November 29, 1864. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



427 



coming from him, that they may be improvements on the 

 white Roses we possess. They are — 



70. Baronne de Meynard. — Flowers medium, well formed, 

 very fine ; pure white. 



71. Madame Gastave Bonnet. — Flowers medium ; form of 

 Centifolia Rose ; virgin white, shaded rose and carmine. 



TEA ROSES. 



72. Madame Charles (Damazin). — Very free flowering; 

 flowers very large, full ; sulphur yellow, salmon centre. 



Mare'chal Niel. — Very vigorous ; flowers large, globular ; 

 deep shaded yellow. Very fragrant. 



This last Rose I had the pleasure of seeing at Paris, 

 and I am quite persuaded if it opens as well with us as it 

 does in France that it will be a decided acquisition. It is 

 of the same class of flower as Cloth of Gold, Isabella Gray, 

 &c, having more analogy with the Noisette than the Teas. 

 The colour is very fine, and the shape good. 



BOURBON. 



74. Adrienne de Cardoville (Guillot, pere). — Flowers me- 

 dium, very full, open well ; tender rose colour. 



75. Madame Collet (Liabaud). — Dwarf flowers, medium 

 size ; pale blush ; free flowering. Good border Rose. 



76. Madame Vachez.- — Imbricated, small flowers; blush 

 rose, passing to pure white. 



77. Marguerite Bonnet (Liabaud). — Flowers large, imbri- 

 cated ; flesh white. 



78. Miachael Bonnet (Guillot, pere). — Flowers medium; 

 very full ; beautiful lively rose. 



79. Prince Napoleon (Fernet). — Flowers very large, nearly 

 full ; fine lively rose. 



80. Souvenir de Louis Gaudin (Trouillard). — Flowers me- 

 dium, full, well formed; fine purplish rose, shaded with 

 blush. 



Finis ! and an end there must be to such wholesale im- 

 portations, for assuredly this French invasion is becoming- 

 alarming; and now where is the selection? I should say 

 Hybrid Perpetuals Rushton Radclyffe, Souvenir de William 

 Wood, Charles Margottin, Duo de Wellington, Duchesse de 

 Medina Coeli, Duchesse de Caylus, Madame Charles Verdier, 

 Marguerite de St. Arnaud, Jean Rosencrantz, Triomphe de 

 la Terre des Roses, Xavier Olibo, Monsieur Morean, Charles 

 Wood, and Souvenir de Bernardin de St. Pierre. In Teas, 

 Marechal Niel. Bourbon, Adrienne de Cardoville, Miachael 

 Bonnet ; and Hybrid Noisette Baronne de Meynard ; and I 

 may add a fine crimson Rose of English origin, King's 

 Acre, raised by Mr. Cranston. Whether one is right in 

 these conjectures time alone can tell. — D., Deal. 



TIME FOE VINE-PLANTING— MANURING 

 PEACH TEEES. 



I have recently purchased a few Vines, and been recom- 

 mended not to plant them in the border until March. I 

 shall feel obliged if you will kindly inform me whether a 

 little quicklime mixed and stirred well in the border to kill 

 the worms, &c, would be beneficial or otherwise to the 

 Vines when planted. The lime is, I should observe, what 

 has been used in gas-making. 



I have also purchased a few Peach trees to grow in the 

 same house as the Vines, and being a novice in these 

 matters, should be glad to know if water or liquid manure 

 is to be given during the winter months, and in what 

 quantities ? — -Cestria. 



[It matters but little at what time you plant the Vines. 

 If the ground is in good order, you might plant them 

 now, breaking the balls gently so as to disentangle the roots. 

 If not used to it, the best way for you to do this will be to 

 take the ball of earth and roots out of the pots, and then 

 place the ball in a tub of water heated to 60° or so, and 

 then with your fingers wash away all the earth. This will 

 enable you easier and better to disentangle the roots and 

 to spread them out to their full length, and pack them nicely 

 in light sandy soil, from 9 to 12 inches below the surface. 

 When thus nicely spread out and covered with 2 inches of 

 soil, give water at about 80°, then fill up with soil and cover 

 over the ground with about 15 inches of warm litter, and 

 thatch or put on tarpauling to keep out extra wet. So 



treated the roots will begin to move during the winter, and 

 be in a good state for meeting the expanding and lengthen- 

 ing buds, and so treated we think the sooner the Vines arc 

 planted the better it will be for them. If you cannot give 

 this coaxing to the roots conveniently, we would advise 

 you to take the foreman's advice and keep the Vines in their 

 pots in a protected place until March, and then plant as 

 advised above by spreading out the roots. In this latter 

 case, the cooler the top of the Vine is kept the better, allow- 

 ing the buds to break naturally. There is a third method 

 which, as you have the house, you might adopt, but for your 

 lack of experience, and by it your Vines would do the very 

 best the first season. Get some crates or shallow baskets of 

 rough woven material — say 3 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 

 4 inches deep. Place some rough pieces of turf and leaf 

 mould on the bottom, and a sprinkling of light sandy soil, 

 and on these, after pruning the Vines, spread out the roots 

 and cover with rough loam aud leaf mould. Set the baskets 

 on the floor of the house, water as needed, and about the encT 

 of May plant the baskets at once at the suitable depth in 

 the border, taking care not to injure the tops. You will 

 gain a month's growth by this extra care, and no check need 

 be given. The simplest plan would be to plant any time 

 before spring, and keep the roots comfortable by protection. 



The best time to apply quicklime for killing worms in the 

 border will be a week or two before planting, and then the 

 alkali will be gone before the roots come into contact with 

 it. We here allude to common lime or quicklime, such as is. 

 used fresh for making mortar. That is a very different 

 thing from lime that has been used in gas-making. Of that 

 we should not think of using any in a Vine-border, as when 

 employed at all it should be by a practical man who knows 

 something of its strength, and its power to kill all vegeta- 

 tion when given in large doses. 



As to your Peach trees to be grown in the same house, 

 you do not say whether they are in pots or planted out ; but 

 in either case they will need little water during the winter, 

 and that little may either be clear or weak manure water 

 until the buds begin to swell. Then the soil should be 

 moistened, or there is a danger that the buds will drop. In 

 fact, during the winter the soil should never be dust dry, or 

 the same thing will be apt to occur; but when the trees are 

 at rest the soil should be dryish rather than very wet. As 

 soon as the trees push well manure water may also be 

 given freely as they need it. It should, however, be weak 

 and clear, and also varied. Thus a peck of soot and a pound 

 of lime would do for forty gallons, and two pocks of horse,, 

 cow, or sheep droppings would do for an equal quantity, but 

 it should stand a fortnight first ; and then for the next 

 brewing in either case half the quantity would do. Two 

 ounces of superphosphate, and one ounce of good guano, 

 would do for three gallons. A good plan is to use the 

 manure as a top-dressing and pour the water over it, remov- 

 iilg the manure and adding fresh as the first becomes ex- 

 hausted.] 



GEOWING MANGOLD WTJETZEL AND 

 SWEDES ALTEENATELY. 



I have in hand about six acres of arable land, and a much 

 larger quantity of grazing land. On the six acres I am 

 anxious, if possible, to grow Mangold Wurtzel and Swede 

 Turnips, year by year, for my sheep, and fatting bullocks. 

 Can this be done without injury to the land by judicious 

 and sufficient manuring ? If so, in what shape would yon 

 advise me to return to the land, when I manure it, that 

 which I remove from it in my crop ? The roots I should 

 propose feeding off the land. 



I have not sufficient arable land for a proper rotation of 

 crops, and I am unwilling to disturb any of my tenants. 

 Garden ground produces the same crops year after year 

 without perceptible injury, and I am disposed to think that 

 the same may be done elsewhere, if the right manures, and 

 a sufficiency of them are returned to the soil. I make plenty 

 of farmyard manure. — Possum. 



[We do not anticipate that you will have any difficulty in 

 carrying out your wish. The market gardeners about Rom- 

 ford, and elsewhere grow Potatoes and Cabbages alternately, 

 always have heavy crops, and use no other manure than that 



