JANUARY. 
15 
the tables of the wealthy, but it can never supersede the Potato for the 
poor man’s use. If it requires two years’ growth in the climate of 
Paris, it will do little here on the average of our damp, dull summers. 
I next visited the grounds of M. Chevalier, at La Chapelle. He is 
a large cultivator of Cardoons, and most magnificent ones he had. 
They are planted upon a flat surface, from three to four feet apart, and 
are blanched by filling up between them with dried stable litter, of 
which immense quantities are seen in every market-gardener’s yard. 
Celery is also blanched in the same manner. M. C. grows Escarolle 
largely, and has many hundreds of cloches for Lettuce. Spinach and 
Cauliflower are also cultivated largely by him. Nothing can be* finer 
than his soil; it is quite a hotbed of manure. In the Rue de Reuilly 
I visited a garden—the proprietor’s name I do not recollect. Here I 
saw the interesting process of planting out the Lettuces under the 
cloches. 
Henry Bailey. 
{To he continued.) 
NEW ROSES. 
In a note at foot of Mr. Paul’s article on ” New Roses,” page 363, 
you say, “ Not only Mr. Paul, but many correspondents, differ from 
Mr. Rivers in his estimation of certain kinds.” This is as it should be ; 
for when cultivators differ many important truths are often elicited. 
Let us therefore hope that some of your “ many correspondents ” will 
kindly and quietly give us their opinions. In page 329 I say, “ The 
new Roses sent out in 1855 have not cut a brilliant figure : ” I ought 
to have added, “ but few of,” which gives the exact state of the case. 
I name but few, and their goodness cannot be disputed ; for Triomphe 
de rExposition, Arthur de Sansal, Ornement des Jardins, Triomphe 
d’Avranches, Mathurin Regnier, Bacchus, and Victor Trouillard will 
hold their ground for some time. These are all I name, and your 
readers will, I think, be glad to know from your correspondents why 
they differ in opinion from my estimation of them. I repeat, that 
Prince Leon and Jules Margottin (as it bloomed here last summer) are 
unrivalled in their line of colour. 
It is quite time that amateurs should know the value of those long 
lists of “New Roses ” advertised in the spring of the year, before 
many of them have even bloomed once, and every Rose grower should 
so reduce his catalogue as to offer onl^ those that are distinct and good. 
The day must come for this; and not only for Roses, but florists’ 
flowers, coniferous trees, and shrubs, of which so many trifling varieties, 
with scarcely any shade of difference, are offered in catalogues. Fruit 
trees. Rhododendrons, ornamental trees and shrubs, and herbaceous 
plants—all these must be cut down to a sensible standard, that is, to 
such as are really ornamental and distinct. It only requires courage 
to bear the opposition that interested parties will be sure to offer. Even 
kitchen garden seeds require this pruning down, for how many honest, 
industrious gardeners—good for the kitchen-garden, but not educated 
