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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
July 13, 1889. 
The Pink Show at Manchester. 
All who intend exhibiting Pinks on the 20th July, at 
Manchester, should send their entries, and state the 
amount of space they will require, to Mr. Bruce 
Findlay, Royal Botanical Gardens, Manchester, not 
later than July 18th. The exceedingly hot weather of 
the last two months has affected the Pink as it has 
done the Carnation, and brought on the bloom much 
earlier than usual. Still, the Pink is not like the 
Tulip, a one-bloom plant only, and although we may 
not be able to show our largest flowers, yet the beauty, 
refinement, and loveliness of the Pink show well, even 
on a small scale, and if we cannot exhibit large flowers, 
we need not be ashamed of our small ones, if they 
possess quality. The delicious fragrance is ever there. 
The following have bloomed with me in fine 
character, Boiard, Brown’s Heavy Red, Harry Hooper, 
Frank Simonite (small but most refined), Mrs. 
Dark (more correctly laced than usual), and those three 
grand seedlings raised by Mr. Thurstan—George 
Hodginson, John Dorrington, and James Thurstan. 
The last-named is the finest Pink that ever I saw ; I have 
had two blooms, and both of them were perfect. I 
believe the stock of James Thurstan consists of two 
plants only. I hope to see a good display of Pinks 
on the 20th at Manchester.— S. Barlow, StaJcehill, 
July 9 Ih, 1889. 
Carnation Ruination. 
This is not a new variety that I wish to bring to your 
notice, Mr. Editor, but it just spells out my feelings 
looking round my stock the first week in July. Here 
have I been nursing up a fine selection of all Mr. 
Turner’s grand new yellow-grounds, and Mr. Dodwell’s 
best seedlings, with a view to the show on the 23rd, 
and the whole “blooming” lot are already past their 
best. Do not think I am using strong language ; there 
is no other word to describe the situation. 
Pinks, Carnations, Picotees, out of doors and indoors, 
are all rapidly blooming themselves out of existence or 
not blooming at all. I hardly know which of my 
troubles is the worst. At least two-thirds of my 
Carnations and Picotees have been growing away in 
the most vigorous fashion, spindling for bloom up to a 
height of 2 ft. or more, and then throwing out side 
shoots for piping, but no flowers. The other third, at 
least those in pots, whether in a cool house or in the 
open, have all developed their leading buds, and I 
could easily have put up a respectable twenty-four on 
the first Tuesday in July. 
As for the Pinks, they behaved ten times worse. 
Derby Day was in full bloom on the 1st of June ; 
Harry Hooper, John Ball, and a score of other varieties 
ten days later. I have not a respectable side bloom 
now, and yet Mr. Barlow asks us to come up to the 
scratch on the 20th. Great Scott ! I might be able 
to show a dozen pods of seed by that date, but as for 
flowers, there will not be a bloom to be seen in this 
latitude. 
The art of keeping back in a hot season is evidently 
something that I, for one, have to acquire ; and I look 
forward with some curiosity to see what kind of a show 
the veteran Carnation growers will make on the 23rd. 
Where the Oxford people will be in August I cannot 
for the life of me imagine, but I hope to be there to see. 
The number of seedlings and layers that have failed to 
bloom, puzzles me still more than the precocious 
bloomers. I had a nice lot of Mr. Dodwell’s best 
seedlings, that did well all the winter and spring, and 
have continued to grow most vigorously, but not one has 
thrown a bud. Lamenting my ill luck to Mr. Dodwell, 
he writes me, with the good nature and kindly 
encouragement that he invariably extends to well- 
intentioned but unskilful amateurs, that it may possibly 
be attributed as much to the sunless character of last 
year, as to my bad management. Well, anyway, the 
present season ought to protect us against similar 
mishaps next year. 
Nevertheless, although I am quite out of the hunt so 
far as showing is concerned, I am supremely happy as I 
walk round and worship the divine “coronation” 
flower. Turner’s new yellow-grounds charm me 
immensely. Amber, Will Threlfall, Dorothy, Colonial 
Beauty, Agnes Chambers, Annie Douglas, Almina, 
Etna, Conqueror—how beautiful they are ! I am very 
anxious to see how the Kilmurry strain will turn out 
this year. Yellow-grounds are only in their infancy as 
florists’ flowers, and up to now I cannot say I have 
been greatly impressed in their favour ; I never could 
keep one two years running. But I fully believe they 
have a great future. 
Let us hope that the dear old Pink has also a future 
—a revival future—before it, and although we may not 
have done much towards promoting that revival this 
year, let us hope we may utilise the back end of the 
season for that purpose. When I suggested that we 
might unite the admirers of some other flower with us 
in our endeavour, and mentioned the Pansy, I did 
not mean that we should have a double exhibition on 
the same day, but rather after the fashion of the 
Auricula and Carnation Society—two exhibitions with 
a two or three months interval between. I still think 
with all deference that we might gain, by extended 
interest and increased funds, the end we all desire.— E. 
Ranger Johnson, Kennington, S.E. 
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LONG-POD AND BROAD BEANS. 
I occasionally find writers in gardening papers re¬ 
commending for a first early crop of Beans the Early 
Mazagan. Now I take two objections to this recom¬ 
mendation. In the first place, the Mazagan Bean is 
not worth growing as a garden crop, as it has greatly 
declined in cultivation, this being shown by the 
lessened demand for it, in consequence of better sorts 
being now obtainable ; and secondly, through it not 
being an early variety. Beck’s Dwarf Green Gem, the 
Seville Long-pod, and the Early Long-pod, all beat it 
in point of time of turning in. What gardeners should 
do is to sow the Seville Long-pod for a first crop, Beck’s 
Dwarf Green Gem to succeed it, then a good strain of 
Johnson’s Wonder Long-pod, or Broad Windsor, to 
follow. For exhibition purposes there is nothing 
to beat the Aquadulce, which may be regarded as an 
improved and rather later form of the Seville Long-pod, 
but to have fine pods both should be grown from im¬ 
ported seeds. The Aquadulce is taller in growth, has 
longer pods, and is a little later. Of the old Long-pod 
types Johnson’s Wonder and Minster Giant are the 
best, but these are distanced by Bunyard’s Exhibition 
Long-pod, which partakes of the character of the Old 
Hangdown Long-pod, its pods hanging with their 
points towards the ground instead of being erect. 
Bunyard’s new variety produces very fine pods quite in 
the style of the Aquadulce, but all good. I think this 
will make a very fine garden, market, and exhibition 
variety. In the Seville, Aquadulce, and Bun)^ard’s 
Exhibition we get the very cream of the Long-pod 
Beans. 
Of the Windsor type or Broad Bean proper, the best 
hitherto grown is the Harlington Windsor. Still, our 
Broad Beans are not what we think they might be. 
We want a Windsor Bean that will produce five and 
six beans in a pod, and this is to be obtained by 
diligent and persistent selection. But something can 
be done by means of fertilisation. I recently saw a 
Windsor Bean that had been obtained from a cross 
between the Seville Long-pod and Broad Harlington 
Windsor. The progeny was mixed, but a few plants 
were of a very promising character, having very 
handsome pods well filled. If this Bean could be 
fixed it would be the exhibition Broad Windsor Bean 
par excellence. The seed in a dry state was of the 
character of the Broad Windsor Bean.— R D. 
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THE ROSEMARY. 
Boon old Rosemary! Its “glory has departed.” 
Once upon a time it occupied a proud position, not 
only in the gardens of the rich and noble, but also in 
those of the more humble and lowly cottage homes. 
Now it is mostly consigned to some dreary nook or 
out-of-the-way place, where the long, lean, scraggy 
specimens so generally met with seem to say, “We are 
only tolerated here. No one cares for us —no one takes 
any notice of us now ; our day has gone by.” Poets 
and minstrels wrote and sang of its praises and many 
virtues—historians and novelists have recorded its 
uses ; but now all seems forgotten even in our garden 
journals, and while we speak in rapturous accents or lose 
ourselves in ecstasies over the merits and charms of 
many of our old-fashioned garden favourites, we do not 
even deign to give the Rosemary so much as a passing 
notice. 
It was formerly used as a symbol of fidelity between 
lovers, and for the same reason was woven in the 
garland of the bride. Now only the costlier Orchids, 
Orange blossoms, or rarer exotics are tolerated. As a 
token of remembrance it was used at funerals, to signify 
that the dear departed ones would not be forgotten. 
Now we are satisfied only with the costliest wreaths 
and crosses. It is mentioned in many of the old con¬ 
tinental songs of the troubadours as emblematic of 
that constancy and devotion to the fair sex which was 
so characteristic of the days of chivalry; and interwoven 
with the Myrtle and Laurel, chaplets were formed and 
worn on the heads of the principal persons in fetes, but 
these were only in the “ good old days” long, long ago. 
There were formerly several curious superstitions in 
connection with the Rosemary, and perhaps may still 
exist in some parts, amongst which the Treasury of 
Botany is responsible for the following:—“A vulgar 
belief in Gloucestershire and other counties is that Rose¬ 
mary will not grow well unless the mistress is master, 
and so touchy are some of the 1 lords of creation ’ upon 
this point, that we have more than once had reason to 
suspect them of privately injuring a growing Rosemary, 
in order to destroy the evidence of the want of 
authority.” As a medicinal plant and for perfumes it 
is even now highly valued, but not so much, perhaps, 
as formerly. A decoction of its leaves and tops is said 
to relieve headache and to strengthen the memory, 
and made into tea it is useful as a nervous tonic, 
while as a hair-wash it is said to strengthen the hair 
and prevent baldness, and many other properties are 
ascribed to it. It yields an essential oil which is 
largely used in the manufacture of scents and po¬ 
matums ; it is one of the ingredients in Eau de Cologne, 
and to Hungary Water it imparts its fragrance. 
The Rosemary is a native of the south of France, 
Italy, Spain, and Asia Minor, and in some parts it is 
so abundant that in spring, when the plants are in 
flower, the air is perfumed with odour to a great 
distance. It is said to be found wild in the Great 
Desert, and in allusion to this and its use at funerals 
the poet Moore says— 
‘ ‘ The humble Rosemary, 
Whose sweets so thankfully are shed 
To scent the desert and the dead.” 
It is very attractive to bees, and for this reason is 
partly cultivated in those countries of which it is a 
native. It is said that in Narbon this plant is so 
abundant, partly from being indigenous and used 
extensively as hedges to gardens, that it communicates 
its flavour to the honey obtained there, which is con¬ 
sidered to be the finest in France.— Alfred Gaut. 
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OLD-FASHIONED AND SINGLE 
BOSES. 
One of the most practical, as well as the most valuable 
results of the Rose Conference at Chiswick has been 
the bringing into prominence of many old-fashioned 
garden Roses that for many years have been shamefully 
neglected or almost ignored. Since the introduction 
of R. indica in 1789 a great impulse has been given to 
Rose growing, and for some years past the hybrids 
that have arisen between this species and R. galliea 
(the French Rose) have so much occupied the attention 
of gardeners, and the latter have been so encouraged 
through the instrumentality of exhibitions, that all 
other kinds, excepting hybrid perpetuals and Tea 
Roses, have been comparatively neglected. On these 
two kinds, therefore, the chief attention of horti¬ 
culturists is centred. 
The conference has been the means, however, of 
bringing out the original types and the old-fashioned 
garden Roses first obtained from them, and which in 
many cases may be considered the ancestors of these 
now chiefly in vogue. The Damask Roses were not 
particularly plentiful, but amongst them we noted the 
striped Damask, rose and purple ; crimson Damask, 
crimson ; and the true York and Lancaster, a small 
pale rose and white variety. The Cabbage or Provence 
Roses were more numerous in several distinct forms or 
races. For instance, Rosa Mundi, purple and white 
striped, is oftener grown under the name of the York 
and Lancaster than the true one itself, so that the 
latter must realty be very scarce. 
The Moss Roses (R. centifolia muscosa) are merely a 
race of the Cabbage Rose. They are exceedingly 
beautiful in the bud stage, but should not be allowed 
to open beyond a half-expanded bud state before they 
are cut, if wanted for that purpose. Amongst those 
shown were the common Moss, Purpurea rubra, 
Blairii No. 2, rose ; Angelique Quetier, rose ; Lanei, 
rose ; Reine Blanche, white ; White Bath, Perpetual 
White, large quantities of the Crested Moss, and 
others. The latter takes its name from the very much 
crested condition of the sepals. 
Many old garden representatives of R. galliea, one of 
the parents of the hybrid perpetuals, were exhibited, 
including Rosa Mundi, already notified. Perle des 
Panaeliees is akin to the latter variety, and Pride of 
Reigate seems to have had the same origin, although 
we have not examined it botanically. The flowers are 
mo ttled, striped and variegated with purple, crimson, 
