June 20, 1895. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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limited, but grown in the open quarter of the kitchen garden it has 
proved to be hardy, early, and very fruitful, weak plants carrying a heavy 
crop of large fruit of good colour and excellent flavour. Many of the 
fruits from one-year-old plants weighed over 2 ozs., the first of 
which were ripe on the 10th inst. As showing its earliness other 
varieties grown on the same quarter were President, Sir Joseph Paxton, 
Auguste Nicaise, Lord Sufiield, Gunton Park, Vicomtesse H. de Thury, 
and several other varieties, but the latter is the only variety that has 
commenced to colour. I predict a great future for this novelty, as it 
has earliness, size, and quality to recommend it. The flesh being solid 
and firm it will travel well, and 1 realised 28. per lb. for fruit of this 
variety in the open market, although other varieties were coming in 
somewhat freely from the South, and were being sold at 6d. per lb.—a 
fact that should be made a note of by market growers.— Geo. Summees, 
Sandhech Parli, YorTis. 
Rose Show Fixtures fob 1895. 
June 20th (Thursday).—Colchester and Ryde. 
„ 25th (Tuesday).—Isle of Wight (Cowes). 
„ 26th (Wednesday).—Richmond (Surrey). 
„ 27th (Thursday).—Gloucester (N.R.S.) and Canterbury. 
„ 28th (Friday).—Exeter. 
„ 29th (Saturday).—Windsor. 
July 2nd (Tuesday).—Diss, Maidstone, and Sutton. 
„ 3rd (Wednesday).—Brockham, Croydon, Ealing, Farningham, 
Lee,t and Sittingbourne 
„ 4th (Thursday).—Eltham and Norwich. 
„ 6th (Saturday).—Crystal Palace (N.R S.). 
„ 9th (Tuesday).—Ipswich, Westminster (R.H.S.), and Wolver¬ 
hampton.* 
„ 10th (Wednesday).—Chelmsford, Farnham, Hitchin, and Redhill 
(Reigate). 
„ 11th (Thursday).—Bath, Great Malvern (Hereford Rose Society), 
Helensburgh, Woodbridge, and Worksop. 
„ 17th (Wednesday).—Derby (N.R.S.). 
„ 18th (Thursday).—Canterbury (Kent Hospital Fete) and Halifax. 
„ 20th (Saturday).—Manchester. 
„ 23rd (Tuesday).—Tibshelf. 
„ 24th (Wednesday).—Chesterfield and Newcastle-on-Tyne.* 
„ 25th (Thursday),—Trentham. 
Aug. 3rd (Saturday) and 5th.—Liverpool.f 
* A show lasting three days. f A show lasting two days. 
—Edward Mawley, Tosetanli, Berlihamsted, Herts. 
Rose Maeechal Niel Dndeb Glass. 
I DID not reply again to “ H. R. R.’s” letter on this subject, though 
I was glad to see Mr. Divers’ corroboration, because it is a generally 
accepted fact that grafted Roses are distinctly inferior to those which 
are budded for a permanence. “ H. R. R.” says he has not infrequently 
had growths of 20 feet from the grafts in one season, but has he ever 
got as many first-class blooms per square foot of glass from a grafted 
plant as I said I had from my budded one ? My Mardchal Niel makes 
twelve shoots of 15 feet long each every year, and they would be 
considerably longer if they were not stopped. Ttey are now just 
beginning to start.—W. R. Raillem. 
New Roses. 
We have received from Mesirs. Wm. Paul & Son, Waltham Cross, 
specimens of two new Roses, one representing the Tea section named 
Sylph, the other of the China class, called Queen Mab. The former is 
superb, with its stiff petals and bushy, floriferous habit. The colour is 
white, delicately suffused with rosy lake, and is apparently distinct from 
any other of the section. We shall expect to hear more of this Rose 
later op. Queen Mab is the Rose for buttonholes, the buds being of 
perfect shape for that purpose. Tbe colour is somewhat difficult of 
description, but rich, pale terra-cotta wiih rosy purple-tipped petals will 
convey some idea. Each flower is of great, substance, and as we suppose 
both to be seedlings of Messrs. Paul’s raising we may safely congratulate 
them on their acquisition and introduction. 
Rose Mrs. W'. J. Grant. 
We have received a long letter relative to the change of name 
of this British-raised Rose, and two plants have been sent to us 
under another name. As this letter makes reference to matters and 
alleged statements which have never appeared in the Journal of 
Horticulture its publication would be obviously irrelevant. The writer, 
however, claims that the purchaser of a plant that has been named, 
certificated, and awarded a gold medal has the right to change the name 
and substitute any other that he may choose. We will not argue the 
matter as to what right a citizen of a foreign nation may have to do 
this for the sale of what he re-names in his own country ; but we have 
a right to protest, and we do protest, against a foreign name superseding 
the legitimate name of a plant in the country in which it was raised 
and in which it has been honoured by competent officials at public 
exhibitions. 
The Rose Mrs. W. J. Grant was raised by Messrs. Dickson & Sons in 
Ireland. It was awarded the gold medal as a new variety at the 
National Rose Society’s show at Chester in 1892, and granted a first- 
class certificate (which was well deserved) at Wolverhampton during 
the same year. Whether it had more honours we do not at the moment 
remember, nor does it matter, as the name of the Rose was officially 
recognised in the most public manner, and no other name can be found 
registered in either the National Rose Society’s books or the public press 
of that year. 
Mrs. W. J. Grant, then, is the true name of this Rose, and under 
that name the variety ought to be exhibited and grown in this 
country. It is a well known law in botanical nomenclature that 
the first name given to a plant and authoritatively accepted is its 
correct name, and always takes precedence if any others are given 
inadvertently. If it were not so nothing but confusion would 
ensue, and no person has any right whatsoever to alter the name 
of any plant, be it species or variety, that was certificated and registered, 
say, at the last meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, and sell that 
plant under an entirely different name in this country, if anywhere 
else. If a person purchases an unnamed variety of a flower, or even a 
named variety that has not been placed before the public, then he can 
give it what name he chooses for the purpose of exhibiting and gaining 
a certificate, but after it is honoured no one is justified in changing its 
name because he happen to purchase the stock, and intends selling 
plants under another name in the country in which the variety waa 
raised. 
Investing flowers with the names of individuals is a compliment to 
those persons whose names are used, and we are bound to say that it is 
the reverse of graceful to attempt to obliterate the compliment by 
erasing the name. Nor, in the case of that name being a respected 
name, is any change likely to increase the sale of the plant at home. 
As a fact, we know of persons who simply will not purchase plants of 
Mrs. W. J. Grant Rose under any other name, and this is the name that 
will be used in the Journal of Horticulture under whatever other 
appellation blooms may be exhibited. 
If one person has the right to alter the name of a Rose under the 
circumstances indicated, and to work up stocks and sell plants under 
another name, so has another. All the names so given, whether few or 
many, would be wrong. Only one could be right, and the only right 
name of the Rose under consideration is Mrs. W. J. Grant. 
Since the foregoing was in type we have received information that a 
resolution was passed at the last Committee meeting of the National 
Rose Society to the effect “ that, as Messrs. Dickson’s new Rose was 
exhibited and awarded the gold medal of the Society under the name 
‘ Mrs. W. J. Grant,’ the Committee considers that that name only should 
be recognised in Great Britain.” This, it is hoped, will settle the matter. 
LATE PEAS. 
In Scotland we have a decided advantage in the climate over 
cultivators in the south, and in that respect there is less difficulty in 
keeping up a long-continued supply of Peas. At the same time, in order 
to prolong the season, a special course of treatment must be followed. 
After the earliest crop out of doors has been provided for, there is no 
trouble with Peas until we come to the crop that has to provide for 
September, October, and, in favourable years, part of November. 
At the best there is uncertainty as to the result, which sometimes 
occurs on account of the weather, occasionally from the attacks of 
rodents, and not infrequently because a sowing is made too early or too 
late. In the last mentioned case it may happen that Peas from a 
sowing put in towards the end of May will continue in bearing until 
stopped by frost; or on the other hand, the best results may follow from 
a sowing in the middle of June. Mj latest sowing last year was on 
June 2l8t, and if it had not been for the severe frost in the second week 
of October that would have been just right. As a rule, however, I find 
it best to make a big sowing in the second week of June, any time, say 
from about the 7th to the 13th. Quite twice the usual breadth must be 
put in, more if space can be spared, because as the season cools the 
young pods fill slowly, and when this vegetable is a daily requirement 
it is needful to have a sufficiently large quantity to enable one to secure 
a dish off a fourth or even less of the crop. 
The preparation of the ground is of some importance. For my own 
part I think it a mistake to sow Peas of any sort in trenches enriched 
with manure in layers, and fora late crop this is not required at all. 
If the ground is deep and in good heart no manure will be required ; 
but once the plants have reached the flowering stage, I find a dressing 
of soot, nitrate of soda, or sulphate of ammonia, most helpful in causing 
a fresh and continued growth of haulm. Deep sowing is also beneficial. 
The seeds may be 6 inches from the surface, though at first it need 
be covered only 3 or 4 inches in depth, and when the plants are staked 
a little more soil may be drawn to them. A good plan is to make a 
trench 8 or 9 inches wide, and in this to set two rows of Peas at least 
6 inches apart, while the seed in the rows ought to be not closer than 
3 to 4 inches. A few rows intended to yield the very latest supply 
should be sown even wider. Thin sowing, and the consequent free 
space allowed each plant, is the surest means I know for securing a late 
crop of fine Peas. 
Late Peas are generally tall growing, and it is one of the commonest 
