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TULIP JOHN HENRY.-ROSES AND EOSE-CULTURE. 
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TULIP JOHN HENRY. 
YTITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
E are indebted to Mr. Jobn Hep worth, of Huddersfield, whose interesting 
latters on floricultural subjects appear from time to time in our pages, 
for the opportunity of figuring this fine new Tulip, as well as for the fol¬ 
lowing particulars respecting its origin :—“■ The Tulip John Henry was 
raised from seed sown in 1856, the pod having been gathered two years pre¬ 
viously from the No. 1 fine strain of that very old favourite Louis XVI., impreg¬ 
nated with a very fine seedling byblcemen breeder. From the same pod of 
seed I have obtained several other superb seedlings, not yet named.” Mr. Hep- 
worth further states that no bulbs of this variety have as yet been parted with, 
nor will there be any for distribution before August 1871, but should the 
stock at that time amount to one dozen good blooming bulbs of the rectified 
flower, it will then be in the market at the price of one guinea each bulb. The 
breeder, which in the breeder state is also a first-class show fiower, will also 
be sent out at 7s. 6d. each. In case any untoward circumstances should inter¬ 
vene to prevent this number from being obtained by the time stated, the bulbs 
must be kept back till August, 1872. 
The annexed portrait, from the pencil of Mr. Andrews, affords sufficient evi¬ 
dence that the variety John Henry, when it becomes known, will take up a high 
position amongst feathered bybloemens; and as it is now many years since a 
new Tulip was figured in our pages, we cannot doubt that so beautiful an 
illustration will be acceptable to the floral section of our readers.—T. M. 
ROSES AND ROSE-CULTURE. 
Chapter III.— The Weepinu Rose. 
^fllE Weeping Rose is obtained by budding any Rose which produces long 
pendulous shoots, on a tall stem of the Dog Rose. The Ayrshire and 
^ Sempervirens groups furnish the best kinds for this purpose, because their 
growth ia naturally pendulous, but any vigorous-growing kinds may be 
trained to fomi Weeping Roses. The general treatment should be the same as 
that advanced for the Standard Rose (p. 106); a different system of pruning and 
training is alone required, and this I shall now attempt to describe. 
The Weeping Rose should stand singly in the rosetum, or on the lawn. The 
first year after being removed to its final destination, preserve from three to six 
shoots only, which should be set on the head at about equal distances from each 
other, radiating like the spokes in a wheel. Cut out all other shoots close to the 
head, so that no other eyes may spring from them. If three shoots are left, cut 
each back to two eyes ; if six shoots can be satisfactorily arranged in proper 
position, cut each back to one eye, which will give by the end of the growing 
reason a well-established tree, with six long pendulous shoots placed at about 
3rd series.—III. I 
