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8 Leiglis Rifleman; red liairy; rather late; great hearer. 
9. Green Walnut; green smooth; great hearer. 
10 Whitesmith (Woodward’s); white; good flavour. 
11. Keen's Seedling; much like Warrington, and rather 
earlier. 
12. Roaring Lion; red smooth ; great hearer, 
i 13. Glenton Green; a very good hairy green. 
j 14. Heart of Oak (Massey’s); green smooth; good 
hearer. 
Now, we are perfectly aware that there are many other 
good and useful kinds in the country; these,however, we 
have grown—most of them for years; they may, there¬ 
fore, he relied on for general use. It may be remarked, 
that they are not exhibition berries ; that is to say, not 
fit to compete in point of mere size. We would recom¬ 
mend particular regard being paid to Nos. 1, 4, 9, 11, 
12, 14, as great bearers, and generally adapted to kitchen 
use. Although No. 1 is always a good table fruit, No. 
12 is particularly adapted for early tarts or puddings; 
we would not, however, grow many bushes, as they soon 
burst or decay. Perhaps of all the kinds known, none 
are so generally useful as the Warrington. We must 
here observe, that we had forgotten to name the old 
Rumbullion , which is still the favourite with many for 
bottling purposes—possessing much fleshy pulp in pro¬ 
portion to the amount of seeds, which appears to be the 
necessary qualification with our clever housewives. 
R. Errtnuton. 
THE FLOWER-GARDEN. 
H 0SES .—The next division of this subject—and then 
I I close it for the present—is this : after the September 
I or autumn dressing of the plants, as I recommended 
I last week, and as we manage them here, the earth is 
i broken round every bush separately with a fork, and 
I liquid-manure is given to each once a week as long as 
| flower-buds can be seen. Whether the autumn is wet 
| or dry, we consider (indeed we have found it out) that 
rain water, whether direct from the clouds or from the 
' watering-pots, is not of itself strong enough to enable 
i the plants to open the flowers properly. They are much 
j in the position of weary travellers at or near the end of 
a long toilsome journey : they have been hard at it since 
last May, growing and flowering and putting by a little 
for another season. To this add the shorter days and 
cooler nights lowering the heat and light, which are the 
grand stimulants for keeping up their spirits, and you 
make out a case, and a deserving case too, for artificial 
sup port in the shape ol liquids. All this time, as I have 
just said, the borders may be wet enough for ordinary 
plants, but “ wet enough ” is not the thing, but whether 
I there is strength enough in it to cause the flowers to 
! open. We often say, that such-and-such new roses are 
unsuited for our climate; they do not open freely in the 
; autumn with us; and then comes the old consequence 
of giving a dog a bad name. Now, if roses and all 
other plants would do what we wanted without the aid 
! of art and science, what would become of us poor gar¬ 
deners? There would then be no “profession” for us 
to get bread and cheese by, and we might all go to Bath 
or New Zealand, and so might the book-makers; but 
j things are much better ordered, and we must order and 
improve our practice in blooming roses late in the 
autumn, and when we do we shall find more sorts 
“ fitted for our climate ” than some of us would like to 
acknowledge. Let it be, at any rate, a weekly allow¬ 
ance ; and if twice a week all the better; the earth is 
a good “ fixer ’’ of good things, and the watery parts will 
find their way into the draining. High feeding is one 
of the grand secrets of getting fine autumn flowers; but it 
is of little use now to say, that we had given them “ such 
a dressing ” of manure last spring : now is the time ; 
[September 20. 
but unless the clear-out of weak shoots and useless 
old leaves be attended to, little weak shoots can only 
furnish mere apologies for roses. 
There is one more point that, if one could attend to it, 
would go a long way to establish the credit of autumnal 
roses; but this point is so difficult, that I am almost 
afraid to say any thing about it—besides, the ladies will 
be against me. The point I allude to is the top point 
or end of the flowering shoot, which they find so con¬ 
venient to have along with the rose .itself, to stick in 
their water-glasses ; but now that the mornings are get¬ 
ting cold they must have roses in their rooms. 1 would 
never grudge after this time to have all the roses that 
were fit cut every morning, but I do grudge, most 
seriously, to have the best three or four buds at the top 
“ clipped off,” as if they were of no more use; whereas if 
left on the plant they would soon produce other roses in 
half the time that the next lower set of buds can do. The 
way I get over this is not in the power of most people; 
instead of scores I plant out hundreds of rose-bushes, 
in all sorts of out-of-the-way corners about the kitchen- 
garden. For the last few years I have been getting up 
a stock of the finest hybrid perpetual roses for the 
rosary; and, if I live so long, I hope to do away with 
all those roses which only bloom once in the season; 
and to have none but climbers and perpetual roses in 
the regular rosary; and I suppose the gardeners of many 
of the large country families will do the same ; for as the 
fashion goes now, the great families are up in London 
during the old rose season, and never see their summer 
roses at all except as cut flowers, and by the middle of 
July their rosaries are the least interesting parts of their 
garden establishments. 
There are two roses, and two only that I know of, 
which ought to be grown on their own roots every 
where, if cut roses are to be looked for to Christmas 
time: one of them is Gloire de Rosamene, which by a 
particular management, is by far the most brilliant of all 
the autumn roses, beating Grant des Batailles itself in 
producing ten flowers to his one, and fully as dark fiery 
crimson. After the end of October, if this rose is cut 
when it is half blown, it will keep a week or ten days in 
the glass, and no one can tell but it is a double rose— 
whereas it is nearly a single one. The particular 
management required by this rose is, to make a biennial, 
that is, a two-yearling of it, to make the best of it for a 
Christmas rose—I mean, it must be cut right down to 
the ground every second year—any time in April, and 
after a few years no one, who has not seen it treated that 
way, could believe the enormous quantities of roses it 
can furnish. But the liquid-manure tank shoidd be 
stirred up for it every week, from this time, to make the 
best of it. Airother peculiarity of it is, that it must not 
be worked on any other stock, only grown on its own 
roots, and it will root as freely as a geranium. I know 
as much about rose-stocks as Mr. Rivers himself. I 
have been put to my wits’-end for them, and out of 50 
sorts of stocks that I tried this Gloire de Rosamene on, 
it only succeeded on one; but for that one stock I have 
no name; it was a sucker from a standard rose, which 
I budded near the ground, and for the last seven years 
both did very well indeed—the standard above, and 
Gloire de Rosamene as a bush round the stem. 
There is a hedge of Gloire de Rosamene growing on its 
own roots in a very light piece of ground in this garden, 
and only a yard away from another hedge of the common 
laurel. This rose hedge has, therefore, not much to 
boast of for a good bed; but it grows most healthily, and 
flowers enormously in June, and from September till 
Christmas ; and I believe that it would not refuse to do 
well in a bad of sand, if it had three or four good 
waterings of liquid manure in the course of the season. 
Our gardeners here say the hedge lives entirely on 
“ pot victuals,” meaning the watering-pot; and when it 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
