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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ November 23, 1876. 



We will commence our notes with Pbihula lon-oifolia, a 

 native of the Levant, and introduced as long sinca as 1790. 



The umbel is very erect, and bears many flowers of a pink 

 colour. 



This attractive species is of easy cultivation, and is adapted 

 for the decoration of the spring garden, rockwork, and the con- 

 servatory. It is hardy, but is injured by excessive wet ; a 

 partially shaded place in summer is also desirable. The plants 

 will flourish in ordinary garden soil, and are increased by divi- 

 sion after flowering. For cultivation in potB they need to be 

 potted in a mixture of fresh loam, leaf soil, and silver sand. 

 A shaded place in the open air is suitable for the plants during 

 the summer, a cold frame for preserving them during the win- 

 ter, and the shelf of a greenhouse during the flowering period 

 in the spring. The foliage is liable to the attacks of red spider, 

 but healthy growth and occasional syringings, with a cool pure 

 atmosphere, will preserve the plants from serious injury. The 

 flowers, besides being pretty by their compact form and pleas- 

 ing colour, emit a delicate and agreeable perfume. 



MANURING AND PLANTING HOSES. 



I have been asked many times, What is the best manure for 

 Koses? I think your correspondent "D., Deal," is right in 

 recommending pig manure ; but I like pig manure which comes 

 from the Btable first and was then thrown into the pigstye. 

 The pigs cool the horse manure, and when thoroughly decayed 

 it has the combined strength from the pig and also the am- 

 monia from the horse, which renders it capital for the Bose, 

 and far superior to any I know for the Rose either on the Briar 

 or the Manetti both in light and heavy Eoils. 



I like a good heavy dressing put on early in June, which 

 will keep out the drought of summer, and then forked-in about 

 the end of October, and another good dressing in November to 

 keep out the frost. I think these seasons are the best for 

 manuring. I also ubo this manure when planting, trenching 

 the ground 2 feet deep, and mixing with it some chopped turf, 

 which is also valuable. 



My opinion 13 that Rose-growers would do better with their 

 old Boses by taking them up once in five or six years and re- 

 moving from the roots all the Euckers and old, long, or decayed 

 roots, and replanting in soil well trenched and manured. I 

 may also add that this is the best time for that operation. 

 I have treated my Bpses in this way and it answers well. — 

 C. H. KncHDfG, Woodstock. 



HIDE EABK. 



Fig. 67.— Primula longiiolio. 



Its leaves are spathulate, toothed, smooth on both surfaces, 

 elongating after the plant has flowered, and are rather ereot. 



Ii is probable that this name is a corruption of the Anglo- 

 Saxon designation of part of the manor Ela, and which may 

 have derived its title from Ea, running water, as the rivulet 

 Tyburn passed through its entire length. The manor of Hyde, 

 Mr, Walford says, was in the possession of the Abbey of West- 

 minster at the time the Domesday Book was com- 

 pounded, and remained in the hands of the monks 

 until seized upon by Eing Henry at the time of the 

 Reformation. Of the manor of Hyde we know that 

 its woods afforded to the monks both firewood and 

 shelter for their game and waterfowl ; and there is 

 extant a document in which William Boston the 

 Abbot, and the rest of the Convent of Westminster, 

 with their entire assent, consent, and agreement, 

 handed over to His Majesty " the seyte, soyle, cir- 

 cuyte, and precinote of the manor of Hyde, with all 

 the demayne lands, tenements, rentes, meadowes, and pastures 

 of the said manor, with all other profytes and commodities 

 to the same appertayning and belonging, which be now in the 

 tenure and occupation of one John Arnold." 



" Henry's main object in appropriating this estate," observes 

 Mr. Larwood, " seems to have been to extend his hunting 

 grounds to the north and west of London. As we have already 

 seen, the king had previously purchased that plot of ground 

 which afterwards became St. James's Park. Marylebono Park 

 (now the Begent's Park and surrounding districts) formed 

 already part of the royal domain ; and thus the manor of 

 Hyde, connected with theEe, gave him an uninterrupted hunting 

 ground, which extended from his palace of Westminster to 

 Hampstead Heath. That some such idea existed in the royal 

 mind appears from a proclamation for the preservation of his 

 game, issued in July, 1536, in which it is stated that ' As the 

 King's most royal Majesty is desirous to have the games of 

 hare, partridge, pheasant, and heron preserved in and about 

 the honour of his palace of Westminster, for his own disport 

 and pastime, no person, on the pain of imprisonment of their 



