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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
October 16, 1886. 
My experience regarding the whole process of curing 
Tobacco, is that the leaves must he judiciously and 
properly harvested to ensure high quality, thus 
rendering it, when ready for use, a first-class article. 
The drying in the first instance is of great importance, 
and must not be too much hurried or delayed ; the 
temperature must neither be too high nor too low, 
neither too arid nor too humid ; and should the culti¬ 
vation of Tobacco become a commercial speculation, 
means and appliances must be brought fully aud fairly 
into play to ensure a successful issue. My first Vinery 
used to be at liberty by the time that the Tobacco was 
in a fit state for gathering, and this was my drying 
house, the whole available space being used for that 
purpose. I considered that the partial shading of the 
foliage of the Vines to be advantageous, preventing the 
leaves from being exposed to the scorching influence of 
the sun ; in dull damp weather the drying process 
being greatly accelerated by the application of heat, at 
the same time giving abundance of ventilation. 
Having the leaves sufficiently harvested, my practice 
was to carefully collect and arrange them in parcels, 
book-like, and about 2 ins. thick ; these were placed 
transversely in a large box or boxes, something like 
2 ft. by 4 ft., according to circumstances and require¬ 
ments, the whole being pressed by a board with bricks 
or stones on the top ; in the course of a very short 
time, if the leaves are in a good condition, a gentle 
fermentation takes place, and continues for a short 
time, after which it is stored away for use. I may here 
remark, that an old acquaintance of mine, nearly fifty 
years ago, used to make some very good cigars, from 
leaves cured for his own use ; at that time I was 
very much opposed to the now prevailing habit, but 
my views have since become slightly changed.— George 
Fry, Lewisham. 
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THE NEW ROSES OF 1885-86. 
A reliable list of the best varieties of the new 
Roses of the last two years will be found in the follow¬ 
ing H. P., American Beauty, deep rose, large 
globular flowers, beautifully scented, and very free ; 
reported to be very good. H.P., Auguste Andre, light 
silvery pink with rosy centre, distinct in colour, and 
decidedly promising. H. P., Clara Cochet, clear bright 
pink, good in shape, and very promising. H.P., 
Brilliant, bright scarlet-crimson, a good button-hole 
and garden variety. H.P., Charles Dickens, a very 
free rose-coloured variety, will make a good garden 
Rose. H.P., Climbing Hippolyte Jamain, bright rosy 
carmine, of vigorous climbing habit ; an excellent 
crimson climbing Rose. H. P., Climbing Pride of 
"Waltham, light salmon-pink, cheerful in colour, 
vigorous and free. H. P., Climbing Mons. Boncenne, 
deep velvety crimson, good climber. H. P., Comtesse 
F. de Bellauger, rosy flesh, shaded with deep rose. 
H.P., Florence Paul, scarlet-crimson, very bright and 
free ; a good garden Rose. H.P., Her Majesty, bright 
flesh, a Rose of great beauty, but said to be spare of 
bloom though a very free grower. H. P., Inigo Jones, 
dark rose shaded with purple ; said to be an excellent 
free exhibition Rose, and a good autumn bloomer. 
H.P., Longfellow, rich violet-crimson, having the form 
of Charles Lefebvre, very promising. H. P., Madame 
Baulot, dark crimson-carmine, large, full, and of fine 
shape. H.P., Madame Mussett, bright clear red, 
large, and of fine form ; said to be a more vigorous 
Marie Baumann. H.P., Madame Norman Neruda, 
light cherry-carmine, sweetly scented, one of the best 
late flowering Roses. H.P., Madame Yilley, bright 
red, vigorous and free. II. P., Madame Rebatel, deep 
rose, shaded with lighter rose. H. P., Pride of Reigate, 
a white striped Comtesse d’Oxford, very pretty when 
in good form ; said to be fairly constant for a sport. 
H.P., Princess Amelie de Broglie, bright clear rose, 
good globular form. H.P., Raoul Guillard, very bright 
red -with a deeper shading, large and fine. H.P., 
Souvenir de Eugene Karr, scarlet and crimson, good 
shape. H.P., Souvenir de Victor Hugo, bright rose. 
Tea-scented :—The Bride, an American sport from 
Catherine Mermet, and promising to be a very useful 
variety; and Sunset, a rich tawny saffron-coloured 
sport from Perle des Jardins, also of American 
origin, and a thoroughly good variety. Claude Levet, 
rosy carmine, striped with purple, large and full. 
Comtesse de Frignenses, bright canary-yellow, in the 
way of, but more double than Isabella Sprunt. Com¬ 
tesse Horace de Choiseuil, light rose, large and good 
Edmonde Biauzat, light rosy pink, globular ; distinct 
and good. Marguerite Ramet, China-rose, veined with 
deep carmine, free. Marquise de Vivens, light pink. 
Souvenir de Victor Hugo, rose centre, with the outer 
petals suffused off into yellowish blush ; and Souvenir 
d’Admiral Courbet, bright red, small flowers, very 
freely produced. 
In the usual Rose catalogue just issued by Messrs. 
Paul & Son, of Cheshunt, Mr. Geo. Paul supplies some 
welcome comments on a few of the foregoing Roses. 
He states that “Her Majesty, in the case of many 
plants, showed late autumn flowers, proving it to be a 
perpetual, as we think ; but any wishing to see flowers 
of it in their gardens next year we should advise to 
plant strong ripened plants of it this year.” American 
Beauty has struck us by its fragrance, wonderful 
freedom, and continuous habit of flowering. Grown in 
pots it is a fine Rose. Madame Norman Neruda has 
certainly gained in reputation this season as an exhi¬ 
bition Rose ; a little late, but fine in autumn and 
sweetly scented. Longfellow and the striped Pride of 
Reigate will be good Roses in the garden ; distinct, 
perfectly hardy, and new in colour. The best of the 
French Roses are Clara Cochet, sent out by Lacharme, 
an improved Catherine Soupert. Auguste Andre will 
be an addition, distinct in colour to the light Roses ; 
Madame Baulot, a good new red (and we want good 
new reds) ; Raoul Guillard promises also to add to 
these, whilst the rose colours are reinforced by two 
promising kinds—Princesse Amelie de Broglie and 
Souvenir de Victor Hugo. Amongst the new Teas, 
Comtesse de Frignenses, yellow, and The Bride, white, 
have been remarkably fine at Cheshunt ; Souvenir de 
Victor Hugo and Comtesse Horace de Choiseuil also are 
promising. Others are Claudius, Edward de Bianzat, 
Marquise de Vivens, Marguerite Ramet, Souvenir 
d’Helene Lambert, and Souvenir d’Admiral Courbet, 
completing the list of the new Roses of the year. In 
other classes are the new wonderfully free-flowering 
hybrid Tea, W. F. Bennett; Veitch’s double miniature 
Lueida, Rose Button ; the new pink Polyantha type, 
Max Singer, a vigorous climber ; and the free pink 
kind, Floribunda.” 
The beginning of the Rose growers’ year is signalised 
by the reception of the nurseryman’s catalogue of Roses, 
and he should at once carefully his examine stock to see 
if any plants need replacing, or if any novelties of the 
past two years are, in his opinion, worth adding to his 
collection ; if any, order these at once to secure good 
plants. By the end of the month any fresh ground 
that it is intended to plant should be cleared, and all 
necessary manures or compost be placed in readiness 
for use in trenching. Manure may be prepared by 
turning it over several times to half rot it, and if the 
chance occurs for purchasing turfy loam from any 
neighbouring building land it should be seized— R. D. 
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NOVELTIES AT CLYFFE HALL. 
"We never pay a visit to Clyffe Hall, Market 
Lavington, without having the pleasure of meeting 
with something good and meritorious ; indeed, we 
expect to do so as a matter of course, and this year, 
certainly, our friend Mr. Lye has a few good things, of 
which he may feel justly proud. First and foremost 
to attract our attention are the Fuchsias, in regard to 
which it may very truly be said that Clyffe Hall gardens 
stands unrivalled, a pioud position it has nobly held 
for a good many years, as many of your readers can 
testify who have been in the habit of visiting the 
leading shows of the West of England. The under¬ 
mentioned varieties are already in commerce, having 
been sent out during the current year :— 
James Welsh. —A really fine exhibition variety ; 
tube and sepals bright rosy red, of good form and 
handsomely reflexed ; corolla pale maroon shaded with 
bright purple. It has also the additional recommen¬ 
dation of being a strong vigorous grower, as one fine 
pyramidal plant we saw fully proved, being nearly 
6 ft. high, and of the current year’s growing. Taken 
altogether, we regard this variety as one that will hold 
its own in the front raak for some few years to come. 
Mr. F. Glass is also an acquisition to the list of dark 
sorts ; colour, bright deep crimson tube and sepals, 
purple-maroon corolla, the two colours in juxtaposition 
forming a beautiful contrast ; medium size, a very fine 
and distinct variety. 
Emperor .—This is eminently adapted for growing 
against pillars in the greenhouse or conservatory on 
account of its long pendulous shoots, at the points of 
which are produced in profusion handsome flowers with 
bright red tube and sepals, the latter long and broad, 
maroon corolla, shaded with purple. Amongst the light 
varieties we have the following 
Lye's Perfection. —Creamy white tube and sepals, 
which are delicately suffused with pink and handsomely 
reflexed, bright carmine corolla, good form and very 
showy. 
Mrs. F. Glass is a decided acquisition, and should 
find a place in all collections ; colour, creamy white 
tube and sepals, deep pink corolla, tinted with violet, 
good form and substance. 
In this class we may also mention the following as 
possessingsterling merit—Diadem, Beauty of Lavington, 
Emily Bright, Lye’s Excelsior and Nellie. 
Amongst vegetable products a new round Potato 
named Clipper is worthy of notice as one that is 
probably destined, in the future to occupy a prominent 
place on the exhibition stands. Of its table qualities 
we cannot speak in too high terms, having enjoyed 
.thoroughly at dinner some of Mrs. Lye’s cooking. It 
need hardly be said, however, that Mrs. Lye is quite 
“M.A.” at putting a good Potato on the table.— J. H. 
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COOKERY FOR INVALIDS.* 
That we may have too much of a good thing is 
proverbial. And yet there are some good things of 
which it is not possible to have too much, among them 
that tender solicitude for the sick of which we hear so 
much more in our day than an elder generation ever 
heard. Both in public institutions and private houses 
“ sick-nursing ” has now risen to the level of an Art, 
and like other Arts in this age of energy, it has found 
many exponents of its alphabet and its rudiments. So 
that anyone who, aspires to cultivate it can choose 
among many initiatory manuals, which will- instruct 
the reader in language unmistakeable, not only what 
to do in the sick-room and how to do it, but also what 
not to do and why to do it not. 
The sick-room itself, however, is not the only sphere 
in which those who would cherish the sick must be 
prepared to act ; every department of the household is 
laid under contribution where illness is a visitant, and 
notably the kitchen. Whether the patient is getting 
better or getting worse, the question of nourishment is 
a crucial one, and in many cases its difficulty balances 
its importance. Invalids are not generally hungry 
people ; they are apt to take food only because it is 
prescribed, not because the appetite suggests it, and 
moreover to disobey the prescription whenever they 
can. Monotony wearies them, quantity repels them, 
a very pronounced flavour disgusts them. Yet the 
skill of the doctor and the appropriateness of the 
medicine will avail but little if suitable nourishment 
is not regularly administered, and there is much truth 
in the saying that what sick people fancy is what does 
them good. Hence to secure the relish of the patient 
for the delicacy proffered is a cardinal point, and as 
sameness palls on a fastidious palate, a variety of tit¬ 
bits is as essential as the seductiveness of the tit-bits 
themselves. Practical experience alone can provide 
such a variety, since it is worthless unless it can be 
vouched for in detail, and Miss Barbara Thomson, a 
daughter of Mr. William Thomson, of Clovenfords, has 
compiled, and Messrs. Blackwood & Sons have published 
a little book embodying precisely this kind of experience, 
to which it is to be hoped and expected that the public 
will grant a reception in accordance with its deserts. 
Buyers of the book will find a copious bill-of-fare, 
catering for every stage of invalidism, from the pros¬ 
tration that sighs over even a spoonful or two of 
Peptonised Milk Gruel or the morsel of cool jelly, up 
to convalescence within sight of health, when the 
eager patient could eat much more than he may eat, 
and the delicately broiled chop seems to him cut from 
absurdly undersized mutton ! 
In her brief preface Miss Thomson expresses a hope 
that her collection of “recipes which have been proved 
and found successful may be helpful to those whose 
duty it is to provide for the sick and suffering. ” One 
thing only is necessary to realise this hope, and that is 
that the admirable little book shall be introduced to 
those for whose benefit it was written, aud no one who 
has noted the care that marks its compilation can fail 
to wish it and to predict for it a large and always 
increasing circulation. 
'Cookery for the Sick asb Convalescent. By Barbara 
Thomson, Tweed Vineyard, Clovenfords. Edinburgh and 
London : W. Blackwood & Sons. 
