184 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULIURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
[ August 23, 1834. 
■where there are any, that are now being stored. As evidence 
that Potato Onions exist I send herewith a sample to the 
Editor. 
A Parsley difficulty is in store for not a few. “ It has 
gone off like steam,” is a familiar observation in reference 
to this indispensable herb ; but when rain comes the 
Parsley will come again, some of it, and just enable the 
gardener to iuill through the winter. But then comes the 
tug of war—waiting for the crisped leaves of spring-sown 
s led. A long dreary waiting this often is. Avoid it by 
sowing now, in boxes if necessary, and treating as Cauli¬ 
flowers—namely, pricking off, protecting slightly, and trans¬ 
planting early in spring. It is worth more than all the 
trouble, as he who adopts the practice will admit when he 
has plenty of Parsley while his neighbours have none; but 
he will have one drawback unless he is isolated—plenty of 
beggars. —An Old Gardener. 
[The Potato Onions are very fine, 2^ inches in diameter, 
and quite solid ; wo are glad to have them for planting.] 
KOSE NOTES. 
Like “H., Notts,” I have been longing to send a few nolesj 
but Laytime, fruit-gathering, &c., have kept me more than busily 
employed. “ Man never is, but always to be blest,” is as true of 
gardeners as of other people. When everything is bleak and bare in 
winter we long for the time when Roses and other plants shall make 
our beds and borders gay ; and when summer comes with the con¬ 
stantly recurring round of lawn-mowing, edge-clipping, weed- 
destroying, &c., we more than half long for the more leisurely days of 
autumn and winter. But, with all its drawbacks, gardening is in my 
opinion the best, as it is the oldest occupation, and perhaps the 
pleasantest part of gardening is Rose-growing. Without pretending 
to settle the question whether Roses do best on their own or on 
foster roots, I may say with us that worked Roses have had the best 
of it this year ; their blooms have been more numerous, larger, and 
far better in quality. La France on the Briar has maintained its 
reputation as one of the very best light Roses ; on its own roots the 
growths have been weak and the blooms few and poor. As a useful 
light Rose Combsse de Serenye can be highly recommended ; a dozen 
]dants budded two jmars ago on the Manetti have been laden with 
blooms for some weeks past. Cheshunt Hybrid on the Manetti has 
been our best dark Rose this y'ear, yielding abundance of fine blooms. 
Pierre Netting has been better this year than at any other time 
during the seven years that I have grown it. 
Souvenir de la Malmaison has, I think, never been better than 
this year, blooming freely and opening well ; with ladies this Rose is 
a great favourite. Coquette des Blanches, growing on an east wall 
and allowed to ramble unchecked amongst the branches of Jasminum 
nudiflorum, has been most beautiful, flowering at every joint at a time 
when white Roses were scarce ; this variety would doubtless prove 
very effective jiegged down or trained pyramid shape, as Mr. Luck- 
hurst trains Madame Plan tier. Alphaide de Rotalier is a variety not 
much grown, but on the IManetti has given us some of our most 
substantial and best formed blooms. I have grown it upon its own 
roots about four years, but grown thus it was never satisfactory. 
Annie Laxton is another variety that has well repaid us for the extra 
trouble of budding, gi-owth and bloom alike being more satisfac¬ 
tory. Anna Alexieff, Dupuy Jamain, Duke of Edinburgh, Bai'onne de 
Rothschild, Comtesse de Chabrillant, and a few other useful garden 
va.ieties have been best with us this year as standards. A circular- 
bed planted with these varieties and filled in with herbaceous and 
other hardy plants has been attractive thr'oughout the season, some¬ 
thing being always in flower. After all that has been said and 
written in favour of Roses fr-om cuttings, the fact remains that all 
varieties cannot be satisfactorily grown in this way. Some sorts do 
so well that it is simpl}' a vvaste of time to grow stocks to work them 
upon, and others which strike freely enough dwindle away and die after 
a year or two—at least, rhat is my experience Last autumn I put in 
about a hundred cuttirrgs of our strongest varieties, and have between 
seventy and eighty plants fi'om them ; some of the best are nearly 2 feet 
high, and some not more than a third of that height. Last year my 
stocks were weak, and the result was the worst “ take” of buds that 
I have had since I begun this mode of propagation. Ih^s year they 
are strong, and, judging by present appearances, “ misses ” will be 
very rare.—T. A. B. 
NON-PRUNED APPLE TREES. 
“ Non-Belie-ver ” has (page 1G5) made a characteristic attack on 
my notes. His style of writing never receives much respect from me. 
I would recommend him to read on page ICO the notes of “ An Old Scribe.” 
‘•Non-Believer” states that I have settled in a few months what can 
hardly be done in as many years, and refers to Dr. Bindley. He then 
waits an explanation from me. Mark his signature. Then he admits his 
doctor disproving himself as well as others. Certainly if your cor¬ 
respondent is not under a doctor he should be, as I thought on a former 
occasion. 
I have nothing more to explain at present, as the fruit and twigs I 
have exhibited at the Ulverston and Kendal Shows, and remarks on 
them can be seen in the Kendal Gazette, 16th August, also the Ulvcr- 
ston Advertiser, 14lh August, 1881. This I will say now, that Apples 
and Pears do bear fruit on the previous year’s shoots, not by accident, 
but because the twigs get well ripened in the autumn. Scores of grafts 
I kept for friends last spring blossomed well sticking in the ground, and 
they were all last summer’s shoots. 
I am not inclined to torture your readers with any more replies to 
“ Non-Believer’s ” curious letters.— J. E. WAITING, Grange-ove.r-Sands. 
“Non-Believer” is rather hard on Mr. Waiting, as it is quite a 
common occurrence for non-pruned Apples to bear fruit at the tips of 
the shoots. We have a large quarter of standards which were moved 
last year and not cut back in consequence of the dry spring, and they are 
bearing heavily on last year’s wood. Stirling Castle, Ecklinville, New 
Hawthornden, Lord Suffield, and many other free bearers invari.ably do 
so, and Irish Peach always bears most fruit on the points of the shoots. 
Apro 2 )os of pruning, why do not gardeners attend more to the roots of 
fruit trees and keep top and root better balanced ? Trees would then 
need comparatively little cutting.— Geo. Bdnyaed, Maidstone. 
CURIOUS JUDGING. 
I SHOULD like the thoughts of “ Thinker ” or some other of your 
staff on the following case ;—I was an exhibitor at our show last week, 
and amongst other things staged a bouquet of annuals in the second class 
(open to amateurs and market gardeners only), and on looking round 
after the Judges had made their awards I found I had been “thrown 
out ” of the race because I had trimmed with Fern, it not being an 
annual, and a prize awarded to one trimmed with Celery tops, the 
Judges, I suppose, classing Apium graveolens amongst the annuals. But 
that was not all. On looking round the show I saw that one of our big 
guns ” in the first class had actually won with a bouquet of annuals 
trimmed with Maidenhair Fern, so that what made him win makes me, 
lose.— Second Class. 
THE RAMPIONS. 
Though, perhaps, not the showiest of the Campanulacem, the Phy- 
teumas are very pretty, and also extremely peculiar in the formation of 
their flower heads. They are easily distinguished from Campanulas by 
the wheel-like form of the flowers, which are being borne in heads, and 
from Jasione by their having a trifid instead of a club-shaped stigma. 
Most of the species may be found in cultivation principally in botanic 
gardens or of hardy-plant enthusiasts, although they are deserving of 
more general culture both as rockery and mixed border plants. Most of 
the taller-growing sorts, such as P. campanuloides, P. orbiculare, P. spi- 
catum, P. Micheli, and others may be grown with ease in the ordinary 
border, although a higher degree of success will be obtained by the free 
use of rich light loam, to which has been added a little peat. Others, 
such as P. hemisphsericum, P. pauciflorum, P. humile, and P. comosum, 
are best adapted for rockeries and pots, where they will flourish and 
flower with remarkable freedom. The three most generally found in 
gardens are P. ScheucLzeri, P. orbiculare, and P. Micheli, and much con¬ 
fusion exists owing to their varying under cultivation ; but even with 
the variation a little attention will serve to distinguish them, as they 
seldom, even under the most adverse circumstances, lose all their native 
characters. The following are a few of the best:— 
F. Sclienclizeri .—From its variable nature this may be used either for 
the border or rockery with equal advantage. It grows from 6 to 
12 inches high, with broad lanceolate leaves tapering to a sharp point, 
roundish flower heads, and may easily be distinguished from the next 
two by the long narrow bracts at the base of the flower heads. The 
flowers are blue, opening in May, June, and July. 
P. Michelii. —This is much prettier than the above, and very useful 
for the rockery. The flower heads are more oval, as they appear elongat¬ 
ing into cylindrical shape, the individual flowers being handsome bright 
blue. It seldom reaches more than from 6 to 8 inches in height. The 
lower leaves are narrow, almost entire ; the bracts short, roundish, and 
covered with a slight pubescence, which distinguishes it from the next. 
It flowers in July and August, and is a native of Mount Cenis. 
P, orhiculare. —One of our rare British plants, altfipugh found yet 
in several parts of Surrey and other places in south of England growing 
on the chalk. The blue flowers are produced in a round head. The 
leaves are crenated ; the radical ones heait-shaped, on long footstalks, 
dark green, shiny. About a foot in height. It flowers in July and 
August. 
P. spicatum. —Of this Parkinson speaks as “growing wild in divers 
places of this land.” It is one of the best of this section. It grows 
about 2 feet in height, with few stem leaves, and terminating in a long 
spike of yellowish-white flowers from 4 to C inches in height. The 
lower leaves are ovate-cordate, with semi-double serratures ; the upper 
narrow and finely toothed. This species does well in the ordinary border. 
