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As regards cluster Roses, such as Sidonie and Augustine Mouchelet, the 
best way to get a first-rate specimen is to pick off two buds and leave 
the cleanest and healthiest. Sidonie, Baronne Prevost, Jacques Lafitte, 
and Pius IX. make excellent pole or wall Roses. Solfaterre is an 
excellent house Rose, is hardy, beautiful in leaf, and stalk, and buds and 
is most highly perfumed ; and I think it is easier cultivated than 
Lamarque or the glorious Cloth of Gold. 1 have a five or six years old 
tree against my house, which has 147 clean and well formed clusters in 
a forward state at this time (the 20th of April). 
Yellow Roses on their own roots do not, as a class, bloom freely till 
they acquire age. The Queen of Bourbons and Pius IX. throw most 
good and least defective Roses of my 200, and the only five that bloomed 
three crops last year were the Queen of Bourbons, Gloire de Rosamene, 
Geant des Batailles, Sidonie, and Bouquet de Flore. The most subject 
to mildew or white blight usually are the Geant, Ohl, and Madeleine. 
The only two, corneous, or green-eyed, of mine are Madame Aimee 
and Ohl. La Reine is magnificent when it develops well; William Jesse 
is preferable to it, because it unfolds easier. The Cloth of Gold (I 
have it not, but there is a splendid tree at Keynstone) is the only Rose 
I know that answers to all three of Richlieu’s description of a first-class 
Rose. If the descriptions are correct, he shuts out the splendid semi¬ 
double Roses, General Jacqueminot, Brennus, Castellano, BachmetofP, 
Chenedole, and such like. 
I conclude with this advice to my fellow juveniles in the Rosery— 
avoid dwarf-habited and delicate Roses and rind-rotted stocks, make your 
ground good as you can, plant shallow, tread tight, and tie firm to a 
stake ; disbud useless buds, and remove one of two cross eyes ; never 
permit weak wood; drench frequently with water and liquid manure in 
hot weather; look to the aphis, and syringe with Page’s liquid or 
tobacco-water and soap-suds—do so before aphides appear. If you neglect 
these rules, you had better have no Roses. 
W. F. Radolyffe. 
Rector of Rushton, Blandford, Dorset. 
ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY’S EXHIBITION. 
May 20.—A fine day, with which this Society was favoured on this 
occasion, brought a large and very distinguished company together, 
amounting to nearly 8000 visitors. The first great spring meeting is 
always more enjoyable than those that foUow, and this formed no 
exception to the rule; at succeeding exhibitions we miss that freshness 
which characterises this, and which is so pleasing to the eye. 
The exhibition itself was a good one, yet it struck us that there was 
a larger number of plants than usual that certainly could not be called 
fine specimens. This was particularly observable in the ten Azaleas 
and twelve stove and greenhouse plants from nurserymen. Neither 
were the Orchids, as a whole, such as we have been in the habit of 
seeing exhibited by Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Rucker, and Messrs. Veitch ; 
they, however, made a good display, and ai’e always interesting. 
