November 1, 1864. ] 



JOURNAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



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only these, as far as I can recollect. I think that we may 

 then hope that the Duchesse, which is described as shaded 

 blood-red purple, may be one of our best Eoses. 



LEVEQTXE ET FILS. 



13. John Veitch. — A very lively red ; well formed ; the plant 

 very vigorous. 



14. Madame Eliza Vilmorin. — Very free flowering. A 

 curious Eose, somewhat puckered on the edges. I saw 

 these Eoses at Paris in the summer, but I cannot say that I 

 was greatly prepossessed with them. And now for some of 

 the Lyons Eoses. 



LACHARME. 



An honest good raiser, who has every year sent us over 

 something good, and whose judgment as to a Eose we may 

 consider to be tolerably good. 



15. Madame Cliarles Verdier. — A beautiful vermilion Eose, 

 described as being between Baronne Prevost and Duchess of 

 Sutherland; and if so, likely to be a very great acquisition. 

 We want Eoses of this character, and if Laeharme says that 

 it is good, we may well give him credit for it. 



16. Xavier Olibo (which I have no doubt will come to be 

 called " Holybones "). — This is described as a large, well- 

 formed, velvety black Eose, amaranth shaded ; and I dare 

 say it will be amongst some of the foremost Eoses of the 

 season. 



GUILLOT, PEKE, 



Another raiser, to whom we are indebted for many good 

 flowers, has this year some which promise well. 



17. Capitaine Bognat. — A cupped, very full Eose ; brilliant 

 red. 



18. Madame Portier. — Tender rose. Not very large flower. 



19. Monsieur Moreau. — Beautiful purple Eose; flowers 

 globular. 



20. Triomphe de la Terre des Roses. — A beautiful violet 

 Eose, very fragrant. Let us hope its name will be signifi- 

 cant of its beauty. 



It is difficult to say what these colours are, for I find the 

 same colour oftentimes most differently described, or to 

 what flowers they bear any analogy. They sound well, and 

 17 and 20 especially so. Let us hope they will sustain 

 W\ Guillot's character. I find I must defer further criticisms 

 till next week. 



A word, however, first as to Mr. Badelyffes communi- 

 cation. I did not enter into the subject of white and light 

 Eoses generally, but only as I was asked, those of the Hybrid 

 Perpetual class, or I should certainly have referred to those 

 which he has mentioned. Madame Macker is an unknown 

 flower to me, so I can give no information concerning it. 

 I am more than ever convinced that we must, in speaking 

 of Eoses, especially as to their hardiness or otherwise, make 

 our observations conditional. Thus, Mr. Eadclyffe says 

 Virginal requires a wall ; but it does not do so with me — it 

 blooms and grows very well in the open border; while, 

 strange to say, I have had Madame Bivers half a dozen 

 times from various growers, and yet have always lost it, 

 although I have in most places seen it growing in great 

 vigour. — D., Deal. 



LATIMEES. 



(Concluded from page 336.) 

 In concluding our notice last week we left off at a bank, 

 passing over which, and by the nice specimens it bears of 

 Pinus, Wellingtonia, Cypress, Abies pinsapo, Hollies, and 

 Yews, mingled with older deciduous trees, we reach a flower 

 garden on the north side of the offices and mansion, and 

 concealed froni them by a dense thicket of Yews, Hem- 

 lock Spruce, Hollies, &e. This garden has a large fountain 

 in the centre, with large flower-beds round it, and might 

 have been a very pretty spot before the surrounding trees 

 threw over it so much shade. Mr. Donaldson spoke of its 

 being transformed into a fernery, and there are plenty of nice 

 young Yews to continue the boundary all round, so that the 

 place would not be seen until you entered it through an arch 

 of Yew or Ivy. Eoots and puddingstones were being col- 

 lected for the purpose, and a few Pinuses on the higher 

 points that will be thrown up, in addition to the surround- 

 ing boundary, will give a nice shade to the Ferns. A few 

 Alpines and fine-foliaged plants among the Ferns will add 



to the effect of the latter, and thus another distinct feature 

 of interest will be formed within a few minutes' walk of the 

 mansion. From the reservoir of water, forced up from the 

 lake, water might grace this fernery as well as the elegant 

 flower garden. 



Passing hence through the pleasure-grounds, we reach 

 the stables and the kitchen garden, the former a fine block 

 of suitable buildings, but which there is some idea of re- 

 moving farther eastward, so that the present road to them 

 may be shut up or made strictly private. The kitchen 

 garden, of about 3i acres in extent, has the outside walls 

 here covered with masses of Laurels, and, if the contem- 

 plated change take place, Mr. Donaldson expects to cover 

 these walls with fruit trees. Under present circumstances 

 the effect is very good. 



Of the kitchen garden we must say little, as our critical 

 gossip has been rather lengthy — gossip which, if it yield 

 little pleasure, will, we trust, be equally powerless to give 

 any offence. Notwithstanding the dry season, we found fine 

 quarters of vegetables for present and for winter use, and 

 among them a new curled Borecole from Mr. Veitch, which 

 seemed to be an improvement on the Scotch Cabbaging 

 Kale. 



Among the fruit trees we noticed some nice trellises of 

 strained wire, about 3A feet in height, for Gooseberries and 

 Currants, the trees in both cases being clustered with fruit- 

 buds. We know of no plan so suitable for small gardens, a 

 great amount of fruit of the best quality being thus obtained, 

 whilst the ground between may be cropped with low vege- 

 tables. Such trellises, too, are easily protected from birds 

 and wasps. Mr. Donaldson also assured us of a striking fact, 

 that though the wasps attacked without mercy the Goose- 

 berries grown as bushes, they did not at all interfere with 

 those grown upright on the trellis. All the Apples and 

 Pears by the side of the main central walk were root-pruned 

 last season, the Apples to be kept down as low dwarf bushes, 

 and the Pears to be grown in the pyramidal form, and all 

 were bristling with bods and short-jointed wood. The trees 

 against the walls had either been renovated, or taken up 

 and replanted, or root-pruned with good effect. There were 

 whole quarters of Strawberries in pots, most of them in 

 24's, each pot standing on an inverted saucer, with free 

 space all round, and the plants were the finest and strongest 

 we have seen for years — in our opinion just too strong ; but 

 no doubt they will produce fine masses of fruit. Of other 

 sorts, Mr. Donaldson, for the main supply, prefers President, 

 which he considers like Keens' Seedliug, but greatly superior 

 to it under glass. 



There were a small Fig-house or two, a small and a large 

 Peach-house, a span-roofed vinery in which the roots had 

 been lifted, a Paxton-house for the million for various pur- 

 poses, but with an upright glass front as far as we recollect, 

 and the flap or cap between each two sashes capable of 

 being raised at pleasure for the half or the whole of the 

 length by a simple lever. The back wall of this house had . 

 several broad shelves, so that by these, in addition to the 

 platforms, a great number of things may be stored. The 

 main range of vineries is divided into three or four houses 

 of good size — one pruned, one in which the wood was ripe, 

 one planted with Muscats doing well, and one filled with fine 

 Hamburghs. These, fine as they were, did not satisfy Mr. 

 Donaldson ; and he had cut out several Vines at one end, 

 hanging the fruit in the fruit-room, and planted fresh ones, 

 after having made a fresh border for them. He can draw 

 some of the old stems over this part next season, and thus 

 by degrees he will renovate this fine house and never lose a 

 crop. These vineries are 17 feet wide, 17 feet in height at 

 back, and about 11- foot in front. The borders outside rise 

 pretty well to the water spout, and by the end of September 

 were all covered with strong wooden covers, tarred or painted, 

 to keep heat in and cold and wet out. 



Among flowers, not to speak of pits, frames, small houses, 

 &c, we found a nice greenhouse and stove. But we must 

 mention only one thing about the plants, and that is, that 

 the greenhouse was rendered more beautiful by a number 

 of pots of Convolvulus or Ipomreas of almost every shade of 

 colour, and tint, and stripe, the plants being allowed to 

 twine about a branch or the top of a young tree fixed in the 

 pot. These climbers in pots made a most attractive feature. 



Out of doors we found fine plants of Chrysanthemums. 



