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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
July 22. 
extent, and so successfully, that it seems hopeless to 
look forward to any improvement hereafter; the only 
improvement that appeal's to us as feasible, is a better 
1 selection of kinds, for it is evident, from the few we have 
selected as superior varieties, that there must he a large 
number of very middling ones exhibited. It is quite 
certain, however, that a considerable importance must 
| be allowed to culture; some good sorts were so indif- 
! ferently grown that they lost their character in one 
stand, but in the very next to it were so well grown that 
j a stranger to them would have thought them quite 
! different from each; therefore, we would advise, first, 
| the selecting all such as we have named, and then care- 
| fully studying the characters of the rest before discard- 
I ing them. 
1 On this occasion we added to our list of first-rate 
[ kinds the following:— Moohanna (Hoyle’s); a large, 
| well-formed flower; good truss, and free bloomer; upper 
I petals, very dark ; lower petals, rosy blush, with a pure 
| white eye. May Queen; a very gay flower, of good 
! properties; form flat, and nearly circular; the upper 
; petals have a dark blotch near the eye, shading off 
outwards into a fiery carmine, edged with white; lower 
petals, a lovely, delicate pink; eye, large, and of the 
purest white; a very striking variety. Peerless; the 
whole of the flower is of a bright clear rose, excepting a 
small dark spot on each of the upper petals; it is a very 
I distinct, excellent variety. Christabel; an old variety, 
I but shown hero in fine order; flowers generally of a 
I light colour; form excellent. Old Story; a striking 
light variety, with an odd name; form good. Gorinne; 
' the shade on this beautiful flower is of the most delicate 
! light purple imaginable; quite a pet in its way; form 
good; and a most abundant bloomer. Lord Stanley; 
this is also a beautiful shaded variety, almost approach¬ 
ing to a blue cast. 
Fancy Varieties. — Beaule Belleperches; flowers and 
raceme very large; upper petals nearly black; lower, 
white, with dark blotches; a striking, fine variety. 
Fairy Queen ; good trusser, with flowers of the darkest 
rose, shaded with crimson. Lady of the Lake; a kind 
the principal characteristic of which is the veins that 
run through the colour. Gabiaris is also a distinctly 
striped one; and Duchess d'Aumale, a charming va¬ 
riety, with deep rosy petals, deeply suffused with crim¬ 
son. These are all distinct, desirable kinds, well worthy 
of being added to any collection. 
Cot Roses were the next most attractive feature of 
the exhibition ; but, as might be expected, the hot day 
soon tarnished their brightness. We noted the follow¬ 
ing as the best— Whites: Madame Zoutmau, Countess 
de Lacepede, Madame Flardy, Lamarque, Triumph de 
Bague, Madame Plantier, Blanche Fleur, and Madame 
Lignes. In Dark Roses the following were excellent: 
Geant des Batailles, Blairii No. 2, Souchet, Du Petite 
Thouars, Old, Lady Fitzharris, Vandieul, Dr. Marx, 
Barrone Hallez, Gen. Lamarque, and Paul Joseph. 
Roses in ‘various shades: Coup d’Hebe, Pius Ninth, 
Brennus, Jaques Lafitte, Robin Hood, Wm. Jesse, Mrs. 
Elliott, Gen. Lamoriciere, Gen. Jacquemont, and Chene- 
dole. Sulphur, more or less yellow in the centre: 
Devoniensis, Cloth of Gold, Sofrano, Narcissus, Solfa- 
terre, Niphetos, Eliza Sauvage, Smith, Jaune, Madame 
Despres, Clara Wendall, and La Pactole. Pale blush : 
Duchess of Devonshire, Devoniensis, Niphetos, Celestial, 
Eugene Desgaches, Gen. Negrier, Madame Nerai'a, and 
Pierre St. Cyr. The only really yellow roses present 
were, Persian Yellow, one flower of the Cloth of Gold, 
and Viscountess des Cazes. 
In Pinics wo noted, as being superior, Sir Joseph 
Paxton, Lord Valentine, President, Hon. Mrs. Herbert, 
Criterion (this was the best), Sarah was the next best. 
T. Appleby. 
ROSE CULTURE. 
(Continued from page 230.) 
Raising new Varieties from Seed. — The rose- 
growers of this coiuitry are very much behind our con¬ 
tinental neighbours in this branch of rose culture. All, 
or nearly all, of our best roses have been originated 
chiefly in France, as their names show—Coup d’Hebe, 
Geant des Batailles, Paul Ricaut, Mossie Partout, and a 
host of others, whose names all show their French 
origin. Several good and standard kinds have, it is 
true, been raised in this country, such for instance as 
Moss Laneii, Duchess of Sutherland, Blairii, Duke of 
Devonshire, and a few others. We consider the circum¬ 
stance of so few good roses being raised in this country, 
a slight stigma upon our (in other flowers) enterprising 
and successful florists. Perhaps one of the causes may 
be, the time that it takes to bloom them. If grown on 
their own roots it may take from three to five years 
before their merits can be ascertained; but surely this 
is not taxing the patience of the florist much ; and even 
that time may be shortened greatly by budding any pro¬ 
mising seedlings upon some other stock. For it is well 
known, that seedling apples and pears bloom and bear 
fruit much earlier upon older trees, if they are worked 
upon them. This lias been repeatedly proved by T. 
Andrew Knight, Esq., and other diligent raisers of new 
fruits; and the argument in regard to seedling roses, is 
that they will flower, which is a preparatory step to pro¬ 
ducing fruit much sooner, if they are budded upon any 
kind of stock, or even upon trees already bearing roses. 
To save room, three or four, or even more, different seed¬ 
lings might be budded upon one rose-bush ; such as are 
not good flowers should be cut away as soon as they have 
bloomed. Then, again, if the raising of seedling roses 
be a work requiring some amount of patience and per¬ 
severance, let it be remembered that the time required 
to bloom a seedling rose, even on its own roots, is 
nothing compared with some other flowers. The tulip, 
for instance, which, upon an average, takes six years 
from the sowing of the seed to the blooming of the seed¬ 
lings, yet in this flower, we are proud to say, the English 
florists far surpass their continental rivals, with all their 
fine climate and other appliances to boot. 
This being the undeniable fact, surely we are not 
asking too much of our florists to turn their attention to 
improving our home-raised varieties of this universally- 
allowed queen of flowers. To accomplish this desirable 
purpose, the following points should be attended to :— 
1. To save seeds from the best formed flowers, with 
fine foliage, free habit of growth, and abundant bloom. 
2. To save seed from such as bloom early enough to 
ripen it thoroughly. 
3. To gather the seed as soon as it is ripe, cleanse it 
from the pulp, and keep it perfectly dry, but cool, till 
the sowing season arrives. 
4. Sow this choice and carefully chosen seed in shal¬ 
low pans early in spring, and place them either upon a 
shelf in a warm greenhouse, or upon a gentle hotbed. 
5. As soon as the seedlings are grown a few inches 
high, and the weather will permit, plant them out in a 
nursery bed in a carefully prepared soil, neither too light 
nor too heavy. 
0. and lastly. Transplant them the following autumn, 
where they are either to bloom or to yield buds the fol¬ 
lowing season. 
We feel the matter of sufficient importance to dilate 
briefly upon each of these points of growing seedling 
roses. 
Saving Seed .—The roses should be diligently marked 
that are intended to seed. This should be no chance 
work; the seed should not be saved indiscriminately. 
The perfectly-double flower will not, it is quite true, 
yield seed, or, in other words, produce fruit within 
