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JOURNAL OF HOBTICULTUBE AKD COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ August 11, 1870. 



still for some years the delicate-growing sorts did not thrive. 

 Ths frequent trenchings that the soil had to undergo in order 

 5© enrich it, and consequently the lifting of the plants, was 

 a treatment too severe for any but the vigorous and robust- 

 growing sorts ; theBe, however, have thriven very well, and are 

 included in the list below. I believe them to be a selection of 

 generally useful varieties, and many of them exhibition Roses. 

 Those with an asterisk I consider the beBt. 



Hterid Perpetual. — 'Prince de Portia, vermilion ; Made- 

 moiselle Alice Leroy, pale rose; Madame de Cambacfiies, rose ; 

 ©oehess of Sutherland, rose ; Alba carnea, white ; Jules Mar- 

 gottin, cherry; *Comtesse de Turenne, pink; Duchess of 

 Norfolk, crimson; 'John Hopper, rose; Madame Clemence 

 Joigneaux. red; »Jean Goujon, red; *Beauty of Waltham, 

 aiserry ; »Baronne Prevost, rose ; 'Elizabeth Vigneron, pink ; 

 *Sir Rowland Hill, crimson ; 'Monsieur de Montigny, rose ; 

 •Rev. H. H. Dombrain, carmine; »Geant des Batailles ; Jean 

 Bosenkrantz, red; 'Paul Verdier, crimson; *Madame Boll, 

 rose ; La Beine, pink ; 'Madame Charles Wood, crimson ; 

 Trioraphe de Caen, dark crimson ; Dnchesse d'Orleans, blush ; 

 "Marguerite de St. Amand, rose ; Leopold Hausburg, carmine ; 

 » William Jesse, crimson ; 'Charles Lefebvre, crimson scarlet ; 

 "Sonvenir de Comte Cavour, crimson; 'Alfred Colomb, red; 

 Miss Ingram, flesh ; *Madame Alfred de Bougemont, white ; 

 Joseph Fiala, dark red ; 'Black Prince ; Madame Fillion, sal- 

 mon ; Madame Moreau, bright red ; Merveille d'Anjou, red ; 

 *Madame Vidot, flesh ; «La Ville de St. Denis, roBy crimson ; 

 Mus IX. ; Caroline de Sansal, flesh ; 'Pierre Notting, dark 

 red; Charles BouiUard, rose; Madame Pulliat, dark rose; 

 Madame Boutin, crimson ; 'Madame Knorr, rose ; Francois 

 Treyve, scarlet; * Mademoiselle Marie Bady, deep rose ; 'Comte 

 Satta, scarlet ; Francois Premier, red ; 'Anna de Diesbach, deep 

 rose ; *Auguste Mie, pink ; *Le Geant, rose ; Madame Bivers, 

 flesh ; 'Beine du Midi; rose; Thorin, bright rose; *Pauline 

 ftansezeur, crimson ; Antoine Ducher, bright red ; Jean Lam- 

 bert, red ; and Prince Camille de Bohan, crimson. 



Hybrid Chinese and Bourbon. — *Chenedole, crimson ; 

 *Coupe d'Hebe, pink ; 'Paul Bicaut, carmine ; 'Vivid, crim- 

 son ; and Madame Plantier, white. 



Damask. — *La Ville de Bruxelles, rose ; and Madame Hardy, 

 white. 



Aiba. — Felicite (Parmentier) , flesh ; and 'Queen of Denmark, 



Gallica. — Grandissima, rose ; 'Boula de Nanteuil, crimson 

 pnrple ; Eean, purple ; and Letitia, rose. 



Moss. — 'Comtesse Murinais, white ; Baronne de Wassenaer, 

 ?ed ; Common Moss, and Perpetual White Moss. 



Tea. — *Gloire de Dijon and 'Homer. 



The above sorts are suitable for growing as standards or 

 dwarfs; being vigorous-growing they mostly succeed well worked 

 on the Briar as standards, but the same sorts will become 

 quite robust as dwarfs. 



With regard to the planting of Boses, I may remark that the 

 earlier in the autumn they are planted the better, especially in 

 low damp situations ; it is much the best plan to plant early 

 and induce them to make as many roots as possible before 

 winter sets in. Spring-planted Boses seldom do any good 

 towards a first bloom. — Thomas Becord, Lillesden. 



EARLY PEACHES IN THE NORTH. 



Akother season has confirmed my experience of Mr. Rivers's 

 sarly Peaches. The trees were placed in the house in January ; 

 lie heat was given to them on the 20th of that month, and 

 was only enough to keep the frost fairly out. Early Beatrice 

 ripened on the 3rd of June, Early Louise on the 7tb, Early 

 Bivers on the 10th ; these were followed by Hale's Early and 

 Sivers's White Nectarine a week later. 



Early Louise was fair-sized and very good, but Early Bivers 

 w*s both larger and better in flavour — in fact, I think it very 

 aearly the best Peach I know ; the flavour is so piquant that 

 Hbess is no fear of it ever becoming insipid from early forcing. 

 And then with regard to earliness, it is only a few days later 

 J&an the very earliest of Mr. Bivers's early varieties, a month 

 Earlier than Early York, and six weeks earlier than Early 

 ©rosse Mignonne (specimens of both these varieties stand- 

 ing between trees of Early BiverB), so that I feel assured 

 it onght to be largely cultivated under glass. I find Bivers's 

 White Nectarine to be very early, and to be one of the best in 

 Savour under glass, and very vigorous and productive. 



Midseason Peaohes are so numerous that it is hardly worth 

 whsi© trying to get new varieties of them ; but these early ones, 



and also the late, show that much may still be done in both 

 directions of earliness and lateness. At any rate, the attention 

 of gardeners ought to be turned to these early varieties of Mr. 

 Bivers's, for a month gained in earliness ought in every way 

 to make them profitable. 



The potted trees of these early sorts have their fruit bnds 

 fully formed for next year, are out of doors, and quite ready 

 for having water withheld in order to set them to rest ; and 

 they might be plaoed in heat in November or December if 

 early forcing were desired. — W. Kingsley, South Kilvington. 



THE SALISBURY ROSES. 



A visit to Salisbury is almost a necessary adjunct with me 

 to one to Okeford Fitzpaine, and consequently on my return 

 from my good friend Mr. Badcljffe's hospitable home I stopped 

 at the old cathedral city, where Mr. Keynes was good enough 

 to meet me, and, as my time was limited, to take me to his 

 nurseries. Under his guidance, and that of his able and intel- 

 ligent foreman Mr. Gill, I had a good opportunity of seeing his 

 stock, and also of talking over the quality of the various new 

 kinds introduced during the last two years. 



There are some people who go to war for an idea. Here are 

 two of the greatest of continental powers, like two big boys at 

 school, determining to slay thousands of their fellow creatures, 

 because one thinks and says, " I can lick you," and the other 

 replies, " You can't ; try it." But there are also some people 

 who will not fight because of an idea. We have this year, 

 except from the lists of the Crystal Palaoe, missed the vigorous 

 onslaught of the knight of Salisbury ; and yet that ought not 

 to have been, for I never saw finer Boses than there were in 

 the nurseries. But there was an idea that there would be no 

 necessity for watering ; and although Mr. Keynes has a river 

 running at the bottom of his grounds, his Roses were not 

 watered. Bain never came, although, as in most places, it 

 threatened much to do so, and the result was that he was Itors 

 de combat, and the queen of flowers missed one of her doughtiest 

 champions. But it is an " ill wind that blows nobody good," 

 and so I had an opportunity of seeing the Bobos unmutilated, 

 and with a far larger amount of bloom than I should have done 

 had Mr. Keynes exhibited as usual. 



It is a great treat to a lover of Boses to see 30,000 all in one 

 piece in full bloom, and in such fine condition as they were 

 here — to see row after row of such fine flowers as Baroness 

 Bothschild, Marie Bady, Marguerite Dombrain, Louise Pey- 

 ronny, Alfred Colomb, Duke of Edinburgh, and Josephine 

 Beauharnais. But this is an oft-told tale, and so, as a matter 

 of greater interest, we will have a look at the new Boses, of 

 which Mr. Keynes has a grand supply. As to those of last year, 

 the following was the estimate we formed : — 



Berthe Baron, a well-shaped Bose ; pretty colour, and good. 

 Charles Fontaine, a rich deep crimson Bose of good quality. 

 Devienne Lamy, brilliant carmine ; very large, well-shaped 

 flowers, but will not answer on the Manetti. Dupuy Jamain, 

 bright cherry colour. Emilie Hausburg, beautiful rose colour ; 

 an exquisitely Bhaped Bose. Henri Ledechaux, bright rosy 

 carmine ; very pretty. Madame Creyton, a beautifully formed 

 Bose, and a novel colour — carmine shaded with rose. Marquise 

 de Mortemart, bluBh white; very pretty, although at times 

 inclined to be rough. Monsieur Journeaux, crimson scarlet ; 

 flowers large and full ; a particularly beautiful shade of colour. 

 Souvenir de Monsieur Poiteau, bright salmon rose, quite dis- 

 tinct in colour. Thyra Hammericb, a beautiful flesh-coloured 

 Bose ; a seedling from Duchess of Sutherland. Victor le Bihan, 

 brilliant rosy carmine ; flowers large and full. 



It will thus be seen that a dozen Boses of last season were 

 considered worthy of being retained ; others which have been 

 much spoken of, such as Julie Touvais, Madame Jacquier, 

 Beine Blanche, and Clovis, were condemned. Of Tea Boses, 

 Marie Sisley, Adrienne Christophle, and La Tulipe were con- 

 sidered good, the first two especially. 



Of the new Boses of thiB year Mr. Keynes and Mr. Gill spoke 

 very highly of Marquise de Castellane, raised by Pernet, the 

 raiser of Baronne de Bothschild, and of Louis Van Houtte and 

 Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier, both of which I have already noticed as 

 fine. There are some Boses " well done " here, which one does 

 not often see elsewhere. Joseph Fiala, Hippolyte Flandrin, an 

 enormous Rose, not free-flowering, but at times giving Roses 

 far larger than Louise Peyronny and more double, and Madame 

 Moreau, are cases in point ; while Marechal Niel is in perfection 

 here on the Briar, a stock well suited for all the Tea-scented 

 Noisettes. There was a Bose the name of which I forgot to 



