October 5, 1871. ] 



JOUBNAL OF HOSTICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GABDENEE. 



253 







WEEKLY 



CALENDAR, 















of 



Month 



Day 



of 



Week. 



OCTOBER 6—11, 1871. 



Average Tempera- 1 Rain in 

 ture near London. ,43 years. 



Snn 

 Eisea. 



Sim 

 Sets. 



Moon 

 Rises. 



Moon 

 bets. 



Moon's 

 Age. 



Clock 



after 

 Sun. 



Day 



of 



Year. 



5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 

 10 

 11 



Th 



F 



S 



Sun 



M 



Tu 



W 



Daybrealis4h. 19m. 



18 Sunday after Trinity. 



Oxford Michaelmas Term begins. 

 Meeting of Royal Microscopical Society. 



Day. 



70.4 



70.2 



70.3 



69.4 



69.1 



69.7 



68.7 



NiRht. 

 47.1 

 46.8 

 47.6 

 48.0 

 48.1 

 45.5 

 47.0 



Mean. 

 58.8 

 68 5 

 58.9 

 68.7 

 68.6 

 67.fi 

 67.8 



Days. 

 18 

 2iJ 

 19 

 19 

 19 

 21 

 11 



m, h. 

 9af6 

 10 6 

 12 6 

 14 6 



16 6 



17 6 

 19 6 



m. h. 

 80af5 

 a7 5 

 25 5 

 23 5 

 20 5 

 18 5 

 15 5 



m. h. 



3af9 

 60 9 

 48 10 

 64 11 

 morn. 



4 1 

 20 2 



m. h. 

 13 af 1 

 8 2 

 62 2 

 28 S 

 69 3 

 22 4 

 45 4 



Days. 

 21 

 ( 



28 

 24 

 26 

 26 

 27 



m. 8. 

 11 29 



11 47 



12 4 

 12 21 

 12 88 



12 64 



13 9 



278 

 279 

 280 

 281 

 282 

 283 

 284 



From obgervationg taken near London during fortr-threo years, the averai^e day temperature of the week is 6^.7^ and its night tem- 

 perature 47-1°. The greatest heat was 80', on the 6th, 1834; and the lowest cold 25", on the 11th, 1860. The greatest faU o£ rain was 

 1.08 inch. 



THE ROSE SEASON— EOSES. 



HE first bloom of Roses tlus year and last 

 was the finest floral sight that I ever saw. 

 A few Roses at first bloomed abnormally. A 

 line of twelve Duehesse de Caj'lus, for in- 

 stance, had all green centres or hard blooms 

 that did 'not expand. I have had only one 

 tree, Celine Forestier, a lofty tree on the 

 south frontage of my house, slightly affected 

 with mildew ; but many of the trees have 

 suH'ered sadly from orange fungus ; all, how- 

 ever, are now freshly foliaged, and many are blooming well. 

 It broke out as soon as the foliage appeared in spring. It 

 was so general that I did not, as I usually do, remove the 

 affected foliage with a pair of scissors in order to burn it. 

 To have done so would have injured the health of the 

 trees more than the fimgus did. Injured lungs are better 

 than no lungs at all. As many spores must have dropped 

 round the plants, and perhaps taken hold of the bark, I 

 mean, after the season is over, to lime the ground, cut back 

 the plants a little, remove useless shoots, and sponge the 

 remainder of the plant with vitriol and water, about 2 ozs. 

 of vitriol to -3 gallons of water, which is strong enough to 

 burn the fungus without injuring the bark. It is trouble- 

 some work, but a rosarian will not mind that. A rosarian 

 and a mere possessor of Roses are very different persons. 



1 sowed a great portion of my Rose ground in August 

 with Early Stone Turnips, which I shall in due time chop 

 up and_ dig in. I shall manure the trees with nitrophos- 

 phate, instead of with horse and pig dung. No manure 

 is so_ favourable to fungoid diseases as raw horse dung. If 

 applied it should lie on the surface of the ground all winter, 

 or be scalded before application. 



As the catalogues are long and would bewilder novices, 

 I must ask the Editors to kindly publish the following 

 selection from the autumnal families. I must omit some 

 beautiful Roses as being bad growers, though they are 

 marked in the catalogues " Vig." 



Hybrid Perpetuals . — Abel Grand, Achille Gonod, 

 Alfred Colomb, Anna Alexieff for poles or walls, Antoine 

 Diioher, Baron Adolphe de Rothschild, *Baron Cham-and, 

 Baronne Prevost, Black Prince, Caroline de Sansal, Charles 

 Lefebvre, Comte de Nanteuil, Comtesse de Chabrillant, 

 *Comtesse d'Oxford, Dr. Andry, Duo de Gazes, Duehesse 

 de Caylus, Duehesse d'Orleans. Duke of Edinburgh, *Ed- 

 ward Morren, *Elie Morel, *Elisa Boelle, *Empereur de 

 Maroc, Felix Genero, Fisher Holmes, Francois Lacharme, 

 General Jacqueminot, Gloire de Ducher, a grand Rose; 

 Glwre de Vitry, John Hopper, Jules Margottin, John 

 Keynes, Lady Suffield, a beautiful Rose ; La France for a 

 conservatory (it soils in foul weather out of doors). La 

 ViUe de St. Denis, not yet beaten in its colour ; Leopold 

 Premier, Lord Clyde, Lord Macaulay. The following all 

 have the prefix of Madame, I shall only put Madame to 

 the first. Madame Alice Dureau, Boll, Boutin, C. Crapelet, 

 Charles Verdier, *Chirard, Clemenoe Joigneaux, Emile 

 Boyau, Fillion, Jacquier, Julie Daran, Knorr, La Baronne 

 de Rothschild, Rivers, Victor Verdier, Vidot. Mdlle. 

 No. 649.— Vol. XXI„ New Series. 



Annie Wood and Mdlle. Marie Rady, *Marquise de Castel- 

 lane, Marechal Vaillant, Maurice Bernardin, Marguerite de 

 St. Amand, *Perfection de Lyon, Pierre Netting, Prince 

 Camille de Rohan, Prince de Portia, Princess Mary of 

 Cambridge, Senateur Vaisse, Sceur des Anges, Souvenir de 

 Poiteau, Souvenir de Dr. Jamin, Souvenir de la Reine 

 d'Angleterre, a splendid autumn Rose ; Souvenir de W. 

 Wood, Triomphe de Caen, a line dark bedder; Triomphe 

 de Paris, Victor Verdier, W. Griffiths, and Monsieur de 

 Montigny, blooming finely now, and the healthiest of all 

 the Hybrid Perpetuals. I have seventeen plants of it. 

 It never suffers from white or orange fungus. Cranston 

 only keeps it. It is one of the finest of all the large 

 Roses. 



Those marked with an asterisk (*) are splendid Roses 

 of late introduction. They are of fine growth and foliage. 



Bourbon Perpetuals. — Baron Gonella, Baronne de 

 Maynard, Marguerite Bonnet. 



Bourbons. — Aoidalie, Souvenir de Malmaison ; Sir J. 

 Paxton for poles, it is a fine corymb Rose. 



China. — Mrs. Bosanquet. 



Macartney. — Maria Leonida. It is distinct and most 

 beautiful. Its colour is fleshy white, with vermilion sta- 

 mens. It is not a show Rose. 



Noisettes, — Celine Forestier, *Reve d'Or, new, distinct, 

 and choice ; Solfaterre, a wall ; Triomphe de Rennes, 

 Marechal Niel. 



Tea. — I do not recommend Tea Roses to beginners, 

 except the two first-named ; they are both very hardy. 

 Gloire de Dijon, Sombreuil, Adam, Devoniensis Al, Ma- 

 dame Margottin, *Madame Trifle, Madame Willermoz, 

 Souvenir d'Elise Vardon (first-rate). Souvenir d'un Ami. 

 For conservatories : Elise Sauvage, Vicomtesse de Cazes, 

 and Madame Bravy. 



I conclude with a few observations. The reader cannot 

 burn his fingers with any of the above Roses. I have put 

 in none but hardy, free-growing, and free-blooming Roses. 

 I regret to leave out three beauties as bad growers here — 

 namely, Marie Baumann, jNIarquise de Mortemart, and 

 Lacharme's Louis Van Houtte. Mr. Turner kindly gave 

 me Granger's Louis Van Houtte ; it is here still, and a 

 good grower, and quite distinct : but as a flower it is not 

 so good as the novelty. I saw a whole line of Lacharme's 

 Rose at the Dorset Nurseries, Blandford. The rate of 

 growth of the whole line was miserable. It had better be 

 tried on its own roots ; for I have known Roses grow well 

 on their own roots that would not grow at all on alien 

 stocks. Louis XIV. is an instance of it — a Rose that has 

 never been approached in its colour. Charles Wood is 

 like it, but it is not always a free-bloomer. I saw these in 

 long lines at the Dorset Nurseries ; the plants were very 

 fine, the foliage and flowers' excellent : Marquise de Castel- 

 lane, Comtesse d'Oxford, Reve d'Or, and Baron Chaurand. 

 The first is a grand Rose, and the last is a great beauty — 

 deep scarlet crimson, shaded with blackish maroon. The 

 place to judge of new Roses is the nurseryman's garden. 

 Till Roses are put on strong and suitable stocks we cannot 

 judge of them. Roses also that will do wonders under 

 glass are often worthless out of doors. . I never pay any 

 No. 1201.— Vol. XL VI., Old Series. 



