July 6, 1676. ] 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



of Ashton's Prince of Wales came out well with a beautifully 

 pure and vivid green edge, but the other plants were crumpled. 

 Franklin's Colonel is a favourite of mine, very pure and very 

 lasting in the bloom. Oliver's Lovely Ann and Trail's General 

 Niel seem fair and easily increased sorts, but Oliver's Lady 

 Ann Wilbraham was too heavy in the body colour. 



The grey edges have done better. Lancashire Hero (one of 

 my plants is green-edged), Lightbody's Inkerman, Cunning- 

 ham's John Waterston, McLean's Unique, Lightbody's Richard 

 Headly, Fletcher's Ne Plus Ultra, and Turner's Ensign, which 

 last was very fine, only the petals were slightly recurved, 

 opening beyond the flat. 



Among the whites after Smiling Beauty came Taylor's Glory, 

 Lee's Earl Grosvenor, Gairns' Model, and Clegg's Crucifix, a 

 very bold large flower. 



In the self-edged class I like Lord Lome as much as any. 

 What a flower C. J. Perry would be with only a brighter eye ! 

 Topsy, Pizarro, Blackbird, and Mrs. Sturrock came well. 



Slugs have proved formidable enemies. They abound in 

 this damp country, and they will march long distances in the 

 night and go direct to the heart of the best sorts. The larva 

 of Phlogophora meticulosa (Angleshades Moth) and Plusia 

 gamma (Gamma Moth) have robbed me of Smith's Lycurgus 

 and Sykes' Complete ; and some Tortrix, which I am rearing 

 to determine the species, has been at work. I have not lost 

 my plants, but the larva succeeded in each case in taking 

 sufficient from the heart to destroy the chanoe of bloom for 

 the year before I discovered its presence. 



Would the Rev. F. D. Horner or other successful raiser of 

 seedlings tell me how they manage their seeding? Is the 

 selection of the pollen parent left to chance or insect agency ? 

 or is the pollen taken from one to the other by means of a 

 camel's-hair brush, so that by selection of parentage the fail- 

 ings of an Auricula may be corrected in its offspring ? I have 

 tried this plan this year ; but I fear that my isolation of the 

 mother plant has been incomplete, and that without a bell- 

 glass to each plant the mere fertilisation of the mother bloom 

 with selected pollen may be insufficient. — J. T. D. L. 



IN AND ABOUT THE^ TOKQUAY LANES.- No. 3. 



No weather could be more suitable for enjoying these Bhaded 

 lanes than that which is now about 90° in the shade, and of 

 those lanes none are more shaded or more beautiful than thoBe 

 around Berry Pomeroy Castle, where I was the day before 

 I am writing this. 



Beneath the trees there — evidence of a late season — were 

 still in bloom a few Wood Anemones, and poignantly did they 

 reoall to memory the day of boyhood of fifty years since, 

 when I first found that flower in the Langford woods of 

 Essex, and had a word-combat as to the origin of its name. 

 We had no dispute as to Anemone being derived from the 

 Greek for the wind, ancmos, but we could not agree as to the 

 why a flower which seeks for Bhade and shelter in woods 

 should be called " The Wind Flower." I believe it was be- 

 cause its pappused seeds are borne " over the hills and far 

 away," even by the Blightest wind. My companion, an old 

 parson, who cherished both the Anemone and Ranunculus in 

 his vicarage garden, advocated the growth of the dark-coloured 

 varieties, and I read in the century-old book of the Dutch 

 florist I quoted in my last, " the best sorts to gather seeds 

 from are the deep violets, and such as are all red." 



This has but slight reference to the Beech woods of Berry 

 Pomeroy, but it was near a noble specimen of those Beeches 

 that I saw the Anemone nemorosa. That noble Beech is 

 known there as "The Wishing Tree," and the well-trampled 

 surface around it testifies that very many pilgrims have thrice 

 passed round it to win what they desire. A noble tree it is, 

 some 150 feet high, with a trunk nearly 20 feet in circum- 

 ference, and branches covering a circle 100 feet in diameter. It 

 is one of very many I have stood beneath, eaoh associated 

 with some bright aspect of our nature, and testifying that " it 

 is a happy world after all." The Baobab in India, sacred to 

 the most influential of Hindoo deities, and only another name 

 for God ; the Gospel Oaks of England ; the Mother Vines of 

 Italy ; the cleft Ash trees through which to pass the diseased 

 and the crippled; and the Tew trees of many graveyards, but 

 one of the finest here has been taken away, that of Waldon 

 Hill Wood. 



I sit within the ruins of Pomeroy Castle, and am saddened 

 that it is one of the numerous possessions of the wealthy of 

 onr land that is not rendered residential. No places within 



thoBe possessions are so worthy of being tenanted as those 

 which have a history. Berry Pomeroy Castle is one of these, 

 and one of the Seymour family with a judgment and taste 

 deserving commemoration commenced erecting a mansion 

 worthy of his dukedom, but his successors unworthily have 

 allowed it to be swept away. The CaBtle was built by a 

 Pomerai in the reign of the first William, and remained 

 possessed by his descendants for five centuries, and then was 

 forfeited to the Protector Somerset, in the possession of whose 

 descendants it yet remains. 



There and around here I have heard words quite new to me, 

 and which may be jotted down in a cluster. Lippen, a bee 

 hive; cockhedge, a Hawthorn hedge ; cowslop, the Foxglove; 

 cuckoe, the Harebell ; fast, the subsoil ; hoop, a bullfinch ; 

 skeer, to brUBh over with a scythe ; tang and untang, to tie 

 and untie ; and wood-quist, a wood pigeon, the cooing of 

 which I heard on my way to the neighbouring fine half-ruin 

 Compton Castle, to which tradition tells there is a subterranean 

 passage. Compton is a castellated mansion, and I call it a 

 half-ruin because its centre has been rendered habitable, and 

 has a farmer for tenant. Its garden, stone-walled and occupy- 

 ing three-fourths of an acre, is stocked with huge old Goose- 

 berry trees ; the walls are covered with Apple and Pear trees, 

 all very old yet fruitful, and I regretted that the fruit was too 

 young for identification, and in the borders were rows of 

 Raspberries and Wood Strawberries improved by culture, but 

 still exhibiting their close relationship to the wild specimens 

 which abound onthehedgebanks all around here. The climate 

 so well suits the wild Strawberries that they may be found 

 flowering in almost every month. The Apple trees are so 

 gnarled and look as old as if they were on the walls when the 

 cannons of the Cromwellians played against the mansion. 



Returning to Torquay I halted at the Exhibition of the 

 Torbay Horticultural Society in Belgrave Park, on a site com- 

 manding a marine view unsurpassable. I must restrict my 

 notes to the Roses at the Show. The prizes were awarded as 

 follows :— 



First prize a silver cnp (open), for the largest and best collection of cat 

 Koses, not leES than seventy-two distinct varieties. — Curtis, Sandford, & Co. 

 Nurserymen only — Forty-eight distinct varieties. — Cup, Curtis, Sandford, and. 

 Co. Amateurs. — Forty-eight distinct varieties, one truss of each. — Cup, Mr, 

 Beachey ; 2, Rev. J. P. Tomlinson ; 3, Mr. Robson. Twenty-four varieties, 

 single trusses. — 1, Mr. Beachey ; 2, Rev. J. P. Tomlinson; 8, Mr. Robson. 

 Twelve Varieties, three trusses. — 1, Mr. Beachey ; 2, Rev. J. P. Tomlinson 7 

 S, Mr. Robson. Twelve distinct varieties, single trusses. — 1, Mr. Beachey ; 

 2, Mr. W. Froude ; 3, Mr. Spencer- Mead. Twelve best new Roses of 1874 and 

 1875, distinct, single trusses (open). — Curtis, Sandford, & Co. Six blooms of 

 any Rose of 1875 or 1876.— Curtis, Sandford, & Co. Twelve single trusses 

 of any fine Rose. — 1, Curtis, Sandford, & Co. ; 2, Mr. Beachey. Large 

 bouquet of Roses.— 2, Mrs. Hogg. Hand bouquet of Roses. — 2, Curtis, 

 Sandford, & Co. Amateurs. — For vase orepergne of Roses, with foliage only. 

 — 1, Mrs. Hogg; 2, Mr. Beachey, Ladies only. — Ornamental basket of Roses, 

 with Rose foliage only. — Mrs. Hogg. Stand of yellow Roses, twelve blooms 

 (open). — Mrs. Hogg. Stand of Tea Roses, twelve blooms. — Curtis, Sandford, 

 and Co. 



The seventy-two trebles, for which the first prize was awarded 

 to Messrs. Curtis, Sanford, & Co., comprised the following 

 varieties : — 



Hybrid Perpetuate : Alfred Colcmb, Annie Wood, Antoine Ducher, Antoine 

 Mouton, Alexander Dickson, Arthur Oger, Bessie Johnson, Bernard Verlot, 

 Boule de Neige, Camille Bernardin, Capitaine Christy, Centifolia Rosea, Charles 

 Lefebvre, Col. de Rougemont, Comtesse de Chabrilland, Countess of Oxford, 

 Docteur Andry, Due de Rohan, Duke of Wellington, Duke of Edinburgh, 

 Duchess of Edinburgh, Dupuy-Jamain, Edward Morren, Empereur de Maroc, 

 Etienne Levet, Eugene Appert, Exposition de Brie, Francois Michelon, 

 General Jacqueminot, General Von Moltke, Hippolyte Jamain, John Hopper, 

 Jules Margottin, La France, L'Esperauce, Lfeha, Louisa Wood, Madame 

 Emma Combey, Madame Chas. Wood. Madame Hippolyte Jamain, Madame 

 Lacharme, Madame Marie Finger, Madame Rothschild, Madame Victor 

 Verdier, Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier, Mdlle. Marie Rady, Marie Baumann, 

 Marguerite de St. Amand, Marquise de Castellane, Mary Turner, Mons. 

 Etienne Dupuy, Mons. Noman, Pierre Notting, President Thiers, Prince 

 Camille de Rohan, Princess Beatrice, Princess Louise, Richard Wallace, Rosa 

 Bonheur, Sophie Coquerelle, Star of Waltham, Victor Verdier, Xavier Olibo. 

 Teas : Cheshunt Hybrid, Comtesse de Nadaillac, Devoniensis, Gloire de 

 Dijon, Madame Maurin, Marechal Neil, Marie Guillot. Bourbon : Souvenir 

 de la Malmaison. Perpetual Uoss : Soupert et Notting. 



I was informed that this Show was the largest and most 

 successful the Society has held, and I can testify that no better 

 specimens of some of the varieties of the Rose could be found 

 in England. Cheshunt Hybrid, Francois Michelon, and Mare- 

 chal Niel were superlative. — G. 



PEACH BLISTER. 



Yorm correspondent Mr. Luckhurst says in your last volume, 

 page 481, that Peach blister is "caused by the exposure of the 

 expanding foliage [of the Peach] to the influence of frost or 

 cold cutting winds," and as a decisive proof of this being 



