THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, September 27, 1859. 
succession from November till March. The tree attains 
a large size, and is a most abundant bearer. 
Bezi de Chaumontel. See Chaumontel. 
Bezi d’Echassery. See Echassery. 
Bezi d’Esperen. —Eruit about medium size, pyriform, 
and tapering from the bulge to either end. Skin clear, 
yellowish-green, mottled and shaded with fawn-coloured 
russet, and with a tinge of deep red. Stalk about an inch 
long, slender. Eye open, set in a moderately deep basin. 
Elesh white, melting, and buttery, very juicy, sugary, 
and perfumed. An excellent pear, ripe in November, 
but does not keep long. 
Bezi G-'ottbauet. —Eruit medium sized, roundish-obo- 
vate. Skin lemon-yellow, considerably covered with 
cinnamon-coloured russet, and strewed with numerous 
russety dots. Eye large and wide open, with broad 
segments, and very slightly depressed. Stalk slender 
and woody, set in a very narrow cavity, with a fleshy 
lip on one side. Flesh tender, half buttery, rather gritty 
at the core, and with a powerful rose-water aroma. 
March and April. 
(To be continued.) 
PROPAGATING ROSES—TAN AS A SUBSOIL. 
I want to make some Rose bushes of Hybrid Perpetuals for 
planting out next summer. Which way will give me plants to 
bloom best-—cuttings, layers, or winter-grafted plants ? 
I also want to raise some borders for flowers. Would spent 
tan do put eighteen inches below the surface, as I have a difficulty 
in procuring mould ? 
In The Cottage Gardener for July 12th was an article on 
the “ Management of Rose-cuttings.” I set to work as soon as I 
had read it, and put in between forty and fifty Hybrid Perpetuals 
of General Jacqueminot, Queen, and Triomphe de Paris. Out 
of all these I have now only six alive. I thought at one time 
they would all live; but after making a start they drooped and 
died—the cause I cannot tell.—H. S., Shefford. 
[As to layering Roses to bloom next summer, that is now out 
of the question. Rose-layers will only root some time between 
May and October. As you made such an unlucky hit of striking 
Rose-cuttings in summer, depend upon it you will not strike 
half a dozen this winter that will bloom next summer. Eor it is 
a well-known fact that any person who cannot strike Rose- 
cuttings in su miner as fast as a gardener will never be able to do 
so in winter. That part of the question is also settled. But 
about grafting. The question depends entirely upon whether 
you are an expert practiser of grafting generally. A tolerable 
grafter could well manage to work off from 600 to 1000 grafts of 
Roses every week from November to May; and if tlie kinds were 
of free-flowering ones, they would all bloom from April to June, 
and from June to this time. Grafting is like writing, it takes a 
long time to learn: and there are some people who can never 
learn successful grafting, or write a good hand. Graft as low as 
you possibly can ; graft by the fireside, like the man of York ; 
graft twice as many as you want to make a sure hit of, and do 
not begin before February. 
You may safely raise the flower-borders a yard higher than 
they are at present with old tan or anything, if you have eighteen 
inches of soil over it. Stamp down the tan very hard indeed, to 
keep the borders from sinking down again by the rotting, or more 
thorough rotting, of the tan.] 
HOLCUS SACCHARATUS. 
.As you ask for information respecting the Uolcus saccharaius 
from persons who have grown it, I beg to inform you that in 
May I planted some seed, which shortly came up. At first the 
plants did not grow much, but looked yellow, and I was afraid 
would come to little good. However, when the hot weather 
came the plants grew so rapidly that they quickly ran up to five 
feet high. I have fed my horses on Uolcus, and they eat it 
readily. I have cut it twice. The canes are of great weight. I 
consider the Uolcus a useful and valuable food for horses doing 
slow work.—C. D. Everett, Besselsleigh. 
Me extract the following on the same subject from the Dublin 
Weekly Agricultural Review of Sept- 9th. It is signed “ A 
SonmERN Farmer.” —“ The extreme drought of this summer, 
and the danger that menaced the Mangold and Turnip crop, 
induced me to try some of this new forage plant. I was later 
than is recommended, as I did not think of sowing until the 
Maugolds seemed to have failed. My plot is about Half an acre 
(it is portion of the field in which the Mangolds had failed) ; 
the ground, which had been reduced to a fine tilth and was 
designed for Turnips, the manure applied on the flat and ploughed 
in, and the seed was sown in drills. It was steeped for rather 
more than twenty-four hours, as my steward expected to have 
had all the land ready on a Saturday, and to have got it sown ; 
but he was not able to accomplish this, and about one-half was 
ploughed, and the remainder had to remain until Monday, when 
all the seed was sown. But in the portion of the field that was 
ploughed on Monday it came up much more vigorously, and 
that portion continues the best. The sowing took place about 
the middle of June, and in part of the field the crop is over three 
feet high, with broad luxuriant leaves; it has grown up like 
canes, and lias not tillered or become busby at the bottom. The 
stem near the gi'ound has a taste very similar to the stumpy 
portion of a Cabbage leaf. I intend to commence cutting it for 
soiling next week.” 
VARIETY IN A SMALL GREENHOUSE. 
I have a greenhouse full of the better kinds of Geraniums 
and Fuchsias, but am in want of some variety. Will you be 
good enough to furnish me with a list of about a dozen sorts of 
plants that will bear the common treatment of the above ? I am 
not anxious for newly-introduced plants as long as they are 
showy, and not too expensive.—A Constant Reader. 
[You must have three distinct kinds of Acacias to begin the 
spring with—say one of the earliest, one for tlie middle season, 
and a late one; but the management of the year before will 
make any of them late or early at will. Armata, grandis, and 
longiflora would do; and you ought to have them at the price 
of a common Fuchsia, or a good pot Geranium. Then you 
ought, certainly, with such a greenhouse as yours, to have three 
or four distinct kinds of Chinese Azaleas—little plants at from 
Is. to 2s. each would do : the old white, the old variegated, and 
the oldest scarlet and orange kinds. But it is far better to con¬ 
sult a respectable dealer, as when you go to market with a ready¬ 
made list in your hand, of course the dealers will know you have 
picked the best, and they will charge one-third more for the 
plants. But in Acacias, Azaleas, and Camellias, and, indeed, in 
all the families we recommend, there are several kinds, every one 
of which is just as good as any other, and the kind you ask for 
may be scarce that season. With all our knowledge of these 
things we never buy three plants at a time without “ talking it 
over” with the nurseryman. You must have three kinds of 
Camellias, if you pinch in other quarters—a variegated, a double 
white, and a rose or scarlet kind. Fimbriata is the best white 
Camellia in the world, and it is as cheap as some two-year-old 
Fuchsias; and so is Blegans the best rose for such a house as 
yours ; and Imbricata wilt be variegated sometimes, and all scarlet 
at other times. One Correa at least you should have, one 
Coronilla, and one Cytisus—all these are spring flowers which 
come early or late, as you choose and manage. After the Gera¬ 
niums come in nothing is so good as they and Fuchsias ; and 
when they are over there are very few really good greenhouse 
plants to bloom without much care and trouble. But Balsams, 
Cockscombs, China Asters, Primroses, and Cinerarias, double 
Petunias and such Scarlet-breed Geraniums as Kingsbury Pet, 
ShruMand Cream, Countess of Bective, Lizzy, Louie de Niege, 
and all the Nosegays, are as good in-doora in pots as any of the 
race, and are to be seen in the best conservatories.] 
BULBS EOR BEDS. 
I shall be obliged if you will recommend me what you think 
are the best bulbs to have in tlie different beds in the enclosed 
plan ? In the spring you gave me directions for filling them 
with the different bedding plants, which directions I have strictly 
adhered to, and they arc, and have been for some time, the ad¬ 
miration of all who have seen them.—A n Old Subscriber. 
[This being about the time for a great number of people to 
begin to fidget about planting bulbs in beds, let us proclaim. 
