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JOUENAIi OF HORTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GARDENEE. 



[ October 19, 1871. 



OaioD, close to the ground. She continues to lay her eggs 

 from May to September, producing several broods during that 

 period. The litest brood remains in the pupa state through 

 the winter, so that all olJ-decaying store Onions should be 

 burnt up as spring advances."] 



EARLY ROSE POTATO. 



I All surprised that " E." (page 235), intends to discard all 

 the varieties named in his list except Early Rose and Harri- 

 son's. Of the latter I know nothing, as I have never seen 

 it. As to the Early Eose I am of the same opinion as Mr. 

 Eivers— that it is worthless. Besides being watery when 

 cooked, it has a dirty pink colour half way through, which in my 

 opinion is a very great objection. I must allow that soil, 

 cHmate, &o., make a great diSerence in the same variety of 

 Potato. As " E." says, there may be more than one Potato 

 Tinder the name of the Early Eose ; the variety which we have 

 is very prolific, and has roundish medium-sized tubers, and 

 rather short haulm. It is very liable to disease, as this season 

 we had about 30 per cent. bad. I think " E." cannot have the 

 same variety as we have, or he would soon discard it and retain 

 some of the others named in list. 



I cannot think how " E." can discard Eoyal Ashleaf, as I 

 think it one of the best second early Eidney Potatoes grown. 

 We here plant the Early May for the first crop out of doors 

 and for forcing. It was quite as early, both in pits and on the 

 border, as the Early Eose, and far before it in point of flavour, 

 &c. — J. Vi, Sedglet. 



ROSES AND RT: ON TRELLIS. 



I HAVE a wire trellis S feet high facing north-west and south- 

 east. On the north-west side I purpose planting Irish Ivy, and 

 on the south-west Eoses. The soU is sandy. Can you tell me 

 what Eoses (Perpetuals) would be best in this situation, at 

 what distance from the trellis and from each other they should 

 be planted, and whether they would require any special treat- 

 ment ? The Eoses I am thinking of are Baronne Prevost, 

 General Jacqueminot, Gloire de Dijon, Jules Margottin, Lord 

 Baglan, Paul Verdier, Sir Joseph Paston, and Solfaterre.— T. L. 



[We should advise planting the Eoses at least 2 feet 6 inches 

 from the wire trellis, as in light soil the roots of the Irish Ivy 

 you propose to plant on the north-west side of the trellis will 

 soon spread to the opposite side and injure the Eoses. Irish 

 Ivy forms very dense surface roots and is a gross feeder ; and 

 we should advise you every year to cut the roots on the south- 

 west side about a foot from the trellis, and encourage the growth 

 of the roots to the north. Have the Eoses on the Manetti 

 stock, and choose General Jacqueminot, Gloire de Dijon, John 

 Hopper, Charles Lefebvre, Madame C'emence Joigneaux, Boule 

 de Neige, Climbing Devoniensis, and Celine Forestier. You do 

 not say the length of the trellis ; plant 3 feet apart, and if you 

 want more than those named choose any others from the list 

 yon sent except Solfaterre, which is too tender.] 



leaves are not so large now as they are when the spring flowers 

 come, and the flower spikes are as a rule shorter and more 

 compact than the spring ones, and the flowers themselves 

 smaller. I conclude that this is what should have been nest 

 year's crop forced out before its time. — E. L. J. 



SHADING AND PROTECTING. 

 We have received from Messrs. Dick EadclyiJe & Co., of 

 Holborn, samples of bags to protect bunches of Grapes and 

 other fruits from the attacks of insects. They are made of a 

 coarse gauze material dipped in boUed linseed oil, or some 

 such substance, to render them durable, and from which cir- 

 cumstance they are called "medicated." Also samples of 



greenhouse shading, such as is generally seen on the Continent, 

 and especially in Germany, for shading windows of dweUing- 

 houses in summer. We shall be glad to see this elegant 

 material introduced to this country, if it can be suppUed at 

 such a price as to induce gardeners to cover a large extent of 

 glass with it. No better summer shading can be found. 



PLANT PROTECTORS. 



DAHLIA GLABRATA. 

 Theee is a small unpretending flower to which I would draw 

 the attention of your readers. I call it '■ the lady's flower," as 

 I have never known a lady who seeing it did not admire it. It 

 is a small single Dahlia called Dahlia glabrata ; a florist proper 

 would, doubtless, despise it, but few, I think, who could see it, 

 as I now see it before me in a vase with Eoses, Mignonette, 

 &e., as companions, but would be charmed with its elegant 

 simplicity. In size it varies from that of a florin to a five- 

 shilling piece, according to the vigour of the plant. Its colour 

 usually varies from shades of light purple to violet, sometimes 

 almost white. It is easily raised from seed sown in spring, 

 and will flower the same autumn. I have never noticed the 

 seed in any other catalogue than that of Mr. W. Thompson, of 

 Ipswich. Like its more pretentious kindred, the double Dahlia, 

 it requires protection in winter. I am sure your feminine 

 readers will thank me for drawing attention to "it, when they 

 have once seen it in bloom. — Hoetatoe. 



The Hoese Chestnuts in the Champs Elys^es, Paris, are 

 many of them (about one in ten I should imagine), in full 

 bloom, with young leaves, several having on their branches at 

 one time the old withered leaves, fruit, young leaves, end flowers. 

 I noticed two pink-flowered trees among them (Pavia). The 



I DID not mean to enter upon the Eendle brick-protector 

 controversy again, but I may be able to elucidate the diflicnlty 

 which " Ax Old Lotee of Peotecioes " says he is under 

 when " Au eztoie " alludes to the maker of wooden frames. 

 I may be mistaken, but I think " Au eevoie" refers to some 

 wooden frames with moveable glass, which I described in the 

 pages of the Journal nearly two years ago, and which awoke 

 the vials of Mr. Kendle's wrath against me, as he thought I was 

 a rival maker going to undersell him, or to infringe his patent, 

 and he threatened me with proceedings in Chancery, &c., though 

 how common deal frames with grooves for the glass had any- 

 thing to do with loose brick protectors I could not well see. 

 But on referring to Mr. Eendle's specifications on applying for 

 a patent, I found he had tried to make it embrace as wide a 

 scope as possible. 



I do not remember to have seen Mr. Eendle's plant protec- 

 tors anywhere in the Horticultural Gardens except in one of 

 the corridors, where they are put up on a level floor under 

 cover. I do not see that Mr. Eendle need take much credit for 

 the glass not being displaced or broken there, as they cannot 

 be injured by wind, and unless persons wDfnlly kicked against 

 them they could not easily be knocked over. Mr. Eendle 

 politely calls " Au eevoie" clumsy and incompetent because 

 he cannot see the merit of them; many other very practical 

 gardeners have tried them, and have endorsed my opinion con- 

 cerning them, and I have never seen any reason to alter it, that 

 they are not so efficacious or so convenient as wood, nor are 

 they, taking the area covered, any cheaper than old Cucumber 

 frames. Mr. Eendle seems to have also come to the conclusion 

 that wood is superior, as from the drawings I presume Mr. 

 Brehant's lawn conservatory is of wood. What there is in it 

 sufficiently novel or meritorious to deserve a patent I cannot 

 myself see ; perhaps the patent is a Tiom de guerre, intended to 

 frighten away imitators, as the patent laws want great revision 

 if any mere modification of wood and glass for horticultural 

 purposes can be patented. I agree with " Ax Old Lovee of 

 Pkotectoes," there is nothing like hinged lights for ground 

 vineries or anything of a permanent character ; and at Notting- 

 ham, Mr. Foster's (of Beeston) moveable frames — like those 

 he has put up for Mr. Pearson at Chilwell — were an agreeable 

 contrast to the loose bricks over the way. The first lot of brick 

 protectors put up at Chiswick by Mr. Eendle's own man were 

 nearly all blown down and the glass broken within two days, 



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