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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 12, 1859. 
Fruit small, roundish, terminated by a pointed nipple, 
and divided by a deep suture, which extends from the 
base to the apex. Skin white in the shade and lightly 
tinged with pale red next the sun. Flesh wdiite even to 
the stone from which it separates; rich, sugary, and per¬ 
fumed. Flow ers large. Glands none, liipe the middle 
of July. 
Yellow Admirable (Ahricolee; Admirable Jaune; 
de Burai; Grosse Jaune; Grosse Peche Jaune Tardive; 
d Orange; Peche d’Abricot; Sandalie Hermaphrodite; 
Scandalian). —Fruit very large, roundish, narrowing to¬ 
wards the crown, where it is somewhat flattened, and 
from which issues a shallow suture, which diminishes 
towards the base. Skin fine yellow in the shade, and 
washed with light red on the side next the sun. Flesh 
firm, deep yellow 7 , tinged with red under the skin, and at 
the stone, from which it separates ; and of a rich sugary 
flavour resembling both in colour and taste that of an 
apricot. Flowers large. Glands kidney-shaped. Itipe 
in the middle and end of October. 
Yellow Alberge (Alberqe Jaune; Gold Fleshed; 
Golden Mignonne; Peclie Jaune; Purple Alberge ).— 
Fruit medium sized, round, divided by a deep suture 
which extends from the base to the apex, w here it termi¬ 
nates in a considerable depression. Skin adhering to the 
flesh, covered with fine down, of a deep rich golden 
yellow on a portion of the shaded side, and deep red on 
the other, which extends almost over the whole surface 
of the fruit. Flesh deep yellow, but rich vermilion at 
| the stone, from which it separates, and of a rich vinous 
flavour. Flowers small. Glands globose. Itipe the be- 
ginning of September. 
This in favourable situations succeeds well as a standard, 
and is frequently grown in nurseries under the name of 
Rosanna, but erroneously. 
LIST OF SELECT PEACHES. . 
Arranged in the order of ripening. 
Small Mignonne 
Early Grosse Mignonne 
Early York 
Abec 
Crawford’s Early 
Grosse Mignonne 
Royal George 
Noblesse 
Bellegarde 
Barrington 
Walburton Admirable 
Gregory’s Late 
Desse Tardive 
Salway 
{To le continued.) 
Mr. Joseph Wells, for many years gardener at Redleaf, 
Penshurst, Kent, died on the 23rd of June* at Shorne, near 
Gravesend. At Redleaf he assisted his employer, the late ex¬ 
cellent William Wells, Esq., to establish the fame of these 
celebrated gardens. lie was one of the first successful growers 
of the Chrysanthemum. His system of management was pub¬ 
lished in an early part of the “ Horticultural Transactions.” 
He was also very successful in raising seedling Dahlias on their 
first introduction into English gardens. The first, double scarlet, 
was raised by him. Noisette Roses he was also very successful 
with, and raised many good seedlings, which are favourites to the 
present day. Among them are Wells’s Garland, Wells’s White, 
or Madame d’Arblag, Wells’s Purple Noisette, or Sir Walter 
Scott, Wells's Pink, Wells’s lied,, and Wells’s dwarf Floribunda 
Noisette. Mr. Beaton subsequently added his tribute of praise, 
by stating that he was as good a Rose grower as any Frenchman 
that ever lived. Hybrid Rhododendrons made a great start at 
Redleaf under his charge. Having command of the pollen from 
P. arboreum, and P. arboreum album (which flowered here for the 
first time in England) to work upon the hardier kinds, many 
beautiful hybrids were raised. During Mr. Wells’s time an ex¬ 
cellent collection of herbaceous perennials was maintained—all 
desirable kinds being annually added. Ferns, also, had their 
allotted space. Few gardens at that time could compete with 
Redleaf for its select collection of hardy plants. Lilium 
Japonicum, under his care at Redleaf, was the admiration of all 
who saw it, growing and flowering most luxuriantly in the peat 
borders. Neither were florists’ flowers neglected. A named 
collection of Tulips, Piccotees and Carnations, Pinks, Pansies, 
Ranunculuses, Auriculas, Ixias, Gladioluses (of which many 
beautiful seedlings were raised), and Alstromerias, all were 
successfully grown. Mr. Wells left Redleaf scon after the 
decease of his estimable employer, who was, indeed, the gar¬ 
dener’s true friend. Since that time lie lived in retiiement, but 
his little garden bore ample testimony that his love for gardening 
had not diminished. [The foregoing notes have been commu¬ 
nicated to us, and we add of our own knowledge that Mr. 
Wells was a very worthy man. He was born in the garden at 
Redleaf, and succeeded liis father there. When the Horticultural 
Society had the confidence of the best practical gardeners in the 
country, some twenty years back, Mr. Wells was selected to be 
one of the fifteen judges at Chiswick.] 
NEW BOOKS. 
The Illustrated Bouquet. —The sixth number, which com¬ 
pletes the first volume of this splendid work, contains a double 
plate (XXY.) of three handsome kinds of Gladiolus gandavensis ; 
Adonis, light reddish or rosy salmon, shaded with crimson ; 
Danae, large bluish-white, richly suffused with rose on the lower 
segments ; and Archimedes, very large, rich flame colour, opening 
a rich carmine. Then follow a practical digest of the best 
methors of cultivating the family, and an estimate of the rela¬ 
tive value of the different sections of gandavensis, ramosus and 
cardinally —the three great divisions of the family. 
Plate XXYI. represents four kinds of new 7 Bompone Chrysan¬ 
themums— St. Justia, cinnamon red ; Miss Towers, bluish-white; 
Queen of Beauties, rosy purple; and Satanella, amber changing, 
to bright yellow; followed by a biographical history and a 
judicious sketch of the ways of cultivating these new Chrysan¬ 
themums. 
The next plate (XXVII.) is taken up with a portrait of the new 
gorgeous Cliantlms Dampieri —“a half-shrubby plant, with a 
biennial character ;” with copious directions for managing the 
plants from the sowing of the seeds to the flowering stage. Here, 
the practical department in the Wellington Road Nursery is in 
the witness-box, and tells “ the truth, the whole truth, and 
nothing but the truth ;” and the value of the evidence will run 
over a thousand plants under high pot culture. 
Plate XXVIII. has I) ipteracanthus a finis, and three magnifi¬ 
cent new Gloxinias— Princess Alice, a. splendid, purplish crimson, 
erect flower ; Cartoni robusla, shaded rose, passing into white at 
the margin ; and Malhilde de Landevoisin, a remarkably beautiful 
flower, white in the throat, the white dying into deep purple, and 
that shading up to a porcelain blue, and fringed with white all 
round the margin. We in England have invented the sections of 
Gloxinias; but it is to the foreign florists we owe the gorgeous 
colours and rich combination of tints which must now mark first- 
rate Gloxinias like these. Nipler acanthus of inis, from Brazil, 
like spectabULs, from Peru, is a soft-wooded stove plant, with 
large Petunia-like scarlet blossoms—the richest among Acantliads. 
Just think of a Euellia with the flowers of a large Petunia, and 
the colour of Verbena melindres, and you have this new Diptera- 
eanth to a T. 
This volume is dedicated to the Princess Mary of Cambridge, 
by permission ; Her Royal Highness being in the first rank of 
the British legion to whom we are indebted for the rapid im¬ 
provements in our flower gardens, and for whom no work was 
ever published on flowers more appropriate than the “Illustrated 
Bouquet.” The choice of everything in all departments of the 
garden, the best practical rules for cultivation, and the most 
select lists of all the families treated of, with no pedantry or dog 
Latin, areas much an illustration of our own progress in gardening 
as it is of the finest plants of our time. 
Dresser’s Rudiments of Botany.— The following reply to 
the review of my “Rudiments of Botany” which appeared in 
the Gardeners' Chronicle of June 18th last, was forwarded to 
the Editor of that paper, but he refused to do me the justice of 
inserting it: however, through the kindness and high-toned 
principles of the Editors of this paper I am afforded an oppor¬ 
tunity of vindicating my character. In the form of reply I shall, 
however, say little ; for the spirit in which the review was written 
at once reveals that it was an endeavour to satisfy a spirit of 
animosity which has been retained against the author for the 
last few years. The renowned Dr. Lindley edits the Gardeners' 
Chronicle. This learned Professor’s works are now offered as 
