October 25, 1864. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



325 



WEEKLY CALENDAR. 



Day 



of 



M'nth 



Day 



of 



Week. 



OCTOBER 25—81, 1864. 



Average Temperature 

 near London. 



Rain in 



last 

 37 years, 



Sun 

 Rises. 



Sun 

 Sets. 



Moon 

 Rises. 



Moon 

 Sets. 



Moon's 

 Age. 



Clock 

 after 

 Sun. 



Day of 

 Year. 











Day. 



Night. 



Mean. 



Days. 



m. h. 



m. "h. 



m. h. 



m. h. 





m. s> 





25 



TT7 



Golden Plover appears. 





55.9 



38.9 



47 4 



18 



44 af 6 



45af4 



15 1 



32 2 



25 



15 53 



299 



26 



W 



Short-eared Owl appears. 





55.4 



36.7 



46 



15 



46 6 



43 4 



18 2 



53 2 



26 



15 59 



300 



27 



Tk 



"Whitethorn leaves fall. 





54.8 



39.1 



46.9 



23 



47 6 



41 4 



22 3 



14 3 



27 



16 4 



301 



28 



F 



St. Simon and St. Jude. 





54.5 



36 7 



45.6 



22 



49 6 



39 4 



27 4 



36 3 



28 



16 9 



302 



29 



S 



Wild Duck arrives. 





53.5 



34.8 



44.2 



17 



51 6 



37 4 



31 5 



4 



29 



16 12 



303 



30 



Sun 



23 Sunday after Trinity. 





55.1 



38.4 



46.7 



18 



53 6 



35 4 



36 6 



28 4 



• 



16 15 



304 



SI 



M 



Woodcock arrives. 





53.9 



38.3 



46.1 



20 



54 6 



33 4 



43 7 



1 5 



1 



16 17 



305 



From observations taken near London 



during the last thirty-seven yeai 



s, the average day temperature of the week 



is 54.7° 



and its 



night 



temperature 



37. 5 . The greatest heat was 6 



°on the 29th and SOth. 1833 : 31s 



, 1834 ; and 2Sth, 1860 ; and the lowest cold, 



23°, on the 29th, 



1843; 



and 26th, 1859. The greatest tall of rain was 1.06 inch. 











WHITE EOSES. 



HAVE read with, in- 

 terest the article of 

 " D." at page 290. I 

 agree with him that 

 we want new pure 

 white Hoses. The 

 best I know of are 

 Madame Zoutman 

 (summer Rose), full- 

 nearly white ; a strong 

 •ower, and a great and good 

 oomer. It is the best of all 

 the light summer Roses, just 

 as Paul Ricaut is the best of the coloured summer Roses. 

 The best Roses of white tendency with good attributes 

 are H.P. Madame Freeman, pure white and of excellent 

 shape, and a good grower here ; Bourbon Acidalie, and 

 the two Tea 'Roses Devomensis and Sombreuil. The 

 last is here a very healthy hardy plant on the Manetti 

 stock. I never protect either of them more than I do 

 Hybrid Perpetuals. The above five are the best, taking 

 all points, and are suited to most soils. Madame 

 Alfred de Rougemont, an excellent grower and a great 

 bloomer, and Emotion, lovely, are both too small. Vir- 

 ginal requires a wall and very good soil. Louise Darzins 

 and Louise Damaizin I do not possess. Louise Mar- 

 gottin as exhibited in London appeared to be of a novel 

 and lovely colour, not white but tender flesh, and not of 

 sufficient substance in the petals— a matter too much 

 overlooked. 



We want Roses of pure white like Princess Clementine 

 (a flower which soon falls), and of the substance of Aci- 

 dalie and Madame Zoutman. Madame Freeman is the 

 best I have seen lately. Mademoiselle Bonnaire is lovely, 

 but it is not white nor a very good grower ; it is white 

 with a delicate rosy centre. Scaur des Anges is often 

 cracky, but it is a full-sized Rose, rosy flesh in the 

 centre, and occasionally magnificent. I have twelve 

 plants of it together. It is a good grower. To prevent 

 crackiness, perhaps it would be well totake up the plants 

 every year and root-prune. By thinning the buds I ob- 

 tained some magnificent specimens. If this does not 

 succeed, probably destroying all the first buds would 

 cause the plants to send up single buds, which, with 

 abundant watering in sultry weather, would produce 

 more perfect and free-blooming buds. I shall remove 

 my plants in the spring and practiserny suggestions. 



As regards Madame Vidot and Madame Rivers, it 

 is to be regretted that they are somewhat delicate 

 and uncertain. The former, as a flower approaching 

 white, has not yet been beaten. The finest Roses of 

 light colour here are Souvenir de la Malmaison and 

 Duchesse d'Orleans. They are both magnificent here, 

 and good and abundant bloomers. The former is on its 

 own roots and on the Manetti stock, against a south 

 wall ; the latter is on the Manetti only, and in the open. 

 Taken at all points, for two seasons Duchesse d'Orleans 

 No. 187.— Tol. Til., New Series. 



has beaten Sceur des Anges ; still I have occasionally 

 grown a bloom of the daughter that has eclipsed the 

 beautiful mother. They are both more suited for au- 

 tumnal blooming than to the early part of the year*. 

 That is the case with the following Roses in other colours: 

 — namely, Auguste Mie, Souvenir de la Reine de l'An-. 

 gleterre and General Washington— all grand Roses. 

 Such Roses are very useful after others have done their 

 work. 



I shall be very much obliged to "D." if he will give 

 us further information. Can he tell us anything of 

 Madame Maeker ? I see that the Roses of 1864, which 

 1 selected by prophecy, have turned out to be the best — 

 viz., M. Victor Verdier, La Duchesse de Morny, Eugene 

 Verdier, and Pierre Notting. The last I did not name, 

 as nothing was said of its form. Alpaide de Rotalier is 

 well spoken of. Of this and the first two I have nine- 

 teen nice plants. The best new Rose I have seen lately 

 is Lord Macaulay. The best seedling, likely to be a 

 very good Rose, is in my opinion Dr. Lindley. It is of 

 great size, excellent substance, and very dark. 



I saw at Mr. Keynes's lately an admirable bloom of 

 Paul Desgrand, brilliant crimson, and globular. Laurent 

 Descourt as an ornamental Rose will be a great favourite. 

 I began with white and have ended with purple. 



Hushton. W. F. Rabclyffe. 



P.S. — The blooms of new Roses sent to me for inspec- 

 tion were Lord Herbert and Lord Macaulay. The best 

 that I saw in London were Lord Clyde and Monte 

 Christo, a delicate grower. The best of all was Charles 

 Lefebvre. 



HARDY FERNS; 



HOW I COLLECTED AND CULTIVATED THEM.— No. 2. 



Returning to one of the midland counties with my 

 book of dried impostors, I showed it one day to the late • 

 Mr. Bree (after whom the Lastrea Fcenisecii is called 

 " Bree's Fern"), bewailing to him the difficulty I had in 

 naming truly the specimens I found, with no other help 

 than that given by books. 



Mr. Bree did not say, as he might have done, "It's-' 

 your own ignorance," but in his own kind way he gave 

 me a bit of advice that has helped me more in my 

 searches than anything I have read in books. He said, 

 " Yes, it is always a difficulty to beginners ; but the lest 

 way is to make yourself thoroughly acquainted with the 

 looks of the true Fern before you hunt for it, and in 

 difficult varieties to try aud get a frond, so that you may 

 match it;" and, in order to help me further, Mr. Bree 

 sent me a number of fronds, such as Lastrea Fcenisecii, 

 L. crisfata, L. rigida (found by Mr. Bree at Ingleborough, 

 in Yorkshire), Polypodium phegopteris, P. calcareum, 

 &c, to take about with me till I had either found their 

 fellows or learned the true notes of their speciality. Of 

 Polystichum lonchitis there was only one true plant in 

 my immediate neighbourhood, and this had but three 

 fronds, so I had to make it a morning call and learn its 

 features as best I could. 



No. 839.— Vol.. XXXII., Ocd Series. 



