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JOUBNAL OF HOETICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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attributed to the following treatment : — A thirty-six-gallon 

 cask is placed in a warm situation, and into this all chamber 

 slops, together with the dirtiest of the laundry water, are 

 poured. The mixture receives an occasional stir, and, fer- 

 mentation commencing, ammonia is produced. Sulphuric 

 acid is added to fix the ammonia before using the contents of 

 the cask. A trench being cut in the earth round the Eose 

 stock, the liquid is poured in. I have given a dose about once 

 a-fortnight. — F. Cheshire. 



THE SALWAY PEACH. 



This Peach, a native of Italy, can now be seen in great per- 

 fection in the gardens of Mr. J. Blyth, Woolhampton Park, 

 near Beading, and any persons who entertain doubts as to 

 the possibility of cultivating it successfully in this country 

 are at liberty to visit the gardens, and I can promise them a 

 hearty welcome from Mr. Colborne, the talented and courteous 

 head gardener, who challenges the whole kingdom to produce 

 a Salway Peach tree equal to that which has been the object 

 of his care and attention for some years past. 



The tree was planted some twelve or thirteen years ago in 

 the open, but our atmosphere was not such as would allow of 

 its fruiting, and some fruit-growers have been much prejudiced 

 against it, alleging the fruit was woolly ; but I think no objection 

 against it can be urged as grown by Mr. Colborne, and a proof 

 of its excellence is afforded by the fact that last year the Fruit 

 Committee of the Boyal Horticultural Society awarded that 

 gentleman a first-class certificate for a dish of magnificent 

 Peaches from the tree in question. 



Mr. Colborne, finding the tree did not thrive out-doors, 

 placed it under glass, and with such success that in no year 

 since has it yielded less than from five to seven hundred 

 Peaches, which have come to perfection after other varieties 

 have disappeared. The tree presents a magnificent and won- 

 derful sight, and has been greatly admired by a large number 

 of visitors. The finest of the fruit weigh 12 or 14 ozs. each, 

 and the estimated value of the yield this year is about £25. 

 The leaves around the fruit were removed to admit the sun's 

 rays, and the Peaches are of a splendid colour-. In the same 

 gaxdens the Sooly-Qua, or Chinese Cucumber, is growing to 

 the length of 1A yard, and this will be exhibited in the harvest 

 festival trophy at the Crystal Palace. — G. Cosbtjbn, Neti-bury. 



[Our correspondent is in error in saying that the Salway 

 Peach is of Italian origin. The seed was taken from a Peach 

 eaten in Italy by Colonel Salway, but the tree is certainly an 

 English production. We can confirm all the commendation 

 our correspondent says on this excellent variety. — Eds.] 



NOTES ON KOSES. 



My old friend's Berkhamsted notes on Boses induce me to 

 add again my mite. With us, in this bleak-spring country, 

 that terrible May frost well nigh annihilated Mareehal Niel, 

 and it certainly deprived us of nearly all the blooms. Cloth 

 of Gold I have not even seen here this year, and my friend the 

 Eev. E. Bartrum need not be surprised if he do not see a 

 bloom on his for five or six years. Let it grow and well nigh 

 cover his house, and then when eight or ten years old he will 

 be repaid, possibly by abundance of bloom, but certainly by 

 its beauty. 



In our little Bose-growing town I fancy La France has this 

 year been our most constant bloomer, excepting always glorious 

 Gloire de Dijon, and the former is still steadily supplying us 

 with flowers. As a late bloomer this year I have been parti- 

 cularly delighted with Exposition de Brie ; it has been a truly 

 magnificent Bose. Monsieur Noman, I saw in one of your 

 notices of shows, has been splendid this year ; with me it has 

 not produced a single bloom that was moderately respectable, 

 neither did it last year. Emilie Hausburg has perhaps charmed 

 me more than any other Bose this year ; it is a beautiful Bose, 

 one that I think will please most growers. Marquise de Mor- 

 temart is a beautiful blush-white Bose. I am afraid it is 

 tender and not very vigorous in growth, but it is a lovely Bose, 

 and if Mr. Bartrum has not obtained it I advise him to try it. 

 Mdlle. Bonnaire is also a beautiful light Bose ; so is Louise 

 Magnan, but the latter is very brittle, and I know no Bose 

 which parts more easily with its branches when blown about 

 by the wind. Miss Ingram is perhaps the largest white-blush 

 Eose, of splendid form ; but perpetual only in refusing to 

 bloom but once, and then very shyly. Madame Eothschild 



has not with me been nearly so good as last year, still it is 

 a gem. 



How long will a standard last ? Certainly not seldom a score 

 of years ; but the Briar I fail to understand. Why two Briars, 

 apparently fac-similes of each other, should, the one make a 

 magnificent head, the other continue a sort of starved exist- 

 ence for two or three years and then slowly dwindle away, I 

 know not. I fancy the summer Boses always do well on the 

 Briar. Is this a fact ? and if so, why ? Tea Boses, again, 

 prefer the Briar. 



I am no radical, and therefore, although I should Dever 

 vote for annual parliaments, yet I should vote for an annual 

 " election " of Boses, such as the Bsv. C. P. Peach kindly gave 

 us last year. We have had new comers among the Boses this 

 year, and perhaps some of those which last year stood high 

 may this year lose their pride of place. I see a correspondent 

 has suggested to Mr. Peach to undertake the same duty now 

 for Strawberries as he did last year for Eoses. Perhaps it may 

 be too much labour to be returning officer for both Strawber- 

 ries and Eoses ; and I can only say that if this is the case, 

 and no worthier "E. 0." can be found for Eoses, I will wil- 

 lingly try to do it. — Joseph Hinton, TJ'arminster. 



HORTICULTURE POPULARISED. 



Few things are more interesting in a gardening point of 

 view than to see the efforts that are being made, in the several 

 districts of Britain, to extend the pleasures and benefits of 

 horticulture among the great mass of the people. It is with 

 the fruits of the earth as with various branches of commerce 

 and trade, nothing is so well calculated to bring them to per- 

 fection as friendly rivalry and a spirit of emulation amongst 

 the workers, impelling them to increased effort in the produc- 

 tion of better results than have been attained before. If this 

 is true in respect to handicrafts, it is especially so in respect 

 to gardening as confined to amateurs, artisans, and cottagers, 

 because it can be prosecuted in addition to the bread-winning 

 vocation, and may afford profit, as it certainly will pleasure, 

 as well as add to the comfort and contentment of home. It 

 is surely well to seek to encourage, by every possible means, 

 such home pleasures as even the humblest garden may be 

 made to afford, as it has a direct tendency to counteract the 

 indulgence in coarser and less creditable means of recreation. 

 It is a recognition of this principle that many gentlemen in- 

 terest themselves in providing the means of helping their 

 dependants to help themselves to the enjoyments which are 

 inseparable from the horticultural fetes which are instituted 

 around their mansions and in their parks. There is no 

 class of men who have done more to originate and spread a 

 love of horticulture and kindred exercises amongst those by 

 whom they are surrounded than the clergy of the Established 

 Church. In dwelling on this subject names familiar will occur 

 to our minds, as " D., Deal," Bevs. S. E. Hole, Eadclyffe, Lea, 

 and "Wiltshiee Sector," men who by purse, and pen, and 

 example have left their mark on the times ; and to these we 

 must add the efforts of another in the same direction, the 

 Eev. " C. C. E.," of Bracebridge, whose success is so remark- 

 able as to be special and to demand chronicling for the encou- 

 ragement of others. 



Four years ago this gentleman, by the assistance of four 

 friends, raised £6, and established a little cottagers' show for 

 vegetables. This year he has had the assistance of some three 

 hundred friends and nearly £200, and the show, in a village of 

 perhaps four hundred souls, was visited by ten thousand people, 

 including the Mayor and Corporation of the adjacent city. Is 

 not this sufficiently remarkable to be special, and to be excused 

 notice in the columns of this Journal ? The exhibition has 

 outgrown its original bounds, and is not done growing yet. 

 The open classes had competitors far and near, the ten-guinea 

 fruit class eliciting a splendid response, eleven grand eighes 

 of splendid quality being set up. In the plant department a 

 special feature was noticeable and worthy of record. Lacking 

 large-specimen exhibitors, a happy idea occurred to the Hon. 

 A. L. Melville to propose a class for little men and little plants. 

 It started rather poorly in the city show, but has culminated 

 into something really good and interesting. It is the arrange- 

 ment of plants for effect in spaces of 6 feet by 6. These col- 

 lections were tastefully arranged and exceedingly attractive, 

 and the hint may be useful for others not having large plants. 

 Besides the flowers, fruit, and noble vegetables, the Grenadier 

 Guards' band and the Crystal Palace pyrotechnist lent their in- 

 valuable aid; and the indefatigable committee — for "C. C.E." 



