January 1. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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beautiful roses on tlieir own roots, will last on pillars as 
long as any rose we have, but if we neglect their proper 
management, no rose is more likely to wear out sooner 
than they. Louis Buonaparte is a fine, large, shining 
flower, of a rosy colour, well suited for a pillar; with 
good culture and a little hard pruning let us hope its 
namesake will make a good French pillar too. Jacques 
Lafitte, a beautiful large rose-coloured flower, which 
was well nigh being thrown out of the lists four years 
ago, because, as I suppose, the stock of it was too much 
run upon in the propagating pits to meet a large sale. 
The plants turned out badly in most hands, and in mine 
amongst the rest. This often happens with a new 
dahlia. It gets a good name, and every one must have 
it next year, so it must be forced almost to death, and 
they cut, cut away at it till no virtue is left in the poor 
spindly things they call “ strong established plants early 
next May.” Another very great disadvantage to Jacques 
Lafitte was its being “ let out ” along with Oeant cles 
Batailles, which took the whole country’s attention, to the 
prejudice of its less brilliant companion; but on warm, 
dry soils Jacques will yet become a favourite, and being 
a strong healthy grower, is well adapted for a pillar or 
for the bottom of a south rose-wall. Sidonie is another 
strong pillar-rose in this class, with rosy pink flowers, 
and William Jesse is not a shade behind it, with glossy 
pinkish red flowers. The Queen or La Heine is also 
suited for pillars; in the bud it is the most noble of all, 
except the Malmaison rose, but it requires a much 
stronger soil than Madame Laffay, and those which take 
after it, and the soil cannot be made too rich for it. As 
soon as the buds are seen, this noble rose would take a 
dose of rich liquid manure three times a week, and with¬ 
out the highest culture its full beauty is never seen. 
Augustine Mouchelet, a fine, crimson, well-known rose, 
and Madame Trudeaux another crimson, and a newer 
rose, are highly deserving of a pillar. The Standard of 
Marengo, said to be darker than either of the last two, I 
have not yet seen, but it bears a high character. 
Madame Lamoriciere, a bright pink, Chateaubriand the 
same; Genie de Chateaubriand, crimson, Henry the ith, 
(Henri Quatre) a large rosy flower, and Caroline de 
Sansales, a blush rose, are all of them excellent for 
pillar-roses, and very likely there are others as good in 
this section, although I do not happen to know them, so 
that without the aid of the Bourbons we have enough, 
and to spare, to make perpetual-pillars. 
I believe Geant des Batailles might also be got up to 
a pillar size, in three or four years, in good rose soil, and 
if so, what a noble avenue of pillars it would make of 
itself. It would be quite unapproachable in all that we 
know of in the disposition of roses. Dupetit Thouars, 
from among the true Bourbons, would come the nearest 
to it, and after that, Tyrian Purple noisette, which, 
treated as a pillar-rose, has as much claim to be called a 
Bourbon as Gloire de Rosamene, therefore I include it as 
such. Julie de Fontenellc is another splendid, darkish 
Bourbon which no one should pass when planting pil¬ 
lars, and Le Grenadier is just as good. All these dark 
Bourbons, mixed with the rose-coloured Hybrid Fer- 
petuals, and again interspersed with the white and blush 
Bourbons, must assuredly drive the summer roses from 
their post, and yet we have Splendens, Pierre de St. Cyr, 
and Madame Besprez to add to our list of rose-coloured 
from the Bourbons. Some people object to Splendens 
and Madame Desprez because their flowers come too near 
the colour of the old large China, so common against 
cottage doors all over the country, but then, there are 
no more constant bloomers in the catalogue, except 
Gloire de Rosamene, and the true Splendens is really 
more like the latter than any other rose, and though not 
very double, it is always in bloom, and attractive. There 
is a very common-looking rose called Splendens, in some 
collections, and I once had it from Bath, but I cut his 
head off the moment I saw it. I believe the true 
Splendens is now on sale in all the nurseries. 
Last of all comes the very best of all the rose tribe 
for pillars, Gloire de Rosamene. There is not another 
rose in the world so constant and so useful for a gar¬ 
dener as this, nor better for a pillar, but it should not be 
planted in a row along with all, or any, I have noticed, 
because it is certain to throw the whole of them into 
the shade, except, perhaps, Geant des Batailles. If we 
had a broad concrete walk, as smooth as sheet glass, and 
as long as you can see, and sloping gently towards the 
south-east, or south-west, and lined on both sides with 
pillar-roses after this fashion, Gloire de Rosamene, ten 
feet apart and ten feet from the walk, then another 
row of Le Grenadier, a third with Dupetit Thouars, and 
the fourth with Geant des Batailles —no one should 
tread on it for two hours in the forenoon and two hours 
in the afternoon, but queens and maids of honour, and 
a good gardener, to tell them how the fairy scene was 
created—in the middle of the day it would dazzle your 
eyes too much to enjoy it. 
The summer roses that are fit for pillars are too many 
for my space, therefore put up with the following till you 
hear of a better selection. Hybrid Bourbons— Chenedolle, 
the best of summer roses, is named after Charles 
Chenedolle, a great French poet, who died near Caen, on 
the 2nd of December, 1833; Coupe de Hebe and Charles 
Duval are quite as good, but not so brilliant; Las 
Casas, very large, and rose colour, and Paul Perms the 
same. Hybrid Chinas—The only reason that I can think 
of for keeping Hybrid Chinas and Hybrid Bourbons 
apart, is merely to puzzle people; that is not the point, 
however, but which are the best pillar roses in the 
latter, and here I break down, for I cannot decide 
between Brennus, Triomphed' Angers, and Triomphe de 
la Queue, three shades of crimson. L'ulgens, though not 
a very double rose, is brighter than any of the three. 
Emperor Probus I mistook last July, at the Regent’s 
Park show, for Baronne Prevost, and that will tell its 
tale. It was in Mr. Lane’s collection, and I think I 
never saw a finer specimen, and MadamePlantier is the 
best white of the lot. La Dauphine the second best 
white. Among the list of the summer roses La Ville de 
Londres, La Ville de Bruxelles are the best rose- 
coloured. Princess Clementine, and Princess de Lamballe 
the best whites. Kean, alias Sliakspere and Boula de 
Nanteuil are the two best dark ones. Lanei and Celina 
are the two best new moss roses for pillars, but the old 
common moss and also the Cabbage Provence the best of 
all roses, may be grown to pillars in good soil, and I 
hardly know how many more besides. D. Beaton. 
SULPHUR AS A GARDENING AGENT. 
For some years my finger-ends have been itching to 
scribble something more decidedly in the praise of 
Mr. Brimstone than had hitherto been essayed by any 
of his numerous admirers and supporters. But as in 
my dealings with him I had not at times altogether 
escaped his scourging influence, I felt afraid, lest my 
recommending him, unless due and great care was 
exercised, would be attended with more danger than 
profit. 
More than two years ago, when speaking of the care 
required when fuming a house with sulphur, to keep the 
volatalizing medium at a sufficiently low temperature, I 
hinted that there were cases in which the sulphur might 
be burned land fused with impunity, but that I was 
rather afraid to enter on the subject. As that, however, 
has now been done, and by no less an authority than 
the veteran and esteemed Mr. Errington, (p. 161), I feel 
both emboldened and called upon to state my experi¬ 
ence, and to confirm his statements with respect to the 
