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THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



pruned or not, pyramids of hybrid perpetual roses eight 

 or ten feet high and four feet in diameter, maybe grown 

 in three or four years, most of the varieties having as much 

 vigour in them as Jules Margottin, or Marie Rady's. 

 Tea and Noisette Roses grow ten feet in a season, and 

 ripen their wood earlier than on wild briars, or on their 

 own roots. They may be safely transplanted every two 

 years to reduce their growth if required. The earliest 

 blooming of roses is acknowledged to come from the 

 briar, and the latest will also be gathered from the cul- 

 tivated seedling briar. The most perfect union of 

 scion and stock — not more than one offshoot or sucker 

 from the briars appear in one hundred plants when pro- 

 perly worked; from cutback plants on this stock, a much 

 larger number of show blooms may be obtained, thus 

 enabling amateurs to compete in large classes at exhi- 

 bitions. If but one half of these advantages are realized 

 in the actual working, it will not be long before it 

 drives the Manetti out of the field. Those who wish to 

 try it, should gather the hips when ripe, and keep them 

 until March or April, when the seed should be sown; 

 some will come up soon, others may remain a longer 

 period ; we believe that it is not so certain as the 

 Manetti, and consequently they can hardly be sold at the 

 same price. As to the duration of roses, it is a question 

 dependent we think on the varieties more than on the 

 stocks ; we have some that have been budded fourteen or 

 fifteen years, and are vigorous and hearty, and we have 

 seen roses on the briar that must be thirty or forty years 

 old. Should the cultivated briar maintain its position, 

 it will create quite a revolution in rose growing, and 

 probably next season will bring the matter to more 

 practical issues. We are trying some in our own garden, 

 and hope to report on them in due time. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Charles Turner's Catalogue of Roses, Fruit Trees, &c, 

 Royal Nurseries, Slough, and the Nursery, Uxbridge. — 

 A catalogue prepared with Mr. Turner's usual care, and 

 we need not say that his name is a sufficient guarantee 

 of the excellence of its productions. 



George Prince's Descriptive Rose Catalogue. — We 

 have already alluded to this catalogue; while not so ex- 

 tensive as some, it is evidently compiled with great care. 



Catalogue of Conservatories, Greenhouses, &c; Dick 

 Radclyffe and Co., 29, High Holborn, W.C.— This firm 

 is well known for the excellent taste with which their 

 productions are arranged, and in this pamphlet larger 

 scope is given than in the ordinary catalogue issued by 

 them. 



William Chafer's Catalogue of superb double Holly- 

 hocks and Roses. — Mr. Chater is so well known as an 

 exhibitor and raiser of Hollyhocks, that his catalogue is 

 naturally looked upon as a sine qua non to the Holhyhock 

 grower. 



Descriptive Catalogue of Roses and Hollyhocks. 

 Francis and Arthur Dickson and Sons, 106, Eastgate 

 Street, Chester. — An excellently arranged and suffi- 

 ciently copious catalogue. 



GARDEN ECONOMICS. 



THE PATENT VERMIN ASPHYXIATOR. 



Although the chief merit claimed for this invention is 

 the destruction of rats and other vermin, yet as it also 

 claims to be useful for the employment of tobacco paper, 

 &c, in the greenhouse, it comes within our province to 

 notice it. It is somewhat expensive, and we hardly 

 think will take the place of such simple and effective 

 contrivances as Appleby's Fumigator. 



JEWEL PELARGONIUM. 



In reference to this fine flower, Mr. Laxton, the raiser, 

 says : " It was obtained by me, in 1869, by crossing 

 Madame Rosa Charmeux with Lord Derby, and was the 

 best of a batch of about 200 seedlings of that year. I 

 had previously been crossing the doubles of the Inquinans 

 type, but found it impossible to get out of the coarse 

 growth and habit which attach to the Gloire de Nancy 

 and Victor Lemoine type — and there can be no doubt 

 that its dwarf habit will make it the more valuable." 



The Exhibitions of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 in 1873, are fixed for the following dates : — January 15; 

 February 12; March 5, 19 ; April 2, 16; May 7, 21, 22; 

 June 4, 5, 6, 18; July 2, 16; August 6, 20; September 

 3, 17; October 1; November 5; December 3. 



Snstoers to CTorresponcjnts. 



B. — We agree with you that it is hardly fair that Mr. Van Houtte 

 should reproduce in his " Flore de Serres," our plates without a single 

 word of acknowledgment, and for the future we trust he will not do so. 



M. E. — Hyacinths are to be potted by the beginning of this month ; 

 they rejoice in a rich light compost, nearly one-half of which may be 

 well- decomposed cow manure. They should then be plunged in coal 

 ashes, tan, or some such material until they have rooted and started a 

 little. 



