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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ January S, 1S84. 
grown ranges about 60° during the winter, with a rise from fire heat 
of 5° by day ; summer temperature, night 70° to 75°, and by sun 
heat 85°, and often run up to 90° and 95° when the house is closed 
in the afternoon. "We draw no hard-and-fast lines in the regulation 
of temperatures, and are guided entirely by external conditions. 
Amongst insects thrips prove the greatest enemy to these plants, 
os they soon injure and disfigure the foliage. If watered and syringed 
as described these insects will not trouble the plants during the 
summer ; but if they appear in winter sponge Ihe foliage frequently 
with a little weak tobacco water.—W. Bardney. 
CHOU DE BURGHLEY. 
I was surprised on opening the Journal of last week to see the letter 
of “ A Working Man ” condemning the excellent vegetable Chou de 
Burghley. I have grown a bed of them, and in no way do I regret the 
experiment. Mine have not made any very white hearts, but they have 
been very good when cooked. They have had some frequently in the 
kitchen here, and the cook, who by-tbe-by, is good at cooking vegetables, 
thinks there can be but one opinion about it—that it is an excellent 
vegetable. My wife has also cooked some, and she tells me it takes but 
very little longer than ordinary Cabbage to boil, and is always very 
pleased when I bring any in for dinner. 
I quite agree with your correspondent, Mr. T. W. Sanders, in his 
remarks about Peas, as I find Ne Plus Ultra to be the best late Pea.— 
A Sussex Gardener. 
The merits of the above having been much discussed in the Journal 
lately I cannot refrain from giving my experience, especially after what 
your correspondent, “A Working Man,” says on page 531. My ex¬ 
perience is quite the reverse of “A Working Man’s.” Having heard so 
much of its good qualities I decided to give it a trial. The seed was 
sown the first week in April. When the plants were large enough, and 
as our garden is small, to make the most of it they were planted between 
rows of Peas. With no better treatment than this they did remarkably 
well. We commenced cutting early in September. But before intro¬ 
ducing them to the cook I tried them myself, and must say candidly that 
they proved delicious, and, to use Mr. G. Abbey’s words, as “ tender as a 
chicken.” In fact, all that Mr. Abbey says on page 511 respecting 
them I can endorse, as his experience exactly coincides with mine. 
Since introducing them to the cook they have been well patronised, 
and not through necessity, as we have now, and have had all along, a good 
supply of Cabbages. As regards the time required to boil them as 
“ tender as chickens ” we find half an hour ample. I may add, however, 
that a small lump of soda is placed in the couter in which they are to be 
boiled. 
Thus having proved to my satisfaction its great superiority to 
Cabbage and kindred vegetables in every respect, I shall take care to 
have a good supply in the coming season.— J. Richardson. 
“A Working Man” on page 531 gives evidence of the ’cuteness 
resulting from an education above the ordinary character, and upon that 
I beg to compliment him ; at the same time I may remind him that it is 
only misapplied when employed to criticise others not so favourably 
circumstanced in that particular, or to call in question their veracity. 
Does “AWorking Man” think anyone can spend thirty-six years in a 
garden and not know the difference between a Cabbage and Chou de 
Burghley ? I do not suppose “ A Working Man ” will care to know that 
I am not a “ cook,” but I have the authority of a good one for saying that 
it takes no more time to boil Chou de Burghley than Cabbage, Savoy, &c. 
But as “A Working Man” is so fastidious I may tell him that I boiled 
6ome Chou de Burghley as “ tender as a chicken ” in thirty minutes, 
the time being reckoned from the boiling. The flavour is “in” the 
vegetable, and only needs to pass a palate unimpaired by coarser 
vegetables to be recognised as distinctly marked. Lastly, I may inform 
“ A Working Man” that I have been acquainted with Chou de Burghley 
since 1878, when it was awarded a first-class certificate by the Royal 
Horticultural Society, and there surely has been ample opportunities of 
testing its hardiness since; but it is only this season I gave it a fuller 
trial to test its merits, and discovered it excellent, which is more than 
can be said for many “bastard ” Broccoli that have been made to stand 
for the legitimate article. It is a mistake to presume that Chou de 
Burghley cannot be taken after Potatoes, as both our batches followed 
Myatt’s or Veitch’s Ashleaf. It may be true that it takes up more room 
than Cabbage of the Little Pixie type, yet ours are only planted the 
ordinary Cabbage (not Pixie) distance, and one head is worth half a 
dozen Little Pixies in both bulk and quality. The one is coarse (as I 
maintain all winter Cabbages are), and the other delicate and delicious, 
without a trace of “ Broccoli leaves ” flavour, or Broccoli either.— 
G. Abbey. 
FRAGRANT ROSES. 
The following Roses may be added to your list of Hybrid Perpetuals 
on page 510 as well scented ; some of them are very fragrant. I have 
not included sorts which have been withdrawn from the sale catalogues. 
There are several very richly scented Roses which might be added to the 
list, but which, though occasionally classed as Hybrid Perpetuals, are 
commonly ranged under some other title, as Miss ingram, or as H. B.’s, 
Acidalie, Sir Joseph Paxton, and others. An objection may be made 
to a few in my list as not well scented, and I may have erred m a e 
instances where I have not the variety in my gardens. 1 wis sou ) 
competent person would perfect a list of all the well-scented Roses 
cultivation. 
It has given me much pleasure to read the arguments of your 
spondents in favour of propagating Roses on their own roots ins ea o 
upon foreign stocks. There is not a point in the observations s _ 
to you that has not had the countenance of experienced rosanans. 
W. Simons. 
Alfred Dumesnil 
Alice Dureau 
Alphonse Damaisin 
Anna Alexieff 
Auguste Neumann 
Baron Bonstettin 
Baronne Prevost 
Beauty of Beeston 
Bernard Yerlot 
Black Prince 
Boule de Neige 
Calliope 
Camille de Rohan 
Catherine Bull 
Charles Darwin 
Charles Lee 
Charles Rouilliard 
Claude Levet 
Coeur de Lion 
Comte de Nanteuil 
Comte Raimbaud 
Constantine Tretiakoff 
Coquette des Blanches 
Deuil de Col. Dufour 
Devienne Lamy 
Dr. Hooker 
Due de Rohan 
Duchesse de Cay 1 us 
Duchess of Bedford 
Duchess of Sutherland 
Dupuy Jamain 
Edward Pynaert 
Elizabeth Yigneron 
Etienne Dupuy 
Eugenie Appert 
Eugbnie Verdier 
Felix Genero 
Ferdinand Chaffolte 
Firebrand 
Fisher Holmes 
Franyois Courtin 
Francois Fontaine 
Gabriel Luizet 
Gabriel Tournier 
Gdant des Batailles 
George Moreau 
Gloire de Bourg la Reine 
Gloire de Santenay 
Glory of Cheshunt 
Glory of Waltham 
Geresoli Gaelaeno 
Gustave Reveilliod 
Henrich Schultheis 
Horace Yernet 
Impdratrice Eugenie 
Jean Dalmaise 
Jean Liabaud 
Jean Rozencrantz 
Jean Soupert 
J nlie Touvais 
La Reine 
La Rosicre 
Le Havre 
L’Esperance 
Lord Macaulay 
Louisa W ood 
Mabel Morrison 
Madame Bellenden Kerr 
Madame Boll 
Madame Crapelet 
Marie Cirodde 
Madame Creyten 
Madame Ferdinand Jamain 
Madame Freeman 
Madame Hunnebelle 
Madame Laboulaye 
Madame Lacharme 
Madame Moreau 
Madame Oswald de Kerchove 
Mrs. Rivers. 
Madame Scipion 
Madame Tlievenot 
Madame Yerlot 
Madame Yidot 
Mdlle. Bonnaire 
Marguerite Brassac 
Marguerite D’Ombrain 
Marie Closen 
Marie Van Houtte 
Maurice Bernardin 
May Quennell 
Miss Poole 
Mons. Boncenne 
Mons. Montigny 
Mrs. Jowitt 
Olga Manx 
Oxonian 
Perfection des Blanches 
Perfection de Lyon 
Pierre Seletzki 
Prince Portia 
Queen Eleanor 
Queen Victoria 
Red Rover 
Reine des Beaut63 
Rosy Morn 
Souvenir d’Adolphe Thiers 
Souvenir Arthur de San sal 
Souvenir Auguste Riviere 
Souvenir Charles Montault 
Souvenir de Louis V an Houtte 
Souvenir de Mons. Boll 
Souvenir de Mons. Poiteau 
Souvenir de Spa 
Thdrfese Levet 
Triomphe de France 
Villaret de Joyeuse 
William Jesse 
ASTROCARYUM MEXICANUM. 
The genus Astrocaryum belongs to the Cocoe® section of the order 
Palmace®. It is composed of a few handsome species, and amongst 
them A. mexicanum, a representation of which is given in fig. 1, is by 
no means the least elegant. 
The species are all more or less armed with long, sharp, and formid¬ 
able black spines. The genus is distinguished by its unisexual flowers > 
which, however, are not produced on separate plants, but really upon the 
same spike. The spikes are simply branched, and the female flowers are 
confined to the lower portion and the males to the upper, which would 
appear to be a wise arrangement of Nature to insure the fertilisation of 
the flowers, for with their positions reversed impregnation would be 
extremely problematical. The fruits are oval and single-seeded. In their 
natural habitats the plants affect the banks of streams and large rivers, 
and I believe they are seldom found at any great distance from water 
which is the general rule with Palms armed with spines. Astrocaryums 
are slender-stemmed plants, carrying extremely handsome heads of 
broadly pinnate leaves, which in A. mexicanum are dark green on the 
upper side and pure white beneath. This species is extremely orna¬ 
mental in a collection of tropical plants, and is also one of the best for 
exhibition, cither in a collection of Palms or mixed stove and greenhouse 
plants ; but it will never become an amateur’s plant, or a plant for the 
decoration of apartments, for the simple reason that it will not long 
retain its beauty out of the temperature of the stove. 
The soil best adapted for Astrocaryums is a mixture of loam and 
vegetable mould in the proportion of two parts of the former to one of 
the latter, adding sufficient sharp river sand to make the whole feel 
