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JOURNA.Ii OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDBNEB. 



[ November 2, 1876. 



allowed to start slightly into growth at both root and top 

 before planting them out, and when this is done they go on 

 ■without receiving any check, and make good blooming plants 

 before autumn. 



When the stock is sufficient it is not necessary to take the 

 plants out of the ground every year, for they are more effective 

 the larger they are allowed to become. They grow luxuriantly 

 in rich soil, such as good loam mixed with manure. They will 

 grow also in light poor soil, but they do not remain so long 

 iu bloom, and the flower spikes are not so large as those from 

 plants grown in generous soil. I find the- best varieties to be 

 T. uvaria grandiflora, T. grandis, and T. uvaria glaucescens. 

 — R. I. N. M. 



PLANTS OF THE PAST. 



In your " Notes and Gleanings " I observe the fine old plant 

 "Witsenia corymbosa is alluded to. This is one of the good 

 old greenhouse or conservatory plants so seldom seen in modern 

 gardens. There are many other old plants which are almost 

 lost sight of in the rage for novelties. Another fine plant, 

 Tabernsemontana coronaris, noticed in your account of Wimble- 

 don House, is a plant so seldom seen that many young gar- 

 deners know nothing of it. Another fine plant lor effect as a 

 stove climber, Combretuoi purpurenm, is seldom seen ; like- 

 wise Petrea volubile, one of the rarest and most beautiful of 

 Btove plants. Portlandia grandiflora is ftlso absent from many 

 gardens. Pleromaheteromalla,Mu£S£endafrondo3a,aodPavetta 

 caffra are also gone from the general gaze. Luculia gratissima, 

 one of our most beautiful and deliciously scented winter-bloom- 

 ing conservatory plants, is seldom grown, and when it is does 

 not look happy. Some tvzenty-fivo years ago there was a fins 

 plant on the back wall of the old conservatory at Arundel 

 Castle. The then gardener, llr. G. H'Ewen, was proud of it, 

 and well he might be, for it covered a large space, and in its 

 season was worth a ten-mile walk to see. Mitraria coccinea is 

 out of fashion, I suppose; and where are the specimens of 

 Leschenaultias, Phceoocoraas, and Aphelexes as grown by 

 Messrs. W. P. Ayres, W. Barnes, Green, Robertson, and their 

 contemporaries ? Why should not some of the horticultural 

 societies offer prizes for threes or sixes of some of these old 

 favourites, and so stimulate young gardeners of the present 

 day to emulate those who have retired with their " blushing 

 honours thick upon them?" 



There are many other plants which could be named attractive 

 and desirable. These old favourites have more or less given 

 place to ornamental-foliage plants, which are as easy to grow 

 as Rhododendrons at Knap Hill. I will own they are beautiful, 

 but not such masterpieces of plant-growing as the collections 

 ehown by the plant- growers in the palmy days of Chiswick. 

 Such specimens of those days required close attention, and 

 the most patient and painstaking carried off the honours. 

 Now, with plenty of glass, pot-room enough, and a liberal supply 

 of liquid manure, nineteen out of twenty of the foliage plants 

 may be grown as freely as Laurels, and those with the most 

 room and largest place carry off the prizes. — <T. Gam>, Thorndon 



NURSERYMEN'S VOTES IN ELECTION OF 

 ROSES. 



[Continued from page 365.) 

 Mr. H. May, Bedale, Yorkshire. 



S. 



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2L 

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23. 

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25. 



Alfred Colomb 



Antoice Ducher 



Canaille Bernardin 



Charles Lefebvre 



Co rates se d' Oxford 



Date of Edinburgh 



Emilie Hausburg 



Elie Morel 



Fran? oia Lacharme 



Francois Michelon 



La France 



Lyonnais 



Louis Van Houtte 



Madame Lacharme 



Madame Victor Verdier 



Etienne Levet 



Mdlle. Fernande de la Foiet 



Marie Baumann 



Maurice Beruardin 



Gloire de Dijon 



Duchess of Edinburgh 

 Duchetse de Cajlas 

 Duo de Boban 

 Devoniensia 

 Centifoiia Rosea 



26. Edward Moiren "' ~"™ 



27. Hippolyte JamainJ !^ 



28. Louise Peyronny "Mft 

 £9. Madame Hunnabelle 



30. Madame Nachury 



31. Madame Marius Cote 



32. Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier 

 39. Mdlle. Marie Finger 

 31. Md!!e. Marie Bady 



35. Mons. Noman 



36. Marquise de Castellane 

 87. Marshal Niel 



38. Prince Camille de Bohan 



39. President Thiers 



40. Princess Maiy of Cambridge 



41. Princets Beatrice 



42. Richard Wallace 



43. Souvenir de la Halrjaaisoa 



44. Souvenir de Spa 



45. Sir Garnet Wqlseley ■ 



46. Thomas Methvea 



47. Wilson Saunders 



48. Exposition de Brio 



49. PrinceBs Cbristian 



50. Fjrancesqne Bariilofc 



Messrs. Mitchell & Suns, Piltdown Nurseries, Uckfield, Saseex* 



9. 

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Alfred Colomb 

 Baronne de Rothschild 

 Capitaine Christy 

 Charles Lefebvre 

 Comtesse d'Oxford 

 Dr. An dry 

 Dote of Wellington 

 Dnke of Edinburgh 

 Edward Morrou 

 Ferdinand de Lesseps 

 Fisber Holmes 

 Francois Michelon 

 La France 

 Louis Van Houtte 

 Madame Victor Yerdier 

 Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier 

 Mdlle. Marie Bady 

 Madame Margottin 

 Marechal Niel 

 Souvenir d'Elise 



21. Baron A. de Rothschild 



22. Camille Bernardin 

 i3. Clotilde Holland 

 21. Dupuy Jamain 



25. Etienne Levet 



26. 

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44. 

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Baron Hausmann 

 Lord Macaulay 

 Maurica Bernardin 

 Madame Charles Wood 

 Mdlle. Tterese Levet 

 Marguerite de Sfc. Amand 

 Marie Baumann 

 Marechal Vaillant 

 Marquise de Castellane 

 Mons. Boncenne 

 Napoleon III. 

 Pierre Notting 

 Princess Mary of Cambridge- 

 Prince CamUie de Rohan 

 Reynolds Holo 

 Senateur Vaisse 

 Sir Garnet Wolseley 

 Victor Verdier 

 Xavier Olibo 

 Triomphe de Rennes 

 Catherine Mermet 

 Jean Per net 

 Madame Willermoz 

 Souvenir d'nn Ami 

 Souvenir de Paul Neron 



Thi 

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21. 

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Mr. H. Mebkyweatheb, Southwell, Notts, 

 s selection is placed by Mr. M. in that which he considers the order ot 

 of the varieties. 

 Marechal Niel 

 Charles Leftbvre 

 Marie Baumann 

 Baronne de Rothschild 

 Reynolds Hole 

 Louis Van Houtte 

 Alfred Colomb 

 Etienne Levet 

 Mdlle. Marie Bady 

 Dr. An dry 

 Capitaine Christy 

 Niphetoa 



Madame Victor Verdier 

 Madame Hippolyte Jamain 

 Souvenir d'Elise 

 Augusts Neumann 

 Comtesse de Serenyi 

 Pierre Norting 

 Marguerite de St. Amand 

 Miss Hassard 



Francois Michelon 

 Horace Vernet 

 Madame Lacharme 

 Souvenir d'un Am i 

 Fisher Holme3 



26. Dnpuy Jamain 



27. Emilie Hausburg 



28. La France 



29. Mdlle. Marie Finger 



30. Devoniensis 



31. Madame Willermoz 



32. Souvenir de Spa 



33. Thomas Mills 



34. Marquise de Castellane 



35. Pauline Talabot 



36. Marechal Vacant 



37. Belle Lyonnaise 



38. La Boule d'Cr 



39. Camille Bernardin 



40. Auguste Rigotard 



41. Hippolyte Jamain 



42. Docteur de Chalus 



43. LordMacatlay 



44. Duke of Edinburgh 



45. Marie Van Houtte 



46. Beauty of Waltham 



47. Leopold I. 



48. Gloire do Dijon 



49. Madame Clemence JoigneauE. 



50. Princess Beatrice 



Mr. Geosge Paul, Cheshunt/.Herts. 



1. Alfred Colomb 



2. Baronne de Rothschild 



3. Charles Lefebvre 



4. Camille Bernardia 

 6. Dnke of Edinburgh 



6. Etienne Levet 



7. Ferdinand de Lesseps 



8. Francois Michelon 



9. La France 



10. Louis Van Houtte 



11. Madame Victor Verdier 



12. Marie Banmann 



13. Marquise de Castellane 



14. Mons. E. Y. Teas 



15. Prince Camille de Rohan 



16. Beynolds Hole 



17. Souvenir da la Malmaison 



18. Marechal Niel 



19. Gloire de Dijon 



20. Cheshunt Hybrid 



26. Comtesie d'Oxford 



27. Due de Bohan 



28. Dr. Andry 



29. Fisher Holmes 



30. General Jacqueminot 



31. Horace Vernet 



32. Jules Margottin 

 83. Le Havre 



34. John Hopper 

 "35. Hippolyte Jamain 



36. Marguerite de St. Amand 



37. Mdlle. Marie Finger 



38. Madame Lacharme 



39. Madame Hippolyte Jamais 



40. Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier 



41. Monsieur Noman 



42. Monsieur Boncenne 



43. Paul Neron 



44. Senateur Vaisse 



45. Victor Verdier 



46. Xavier Olibo 



47. Belle Lyonnaise 



48. Catherine Mermet 



49. Marie Van Houtte 



50. Mdlle. Theresa Levet 



21. Abel Grand 



22. Annie Laxton 



23. Baron Bonstetten 



24. Capitaine Christy 



25. Comtesse de Serenyi 



* Mr. G. Paul has bracketed Maurice Bernardin and Exposition de Brie as 

 Bimilar, or very nearly so, with Ferdinand de Lesseps; the vote was given to 

 Ferdinand de Lesseps, that Bose being at the head of the three. Mr. Paul 

 also adds that Xavier Olibo and Mons. Noman are put in the second class for 

 want of constitution, and that new Boses are purposely excluded from his 

 list. 



Mi-. G. Pbince, Oxford. 



14. Horace Vernet 



15. Hippolyte Jamain 



16. Louis Van Houtte 



17. Barocne de Rothschild 



18. Madame Victor Verditi* 



19. Mdlle. Marie Finger 



20. Mons. E. V. Teas 



1. Alfred Colomb 



2. Charles Lefebvre 

 S. Marie Baumann 



4. Marecbal Niel 



5. Catherine Mermet 



6. Jean Ducher 



7. Marie Guillot 



8. Souveuir d'E:ise 



9. Perle de's Jardins 

 30. Marie Opoix 



11. Fraurois Michelon 



12. Emilie Hausburg 



13. Comtesse de Seien; i 



St. Alfred Rigotard 



22. Camille Bernardin 



23. Capitalize Chriaty 



24. Claude Levefc 



25. Devienne Lamy 



