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JOURNAL OP HOETIOULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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sooner so interpreted. I allude to what we see in the case of 

 grafts. We know that the stock has certain properties differing 

 from those of the scion. We all know that the properties of 

 the stock affect the scion. They are carried np into its system, 

 but those of the scion are not carried down into the stock. If 

 the theory of descent and wandering and mixing of the sap 

 were true the qualities of the scion ought to descend just as 

 much as thoBe of the stock ascend, but they do not. But some 

 one may say, " Oh, but you are wrong; there are cases in which 

 the influence of the scion has made itself felt on the stock." 

 How many? I ask. Out of the myriads of millions of grafts 

 that are made every year we hear perhaps once in a decade of 

 some single plant where there is a doubtful appoarance of a scion 

 having had some influence on a stock, or rather, on a shoot from 

 one. I am willing to take it as possible that Buch a thing may 

 have, and that such a thing has occurred, but I add that it is 

 still capable of explanation in accordance with my interpretation 

 of the flow of the sap. It will be observed that such caBes have 

 never been recorded until after the lapse of a winter after the 

 grafting, and, in fact, it is nearly impossible that they could. 

 Now although I maintain that there is no descent of the Bap, I 

 never did (and could not) deny that there is a period (winter) 

 when it no longer flows at all. The liquid part of the sap is 

 evaporated, the more solid part is dried up, deposited or crysta- 

 lised, or what is called " stored up " for next year. I imagine 

 that this takes place pretty much simultaneously all through 

 the plant, so that there is little sinking of the column of Bap m 

 the vessels. But it is possible that under conditions when 

 there is an unusually large supply of sap in the vessels at the 

 approach of winter, or in plants whose vesselB are favourably 

 constructed for it, there may be something like a disturbance of 

 equilibrium, which will allow a portion of the sap belonging to 

 the scion to ebb, as it were, below the graft, and, being there 

 stored up and redissolved and carried up next year, may give 

 rise to the doubtful phenomenon of which I speak ; but I take 

 my stand not upon exceptions but on the broad basis of an all 

 but universal experience. — Andrew Murray. 

 (To be continued.) 



LEEK ROSE SOCIETY'S SHOW. 



" The rosy town of Staffordshire," as " Wyld Savage " last 

 year termed the " metropolis of the moorlands," had its carnival 

 of Roses on the 17th inst., and it bore bravely comparison with 

 any of its five previous celebrations. Of course, in magnitude 

 it showed a falling-off when memory brought to view the 

 glorious stand of seventy-two Messrs. Cranston & Mayos won so 

 handsomely with last year, but remembering that the exhibitors 

 were confined to the immediate locality, and that wind and rain 

 had done their best to despoil the plants of their blooms, the 

 display was both large and of excellent quality. 



Of thirty-sixes the exhibits numbered three, anu Messrs. 

 Nixon, Eaton, and Clay (gardener to Mr. W. S. Brongh), were 

 awarded the prizes in the order named, their pans containing 

 excellent blooms of Madame Lacharme, Annie Wood, Perle des 

 Jardins, Louis Tan Houtte, Maurice Bernardin, and La France. 

 The twenty-fours were a good lot all round, the prizes going to 

 Messrs. S. Bratt, S. Eyre, and C. Roberts (gardener to Mr. 

 Glover, Highfield). Twelves were strong, and the contests for 

 sixes and pans of light and dark were well contested, the chief 

 prizewinners being Messrs. Sheldon, Godwin, Cartwright, New- 

 all, and J. Brough. Amongst so many good flowers the search 

 for the premier bloom was like the proverbial hunt for a needle 

 in a haystack, but ultimately a bloom of Charles Lefebvre was 

 fixed upon as worthy of the prize. 



Stove and greenhouse plants were staged on sloping banks 

 each side the Rose tables, and added much to the general effect. 

 Pansies were shown in great variety, Messrs. M. H. Miller and 

 C. Eaton taking the chief honours. 



The experiment of a promenade concert was tried and proved 

 very successful, the attendance exceeding that of any previous 

 year. The Judges were Messrs. Herbert, Sefton Park, Liver- 

 pool ; Jones, Chester ; Leicester, Macclesfield ; and Sherratt, 

 Knypersley. 



DOUBLE YELLOW PROVENCE ROSE. 



There is, and has been for several years, aplant of the above 

 Bose growing on a north wall at Intwood Hall near here. The 

 blooms are freely produced, they are of medium size, very full, 

 and of exquisite cup-shape ; the colour is rich deep yellow, the 

 petals being of the same shade throughout. During its bloom- 

 ing season, which is short, no yellow Bose exceeds it in beauty. 

 It grows freely either on the Briar or Manetti stock, but 

 especially bo on the latter. — J. E. Ewing, Eaton, Norwich. 



to an immense size, folds its leaves in to blanch the centre, 

 and the flavour is exquisite. Amongst the Cabbage varieties 

 Tom Thumb forms a small useful compact head, and it is 

 slower than any other in running to seed in hot weather. — M. M. 



NEW BOOK. 



The Best Summer Lettuces. — Paris Green is the beBt Cos 

 Lettuce I have ever grown for summer use. It grows rapidly 



A Book about Boses, How to Grow and Show Them. By S. 



Reynolds Hole, Canon of Lincoln. W. Blackwood and 



Sons. Sixth Edition. 



It is no misrepresentation on the title page to say that this 

 edition is " revised and enlarged." The first edition had 

 277 pages, and this has 321 pages, besides an excellent 

 coloured portrait of the author's namesake Rose, " Reynolds 

 Hole." The volume contains directions for cultivating and 

 exhibiting all the varieties, and is written in an attractive 

 readable style not always characteristic of gardening literature. 

 We have marked many pages for extraction, but must seleot 

 the following, because it answers a correspondent who asks 

 for " the names of Roses suitable for a garden near a large 

 town." 



"For Walls. — Gloire de Dijon, La Belle Lyonnaise, the Ayr- 

 shire, Sempervirens, white and yellow Banksian, Boursalt Roses 

 — where a large space iB to be covered, the Ayrshire and Sem- 

 pervirens. 



" Of Summer Boses. — The Common Moss, the Common Pro- 

 vence or Cabbage, Boule de Nanteuil and Kean, Gallicas ; 

 Brennus and Blairii 2, Hybrid Chinas; Charles Lawson, Coupe 

 d'H6b6, and Paol Perras, Hybrid Bourbons. 



" Of Autumnal Boses. — " Augusts Mie, Baronne Prevosfr, 

 Charles Lefebvre, Comte de Nanteuil, Edouard Morren, General 

 Jacqueminot, Jules Margottin, La Ville de St. Denis, Leopold I., 

 Madame Boll, Madame Boutin, Madame Clemence Joigneaux, 

 Madame Victor Verdier, Marfechal Vaillant, Marie Baumann, 

 Madame Charles Wood, Paul Neron, Pierre Notting, Sfinateur 

 Vaisse, Hybrid Perpetuals ; Armosa, Queen, and Souvenir de la 

 Malmaison, Bourbons ; Aim6e Vibert and Grandiflora, Noisettes ; 

 Mrs. Bosanquet, China ; and Climbing Devoniensis, Gloire de 

 Dijon, Madame Berard, and Souvenir d'un Ami, Teas." 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 

 We are informed that preparations for the Great Ex- 

 hibition to be held in Carlisle on September 6th, 7th, and 8th 

 are progressing satisfactorily, and that a really " great " dis- 

 play is confidently anticipated. Prizes amounting to upwards 

 of £1200 will be competed for, and the schedule (which is now 

 ready) is so arranged as to encourage the best cultivators to 

 enter the lists. Entries close on the 30 th of August. With 

 a large and practical executive committee under the chairman- 

 ship of Mr. Baxter Smith, with Mr. William Thomson as 

 manager of the show, and other able officials, the prepara- 

 tions cannot but be otherwise than well considered and well 

 carried out. 



At the meeting of the Council of the Royal Botanic 



Society held on July 14th, a special gold medal was awarded 

 to Messrs. J. Carter & Co. of Holborn, &o., for the novel and 

 extensive collection of fine-foliaged and flowering annual and 

 other plants grown in pots from seed, which had been exhibited 

 in the gardens of the Society during the month of June. 



A correspondent writes as follows on the fruit crop 



near Derby:— "Peaches, Nectarines, and Plums are a failure, 

 though the trees were full of bloom and well protected with 

 Parham's coping aDd horticultural shading. Apricots very few, 

 though plenty of bloom and protected. Pears a general failure, 

 not superabundant blossom. Apples, many trees failed,, but 

 some pyramids full of fruit. Gooseberries and Currants a fair 

 crop. Cherries all dropped off except Morellos." 



" M. J. B." writing to us on Black Prince Straw- 

 berry states : — " We grow a good many varieties of Straw- 

 berries, including Keens' Seedling, Oscar, Sir Charles Napier, 

 &c, but not one of them has proved so productive as Black 

 Prince. Its fruit is comparatively small, but is high in colour 

 and is excellent for preserving. 



Bessie Johnson is acknowledged to be one of the 



sweetest of Roses, and is an excellent variety for growing either 

 in pots or in the garden. A climbing Bessie Johnson is, we 

 are informed, established in the nurseries of Messrs. G. Paul 

 and Son, Cheshunt, and which it is expected will prove an 

 acquisition. We have seen blooms of a new bright crimson 

 climbing Bose named Red Dragon, which has been raised at 

 Waltham Cross by Messrs. Wm. Paul & Son. If this Rose 



