THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 20, 185'J. 
| "You, as a judge of Hoses, cau best determine whether the 
I assertion that this Rose bush has existed from the commence- 
j meat of the bishopric of Hilderslieim—therefore, upwards of a 
; thousand years —is probable. A view of the Rose tree shall be 
forwarded in next caso to Mr. Hagger. It is rather a cimous 
lithograph, but it gives you an idea of the position of the trunk 
and branches.” 
HOLCUS SACCHAEATUS. 
I sowed about twenty yards of Holcus saccharatus in the 
middle of May, on a south border which is partially shaded by 
trees; and I regret to say that the failure in my case is still 
more complete than that of your correspondent “ W. W. W.” 
After a careful examination of the patch of ground, I failed to 
detect a single plant of the Cane; and, despairing of its making 
its appearance, I have dug it up, and put in a more useful 
vegetable (Cabbage).— George Yule, Park Cottage , Swinton. 
FORMING A IlOSERY. 
[This rosery is sixteen yards in diameter; has a clear space thirty yards 
wide around it; and is in a hollow, so as to he well seen.] 
Having- for some time been a reader of The Cottage Gar¬ 
dener, and having seen a wish expressed about “ something 
about Roses,” I, although I am not a gardener in the strict 
sense of the term, have something to tell how a rosery may be 
had in a little time and at a small cost. I purchased 1700 or 
1800 Manetti stocks at a sale this year in February at a low 
ligure (7s. for the whole), and they were good ones for my 
purpose. I grafted 5S0 of them over the fireside in March—- 
plain splice-grafting, without any tongue or slit—(grafts about 
five inches long), and put them close down to the roots of the 
stocks, tied them with coarse knitting cotton, and planted them 
with the junction about three inches below the surface in the 
bods, of which I have sent you a tracing. I also grafted 340 
more as a reserve to fill up what failures there might be in the 
beds. Now for the result. It was a bad season here ; cold first, 
and then a long continuance of drought. Now mind, they were 
never watered nor had anything done to them, except taking off 
suckers, but once when they were well watered three days before 
rain came. 
In the beds there aro 440 growing; and 365 are either in 
bloom or are showing buds far it. The 75 not showing bloom 
are mainly Mosses or Hybrid Chinas : the rest are Hybrid Pcr- 
petuals. In the reserve lot 280 aro living, most of them in 
bloom ; so that next year, if all be well, I shall have the whole 
beds stocked at a very small cost indeed. The advantages of the 
underground grafting, as’ I call it, are—that you can work them 
better when you have them in your hand, and that the Manetti 
is under ground altogether, which it is now agreed it is best to be. 
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I havo not sent you this for any self-praising purpose, but to 
show that the Rose may be propagated easily and at a small cost, 
with very little extra trouble; and I am sure any one who tries 
and suocceds as I have done must feel great pleasure in seeing 
them.—W. P. Ruddock, Manager of the York Cemetery. 
FRUITS ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
{Continued from page 213.) 
PEARS. 
Abbe Mongem. See Uvedale's St. Germain. 
Abondance. See Amour. 
Achan {Slack Achan; Slack Secs; Red Anhan; 
Winter Seurre). —Fruit medium sized, obovate, flattened 
towards the eye. Skin varying from pale greenish- 
yellow, to dark greyish-green, and covered on one side 
with dull brownish-red. Eye open, set in a slightly de¬ 
pressed basin. Stalk about an inch long. Flesh tender, 
rich, melting, sugary, and highly perfumed. Ripe in 
November. 
Though an excellent Scotch dessert pear, this is 
perfectly worthless in the south of England. 
Adam’s Flesh. See Chair a Sanies. 
Adele de St. Denis. See Saronne de Mello. 
Ah! Mon Dieu. See Amour. 
Albert. See Seurre d’Amanlis. 
Albertine. — Fruit above medium size, Doyenne 
shaped. Skin smooth and shining, of a pale lemon 
colour, strewed with very large russet dots, and with a 
faint blush of red next the sun. Eye half open, set in 
a shallow depression. Stalk short and stout. Flesh very 
tender, melting, and buttery, piquant and perfumed. A 
first-rate pear, with a slight musky flavour. Ripe in 
September and October. 
Alexandre Bivort. —Fruit rather below medium size, 
obovate. Skin shining, clear yellow, and covered with 
pale brown and green dots. Stalk woody, half an inch 
to three-quarters long. Flesh white, with a reddish 
tinge, buttery, melting, and very juicy, richly flavoured, 
and with a high aroma. A first-rate pear. Ripe in the 
end of December and continues till February. The tree 
has a bushy habit of growth. 
Alexandre Lambre. —Fruit medium sized, round or 
roundish-oval, uneven in its outline. Skin smooth, 
greenish-yellow, with sometimes a tinge of red next the 
sun, and considerably covered with lines and dots of 
russet. Stalk an inch long, and thick. Flesh white, 
half-melting, very juicy, sweet, and aromatic. December 
till February. 
Alexandrina.—A medium sized, early, melting pear, 
which succeeds well on the quince, perfectly hardy, and 
forming a handsome pyramid. Ripe in September.— 
Riv. Cat. 
Altilorp Crasanne. —Medium size, roundish-obovate, 
narrowing rather towards the eye than the stalk. Skin 
pale green, dotted with russet, brownish next the sun. 
Stalk an inch and a half long, curved, slender, and mode¬ 
rately depressed. Eye with the segments much divided, 
set in a slightly plaited shallow basin. Flesh w r hite, 
buttery, juicy, rich, and perfumed. October to Novem¬ 
ber. A first-rate pear in some situations. 
Ambree Gris. See Ambrette d'Hirer. 
Ambrette. See Ambrette d’Hirer. 
Ambrette Grise. See Ambrette d’Hirer. 
Ambrette d’IIiver {Ambree Gris; Ambrette; Ambrette 
Grise; Selle Gabrielle; Tromve Valet). —Fruit medium 
sized, roundish, almost oval. Skin pale green, or greenish- 
grey. Eye small and open, with flat and reflexed seg- 
