THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
July 8. 
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I ancl will continue of a pale appearance: such pertain 
I merely to a tree in tlie wild or untrained state; they 
j are striving to become branches, which would, in their 
i turn, produce fruitful spray after a year or two. As 
speedy and steadily-continued fruitfulness is the gar¬ 
dener’s aim, of course such may be regarded as foreign 
to the object in view; they may be pruned back to three 
or four leaves; not quite so close as the peach. 
Very similar proceedings suit the apricot, the plum, 
&c., care being taken to tie or nail down most of the 
compact short-jointed growths wherever room can be 
found, some on the old branches, and others, it may be, 
on the wall or fence. 
The trees thus managed will, at the completion of 
these processes, present a surface uniformly clothed with 
foliage, yet in no part crowded The pinched or cut-back 
spray will stand in relief from the branches some three 
to six inches, and this will, in many cases, sprout again 
and again, a circumstance much dependant on the 
ground moisture of the summer. Enough for the pre¬ 
sent : the subject will bo returned to in due time. 
R. EkRINGTON. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION.— 
June 12th. 
At the end of one of the tents stood the newest and 
best plant at this exhibition, a new, hardy, evergreen, 
upright-growing Berberry, from the north of China, 
called Berheris trifurcata, and trifurcata means, lite- , 
rally, three titled, but the application is to the spines j 
on the leaves. As 1 stood puzzled to know if this new 
Berheris was hardy, or where it came from, and all 
about it, my eye caught Mr. Eortune in the crowd, and 
thinking he might clear up the difficulty from his great 
knowledge of new plants, I made up to him, and he 
seemed as much pleased with my remarks on this beau¬ 
tiful Berheris as I was to get hold of him at the lucky 
moment. It turns out to be one of his own introduc¬ 
tions from China, “ But,” says he, “ did you see the 
other one?” “ No,” says I, “ do you mean another tri¬ 
furcata?" “ No, but another species quite as new and 
as good ; and as you are one of our Fellows of the Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, I shall tell you their whole history ;” 
and so he did, without reserve, but, like Mr. Green’s 
Azalea, they are to be first described in our journal. | 
The second one is called Berheris Bealii, after a gcntle- 
tleman named Beal, who, like Mr. Fortune, was a good 
deal in China, and had a celebrated garden at Macao. ! 
There is a fine camellia called after him likewise. I ! 
j have said already that all Mr. Fortune’s new plants 
J from China are at Bagshot, with Messrs. Standish and 
I Noble, and 1 must run down and see them some of 
these days. 
Roses. —There were several collections of them exhi¬ 
bited, and some of the plants were surprisingly good, 
' but not nearly so flush as we had them in May, nor 
j were there so many new ones. Emperor Probus and 
■ La Heine were again the largest flowers, and Chene- 
cloUe was at last beaten out and out in its own section 
I of July flowerers by Paul Ricaut. This Paul is among 
J my selection of hybrid Bourbons. It is a newish rose, 
and this was the first time that I saw it in a pot. It is a 
| splendid rose for that purpose; the colour a dark purple, 
I and very likely out-of-doors it will come nearest to 
Boule de Nanteuil than Chenedolle, or, rather let us say, 
between the two, and that will make Paul Ricaut fami- 
i liar to thousands. Elize Suavage, a tea-scented, and 
! one of the best of them, was in admirable condition, 
from Lady Puller’s gardener, Mr. Terry. It is a charm¬ 
ing colour, which no one can describe; not a yellow, 
nor a buff, nor nankeen, but a mixture of the three. 
Pauline Plantier always puts me in mind of Niphetos, 
the best of them all for a bridesmaid; Pauline is not 
quite so large a flower as the other. Barhot is another 
fine rose, and being very nearly the shape and colour 
of Bouchere, puts you in mind of the tea-caddy; but 
neither Barhot nor Bouchere should ever be seen at 
a wedding ; their faintish red, yellow, and coppery tints, 
are signs of bad luck or something worse. Coupe de 
Hebe, Duchess of Sutherland, and the Malmaison rose, 
you see wherever roses are exhibited, but Noisette La- 
marque, one of our finest white roses, you seldom seo 
very good in a pot; the best one I ever saw in that way 
was here, from Mr. Terry, who, although a perfect 
stranger to me, will excuse me for saying that his cut 
roses looked out of place altogether, from so good a rose 
grower, who cau take off first-class prizes. It is all 
very well for the Covent Garden folks to exhibit cut 
roses, but I hope the day is gone for ever when a good 
gardener will think it any credit to cut a basket of rose 
blooms to send anywhere, except as presents to people 
who have no roses of their own. 
Florists’ Flowers. —The pot cultivation of roses is 
not the last triumph effected by gold and silver medals. 
Pansies in pots are now a regular thing, and at this 
show we had lots of Pinks in pots, but not florists’ pinks ; 
they were very gay though for all that, and very well 
bloomed, but not better than hundreds of gardeners in 
the country are yearly in the habit of flowering from 
March till they come in the open ground; it is the 
system that we must look at as the great improvement— 
bringing up everything in pots for competition, and 
leaving cut flowers for the tea gardens to make shield 
! bouquets with. I was among strangers the other day, 
of whom some were gentlemen florists, but none of them 
knew me ; I had on my Sunday clothes, and 1 was a 
little more spruce than usual, so one of them took me, 
or rather mistook me, for a half-pay officer, and out of 
him I got the grandest secret yet out about Pansies; I 
think I could now win a prize with them myself. Like 
all great secrets, it is very simple when you know it. 
Grow your pansies as large as it is possible that any one 
can do in rich free soil, with doses of liquid manure, 
thinning out flower-buds, and stopping the shoots (all 
this is as necessary for the pansey as it is for the grape 
vine) ; then, two days before the show, the plants must 
be allowed to flag for want of water—even the shoots 
ought to droop, and the flowers be collapsed. This 
| is the moment to pick them for the show; there is no 
blood or sap in them, so you can handle them as you 
would Indian rubber lace; then, with a pair of com- 
| passes, draw a lot of circles on a sheet of paper or 
pasteboard, and fit the dried flowers with mathematical 
precision. When you have them all exactly in the right 
way, make dots on the paper where the footstalks join 
the blade of the flower, then a hole for every dot for 
the stalks to pass through; now put your pasteboard 
over a vessel full of water, and the footstalks of the 
flowers will dip into it, and feed the flowers till they are 
like to burst—they are then fit for exhibition; and the 
prize will be according to your dexterity in drying, iron¬ 
ing, and final damping. 
Judges. —Societies may spend all their money in 
prizes, but without judges as upright and as independent 
as a Lord Chancellor, no good will come of the shows, 
be they for bullocks or for bull-eyed daisies. At this 
exhibition there was a good test for the judges in a col¬ 
lection of Cape Heaths, which, according to the rules, 
must be so many in number, and all of different varie¬ 
ties. Now, if you were to raise a seedling Greengage 
plum quite as good as the old one, and as much like it 
that no one could tell which was which, would it be 
really a new plum, or a repetition ? This question is, 
in effect, that which the judges had to decide. A seed¬ 
ling Heath was so much like the parent plant as to 
disqualify the best grown collection of heaths at the 
show. That was certainly the true and lawful decision) 
