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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ December 17, 1885. 
MARGOTTIN, Pt^RE. 
Raoul Guillard. —Flowers large, full, very sweet-scented, bril¬ 
liant vermilion red ; back of petals amaranth colour. My good 
old friend rarely sends out a new Rose, so that one is hopeful when 
he does so it is something good, 
LACHARME. 
Clara Cochet. —Vigorous, erect growth, full, with large petals ; 
clear rose colour, centre brighter. 
I may say the same of honest old Lacharme, to whom we are 
indebted for so many good flowers, and who has sent out so few 
bad ones. As this appears to be his only Rose this year let us 
hope it may confirm his previous reputation. 
LEVEQUE. 
Comtesse Freisinet de Bellanger. —Very vigorous. Flowers 
large, full, of a beautiful clear rose colour shaded with bright rose. 
Madame Baulot. —Flowers large, full, imbricated ; colour bright 
rose shaded with carmine. 
Marechal Canrobert. —Vigorous. Flowers large and full ; colour 
cerise red shaded with carmine and purple. 
Princes.se Amedee de Broglie. —Very vigorous. Flowers large, 
full, and globular ; colour clear bright rose, cherry colour in the 
centre, back of petals silvery. 
Professeur Maxime Cornu. —Vigorous. Flowers large, full ; 
colour lively red without any shading. Very free-flowering. 
MOREAU. 
Doctmr Pinel. —Very vigorous. Flowers very large, full, of 
good form, flowering in clusters ; colour vermilion red shaded with 
carmine. 
Madame Lefebvre. —Vigorous. Flowers large, flowering in 
clusters ; colour satiny rose, deeper in the centre. 
Nicholas Leblanc. —Flowers very large, globular ; colour cherry 
red passing into delicate rose. 
LIABAUD. 
Madame Gomot. —Very vigorous. A seedling from Souvenir 
de la Reine d’Angleterre ; very large flowers, nearly full ; colour 
lively, glossy rose. 
Madame Musset. —Very vigorous. Flowers very large, full, of 
good shape ; colour clear red. 
Madame Rebatel. —Very vigorous ; a seedling from La Reine. 
Flowers very large, well shaped ; colour bright rose shaded with 
lighter tint of same colour. 
Madame Villy. —Vigorous, having the appearance of Rose 
Madame de Cambaceres. Flowers large, full ; colour brilliant 
amaranth red. 
SOUPERT ET HOTTING. 
Madame Ph. Deioofs. —Very vigorous. Flowers large, full, 
shape of Centifolia ; colour madder rose shaded with clear violet. 
Madame Pierre de Beys. —Vigorous. Flowers large and full ; 
vermilion red passing into shaded carmine. 
VIGNERON. 
Madame Sanylier. —Vigorous. Flowers large, full, globular ; 
colour amaranth red, reverse silvery white. 
Monsieur Moreau. —Vigorous. Flowers large, full, globular ; 
colour lively rose, passing into delicate rose ; reverse of petals 
silvery. 
GONOD. 
Rosieristc Chauvry. —Vigorous. Flowers large, full, a seedling 
from Victor Verdier; colour fiery red, the deepest colour of this 
series. 
J. LUDOVIC. 
This is quite a new name to me, nor do I know his locale. It 
sounds more German than French, and his Rose is named after that 
enthusiastic rosarian 
Frederick Schneider II. —Vigorous. Flowers large ; colour lively 
rose shaded with brilliant red. 
PERNET PERE. 
Souvenir de Victor Hugo. —Vigorous. Flowers lai'ge, nearly full, 
globular, beautiful satiny rose. 
It will thus be seen that Mons. Eugene Verdier heads as usual 
the list as far as number goes with eight varieties, while such 
cautious growers as Lacharme and Margottin have only one each. 
It is utterly impossible to say where we are to look for the prizes ; 
but however glowing the descriptions they do not strike one as 
promising anything very novel or extraordinary.— D., Deal. 
ICE HEAPS. 
The remarks and illue'ration anent this subject (p. 512), together 
with the fact that we are now actually engaged in the work to which 
they refer, induce me to bring under the notice of your readers a 
method of preserving ice that is not so well known as it deserves to 
be. I refer to “ stacking ice ” in the open, and the modus operandi 
of which I have not seen practised elsewhere. There are no doubt 
many of your readers who would like to have their own store of ice 
had they but the accommodation in the way of a house in which to 
preserve it, and yet in most cases they possess all that is necessary to 
gratify their wishes in this respect without expending a penny in ex¬ 
cavating and fitting up an ice house. This is to be done by following in 
detail the instructions herein given, which represent the method of 
procedure practised here for several years with the most satisfactory 
results. 
In a valley shaded by spreading trees, the foliage of which shades 
the ice rick from the direct rays of the sun during the summer and 
early autumn months, and at the bottom of a slope having an angle 
of about 30°, thus affording ample drainage—we commence our 
rick, and build “ uphill ’’ about 12 or 15 feet to the edge of the cart¬ 
way, which we made for the occasion. We then place some, hurdles 
at the bottom and ends to prevent the ice when “ tipped up ’ at the 
top from going beyond its bounds. It is then well broken with 
mallets, and boiling water applied as the work proceeds to consoli¬ 
date. The section of the rick when finished somewhat represents 
that of a three-quarter span house, the cartway representing the wall 
plate of the hip-roof. Then a man, with a ladder placed against it, 
spade in hand, commences at the top and trims the whole rick right 
round to the bottom, thus filling all the crevices with the descending 
“ ice dust,’’ which is well beaten in as the operator progresses with 
his work. This done, the whole is covered with sifted sawdust to 
the depth of 4 or 5 inches to exclude the air, following this with 
2 feet thick of freshly collected leaves and a sufficient long litter to 
prevent the wind blowing the leaves off; and, as a “ finishing touch,' 
the rick is enclosed by hurdles, which are fastened by tarred string to 
stout sticks driven into the ground to keep cattle, &c., away. Weuse 
a half-inch-mesh sieve for the sawdust. The making of the ice into 
a “ rick ” instead of a “ stack ” is the better way, inasmuch as it 
obviates the question of insufficient slope arising, to prevent the 
system being practised on that account. But the rick, as a matter 
of course, should be made sufficiently long to compensate for loss 
sustained through deficiency of height and width. 
We have an excellent “ ice house ” here, but having so thoroughly 
demonstrated the fact that a good supply of ice can be had all the 
year round without incurring the expense of making and filling an 
ice-house I have ceased to make use of the one here on,the score that 
nearly half the labour necessary to fill the house is sufficient to make 
a “ rick ’’ containing a like complement of ice. From a “ rick ’ so 
made we have had a supply of ice for sixteen months from the date 
of making it. This was a test “ rick,’’ and after it was finished we 
had recourse to the ice house, which had been filled in the ordinary 
way to supplement the supplies previously obtained from the rick, 
but it only contained four or five loads of ice out of some 200J,oads 
stored therein the last week the previous November, 1880. These 
facts go not only to conclusively prove that a supply of ice can be 
secured all the year round from a rick made above ground, but that 
in ordinary winters an “ over-lap supply of four months ” can also 
be had. In order that the openings made in the coverings of the ice 
rick each time that a fresh supply of ice is required may be again 
made air-tight, it will be advisable to send the same men on each 
occasion.— H. W. Ward, Longford. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS IN WINTER. 
The majority of those who grow Strawberries in pots do not begin to 
force them uniil March or thereabouts, as successful forcing in January or 
February is work which can only be doDe by those possessing the best of 
appliances. It is very satisfactory to have ripe Strawberries as early as 
possible, but plants which would only produce a very moderate crop in 
February would produce a heavy crop in April or May, and as a rule it is 
most profitable to defer forcing until the days have lengthened con¬ 
siderably. Previous to beginning forcing it is a bad plan to keep the 
plants in such a high temperature that they will never be at rest through¬ 
out the winter ; keeping them growing slowly is a sure way of ruining 
them. The quieter and cooler they can be kept until forcing begins the 
better. In years gone by some of our most successful plants have been 
lefc in the open air uuti'l February. They were turned down on then- 
sides at the end of November and laid along the bottom of a wall, where 
they were partially sheltered, and the roots soon became so dry that when 
frost came the soil did not swell and break the pots ; but no harm was 
done to anything, and now we always allow some of our plants to be 
treated in this way. We also place some of them in a cool frame, and 
only draw the lights over them when it is severe frost or much rain. 
These are not kept so dry at the roots as those at the bottom of the wall, 
and they force almost as well, but not so early. We have put some plants 
into a Peach house where there was no artificial heat, but the sun heat 
raised the temperature so much at times that the plants showed signs of 
growing slightly, and as we have a decided objection to this we do not 
approve of storing them in Peach houses or vineries, and keep them m the 
