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THE EEORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
PINE APPLES AND CONIFERJE CONES AT THE ROYAL 
BOTANIC SOCIETY’S JULY SHOW. 
At the last Exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent’s Park, Mr. 
Barnes, of Bicton, exhibited two interesting collections of Pine Apples, one of 
which was grown under glass, and the other started under glass, but brought 
forward and ripened in the open air. Mr. Barnes also exhibited a collection 
of cones from trees growing in the arboretum at Bicton, celebrated for its rich 
collection of Conifers, of which many noble specimens there exist such as are 
to be met with in but few other places in this country. 
The Pines grown under glass consisted of— 
One Providence. 
One Prickly Cayenne. 
One Copper-coloured Montserrat. 
One Brown Antigua. 
One Queen. 
One Ripley Queen. 
The collection swelled and coloured in the open air, without glass, con¬ 
sisted of— 
One Ripley Queen. 
One Queen. 
One Brown Antigua. 
One Copper-coloured Montserrat. 
One Enville. 
One Lemon-coloured Queen. 
The cones were those of the following species : 
Pinus pinaster maritimus. 
pinaster Escarena. 
pinaster Lemoniana. 
Fraseri. 
Montezumae. 
patula. 
Banksiana. 
monticola. 
pungens. 
halepensis. 
pine a. 
taeda. 
brutia. 
rigida serotina, 
insignis. 
Abies Menziesii. 
Abies Douglasii. 
Douglasii taxifolia. 
alba. 
glauca alba, 
dumosa. 
Picea pectinata. 
cephalonica. 
nobilis. 
Webbiana. 
Nordmanniana. 
balsamea Fraseri. 
Araucaria imbricata. 
imbricata mascula. 
Wellingtonia gigantea. 
Cupressus macrocarpa. 
Lawsoniana. 
ON FLOWERING THE CLOTH OF GOLD ROSE. 
I now proceed to fulfil the promise I made at page 251 of the last volume, 
and to describe the method 1 have of flowering the Cloth of Gold Rose. The 
stock upon which it is worked is White Banksian, on which is also budded, 
close down to the soil. Noisette Ophirie. It is requisite to do this, as the stock 
is more tender than the budded Rose. Five years ago the stock was killed by 
frost, and the Cloth of Gold was not injured in the least. Ophirie is quite hardy, 
and covers 4 feet of the bottom of the wall, which has a west aspect. Above 
there are two buds of Cloth of Gold, the shoots from which are trained, one to 
the right and the other to the left, at the top of the wall, which is 10 feet 
high; they are, consequently, 6 feet above the top of Ophirie, and they cover 
the wall for a length of 20 feet, and nearly every shoot at the top of the wall 
has a truss of golden yellow blooms, some of which were cut on the 29th of 
May. I prune but little ; for this Rose, if cut much, will grow r too strong instead 
of flowering. I merely shorten the summer’s w'ood about one-third of its 
length as soon as the bloom is over. About the end of November I protect 
the Roses on the wall with evergreen boughs. This answers tw T o purposes; 
it prevents the hares and rabbits barking them, and the frost from killing the 
