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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, October 2, 1860. 
HOSES FOE A SMOKY LOCALITY—SPEEGULA 
—PKTTNLNGr CAMELLIAS. 
Be kind enough, to give me the names of ten or twelve Roses 
which you think will do well in a very smoky part of the suburbs, 
Mile End, two miles from the Exchange, The garden is rather 
open for the situation. Soil light loam, approaching to the 
usual black compound of suburban gardens; but I have con¬ 
siderably improved it, and bedders do very well in it, and I 
intend to get some good yellow loam for the Roses. I am told j 
the Cabbage, Damask, Maiden’s Blush, and Tuscan, bloom well 
so near town, if kept well washed overhead; but I should be 
loath to bid farewell to Roses so soon in the season, as I must do 
if'I grow only summer ones. I intend to grow them only on 
their own roots, which will give me a better chance of success. 
My Camellias, which were beginning to get acclimatised to my 
situation, I fear will many of them make no buds for next season. 
The ends appear to be making second shoots instead of bloom, I 
suppose owing to the wet summer. I nip them off when they 
give signs of being a shoot, in hopes bloom-buds will come in 
the axils of the leaves lower down. 
I am delighted with Spergula as an edging four to six inches 
wide, because of its delightful green. Do not, Mr. Editor, smile 
at my cockney delight in greenness, but tell me if I might safely 
plant it, being situated where I am, without making a winter’s 
trial of a small part first, and so losing a season.—J. R. 
[The best Roses for smoky gardens near large towns and 
cities are the strongest and freest bloomers of the Hybrid Per- 
petuals, and they on their ow r n roots, and after the first two 
years, or say when the plants get well established. They must 
not be pruned back one-half so close as worked Roses, or Moss 
and Cabbage Roses on their own roots. 1. Baronne Prevost. 
2. General Jacqueminot. 3. Madame Laffay, very old, and 
very best for smoke and dirty atmosphere. 4. Auguste Mie. 
5. Duchess of Sutherland. 6. Empereur de Maroc. 7. Leon 
des Combats. 8. Mathurin Regnier, a splendid thing. 9. 
Comtesse de Chabrillant, ditto. 10. Caroline de Sansal. 11. 
Alexandrine Bachmetoff. 12. Anna Alexieff, one of the newest 
for all this smoke and fuss, and one of the very best. Some of 
these ought to make four-feet shoots after a while, and one foot 
only to be cut off in winter pruning; but a summer thinning 
in July, if on their own roots. 
Spergula is a delightful green as you say, but whoever heard 
of stopping the summer’s growth of Camellias to cause them to 
form flower-buds in the axil of the leaves ? Camellias are the 
fh’st plants for a smoky locality, and the last to be stopped in 
summer; it entirely prevents blooming next year.] 
HOETICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Florae Committee. —A Meeting of this Committee was held 
on Thursday last. Rev. Joshua Dix in the chair. 
Messrs. Carter & Co., of Holborn, sent cut flowers of some 
very fine varieties of double Zinnias, These are large and densely 
double, and include every shade of colour. At a Special Meeting 
held at Chiswick the week previously, a similar collection was 
exhibited from Messrs. Yilmorin, of Paris. The Meeting awarded 
First-class Certificates to both exhibitors. Messrs. Carter also 
exhibited cut flowers of a new species of GEnothera, with large, 
bright, yellow flowers, and which is said to grow only two feet 
high. This received a Commendation. 
Mr. Rawlings, of Bethnal Green, exhibited a seedling Dahlia 
Juno, a pretty rosy lilac full flower, and very constant. It has 
been well exhibited all the season, and was Commended. Mr. 
Pope, Chelsea, exhibited a fine, bright, rosy crimson seedling 
Dahlia, called Lord Derby —a beautiful thing in regard of colour, 
but it came short of the florists’ standard of shape, and hence 
was only Commended. Mr. Edwards, of Hilperton, near Trow¬ 
bridge, sent Dahlia Beauty of Hilperton —a large, neatly formed, 
light purple, to which a First-class Certificate was awarded. 
Mr. Standish, of Bagsliot, sent a collection of seedling Gladiolus, 
from which the Committee selected Herr Rosenberg and Mrs. 
Blount. The former, a fine, brilliant, rosy carmine, was Com¬ 
mended for its colour; and the latter white, with bold, dark, 
crimson-purple markings on the lower segments, was also Com¬ 
mended. Mrs. Duff,eld, a blush-white striped with rose, and 
having the lower petaloid segments deeper coloured, deserves 
favourable mention; as also Signor Jacksoni, a creamy yellow 
with purple markings. 
Mr. Crowder, nurseryman, Ilorncastle, sent several plants of 
a seedling pyramidal Yew, which differs entirely from the old 
Taxus pyramidalis, by being less spreading and diffuse, and 
from the Irish Yew by being less compact and formal. This, 
which is called Taxus baccata, var. erecta, received a First-class 
Certificate. 
Messrs. Garaway & Co., of Bristol, sent Tropceolum Garibaldi, 
a variety with the habit of Lobbianum elegans, but of a deeper or 
crimson-scarlet colour, for which it received a Commendation. 
Mr. Turner, of Slough, sent Seedling Dahlia Princess of 
Prussia, a medium sized bright yellow flower of good form, 
which received a Commendation, as did also George Parker, a 
very pretty blush with whitish centre, the florets just tipped by a 
purple line-edge, and of compact form. 
Primula sinensis carminata splendens, grown in the Society’s 
Garden, to which it was sent by Mr. Benary, of Erfurt. It is of 
a new and quite distinct colour, being a light salmon-rose, and 
deserving of a commendation as the origin of a new strain. 
FEUITS OF 1860 AT BUENTWOOD GEANGE. 
Unforeseen events often happen when not in the least 
expected, thwarting the intentions of the most positive. Who, 
the first few days of May last, would have believed had they 
been told that we should have had such an ungenial summer as 
we have had ? Is there one amongst the whole gardening com¬ 
munity that can say their designs have not been frustrated ? 
Take a glance to right hand or left, into our neighbours’ gardens 
or our own, and failure in some shape or other meets the eye. 
Much might be said about it in the kitchen-garden department,' 
while others think they have suffered most amongst their fruit. 
Few, if any, have escaped with their bedding stuff; and the 
flower gardens might be said to have been clad in anything but 
their usual bright garb ; and under glass many have had their 
Yines mildewed this season in houses which have never shown 
the least symptoms of the disease before. 
Through the fine weather that we have lately had, the agricul¬ 
turist has seemingly been electrified from north to south ; while 
it has supplied the horticulturist with jolly ripe fruit to lay by 
in his storehouse. The early part of August the greater portion of 
the wall fruit here was, comparatively, as green as grass, and I was 
one amongst many others that thought it impossible for the fruit 
to ripen this year. This was the dark side of the picture, which 
I am happy to say is past, and we are left, after wading through 
so manv serious difficulties, gazing on, and not only gazing on 
but in full possession of the bright side at last. It is quite as 
unexpected an event, as the wall-fruit account will very soon 
show forth here. 
It was one of those unforeseen and unexpected events that 
stepped in and hindered me from finishing my article on “ Mil¬ 
dewed Yines at Chippenham.” I had to take my kit, bairns 
and all, and journey eastward above five score miles. This, also, 
was what hindered me from replying at the time to the remarks 
that fell from my former employer’s pen. Had I continued the 
article according to intention there would not have been the 
remotest chance for one word about misstatement; and as to 
the management of or credit about the Yines, one thing is 
certain. In 1858 they were totally destroyed, as I before 
stated, by mildew ; while in 1859 they were what we gardening 
chaps call “ up to the door.” Also, as to inarching Yines, I am 
requested to state by one who perfectly understands and knows 
well how to appreciate a man’s labour, that they are done here 
to his entire satisfaction, as well as mine, and not only the Golden 
Hamburgh, but the Muscat Hamburgh as well—that person is 
my present employer. 
On a gentle declivity, about seven miles south-west of the centre 
of the metropolis, on a spot where a most picturesque view of 
Wimbledon Park and Common is commanded, also a view of 
the trains that pass and repass as far as the eye can reach on 
the South-western or Southampton line, stands Burntwood 
Grange, the residence of C. M. Major, Esq. It is entered from 
I the main road that leads from Clapham to Wimbledon by a 
lodge, in that part of it known as Garrot Lane; and whoever 
walks down the drive, and notices the various species of American 
and other specimen plants which meet the eye must see at a 
glance that no expense has been spared for the decoration of the 
grounds ; but rather that money has been spent in the most 
liberal manner—in fact, everything besides on the premises has 
been done in the same bounteous style. Turn the eye which 
