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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
[ November 18, 1888. 
- “J. H. W.” writes on cut-back Hybrid Perpetual Roses 
as follows :—“ Oae of our leading amateur rosarians (Mr. G.) stated a 
short time ago that H.P. cut-backs would not produce exhibition blooms 
after they were four years o'd. This is contrary to my experience. Every 
year I find that several strong shoots are thrown up from the base of the 
p’ants. If these are saved and all the other wood is cut out we have 
virtually a young plant, and if the shoots preserved are pruned back in 
spring, leaving from two to six eyes according to the growth of the variety, 
I believe that as good blooms may be had from plants seven or eight years 
old as from four-year-olds. Possibly Mr. G. may mulch his plants heavily, 
and by digging this in year after year cause his plants to be too deeply 
embedded in the soil. In such a case I should advise lifting and replanting 
in fresh soil. Your readers often complain of a dearth of Rose news in 
‘our Journal.’ Would not this be an interesting subject for discussion ?” 
- Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institution. —We are in¬ 
formed that Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesden Manor, 
Member of Parliament for the Aylesbury Division of Buckinghamshire, 
has most kindly consented to preside at the forty-fourth anniversary 
festival of this institution at the “ Albion,” Aldersgate Street, on Friday, 
the 1st of July, 1887. 
- The Mild Weather. —A remarkable illustration of the mild¬ 
ness of the season is reported from Ulcomb in Kent, where a fruit-grower 
has gathered a quart of ripe Pears from midsummer blossoming, the 
second crop from the same tree this year. In various parts of East Kent 
Raspberries continue to be gathered, and in the neighbourhood of Ashford 
Laburnum trees are in full blossom. 
- Roses in November. —A northern correspondent writes:— 
•“ Although the rainfall has been heavy so far this autumn, the weather 
has been particularly mild for Pelargoniums, Lobelias, and many border 
plants, including Dahlias, are still yielding a few fliwers in condition. 
'Oa the 13th inst. I had the pleasure of seeing a box of beautiful Roses 
forwarded to Mrs. Heywood from Cloverly Hall Gardens, cut from the 
rosery outside on the 12th inst. During the previous week we cut a 
number of blooms of La France, and that useful autumn Rose, Souvenir 
de la Malmaison. To-day I have found a beautiful bloom of La France 
that would be highly prized even earlier in the season, the perfume and 
colour being almost perfect. A few genial days will bring out several 
others, for the two kinds named are full of buds, but unfortunately it 
rains every other day. It is unusual for us to cut Roses and Dahlias in 
the neighbourhood of Liverpool at this date, for early frosts generally 
destroy border flowers early in the season. I am more convinced than 
ever that the two Roses named are worthy of being planted in quantity 
together, so that they can be given cold frame protection in autumn until 
they have developed their autumn flowers.” 
—— The following note on Exacum affine appears in the 
American Gardeners' Monthly from a correspondent at the Washington 
Botanic Gardens :—“ If the individual plants of this recently introduced 
annual would grow to the same size and flower at the same time, it would 
be a decided acquisition to the list of bedding plants ; but it has a most 
erratic habit. Plants under the same conditions, growing side by side, 
differ considerably in height, breadth, and periods of flowering. Single 
plant) dotted over the rockwork give most satisfaction. The colour of 
the flowers is violet blue, with orange yellow stamens. The habit of the 
plant resembles Ophelia corymbosa, to which it is closely allied.” 
- The same publication remarks that Mr. Sturtevant’s Water 
Lily Culture at Bordentown, near Philadelphia, is getting quite 
famous. A considerable party of lovers of beautiful aquatics, known as 
the Lotos Club, made a special railroad excursion there on the 9th of 
September. The famed and deservedly admired Egyptian Lotus has been 
naturalised there, and this alone is worth many miles of a journey to see 
—to say nothing of the wonderful Victoria regia also in bloom at the 
same time.” 
- Much interest has been felt in the curious plant Shortia GALA- 
'Ci FOLIA, which was found by Michaux in North Carolina and never again 
un’il a few plants were seen in another place by Mr. Hyams a few years 
ago. Now Prof. Sargent has discovered it on the original spot where it 
grew in Michaux’s time. It is one of the plants common to Japan and to 
the United States, that seem to be dying out; and yet individual plants 
seem able to hold their own. Here are plants that have been able to 
ma ntam their place in one spot for over half a century.' 0 
NOTES ON PEACHES AND NECTARINES—SELECTING 
AND PLANTING TREES. 
The time has once more arrived for ordering and planting Peach and 
Nectarine as well as other fruit trees ; therefore a few words as to the 
most suitable varieties to plant, as well as the manner in which the process 
of planting should be carried out with the object of securing the most 
satisfactory results, will be opportune. A good supply of Peaches and 
Nectarines is desired in all gardens. This, where glass as well as wall 
aecommodat’on is provided for their culture, may be extended over a 
period of nearly six months, commencing towards the end of April with 
Amsden, Alexander, and Hale’s Early Peaches, and Lord Napier and 
Elruge Nectarines, and finishing the supply towards the end of October 
with Sea Eagle and Salwey Peaches (the latter variety in a heated house), 
and Pine Apple and Stan wick Nectarines. It is not my intention to write 
an exhaustive article on this subject, but to deal briefly with the matter, 
confining myself to an enumeration of the names of “ select varieties ” 
in preference to giving a long list of varieties in cultivation, which would 
only tend to confuse amateurs and young beginners. 
SELECT VARIETIES OF THE PEACH. 
Amsden is a medium-sized roundish American Peach, ripening on a 
south wall out of doors (to which branch of Peach culture my remarks 
will be confined in this paper) about the end of June. 
Alexander, medium size, juicy and brisk in flavour, ripening end of 
July. Hale’s Early, medium, roundish ovate fruit, crimson next the sun 
and full of flavour, ripening the beginning of August. 
Dr. Hogg is a large, round, rich, sugary, and a highly coloured 
Peach, ripe from the middle of August. 
Grosse Mignonne, a well-known variety, the fruit being large, 
roundish, well coloured, rich, and highly flavoured, ripe from the middle 
to the end of August. Nobless?, ripe the end of August, fruit large, 
roundish oblong, and full of juice. 
Royal George ripens early in September, the fruit being large, round, 
and of excellent flavour, but the leaves of this fine old variety, like the 
preceding one, are more subject to the attacks of mildew than any other 
varieties that I am acquainted with are, and on this account they are not 
grown so much as they deserve to be, seeing that the attacks of this fungoid 
can be guarded against, and should it appear, as it is likely to do in a low 
and consequently damp distric’, a dusting of the affected leaves while 
damp with the flowers of sulphur would soon eradicate it. 
Goshawk is one of the very best midseason Peaches we have. It is an 
American variety, ripening the beginning of September large fruits of 
exquisite flavour. 
Bellegarde produces large, round, dark, richly flavoured, and highly 
coloured fruit, ripening about the middle of September; it is a fine 
exhibition Peach. Barrington, ripening about the same time, is another 
excellent variety, the fruit being large, roundish ovate, and delicious 
flavour. 
Violette Hative, three or four trees—more or less, according to extent 
of Peach walls—of this excellent, large, roundish ovate, melting and 
beautifully coloured Peach should be planted in different aspects—south, 
west, and east—so as to secure gatherings of it from the beginning to the 
end of September. 
Late Admirable ripens large, elongated, well-flavoured fruits in the end 
of September, and Walburton Admirable yields fruits of a like description 
early in Ootober. 
Sea Eagle, large, pale, well-flavoured fruit, highly coloured on the side 
exposed to the sun ; it is a good grower and a sure cropper, ripe from the 
beginning to the middle of October. This year I picked my last dish of 
this, the best all-round late Peach in cultivation, on the 18th inst. 
Salwey is the largest and latest of all Peaches when the trees are not 
overcropped and are liberally supplied with liquid manure at the roots 
while swelling its fruits. But it should be grown under glass, where a 
little fire heat could be had to put flavour in the fruits, which, when thus 
grown, assume a rich golden hue and are full of flavour. The varieties 
enumerated are all good growers and free fruiters, and are suitable al ke 
for indoor and outdoor culture, except Salwey, which, if grown at all, 
should be in a heated house, as indicated. 
NECTARINES. 
Lord Napier is the earliest Nectarine that I am acquainted with. The 
fruit is large, handsome, and of excellent flavour, ripening towards the 
end of August, only a few days before that well-known excellent variety 
Elruge. 
Rivers’ Orange comes in about the same time. This is a handsome 
and finely flavoured Nectarine, as also are Balgowan and Pine Apple. 
These are two of the finest September Nectarines we have ; the fruits of 
both are large, highly coloured, with yellow, melting, rich, and highly 
flavoured flesh. 
Pitmaston Orange, Victoria, and Stanwick are good late varieties ; 
and, like all the others mentioned, are good growers and free fruiters. 
PLANTING. 
Upon the manner in which this important operation is performed de¬ 
pends in a great measure the ultimate condition and producing powers of 
the trees. Having determined the distance (15 feet) at which the trees 
should be planted from each other against the walls, an order for the 
necessary number of healthy, kindly grown, and rightly named trees 
should be de-patched forthwith to any of the large nurserymen having a 
reputation for supplying trees of this description ; meanwhile, having first 
marked the central position of each tree on the wall with a piece of chalk 
