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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
July 12, 1890. 
The Rose Garden. 
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Safkano as a Button-hole. Rose. 
To a City man who wants to turn up smiling on a Juiy 
morning at his railway station, and cause his brother 
travellers’ mouths to water with envy, let me recommend 
the Tea Rose, Safrano. It is easily managed, and a 
free bloomer, with pretty, dark and pleasing foliage, 
and as a Rose just newly blown it has such delicacy of 
form and colour—a scft warm yellow or apricot shade—• 
that few can come up to it for the button-hole. 
William Allen Richardson as a bud has a beauty all its 
own, but it has not, in my opinion, the well-bred and 
refined appearance which is so characteristic of Safrano. 
When I emerge from Liverpool Street of a morning 
with a Safrano of my own growing in my button-hole, 
my vanity is gratified by the admiring glances thrown 
towards it. I grow it as a half-standard, and it does 
very well with me east of London. —Mincing Lane. 
H.P. Rosf., Captain Hayward. 
We have been favoured with some blooms of a new 
Hybrid Perpetual Rose from Mr. Henry Bennett, 
Pedigree Rose Nursery, Shepperton. In structure and 
general form it resembles Ulrich Brunner, but the 
colour is quite different. The half-expanded flowers 
are conical, and the petals open of an intense 
crimson-red, but when fully developed they become of 
an intense rose-red. The outer surface is always of a 
rose colour, fading to a paler hue in the fully-expanded 
bloom. The leaves are large, leathery in character, 
and of a deep green on the upper surface, with ovate 
serrate leaflets. It promises to make a capital exhi¬ 
bition and forcing [Rose on account of its size, the 
breadth, depth and smoothness of the petals, and their 
bright colour. The latter become slightly revolute at 
the margin when fully expanded. As a garden Rose it 
will be most acceptable, not only for the size and colour 
of its flowers, but also for their delicious fragrance. 
W. A. Richardson. 
This Rose came out with an elaborate description and 
a high character, but having had several dozens of 
blooms, I feel compelled to speak in disparaging terms 
of it. Its colour is certainly outside the common line— 
a deep apricot-yellow—and if colour and bud are the 
only points appreciated, it is a charming miniature ; 
but even in the bud state the wrapping of the petals is 
faulty. Those who had anticipated size, form, fullness, 
and substapce will be disappointed with it.— B. L. 
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GLOXINIAS AT THE ROUPELL 
PARK NURSERIES. 
On Wednesday and Thursday last the collection of 
Gloxinias in the Roupell Park Nurseries of Messrs. 
J. Peed & Sons, Tulse Hill, was open for the inspection 
of the public. The display was arranged in a low half¬ 
span-roofed house, 150 ft. long, and divided into three 
compartments. The plants, or such of them as were 
in full bloom, were grouped with Maidenhair Pern. 
Many of the Gloxinias are seedlings of this year, the 
seed having been sown in January ; but a large number 
were last year’s plants, the finer varieties being named. 
The seifs, spotted and banded kinds were well mixed, 
for there is an endless variety of shades, and blending of 
colours and markings in the modem improved forms of 
the Gloxinia, with erect and funnel-shaped instead of 
tubular and drooping flowers. 
We noted a number of the more striking named 
kinds. A pretty variety is ‘ Winifred, with violet and 
marbled flowers, and a broad blue margin. A. Luff 
has large purple flowers, shaded with crimson. King 
John is red with a rose margin; and Admiration, 
crimson-red with a white margin. As a counterfoil to 
the lighter shades, there w'as one named Nigger, with 
dark violet-purple flowers, the colour being intensified 
below the middle, and some other unnamed seedlings 
exhibited similar hues, one of them having seven or 
eight segments to the flower. A curiosity in its way 
was a flower of that named H. M. Stanley, with fourteen 
segments. The other flowers were normal, and of a 
brilliant scarlet, fading to pink at the margin. It is a 
very free-flowering kind, as is Alexandra, the red and 
rose-edged flowers of which are thrown well above the 
foliage. Another floriferous kind is Dorothy Tennant, 
the flowers of which are spotted all over with red, on a 
white ground. Effie is somewhat after the same style, 
while the throat is lined and spotted with purple. The 
flowers of Bobby Burns are crimson-red with a broad 
white margin, and freely produced. A bold crimson 
flower is Sensation, with a rose margin, and of large 
size. There are several white varieties, including Jeanne 
d’Arc, pure white ; Her Majesty, white, with a rosy 
piDk reticulated band across the middle, and others. 
A goodly proportion of beautifully spotted flowers are 
scattered throughout the collection. 
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THE CULTURE OF HERBA¬ 
CEOUS CALCEOLARIAS. 
[Concluded from p. 699.) 
In about a month or six weeks' after pricking out, 
the seedlings should be quite fit to pot off, and if this 
be done carefully, without disturbing the ball of soil 
about their roots, they will never feel the change, and 
in a short time will be fine robust-looking plants. Pots 
of 3 ins. diameter are very suitable for the first shift, 
and the compost from this onwards should consist of 
good friable loam one half, and leaf-soil, charcoal, and 
pounded cow-dung in equal parts, making the other 
half, with a slight dash of soot and sand. If all goes 
well, they will require another shift about the end of 
September, and the pots used must only be a little 
larger than the size they now occupy. Pots of 4 ins. 
or 5 ins. in diameter suit very well at this time, as they 
are easily filled with roots, and will be so before severe 
weather may be experienced. 
The plants should now be put in their winter 
quarters, plunged in sawdust near the glass, and after 
they have made fresh roots in the new soil, must he 
aired freely by having the sashes tilted hack and front. 
With this free circulation of air, they are rendered 
quite firm enough to withstand the rigours of an ordi¬ 
nary winter with little or no protection, except that 
afforded by the sashes. Plunging in sawdust serves a 
double purpose, by at once saving watering—the critical 
point of their culture in winter—and forming uncom¬ 
fortable travelling ground for slugs. In watering 
during the winter mouths, much caution is necessary. 
The plants should not be watered overhead, nor the 
foliage in any way wetted, because owing to the rugose 
or wrinkled character of the leaves, they retain the 
water, and are then very susceptible to injury from 
frost, and even wholesale damping. The surface of the 
bed, too, must be kept dry, and this done, Mr. Slug 
will be more athletic than we usually find him if he 
tastes onr treasures. I may as well here remark that 
slugs are quite as fond of the flowers as they are of the 
foliage, and if not carefully watched, will soon destroy 
all their beauty and curiosity. It need scarcely he 
observed that all should enjoy a free, open apace, 
plunged in rows alternating with each other, each row 
being several inches apart from its neighbour. 
By the middle of February they will be making fresh 
roots, and consequently pushing into fresh growth. 
This is the signal for renewed action, and advantage 
should he taken of a mild day to give them an 
overhauling, shifting those that require it into larger 
pots. This shift may in most cases—indeed, in all 
instances where large plants are not in request—he the 
final shift, and for the majority of purposes 6-in. and 
7-in. pots will be found large enough, although for the 
late-flowering plants, another shift into 8-in. pots will 
he an advantage by giving them a nobler appearance. 
They should be still kept in the frame till they show 
flower. For the plants in the smaller sized pots, no 
doubt, more water will be required later on, but when 
thoroughly pot-bound, these may he kept healthy and 
vigorous all the season by the liberal use of weak 
liquid manure, used alternately with soot-water every 
other day. At no time in their culture must they suffer 
through want of water, although this also requires some 
discretion, as in all other matters. When in flower, a 
cool, rather shady greenhouse suits them better than 
au exposed bright house; and particular attention 
should be exercised in ventilating, so that the house 
shall not be draughty, and consequently unduly arid. 
Pinching should be adopted when the plants show 
their first or crown spikes, but they frequently throw 
out their shoots quite regularly without this. It is, 
however, sometimes necessary to resort to this to 
prevent premature flowering—usually the result of a 
check —as also to keep up successional bloom to a late 
date. When the flower stems are 3 ins. or 4 ins. high 
staking should have attention. Small green-painted 
wooden stakes are good, but the usually accepted 
Bamboo stakes will, if of medium thickness, and cut 
into lengths of about 18 ins., he much better for all 
purposes. The latter, when neatly put in, are prac¬ 
tically invisible, serving the purpose equally as well, 
and have the further advantage of being indestructible. 
They came to my aid some time ago when I was pressed 
for want of ordinary stakes of suitable size, and for all 
light staking I can thoroughly recommend them. 
In careful intelligent hands Calceolarias do not give 
much trouble with insects ; hut it is possible, under 
indifferent culture, to see them attacked by thrips and 
red-spider. To those who would grow on the happy- 
go-lucky principle I would suggest no remedy, a 3 they 
would he better without it. Green-fly will attack— 
indeed, does attack them, grown under the most 
favourable conditions. This latter enemy is not quite 
so formidable as some insects, and may easily he kept 
at bay by frequent fumigations with tobacco paper. If 
the plants are in frames, as advised, it is a very simple 
matter to fumigate them at any time, and they are all 
the better for a slight whiff of tobacco smoke at in¬ 
tervals of a fortnight or three weeks all through their 
culture, not excepting their flowering period. We 
usually dust some tobacco powder over the points of the 
shoots when showing the flower spike. This is a quick 
and ready means, and a good preventive. The under 
sides of the foliage is the position usually attacked, and 
when the presence of the pests is detected, summary 
measures must be taken, as they soon throw discredit 
on the cultivator, and at least thwart his efforts.— 
J. Proctor, Glenfi.nart. 
THE GLEN, INNERLEITHEN. 
Situated in the southern highlands of Scotland amidst 
exceedingly picturesque scenery, is the charming family 
seat of Sir Charles Tennant. Visitors from the south 
intent on seeing The Glen travel by the famed Waverley 
route, via Melrose and Galashiels, where a change of 
carriages is necessary, as Innerleithen is distant from 
the main line about fourteen miles. On resuming the 
journey, Clovenfords is soon reached, and a stop could 
he made here to see the famous vineyards, after which 
proceed aloDg the valley of the Tweed until Innerleithen 
Station is reached. Now the journey becomes more 
difficult, five miles of a country road having to be 
traversed before The Glen is reached. 
The visitor immediately on leaving Innerleithen 
crosses the Tweed Bridge, a fine modern structure ; near 
to this point the river winds its course to the right. 
The remainder of the journey is continued along a 
winding road through fertile fields, the stillness being 
disturbed by the occasional bleat of a sheep or the 
bellowing of an ox. To the right and left are the 
everlasting hills, whose tops tower far up into the sky. 
In such a solitude, for a time at least, the rush and 
turmoil of the City are forgotten. The five miles are 
now reduced to a few hundred yards, and ahead is the 
noble entrance to The Glen, indicative of what is to be 
seen inside. Passing up the well-kept drive, with its 
trim edges, and glancing to the left, a portion of the 
famous Ettriclr Forest is seen. On the right and in 
front are two beautiful hills, both studded with lovely 
trees of various hues—Purple Beech, Oak, Elm, Lime, 
Pine, and Sycamore, among which are many fine 
examples. At the base of the surrounding hills is the 
palatial mansion of Sir Charles Tennant—a magnificent 
structure in the old Scottish baronial style of archi¬ 
tecture, with numerous Ivies clinging to the walls, 
and greatly enhancing the noble edifice with their 
pretty foliage. 
The grounds and flower gardens are laid out with 
exquisite taste, every tree and shrub having received 
individual attention ; purple Beech, gold and silver 
Hollies, Cupressus, and Retinosporas grow to perfection, 
their beautiful colours blending together and baffling 
description. Running through the grounds are two 
streams, one of which is Lucy’s Burn, frequently men¬ 
tioned in Scottish ballads. This is a lovely stream, 
with numerous waterfalls, a study in itself. Passing 
on I came to the gardener’s house, a snug residence 
surrounded with numerous climbers. Making enquiries 
here for Mr. McIntyre, who conducts the gardening 
operations with such conspicuous ability at The Glen, 
I found that he was in the kitchen-garden, and after a 
few preliminaries, was conducted into the Odontoglos- 
sum house. Right in front of the doorway stood a 
grand specimen of Miltonia vexillaria superba—what a 
sight!—carrying 300 individual flowers, several of the 
scapes bearing six, seven, and eight flowers. Never in 
my life have I seen such a well-flowered piece—a rare 
example of'high culture. In an adjoining house a fine 
piece of Lycaste Skinneri alba was noted, with six 
strong growths ; this plant carried twenty-three fine 
flowers, measuring 7 ins. in diameter. 
Fruit growing is a leading feature at The Glen, 
Pines, Grapes, Peaches, Figs, and Melons being exceed¬ 
ingly well done, and fit for any exhibition table. The 
stoves and greenhouses are well filled with their various 
occupants, many of them being of great merit and 
