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for here the cultivator cuts out the Dog Rose 
buds, and inserts in the smooth bark one 
which eventually produces a blazing bloom of 
rosy petals, not in single file of five but in 
thousands, all fair and fragrant as well. It is 
very rarely that Koses require root-pruning, 
but they will travel under ground, and rob the 
better parts of the bush, for the stolons are all 
robbers and have little in common with the 
real roots of Rosacete. I need scarcely remark 
that Disbudding gives an excellent opportunity 
for regulating the form of the tree or bush. 
Ringing and root-pruning are devices re¬ 
sorted to when fruit-trees run too much to wood; 
but this is a far more violent kind of work, and 
should not be attempted without some good 
practical man’s opinion, lest more harm be 
done than could be repaired, for all" the gum¬ 
bearing trees are very easily damaged when 
the knife is applied to them. —Alex. Forsyth. 
PEAR JALOUSIE DE FONTENAY. 
f HIS Pear has also the following sy¬ 
nonyms :— Jalousie de Fontenay Yen- 
&vp dee; Poire de Fontenay. There are 
' ‘ very few better Pears than this, for it 
is both handsome and good. It is also one of 
the oldest of our high-class Pears, and yet it 
is comparatively unknown. It is not a sensa¬ 
tional Pear, but, like tbe Winter Nelis, it 
is always good, and every fruit is good. 
The fruits are somewhat below the size in 
fashion at the present time, and it has the 
misfortune to come into use in October, when 
good Pears are abundant. No one, however, 
who has ever grown or tasted the Jalousie de 
Fontenay will seek to discard it. We venture 
to recommend it very highly to amateur culti¬ 
vators. 
M. Decaisne, in the Jardin Fruitier du 
Museum, states that this Pear was raised near 
the end of the last century at a small place 
named Bouchereau, and was subsequently 
distributed by M. Leveque as Poire de Fon¬ 
tenay. Leroy speaks of having cultivated it 
in 1841 as Jalousie de Fontenay, and subse¬ 
quently, the better to distinguish it from others 
named Jalousie, the word Vendee was added. 
It has been cultivated in the Horticultural 
Society's Gardens at Chiswick for a good 
many years ; and about three years ago Mr. 
Mitchell, a large market-gardener in Essex, 
brought me some fruit, which he had been 
trying everywhere to get named. On seeing 
the examples of Jalousie de Fontenay in the 
fruit-room he at once recognised his special 
favourite. The fruit may be described as 
under the medium size, of a long conical 
form, verj’ regular in outline ; skin covered 
all over with a bright cinnamon russet, very 
pleasing to the eye ; flesh white, very melting 
and buttery, sweet, with a slight tinge of 
acidity ; excellent. The tree grows freely on 
both the Pear and Quince stocks, and is very 
fruitful.—A. F. Barron. 
SEEDS AND SEEDLINGS. 
ryOME years ago great difficulty and 
trouble were experienced in getting up 
the season’s stock of many useful and 
^ beautiful flowering and bedding plants 
with anything like robust health, many kinds, 
both in and out of doors, utterly failing to 
grow, or being carried off early without giving 
the desired effect. I remember the first visit 
of the Hollyhock disease; four long rows 
became red and scorched, much as if fire had 
passed along them. Seedlings are not subject 
to this disease with us as yet. 
I remember also the care and trouble re¬ 
quired to rear Cinerarias, every one, except 
nurserymen and amateurs, depending upon 
slips and cuttings. Our first lesson of experi¬ 
ence came from the rubbish-yard ; around the 
pots placed outside from the show-house sprung 
a fine crop of seedlings. Now, we mark a few 
pots of the best for seed bearing, and place 
them singly in the shade, and from these 
obtain our stock. 
It is hardly possible to overrate the great 
improvement in seedling Petunias, some of 
them coming fine and double, with striped and 
blotched flowers. They make fine showy 
plants for the conservatory ; and every packet 
of seed will yield great variety. Single 
bedding sorts come quite true ; out of many 
thousands of Countess of Ellesmere we have 
not found one rogue. erbenas are also to 
be depended upon. Such sorts as the old 
Defiance and Purple King can be easily got 
ready by planting-out time, and without an 
insect on them. 
It would be a great gain if our seedsmen 
would turn their attention to seeding some of 
