November l, 1864. ] JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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In the following year I removed the covers every fine 

 day and some fine nights, and the result was a splendid 

 crop of fruit. This same result occurred several years in 

 succession, until the sheets being weakened by age were 

 entirely destroyed by a heavy shower, and the trees were 

 that year unprotected. However, the spring being mild the 

 crop was good. In the following spring when the trees were 

 in full bloom, a heavy shower completely washed away the 

 pollen, and in that year also I had not a Peach. Next winter 

 I placed a temporary coping-board about 12 inches wide over 

 the trees and left it there until about June, when the rain 

 would be serviceable. The result was, that in that and every 

 succeeding year I had splendid crops. This simple and cheap 

 mode of protecting the trees I conceive to be far the best. 

 I need only refer to the crops of 1863 and 1864. 



An Englishman writing in a contemporary this year, says 

 he had 510 Peaches on three trees, whereas I had 1124- on 

 my two largest. I hope that the publication of this note 

 will call forth remarks from Peach-growers, and I am anxious 

 to know whether others have exceeded what my gardener 

 has accomplished. — T. Daly, Fair Hill, Cork. 



[We do not understand the measurements of the trees 

 which bore these extraordinary crops. Mr. Daly in another 

 letter says :— One tree, 23 feet by 10, 230 ; two, 20 feet by 10, 

 400 ; two, 20 feet by 10, 400. Whole length with eight Peach 

 trees 12S feet. Now, as five trees occupy 103 feet, then only 

 25 feet are left for the other three. — Eds ] 



MW ROSES FOE 1865. 



I beg to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of Rose 

 catalogues from Mr. Rivers, Sawbridgeworth ; Mr. Cranston, 

 King's Acre, Hereford; Mr. Cant, Colchester; Mr. Cattell, 

 Westerham ; and M. Eugene Verdier, Paris. 



On perusing the lists of our own countrymen, it is satis- 

 factory to find the improvement they exhibit by the rejection 

 of large numbers of inferior kinds, with which they have in 

 former years been too much burdened, to the no small per- 

 plexity of purchasers and the disgust of rosarians ; there is 

 yet room for further improvement, which it is hoped that 

 the experience of another year will suggest. As it is, Mr. 

 Rivers' s catalogue is so carefully compiled that there is 

 indeed little to complain of, and very much to praise and 

 be pleased with. By not inserting the novelties of the cur- 

 rent year, of which it is impossible, as well as unfair, to speak 

 with certainty till they have been sufficiently proved, Mr. 

 Rivers has acted quite in conformity with the thorough 

 knowledge of Roses which has always distinguished him as 

 a great authority in all that relates to them. If the other 

 growers who deem it necessary to insert new kinds before 

 i'ully proved were to give them in a separate list, as is some- 

 times done, it would decidedly improve their catalogues. 



All lovers of the Kose owe a tribute of respect to M. Ver- 

 dier for the many charming varieties originated in his esta- 

 blishment. He has also readily acknowledged the merit of 

 English horticulturists by conferring their names on flowers 

 originated or sent out by him — names that are highly es- 

 teemed and respected among us, as will be seen by the list 

 presently to be given. 



M. Verdier' s announcements are in two lists — the first, 

 published in September, contains the new kinds originated 

 in his own establishment and some others sent out by him 

 (for the perusal of this I am indebted to the kindness of the 

 Rev. W. P. Radclyffe, of Rushton) ; the second contains the 

 kinds obtained from the seed-beds, and sent out for the first 

 time by other French nurserymen. In these lists there are 

 seventy-three Hybrid Perpetuals, seven Bourbons, two Tea- 

 scented, three Perpetual Moss, two hybrids from Bourbon 

 and Noisette, and one Microphylla — in all eighty-eight. 

 These statistics are given that your readers unacquainted 

 with the facts may judge for themselves of the enormous 

 number of varieties yearly offered for our acceptance, and, of 

 course, grievous disappointment if we are foolish enough to 

 take the bait. Seeing, too. that the modest pries of 25 francs 

 — that is, £1 — is asked for a single plant of very many of 

 them, our French friends must evidently have fast hold 

 of the notion that " John Bull has more money than wit." 

 It is a sheer impossibility that all of these new Roses can 

 be improvements upon those we already possess ; it is even 



doubtful at present whether any of them are. There is 

 nothing to indicate it in the descriptions given of them, 

 with one exception to be presently noticed. If, therefore, 

 this annual influx is not steadily resisted by our great 

 growers, with some reservation, their collections will continue 

 to be disfigured by kinds not entitled to a place in them. 



The following are selected from the list, with the descrip- 

 tions given by the raisers. They are all of them stated to 

 be of vigorous habit, with large and full flowers, and may 

 probably in time be found to be of some merit. It is quite 

 useless to entertain any expectation of sorts in our climate 

 that have not a sound and hardy constitution. If any hope 

 on the point may be expressed it is that the kind bearing 

 the name of the worthy rector of Rushton may prove a sterling 

 acquisition, it will then be a recognition of merit, reminding 

 the Rose-loving public of a good and painstaking rosarian. 



Doctev.rAnd.ry (Verdier). — Perfectly imbricated; deep red- 

 dish carmine; flowers about 12 centimetres in diameter 

 (4J inches). A variety of the highest merit. 



Rushton Radclyjfe (Verdier) . — Perfectly imbricated ; fine 

 cherry red, clear and distinct ; from 10 to 12 centimetres in 

 diameter (4 to 4} inches). 



Souvenir de William Wood (Verdier). — Blackish purple, 

 very dark, similar to Prince Camille de Rohan, but darker ; 

 flowers from 9 to 10 centimetres in diameter (3-i to 4 inches). 



John Keynes (sent out by Verdier, but not obtained from 

 his seed-plots). — Vivid reddish scarlet, shaded maroon; 

 10 to 12 centimetres in diameter (4 to 4J inches). 



William Bull (sent out by Verdier). — Globular and well 

 formed; bright cherry red; about 12 centimetres in dia- 

 meter (4f inches). 



Charles Wood (Portemer, jun.). — Deep red, shaded blackish, 

 of fine form ; 9 to 10 centimetres in diameter (3 i to 4 inches). 



Denis JSelye (Gautereau).— -Very erect; bright rosy car- 

 mine ; 12 to 14 centimetres in diameter (4| to 51- inches).- 

 A very effective variety. 



Madame Moreau (Gonod). — Cupped, paeony-shaped, with 

 large petals at the circumference ; bright dazzling red, shaded 

 with violet ; 12 to 14 centimetres in diameter (4Jto 51- inches). 



Charles Margottin (Margottin). — Brilliant carmine, with 

 fiery centre. 



Due de Wellington (Granger). — Bright red, velvety, shaded 1 

 black, with lighter centre. 



John Veitch (Leveque). — Well formed; fine, vivid, shining 

 red. 



Madame Charles Verdier (Lacharme). — Well formed; fine 

 vermilion rose, between Baron Prevost and Duchess of 

 Sutherland. 



Mademoiselle Lo'ld.e de Falloux (Trouillard) . — Fine form; 

 white, slightly tinged with rose. • 



Monsieur Boneenne (Liaband). — Cupped; velvety, blackish, 

 purple. 



Xavier Olibo (Lacharme). — Fine form; velvety black,, 

 shaded fiery amaranth. 



One of the most promising, should it prove sufficiently 

 hardy, is the Tea or Noisette 



Marichal Niel very vigorous, with long, stout, reddish 

 branches ; leaves consisting of three or five leaflets, extra 

 large, shining and undulated ; flowers full, from 12 to 14 cen- 

 timetres in diameter (4-J to 5 & inches), of a beautiful deep 

 yellow, intensely fragrant. Obtained some years ago by a 

 horticulturist in the south of France, and it has till the pre- 

 sent time remained unknown. This magnificent Rose is 

 the most beautiful of all the Noisettes, to which belong 

 Chromatella (Cloth of Gold), Isabella Graj', Jean Hardy, 

 Solfaterre, &c, and surpasses them in habit and abundance 

 of bloom. So says M. Verdier. 



But if all the above are at present little known to us 

 except by name and the raisers' descriptions, there are some 

 by our own countrymen now being, or about to be, distri- 

 buted which may be depended on, and, therefore, worth 

 immediate attention. Such are Princess of Wales ( W. Paul), 

 Dr. Lindley (W. Paul), Zing's Acre (Cranston), Beauty of 

 Westerham (Cattell), a fine autumnal Rose, fully described 

 at page 312. — Adolphtjs H. Kent, Blechingley. 



Place atjx Dames ! — I have just been shocked to read, in 

 the Rose catalogue of Messrs. William Wood & Son, that 

 " Reynolds Role, cupped and double, is in the way of Louise 



