THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[January 23. 
25 A 
Cabbage rose, Souvenir cle Malmaison was my peculiar 
favourite, which, by the way, would be quite true; he 
would only have to turn to S and look down the line 
till he came to the very name; then, passing his eye 
across the page, he would see in one of the ruled columns 
that it was a Br., or Bourbon rose; mo., a moderate 
grower for a Bourbon; H.-JL, a light-flesh or blush- 
coloured rose ; v. 1., a very large one; and Is. or Is. 6d. 
charged for a nice healthy plant of it. And why not trans¬ 
late the names as wc do in the Dictionary ? Thus, Sou¬ 
venir means remembrance, and Malmaison means a 
palace residence near Paris, once occupied by the ill- 
used Empress Josephine, the faithful and cruelly divorced 
wife of Napoleon ; therefore this rose is a remembrance 
of Malmaison; or, if you like it better, a rose to the 
memory of the faithful Josephine—the best of all the 
French roses. Let Mr. Rivers try his hand on this way 
of arranging his rose catalogue, and he will have more 
customers than he can grow roses for. 
Best Climbing Boses. 
1. Banlcsia : white ; requires a south aspect on a bank, and 
protection in winter for the first four or five years. 
2. Banksia: yellow; same as No. 1. 
3. Banks'aeflora (Evr.) : white flower with a huff centre, very 
hardy. 
4. Bcnnel's Seedling (Ayr.) : pure white, and very hardy and 
fast grower. 
5. Crimson Boursault: the best of its class. 
0. Dundee Bumbler (Ayr.) : whitish, very hardy, and free 
grower. 
7. Donna Maria (Evr.) : pure white, very hardy, and fast 
grower. 
8. Felicite-Perpetuelle (Evr.): small creamy white flowers, 
very hardy, and free. 
0. Gracilis (Brslt.): a strong free grower, with pink flowers. 
10. GreviUii (Mlt.) : the seven sister rose, of various hues; 
treat it as No. 1. 
11. Tnermis (Brslt.) : a large red flower, and free habit of 
growth. 
12. Jdune dc Prez (Noi.) : a strong grower, with buff flowers; 
tender; treatment as No. 1. 
13. La Biche (Noi.): a strong grower, hardy, with large 
clusters of white flowers. 
14. Lamar k (Noi.) : tender; splendid large Whitish flower, 
free, and best worked on No. 8. 
15. Laura Davoust (Mlt.): rather tender; a fine sort, with 
light-shaded flowers. 
10. Lutea —Fortune’s double yellow—(Evr.) : said to be 
splendid. 
17. Maria Leonida (Msk.): tender; light-flowered; to be 
treated as No. 1. 
18. Myrianthes (Evr.) : very hardy, fast grower, perhaps the 
best. 
19. Princess Louise (Evr.) : very hardy, very strong, and 
blush-white flowers. 
20. Princess Maria (Evr.) : very strong, very hardy, with 
pinkish flowers. 
21. Rampant (Evr.): a strong hardy sort; white flowers, 
blooms in autumn. 
22. Rivers (Msk.) : a sweet pinkish flower, tinged with buff. 
23. Splendens (Ayr.): very hardy, fast grower, with creamy- 
white flowers. 
24. Queen of the Prairies: a fast grower, but tender, and 
must be treated as the Banksians ; it has large red¬ 
dish flowers, sometimes striped with white. 
| This list of climbing roses is the most serviceable one 
I hitherto furnished in The Cottage Gardener, or anv- 
! where else. It is quite long enough for the largest 
j establishment in the world ; and I have grown every one 
of them, and twice the number, except 18, Fortune’s 
yellow China, and 24, Queen of the Prairies. I believe 
there lias been some mistake about 16: it was pro¬ 
nounced in London, as soon as it flowered, to be 
good for nothing; but Inst summer twelvemonth I had 
a report of it from the neighbourhood of Hereford which 
said it was most magnificent then, and the admiration 
of everyone who entered the garden. The reporter knows 
roses as well as I do, and I know the best of them as 
well as anybody, therefore I recommend it as the best 
and newest in the list. Nos. 1, 2,10, 12, 14, 15, 17, and 
24 are tender sorts, atleast until they are well established; 
j but on a sloping bank facing the south they would 
answer much better than against a south wall, and 
would be much easier protected there with fir or spruce 
boughs or laurel primings stuck among the branches. 
Here I budded 14 on many sorts of stocks, and those 
which it likes best are 8 and 18; on the former as a 
pillar rose, and worked eight or nine feet from the 
ground; I never saw it flower better; and when it does 
well, there is not a finer white rose in existence; with 
me it does not do well against a south wall. 5 and 12 
will generally bloom in the autumn, and to encourage 
them to do so, the strongest of the flowering shoots should 
be cut back half their length in May, or as soon as they 
show flower-buds, and many more of them might be made 
to flower later that way. Of all the roses 15 produces 
most flowers in a house; 3,8,17,18,19, 20 are the best of 
what we call evergreen climbers. They will do on any 
aspect, and all the hybrid perpetual roses will do remark¬ 
ably well budded on 8, 17, 18, and 19. 13 is a very 
large one for its class ; and the Ayrshire roses, 4 and 6, 
to which Ruga might be added, will grow freely where 
few roses could exist; and finally, no hedge, or bank, or 
brae should be planted with roses without a good many 
of the Olorie de Rusamene being putin at the same time. 
D. Beaton. 
GREENHOUSE AND WINDOW 
GARDENING. 
Forcing Hardy Plants for Decorating the Green¬ 
house in Winter and Spring. —As a sequel to other 
lists, for varied purposes, lately given, it may not be out 
of place to advert to a few hardy things that may be 
; used for ornamenting the greenhouse from Christmas, 
and onwards, until they bloom naturally out of doors. 
If introduced even at this season, the flowers will be 
j interesting, and the plants will require less attention 
; than when the bloom is wanted early. In either case, 
however, success will greatly depend upon having a 
forcing pit, or a house of some sort where a higher tem- 
I perature can be maintained until the flowers are ex- 
. panding. If there is nothing but the greenhouse to take 
them to, without injuring the other plants, hardy speci¬ 
mens could not be got into bloom many weeks before 
their usual time, imless they were introduced very early 
in autumn. 
T shall first give a short list, and then allude to some 
of the main points of management, premising that the 
list will not be extended, and that it will be less dis¬ 
tinguished for novelty and rarity than as a group of 
common plants that will bloom early with but a limited 
amount of attention. The following may be considered 
a group of deciduous shrubs well suited for this purpose. 
Amygdalus (The Almond) nana, incana, sibirica, and 
pumila are neat little shrubs from two to four feet in 
height, producing an abundance of pink flowers upon 
dumpy spurs, and also on young shoots of last summer’s 
growth, and flourishing in any common soil. 
Azalea pontica, with all its varieties, and the beau¬ 
tiful garden hybrids, especially if the latter, are not 
introduced into beat until after Christmas. Do not 
force it very early, as if that is tried the colours will be 
! too pale. Sandy peat best suits all the varieties. 
Cerasus (Cherry Group) Mahaleb and Pseudo-cerasus, 
from five to ten feet in height; pumila and pygmcea, 
three to four feet in height; flowers white ; japonica and 
japonica multiplex, from three to five feet, flowers whitish 
with a shade of pink; bloom most freely on the two- 
year-old wood. 
