABOUT VINES.—No. 4. 
My Vines were all cut back to within about 3 feet of the 
base of the rafter to commence the second season. They broke 
strongly ; and, as I think a certain index of health, they were 
thickly clustered with gummy globules. To let well alone I 
have since learned is the best practice, and if I had acted on 
that principle at that early stage of my experience I undoubt- 
edly would have escaped several mishaps. 
The first misfortune was with guano. I had been told to 
put it in the pans on the hot-water pipes. A few days after I 
observed that the foliage was being injured, and at the first 
opportunity drew a gardener’s attention to the injury. The 
consolation I got was the remark—‘ Oh! but you have not 
kept the pans full of water.” Of course I had not. I had 
never heard of the necessity ; and then learning to reap any 
advantage from guano so used it was necessary to keep filling 
the pans, 1 have not used any in the pans since. To water 
with guano well diluted, which I afterwards did, is safe prac- 
tice ; and perhaps the less ammonia arising from the border is 
not injurious and may be beneficial, but I have had no guano 
this season. I still had a hankering after the fumes of 
ammonia, of which I had read so much, it being advised as 
deterring to red spider; and I concluded I would make one 
more trial to have those fumes which Vines delighted in and 
spider abhorred. I had some fresh cow manure, and mulched 
with it about 2 inches thick. One end of the yinery I covered 
it over with burnt wood ashes, and the other end for the first 
night I left it uncovered. I thought I had enclosed plenty of 
ammonia, but I never had the least dread of injury. The 
next morning a portion of the fine dark healthy foliage was 
hanging, where the manure was uncovered, like Rhubarb after 
a frost. These leaves I removed by degrees, taking off those 
most injured at once. 
In the middle of July a friend pointed out two Vines on the 
back wall which were slightly attacked with red spider. The 
news seriously alarmed me, but then I had read of a certain 
cure with sulphur. So long as the sulphur only boiled upon a 
heated brick or shovel I had understood there was no danger ; 
and, moreover, I had read somewhere that sulphur was cer- 
tain death to spider. Previous misfortunes made me rather 
cautious, but if the spider was certain of suffering before the 
foliage the task was easy enough. Armed with a magnifying 
glass, the better to observe the effect upon the enemy, I pro- 
cured a leaf with some spider upon it, and set to work with 
the hot bricks, each brick being tested with the sulphur before 
being brought into the vinery. To my surprise, instead of the 
sulphur fumes killing the spider, it only made the little pests 
move all the quicker, and I held them pretty close to the 
bricks. After doing twelve Vines on the back wall, I be- 
thought me that another night would answer the same pur- 
pose, and that I had better leave off to see how the experiment 
answered. The sight the next morning alarmed me. The leaves 
of the twelve Vines were nearly all black, and the truth is I 
was near despair. But the most galling thing was, on bits of 
green left on the Vines affected there was the spider as live as 
before. I then removed the leayes hopelessly dead, leaying 
those partially injured, and this year I had an abundant crop 
of fruit. In a few days the spider disappeared, and I have 
not seen one in the house since. My firm belief is, if you 
commence when thinning to paint the hot-water pipes with 
plain sulphur and water, and keep your Vines reasonably 
healthy, no spider will injure them. 
I will conclude here about Vines at present, but if anything 
should occur that I consider of service to the readers of this 
Journal I shall only be too glad to return to the subject another 
time.—JOSEPH WITHERSPOON, Chester-le-Street. 
TEA AND NOISETTE ROSES. 
I CANNOT conceive why anyone should wish to write down 
such a beautiful and fragrant Rose as Gloire de Dijon, un- 
questionably the finest Tea Rose in cultivation for every pur- 
pose. The commonness of this Rose is, I think, its only fault, 
if that be a fault, for I apprehend what makes a Rose very 
common is its ability to withstand every vicissitude of soil 
and climate, coupled with so much beauty that everyone likes 
to see it, and therefore everyone grows it. It has such a scent, 
too, that a basket of it is always welcome in a room, and to 
hospitals, infirmaries, and invalids in general it is a boon that 
cannot be replaced. What other Rose can replace it? None 
other, for it has no equal. Give Gloire de Dijon the same 
treatment that the other exhibition Roses receive and it will 
not disappoint you. It is too often allowed to exhaust itself 
with blooming, and seldom receives proper attention, in many 
cases none whatever ; but unkind treatment will not kill Gloire 
any more than unkind words will make one plant of it be 
crown the less; it is of too good a stamp for that. Give 
honour where it is due, and think of the Roses we should be 
without had Gloire de Dijon never come to light. But the 
more we think of it the more we must honourit. Gloire has 
not won its fame in a season; it is an old and tried friend, 
seldom absent from its post, the delight of thousands, loved 
and cherished by us all, and I fear it will not be in the life- 
time of any of us that so good a Rose will be raised again. 
About Maréchal Niel I have nothing to say. ‘‘ HEREFORD- 
SHIRE INCUMBENT” says it is the grandest of all Roses, and I 
agree with him. Would that it had the hardihood to bear our 
climate. I object to the laudation of Madame Berard both by 
“WyLp SAVAGE” and ‘“‘ HEREFORDSHIRE INCUMBENT.” I 
admit its fine copper colour and its vigour, but it will never 
become popular like Gloire de Dijon, it is too shy a bloomer 
for that. One plant of Gloire will give more blooms than a 
dozen of Madame Berard, and in my opinion superior blooms 
both for show or any other purpose. Madame Berard has no 
scent—a fatal objection to its ever becoming popular, and one 
that ought to carry some weight even for exhibition ; for what 
is a Rose after all without scent? 
I would suggest to ‘‘ HEREFORDSHIRE INCUMBENT”? that 
instead of naming Souvenir d’Elise twice he substitute Jean 
Pernet; it is a grand colour, but it needs more substance. 
Céline Forestier is also worth a place, as it is one of the very 
best Roses for all purposes—vigorous grower, fine colour, 
tichly scented, and an excellent autumn Rose. It is no doubt 
rather small for exhibition, but I have seen it very fine. Mr. 
Charles Turner always shows some grand specimens of it in 
pots. Is your correspondent correct about Madame Riza du 
Pare? It may be, as he says, the finest Tea Rose sent out for 
some time, but I do not like its colour, it seems to me to have 
no purity. It is a very good grower, fine habit, and if I 
am mistaken about the colour it will be a great addition. 
Madame Margottin is a fine Rose, but with me it has a bad 
habit of coming with double centres and ill scent. Why is 
Cheshunt Hybrid omitted? Because it is not a true Rose? 
Will it not be allowed to compete again asa Tea? I am sorry 
many of those mentioned by “ HEREFORDSHIRE INCUMBENT ” 
will not bear the Yorkshire climate; they may do so in ex- 
ceptionally good situations. Homére I find is one of the 
hardiest, generally small, but sometimes very beautiful ; un- 
fortunately it has no scent.—F. BOYES. 
EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS. 
I BELIEVE the largest Eucalyptus globulus growing in Ire- 
land stands within the walls of the vegetable garden at Johns- 
town Castle, Wexford, the seat of the Earl of Granard, Ik.P. 
Its height is 42 feet, circumference at 1} foot from the ground 
37 inches. When planted nine years since it was between 
4 and 5 feet high. It was raised from seed there, and*has con- 
