November 2, 1376. J 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



381 



Fig. 57 is a box about half the size of the la9t, similarly 

 attached but of stouter make ; this forms an ordinary wheel- 

 barrow for light work, but it ia better to have an ordinary wheel- 

 barrow for rough work, as the tossing-over and too frequent 

 use might damage the rest of the invention, whioh is con- 



structed as lightly as consistent with strength, so that amateurs, 

 •gentlemen and ladies, and indeed children, can use it. 



Fig. 58 — -We now come to the greatest boon of the invention, 

 especially to those situated more than a mile from a railway 

 station, and having no carriage and great difficulty in hiring 

 a fly. In lieu of the box ws have merely a straight upright 

 jiiecj of wood to prevent, in tha conveyance of boxes, port- 



Fig. 68. 



■mauteaus, &c, their rubbing against the wheel when going 

 'downhill. Owing to the size of the wheel and the extreme 

 •lightness of these barrows, if made by a first-class workman 

 and of the right materials, much luggage can with the greatest 

 ■ease be conveyed. 



Any of your readers wishing for more minute particulars can 

 apply, by forwarding stamped and directed envelope, to the 

 Hiy. T. W. Huthwaite, Buckwell, Bristol, by whom the barrow 

 ■Wis invented and patented, and who will answer any questions. 



The following weights of different parts may be useful: — 

 !Fig..54, weight about 34 lbs. ; fig. 55, 46 lbs. ; fig. 56, 65 lbs. ; 

 fig. 57, 60 lbs. ; fig. 58, 41 lbs. 



HOW NOT TO GROW THE ROSE. 



Notwithstanding all that has been written in exoellent and 

 popular works on the Rose and its cultivation, notwithstand- 

 ing the supplementary information given in your Journal week 

 after week and year after year on the same subject, notwith- 

 standing the high estimation in which this flower is held 

 by the English public generally — notwithstanding all this, I 

 cmnot but think that a knowledge of even the A B C of the 

 art of Rose-growing is confined to very few, considering that 

 there is scarcely a garden in the whole country in which the 

 11 iso is not to be seen. 



I hops I am overstating the fact, but I do not think that I 

 ■can be doing so when I say that not one Rose in fifty is grown 

 •under conditions in whioh it could reasonably be expected, by 

 anyone who nnderstood anything at all about the matter, to 

 yield even tolerably representative blooms. That here and 

 again, under even the most unfavourable conditions, it will 

 produce fairly good blosioms is a fact highly creditable to the 

 .Hose, as showing the extreme graciousness of our queen in 

 thus condescending to eonfer her favours upon even the least 

 worthy of her subjects. 



I do not refer in the foregoing and following remarks to 



| those nurseries of the Rose where every attention is paid to 

 the requirements of its early growth, and where Roses are 

 reared annually by tens of thousands, but to their usual after- 

 treatment in the gardens of the cottage, villa, country house, 

 gentleman's seat, and nobleman's mansion. In some gardens 

 of these classes the Rose is tended with more skill than in 

 others; but as I do not wish to make invidious distinctions, I 

 will say that in every class of garden without exception Roses 

 are frequently to be seen growirjg in one or other of the three 

 following positions : — 



let, And this is, perhaps, the most common. In the centre 

 of a small oircle cut out of the lawn, the remaining space of 

 which is filled up with either spring, bedding, or climbing 

 plants. 



2nd, Another favourite epot is in the midst of a crowd of 

 other flowers in a mixed or decorated border. 



3rd, And lastly, and leaBt frequently, on a lawn without any 

 turf whatever cut away from around them. This is by far the 

 most fatal position of all. 



Whether this almost universal disregard to the first require- 

 ments of one of the most beautiful of flowers is due to indiffer- 

 ence or want of knowledge I cannot say. I would much 

 rather consider it to be due to the latter cause, and yet it seems 

 to me most strange that cottagers, masters, and gardeners 

 generally, should be so totally ignorant of this one prominent 

 faot respecting the Rose — that even as the shark is one of the 

 most voracious and insatiable of fishes, so is the Rose its re- 

 presentative amongst flowers. How, then, can such a beautiful 

 but hungry creature be expected to retain health and vigour 

 when condemned to feed for ever off the same small plate of 

 food with a lot of other hungry little cieatures? 



Every one is aware that the queen of flowers has not pretty 

 feet, but it may not be as generally known that they are, more- 

 over, of so tender, and may I Bay gouty a constitution, that 

 they cannot endure the pressure of even the lightest flower, 

 rrrach less of dainty-looking but far heavier turf. To my mind, 

 this dainty grass would much more appropriately cover her 

 grave — aye, and often does so cover it. 



Then, again, how seldom are permanent labels attached to 

 RoBe trees in order to distinguish the different varieties. Now, 

 can a rosarian picture to himself any more pitiable object than 

 an indifferently grown Rose without a label ? which to his 

 eyes can appear nothing less than a heaping of the grossest 

 insult upon the most unpardonable of injuries. 



This deplorable oondition of the kingdom of Roses to which 

 I have endeavoured to draw attention is one which I think all 

 true and loyal subjects of the Rose ought to do their utmost to 

 rectify, both by precept and example, on every possible occa- 

 sion that presents itself. Then if, in addition to this, our 

 Rose nurserymen would, on sending out their Roses, enoloae 

 printed suggestions as to those conditions under which no 

 RoBe ought ever to be planted, they would, I cannot but be- 

 lieve, bring increased custom to tbeir nurseries and greater 

 credit on their Roses, to say nothing of the lasting benefit 

 they would confer upon the Rose world. — E. M., Croydon. 



TRITOMAS. 



It is at this time of the year, when nearly all kinds of flower- 

 garden plants have ceased flowering, that we appreciate the 

 beauty of Tritomas. The chilly autumn nights, which lay 

 low the Dahlia and other favourite autumn flowers, have no 

 injurious influence on the Tritomas, but on the contrary, their 

 bright ppikes appear to become a Bhade more vivid. They are 

 none of those miniature or semi-invisible " bright gems of 

 earth," which one has to bow the knee to admire. The large 

 stately spikes of gorgeous orange, red, and green-coloured 

 flowers of Tritomas are extremely effective. The plants are 

 mostly grown in back lines in ribbon borders, and they suit 

 this position admirably ; but they are not so often grown as 

 isolated clumps on the grass as they should be. For this 

 purpose they are quite as useful and as becoming as the 

 Pampas GraBS. They — also like the Pampas Grass — have 

 a grand appearance near the edge of lakes or rivers ; and 

 plants here and there in the shrubberies do not seem out of 

 place. 



My chief object, however, in noticing them now is to call 

 attention to their propagation. The best time to inorease 

 them is in autumn. When the tops are cut down the roots 

 should be lifted out of the ground and separated into small 

 bits, when they should be potted singly and placed under 

 cover in a frame for the winter. In spring they should be 



