October 10, 1872. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



283 









WEEKLY 



CALENDAR. 















Day 



of 



Month 



Day 

 of 



Week. 



OCTOBER 10—16, 1872. 



Average Tempera- 

 ture near London. 



Rain in 

 43 years. 



Sun 

 Rises. 



Sun 



Sets. 



Moon 

 Rises. 



Moon 

 Sets. 



Moon's 

 Age. 



Clock 

 after 

 Sun. 



Day 



of 



Year. 



10 

 11 

 12 

 13 



14 

 15 

 16 



Th 



E 



S 



Sou 



M 



Tn 



W 



Oxford Michaelmas Term "begins. 



20 Sunday after Trinity. 



West Carbery Horticultural Show. 

 Royal Jersey Horticultural Show. 



Day. 

 61.6 

 61.7 

 59.2 

 60.7 

 59.9 

 59.0 

 59.0 



Night. 

 43.3 

 42.4 

 41.4 

 41.8 

 40.5 

 40.5 

 40.1 



Mean. 

 52.4 

 52.1 

 50.3 

 51.2 

 50.2 

 49.8 

 19.5 



Days. 

 24 

 22 

 23 

 22 

 20 

 21 

 18 



m. h. 

 18af6 



20 6 



21 6 

 23 6 



25 6 



26 6 

 28 6 



m. b. 



15af5 

 13 5 

 10 5 

 8 5 

 6 5 

 4 5 

 2 5 



m. h. 



9af 3 

 46 3 

 13 4 

 34 4 

 50 4 



8 5 

 24 5 



m. h. 

 43af 10 

 morn. 



7 

 33 1 



3 

 24 4 

 47 5 



Days. 



8 



9 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 O 



m. s. 

 13 5 

 13 21 

 13 35 



13 50 



14 8 

 14 17 

 14 29 



284 

 285 

 286 

 287 

 288 

 289 

 290 



From observations taken near London during forty-three years, the average day temperature of the week is 60.1° ; and »». nigt* temperature 

 41.4°. The greatest heat was 80°, on the 14th, 1861 ; and the lowestcold 24°, on the 15th, 1860. The greatest fall of rain was 1.04 inch. 



NOTES ON KOSES. 



AV1NG just run through what has appeared 

 in the Journal during the last few years 

 under this familiar heading, and as I find 

 little or nothing has been written from this 

 far-west district, a few observations on the 

 experience gained within twenty miles of 

 the Land's End may add something to the 

 common stock of notes on Rose-growing. 



The soil of the district cannot by any 

 means compare with the fine loam of the 

 Devon Eosery, or that in which Messrs. Cranston, Turner, 

 Paul, Smith, or' Dickson contrive to grow such grand 

 flowers, but is frequently very shallow, stony, dry, and 

 mineralised — in fact, nothing can be more unpromising 

 for a good rosery than the "clay studded with cold spar, 

 or the black soil with granite stones, which abounds 

 throughout "West Cornwall. Still, here, as elsewhere, in 

 comes the great principle of compensation, and the pro- 

 prietors receive then - revenues not so much from the 

 surface as from far below it. "Within 300 yards of my 

 own garden, for instance, the owner is receiving from the 

 mineral products found some 600 feet down, the same 

 annual income as .£40,000 in the 3 per cents, would yield 

 him, and this with only about four acres of surface 

 destroyed, so that, especially if the lode prove a " per- 

 petual," he will be solaced for the inferior quality of the 

 soil. The climate, too, on this peninsula is too much 

 made up of wet and wind to admit of one's depending on 

 a good stand of Eoses on any particular day ; ye't where 

 there is shelter the more even temperature gives the 

 amateur, in spite of more storms and less sunshine, a 

 fair chance of obtaining a longer season of ordinary Eoses 

 than those districts where for a shorter time perfection 

 can be more nearly reached. 



Dwarf plants on the Manetti stock are unquestionably 

 the most suitable form of growth here, and when planted 

 with the collar of the bud some 2 inches below the sur- 

 face, and liberally encouraged with rich manure, they soon 

 become strong established plants. No manure with me 

 does its work so thoroughly as that from the pigs' yard ; 

 an ample allowance of this I" give at planting, and again 

 every spring, after having carefully stripped back the 

 soil a little ; then with the further stimulus of liquid 

 manure of various kinds during the blooming season, 

 sufficient vigour is obtained. Syringing in the early part 

 of the season cannot be dispensed with, but when well 

 followed up for a short time it stamps out the green fly, 

 mildew, and orange fungus : as they hardly ever make 

 their appearance here, I presume the aforesaid winds 

 disperse them. 



As to pruning, I defer the spring work as long as 

 possible, so that the young growth may not venture forth, 

 if it can be prevented, before the March gales have had 

 their day. Summer knife-work seems to be so dependant 

 on the habit of the individual plants that no general law 

 can be laid down. 



The past season has been a very good one for Teas ; 



No. G02.-VOL. XXIII., New Series. 



Madame Falcot, Souvenir d'un Ami, Madame Margottm, 

 Vicomtesse de Cazes, Devoniensis, Alba rosea, Madame 

 Willermoz, Saffrano, Canary, Adrien Christophle, and 

 Sombreuil have all done very well. From early m June 

 up to the present time they have been continuously 

 flowering, and even now have several blooms upon them, 

 Madame Margottin, Vicomtesse de Cazes, Saffrano, and 

 Canary have often been literally covered— I have counted 

 more than fifty buds and flowers on each of these more 

 than once during the season. They are trained against 

 south-aspect trellises, in the full enjoyment of air and 

 sun. Alba rosea, so lovely in form and tint, although 

 hardly ever without a flower, has been the least robust 

 and floriferous, whilst Madame Willermoz, Devoniensis, 

 Souvenir d'un Ami, and Sombreuil may be said to hold, 

 for their blooming properties, a middle place. Montplaisir 

 and Marie Sisley have this year failed to open a single 

 good flower. I believe them to be too uncertain lor out- 

 door culture. . . -r, 



I have seen no notice from anyone of Gloire de Bor- 

 deaux. I find it a bad opener, but exquisite in the bud ; 

 the rich satiny white centre peeping coyly through the 

 setting of rosy outer petalhng causes it frequently to be 

 in demand for purposes ornamental. Its growth is par- 

 ticularly vigorous, making it a good climber, its foliage 

 deep-coloured and well-formed, something like old bom- 

 breuil, and during the past winter it kept its foliage ma 

 most unusual manner, being fairly an evergreen. I should 

 like to hear what experience others have had of thasKose. 

 The useful Noisette Celine Forestier, with its beautiful 

 clusters, is a valuable Eose, at this time of the year 

 especially, and when trained to an arbour or otherwise 

 where some of its blooms can open in comparatively darts 

 recesses, they are frequently of a yellow not much inferior 

 to Marechal Niel. Triomphe de Eennes is too apt to 

 lose its leaves, and too stubborn a bloomer to be ot any 

 value to me. " , r -, 



The Bourbons, Acidahe and Souvenir de Malmaison, 

 scarcely ever fail, being valuable autumn Eoses. iNow 

 and for a month past, with Acidalie and Sombreuil well 

 in flower, there has been no lack of white Eoses. 



As to Perpetuals, each time I have shown, the following 

 order for a dozen is the rank they filled and won witb 

 me. 1, Marie Baumann ; 2, Gloire de Dijon; 3, Charles 

 Lefebvre ; 4, Madame Eothschild ; 5, Exposition de Brie ; 

 6 La France; 7, Mademoiselle Marie Eady ; 8, Countess 

 of Oxford; 9, Duke of Edinburgh; 10, Baronne de May- 

 nard (a Bourbon, by-the-by) ; 11, John Hopper ; 12, Paul 

 Neron. Numbers 5 and 7 (excepting the reference to 5 

 by Mr. J. Hinton, 19th of September), I have not seen 

 noticed in the Journal by anyone. They have been very 

 hard to beat here, especially No. 7. Not only are the 

 colour and form of this Eose exceptionally good, but tne 

 proud way the stem bears its bloom is a great charm. 

 This Eose must take a high place in all collections, unless 

 the habit of my plants happens to be unusually good 

 Marie Baumann has flowered more show Eoses tms 

 season than any other Eose ; scarcely has an interior 

 bloom appeared. Madame Eothschild has proved more 



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