November 29, 1894. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
491 
I may add that I have the separate lists and votes cf each rosarian 
named by me, and should be happy to let anyone see them.— 
Chakles J. Grahame. 
It seems to me that the fault of “ E. M.’s ” analysis is the heading, 
“ average number of times shown,” to the second column. As far as 1 
can see, it should be “corrected average according to Mr. M.’s judg¬ 
ment.” Simple folk understand an average to be the sum of the totals 
divided by their number, and any tampering with the figures is looked 
at with considerable disfavour. For instance, at our village National 
School the Government pays us so much per head on “ the average 
attendance.” The other day, the weather being very bad, the number 
of children present was but half the usual average. What if I, as 
manager, were to correct or omit this abnormal and disturbing figure, 
and explain to the Education Department (as “ E, M.,” page 423) that 
“averages calculated after this purely arithmetical fashion, although 
in the main correct, were in exceptional cases more or less misleading,” 
and that attendance “ under such exceptional conditions has in fairness 
to be omitted ? ” Would indignation or amusement most prevail among 
“ my Lords 1 ” 
Would “ E. M.” counsel Dr. W. G. Grace, on those rare occasions 
when he has retired to the pavilion with 0 to his name, to consider it an 
exceptional or misleading figure that might in fairness be omitted from 
his batting average ? 
The intention is good to represent a proper present estimate of the 
comparative value of well-known Roses ; but as it rests upon corrected 
figures, and not the actual data, it becomes more or less dependent upon 
the judgment of one man ; and my original criticism a year or two 
ago—that the analysis is not so valuable a guide as the old Rose 
elections, which were formed on the judgment of many—is, I think, 
well founded.—W. R. Raillem. 
Late Flowering Roses. 
My experience of autumnal Roses during the season of 1894, which 
it appears is not yet past, is identical with that of Mr. Charles J. 
Grahame (page 423). Before me, as I write, is a large bouquet of 
Roses cut on November 9th, from the following Hybrid Perpetuals, 
Teas, and Hybrid Teas : A. K. Williams, Marie Baumann, Margaret 
Dickson, Gloire Lyonaise, Cranston’s Crimson Bedder, Belle Lycnaisse, 
La France, Grace Darling, Safrano, and Souvenir de S. A. Prince. I 
also found in my garden this afternoon (the 10th inst.) several very 
handsome flowers on Corinna, one of the most beautiful and 
fragrant of Teas ; Perle des Jardins, worthy of that name ; Etoile 
de Lyon, Ernest Metz (which blooms very late, and produces even in 
this cold and sunless season very large flowers of a tender pink hue) ; 
Marguerite, a new white Tea Rose, which, as previously recorded, 
originated here ; Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, Laurette Messimy, Mrs, 
John Laing, Augustine Guinoisseau, and Marie Van Houtte. 
It may interest some of your readers to learn that Madame Adelina 
Patti, who is herself an eminent amateur horticulturist, wore a bouquet 
of Roses grown in my garden, at her recent concert in Edinburgh when 
singing “ Home, Sweet Home,” a somewhat remarkable floral com¬ 
mentary on “ The Last Rose of Summer,” which she had sung with her 
customary im^pressiveness immediately before. I greatly fear that this 
special Rose of the garden, whatever it was, is now very seldom “ left 
blooming alone.” On January 9th, the coldest day of the present year, 
I found on a Gloire de Dijon on the south wall of my house a perfectly 
formed, full blown Rose 1 
There are several new Roses of exceptional merit, which, I antici¬ 
pate, will prove next summer very valuable additions to my extensive 
collection; among these I may mention the Clio, Clara Watson, 
Marchioness of Londonderry, and Marchioness of Downshire, the early 
flowering Mrs. Harkness, and the dark hued Charles Gaiter. These 
British productions, I venture to predict, will be found to eclipse their 
most prominent Continental ’contemporaries. I might also have men¬ 
tioned as important recent English introductions, Duke of York, Queen 
Mab, Lord and Lady Penzance, Amy Robsart, and Alister Stella Gray.-— 
David R. Williamson. 
Dendrobium album. 
This is a very charming plant. The flowers are produced 
generally in pairs on the nodes opposite the leaf on the current 
year’s growth. The sepals and petals are nearly equal in size, of a 
greenish white, changing to pure white as the flowers expand, the 
lip being white slightly stained with yellow. The season of 
flowering is September and October, and the flowers last about a 
month in perfection. 
So far as my experience goes the plants grow equally well in 
pots or baskets, and require the temperature of a warm house 
in the summer with abundance of moisture at the roots, also from 
the syringe, A slight permanent shading is likewise beneficial. I 
find the same treatment that D. Falconer! likes in its growing 
season also suits D. album. As the beauty of the plant is much 
enhanced by its producing the flowers in company with the leaves, 
it is always desirable to retain the foliage as perfect as possible. 
Therefore the leaves should not be exposed to the sun during the 
autumn until the flowers are over. The plant may then be rested 
in a dry intermediate house, and moved into the stove again directly 
the plant commences its new growth.—J. Godfrey, Spetcldey. 
Yanda Amesiana. 
As depicted in the accompanying illustration (fig. 74) Yanda 
Amesiana is a charming Orchid. The flowers are not large, but 
being produced on slender racemes, are very effective. I'he sepals 
and petals are white or blush tinted, while the lip is rich crimson, 
fading to a lighter margin. This dwarf-growing species was intro¬ 
duced from India a few years ago, but it does not appear to have 
been very extensively cultivated. In some collections it thriven 
under much the same treatment as is accorded Yanda coerulea. 
Orchids at the Bristol Show. 
As usual the groups of miscellaneous plants at the above show 
held recently contained a plentiful sprinkling of Orchids. Den¬ 
drobium Phalaenopsis, Cattleyas, and Calanthes were freely 
represented with others usually exhibited at this season. The 
competition in the class for single specimens was also good, the 
exhibits including fine plants of Cattleya labiata, Coelogyne 
Massangiana, and Oypripedium insigne. In the amateurs’ division 
Mr. W. M. Appleton of Tyn-y-Coed, Weston-super-Mare, staged a 
very interesting little collection of Orchids, both cut and on the 
plants. This exhibit would, however, have been improved by the 
addition of a few more Ferns or foliage plants. Several good 
Cypripediums were included in this collection. C. Laucheanum, 
a dark form of C, Ashburtoniae ; C. Arthurianum and C. Cham- 
berlainianum were represented ; also C. concolor, 0. Spicerianum, 
and C. Roezli. Good spikes of Oncidium Jonesianum, 0. tigrinum, 
Epidendrum Godseffianum and Dendrobium Phal^onopsis were 
