May 18. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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HYBRID CHINA. 
Vivid ; this is a superior Rose, of a glowing crimson 
colour; it is very showy, and is suitable for covering a 
pillar or a wall. 
HYBRID BOURBON. 
President Pierce ; a shaded Rose of great beauty; the 
outer petals are of a clear lilac, but the inside ones are 
of a rich velvety purple, good form and substance; size 
large and v.ery double; habit strong, and foliage shining 
and large. 
HYBRID PERrETUALS. 
Adam'Paul; a very large, superb Rose; full in the 
centre; colour pink or pale rose. 
Alexandrine Backmetijf; an expanded Rose when 
fully blown; colour deep rose. 
Archimede; when this Rose first opens it is pale lilac, 
but changes in a few hours to a pure white. It is large, 
and full in the centre, and the petals are regularly 
imbricated. 
Baronne de Heekbren ; this new Rose rivals the well- 
known Baronne Prevost in size, and is superior to it in 
colour, being of a bright pink. It is really a superb 
variety. 
Baronne de Kermont ; something like the last in 
colour, but not so large a flower. It is very double and 
compact. 
Colonel Lorry; this is a Rose of a bright, rich, rosy- 
red colour, very showy and attractive. 
Compte de Nanteul ; very large, and full in the centre; 
colour deep rose; form and substance excellent. A truly 
fine variety. 
1 Duchess D'Orleans ; the form of this new Rose is very 
fine, size large, and very double; colour deep rose in 
the centre, shading off to a light rose at the edge; very 
beautiful. 
Fairy Queen; the colour of this charming variety is 
unique, being of a soft, glossy lilac; form good, centre 
full; it is a free bloomer. 
James V-eitch ; colour deep rose; a finer flower than 
Noemi, being more full, and deeper in colour and shade. 
Jules Manjattin ; here we have a splendid Rose, of a 
glaucous crimson-vermilion; in size above medium; 
form good. 
Lady Shelley ; a beautifully-shaded variety; colour 
rosy-lilac, shaded with carmine; form excellent; re¬ 
markable for its surpassing fragrance. 
Lady Stuart,; pale flesh; shape fine and beautiful. 
Madame Harriet Stowe ; a delicately-tinted Rose, of 
large size and powerfully scented. 
Souvenir de Leveson Gower; fine dark red, changing 
to ruby ; shape excellent; size large ; a superb variety. 
Triomphe de Paris; this is a superior Rose to Geant 
des Bata ties ; indeed, it is considered the finest dark 
purplish-crimson Perpetual yet introduced ; habit vigor¬ 
ous ; form excellent. 
BOURBON. 
Adelaide Bougere ; deep crimson-purple, very free, and 
rich in colour. 
Souvenir de I'Arquebure; rich scarlet-crimson; a noble, 
fine Rose. 
TEA-SCENTED. 
Canary ; bright canary or yellow; very beautiful in 
every stage, but especially in bud. 
Cerise pourpre ; purplish-cherry, changing in colour; 
large and full. 
David Pradle ; bright rose generally, but sometimes 
changing to crimson; a large Rose, and well filled in 
the centre. 
Gloire de Dijon ; ochre-yellow; a Rose of the very 
largest size. 
Georges de France ; a fawn-coloured Rose, shaded with 
salmon. This is a globular shaped flower, very beauti¬ 
ful in bud. 
Madame le Hardelay; sulphur-yellow ; large and full. 
T. Awleby. 
( To he continued.') 
WOODS AND FORESTS. 
THE OAK. 
(Continued from page 39.) 
RAISING FROM SEED. 
The Oak flowers in April and May, and ripens its 
acorns in October. As soon as they are ripe they should 
be gathered, and may be sown immediately, but the 
more general method is to keep them till about the first 
week in March; and the best way of keeping them is to 
mix them in sand and keep them in a cool room till 
wanted. Mice, as is well known, are exceedingly fond , 
of this seed, and, therefore, that is another reason for 
sowing them in spring, because the time they are exposed 
to the ravages of this destructive little beast is shortened. 
The seed ground should be duly prepared by autumn¬ 
digging, and laying up in ridges, to be improved by 
winter frosts. When the sowing time arrives, two or 
three dry days previously the ground should be levelled 
down with one of Winton Park’s five-pronged steel forks. 
The ground should, if possible, be moderately dry. 
Most nurserymen sow them broadcast in three-feet beds, 
but I am quite sure they arc better for being sown in 
drills fifteen inches apart. If the bed plan is adopted, 
the beds should be set out in the proper width, with 
fiftcon-inch alloys between; I consider one-foot alleys 
too narrow, and one-and-a-lialf feet a waste of ground; 
but where- that is of no consequence, then the wider 
measure may be adopted. The soil should be drawn 
into the alleys out of the beds one inch deep, and quite 
straight at the edges. The acorns should then be 
evenly sown, and not too thick. Each one should have 
at least an inch-and-a-lialf to two inches space to grow 
in, and no more beds should be hollowed out than can 
be sown and covered the same day. Where hands are 
plentiful, some should be preparing the beds, others 
sowing the acorns, and the rest following after with 
spades to throw the soil out of the alleys over the seed, 
so as to cover it two inches deep. They should he 
covered evenly, which a practised hand will easily 
accomplish. When all are sown, the surface may be 
levelled with a wide short-toothod rake, the sides of the 
beds neatly chopped down with the spade, the alleys 
just levelled with a rake, and then the sowing is finished 
for that day. 
Where the drill system is adopted, the same process 
of levelling and forking the ground should be done; 
then draw drills nearly two inches deep, with a triangular 
hoe, at fifteen inches apart; scatter the acorns evenly 
in each drill, and cover them in with the garden rake. 
This is a more simple method, and there is the advantage 
that when the plants have come up, the space between 
the drills may be hoed to keep down the weeds. 
The Oak, unlike most other forest trees, sends down at 
the very first what is called a tap root ; a wise provision 
of the Great Creator; for the Oak has to battle with the 
breeze for hundreds of years, and this straight down¬ 
growing tap-root enables it to take hold more firmly of 
the site where it is, if naturally sown, to brave the 
blasts and the storms of the wind from generation to 
generation. This peculiarity has induced some of our 
greatest timber-growers to sow the acoru at once in 
the place where it is to grow till it becomes the mo¬ 
narch of the forest. I alluded, in a former paper, to the 
Oak Woods at Welbeck Abbey, belonging to the Duke 
of Portland, a nobleman who has devoted a long life 
