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THE GARDENING WORLD 
November 23, 1907. 
than Duchess of Albany, It is very large 
and full, and the plan! a free bloomer. The 
Rose is a little flat and close set. When it 
was landed from the steamer with others it 
fell overboard, but was rescued, and as far 
as we could make out the name was Marie 
d’EiSCOite, but I have never seen such a name 
in any catalogue or Rose book. When many 
Cubans settled here during their war with 
Spain they called it Cuban Beauty, but I fa'l 
to find sflchi a name. These plants are 
getting scarce here now, and I would like to 
get some more, but do not know its correct 
name to order by. I enclose a few leaves of 
it, which may help you. I should be very 
thankful if you could give me (a constant 
reader) any information. (C. C. Cody, 
Kingston, Jamaica.) 
We think the first Rose you mention must 
be Mamie, which is a Hybrid Perpetual with 
rosy carmine flowers and a yellow base to 
the petals. lit is a grand Rose when it does 
flower and excellent for exhibition, but it is 
of most importance in this country as an ex¬ 
hibitor’s Rose. We think it most likely this 
is the one you have got, and presume that 
your warm climate has given it extra 
vigour, making it grow more strongly than 
it does in Europe. Various other Roses in 
this country have after a time assumed 
greater vigour and have been propagated as 
a new variety, prefixing climbing t< 
name already existing, such as Climbing 
Devoniensis. You have not had the plant 
very long, and owing to its excessive growth 
it may not be in a condition to flower, but 
you should treat it as a climber, leaving the 
long stems at full length or nearly so, and 
probably it will bloom during the next sea¬ 
son’s growth. We have never heard of a 
Rose named Marie d’Esoote, and which was 
probably but little known thirty years ago. 
Even if we should succeed in finding out the 
name, the chances are that no nurseryman at 
the present day would have a stock of it. 
During the past twenty years such an im¬ 
mense "number of Roses have been raised that 
nurserymen had no necessity for growing 
■inferior sorts, consequently all the less im¬ 
portant ones are discarded from time to time 
and the space devoted to good modern sale¬ 
able sorts. It may give good satisfaction 
with you, although it might fail to be satis¬ 
factory here. On the other hand, it might 
■have been a good Rose where it was raised, 
.but its merits not properly shown and it had 
thus been discarded. We should advise you 
to propagate the plant by cuttings or root 
cuttings of", some other strong growing 
variety, and then bud this scarce Rose upon 
it. We think the best plan to root it would 
be to get cuttings at the end of your dry 
season ."taking off shoots with a heel of older 
wood, shortening the cuttings to 12 in., and 
planting' these with more than half their 
length in the ground. Use plenty of vege¬ 
table matter, such as leaf mouild and sand, 
or, at least, the latter in the soil you em¬ 
ploy. Possibly a half shady situation where 
the cuttings would be screened from the sun 
at midday would be a better place than in 
full exposure. We think it possible, how¬ 
ever, to root cuttings during the growing 
period by inserting them firmly in sandy 
soil, watering them, and covering them w:ih 
a bell-glass to retain the moisture until they 
get rooted and commence growing. For pot 
work, cuttings about 6 in. long would be 
quite sufficient, inserting them half their 
depth in the soil. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
2391. Chrysanthemums for a Green¬ 
house. 
Will you give me the names of about six 
Japanese Chrysanthemums suitable to grow 
in the greenhouse described in another note? 
Please "include a white one among them. I 
do not want the most expensive and new, but 
■only those that are the easiest to grow, as I 
have not a great deal of time at my disposal. 
If I remember, you mentioned Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Glitter in one of your papers some 
time ago as being easy to grow. Would this 
be suitable? (Leta, Surrey.) 
We should think you would have no diffi¬ 
culty in growing Glitter, as it is of vigorous 
growth and produces the best blooms on the 
•natural second crown. In that case it would 
require no looking after except to remove 
side buds if you wish the blooms to be large. 
•Others that we should recommend are M.iss 
Olive Miller (pink), F. S. Vallis (canary- 
yellow), Mrs. W. Knox (deep yellow), 
George Mileham (deep crimson), and Mrs. 
A. T. Miller (white). All of these are easy 
to grow, and produce very large blooms. 
Older varieties of very easy growth are 
Vivtiand Morel (pink) and Charles Davis 
■(bronze), if you can get them. Neither of 
those we have mentioned is expensive. 
VEGETABLES. 
2392. Six Varieties of Vegetables. 
Would you kindly oblige by expressing 
an opinion .on the following :—In the 
•schedule of a horticultural society there was 
a class for a collection of vegetables, six 
varieties. An exhibitor staged Leeks, Par¬ 
snips, Onions, Beet, round and long, Toma- 
tes, and Potato®, five sorts. For this he was 
disqualified, the judges writing on the card 
“ Disqualified, too many varieties.” Thesaid 
exhibitor had in two previous years put up 
the same kind of exhibit, for which he had 
got the first prize. There is no table or 
guide as to the numbers to be .staged in the 
schedule. Was the exhibitor wrong, Or the 
judges? An opinion will oblige. (James 
Smith, Middlesex.) 
We should say. that the exhibitor was 
wrong and the judges right, because if one 
■follows the schedule and another does not, 
you cannot judge them upon similar merits. 
There can, in fact, be no proper comparison. 
You say that only six varieties were wanted 
but that the exhibitor had round and long 
Beet. Clearly there were two varieties in 
this. You say, also, that he had five sorts 
of Potatos, when clearly one only would 
have been sufficient. The schedule says six 
varieties, but we presume six kinds would 
have been a better expression. For instance, 
Leeks, Parsnips, Onions, Beet, Tonmtos, and 
Potatos may be regarded as six kinds, but if 
you have two varieties of Beet, you are 
clearly going beyond the number required, 
•and in the oa.se of Potatos, the mistake was 
greater. The judges in former years must 
have been lenient in overlooking this form of 
irregularity, otherwise the exhibitor could 
not have got first prize, for he had six kinds 
and at least five more varieties than was 
asked foT by the schedule. 
FRUBT. 
2393. Fruit Trees in Pots. 
At the foot of a wall facing south I have 
a strip of asphalt measuring 10 ft. by 15 ft. 
Would it be possible in such a position to 
grow fruit trees in pots? If so, what sorts 
would you recommend? (Marsden, Middle¬ 
sex. ) 
We should think such a position excellent 
for standing fruit trees in. pots out of doors, 
as they would get all the advantage of sun. 
This shelter might induce them to flower 
earW laying them liable to an attack by 
late frost, hut you could fix a big sheet of 
tiffany on the top of the wall, carrying it 
right over the fruit trees at nights if you ex¬ 
pect frost, and thus keeD off a considerable 
amount of frost and save th > blossom. You 
could grow Apples, Petos, Plums, and 
Cherries in such a position. For Apples, wp 
should recommend Cox’s Grange Pippin, 
Peasgood’s Nonsuch, American Mother, Al- 
lington Pippin, James Grieve, Bismarck, and 
many others. If .you desire early varieties 
of Apples, let us know In the way of 
Pears, you should grow Doyenne du Comice, 
Beurre Hardy, Piitmaston Duchess, and Mar¬ 
guerite Marillat. Good Plums are Green¬ 
gage and Early Prolific, the former a des¬ 
sert and the latter a cooking plum. In the 
way of Cherries, you could try Belle 
d’Orleans and Black Tartarian. This will 
give you variety, and should rather more 
than fill your space after they get to some 
size. 
2394. Temperature of Vineries. 
Kindly ,say what ought to be the tem¬ 
perature for vineries which I want to rest. 
There is a little fruit on some trees. I have 
•various kinds of Ferns and Palms in one 
vinery. Shall I remove them to the heated 
greenhouse if the temperature is reduced ? 
I am obliged to you for information with 
regard to Geranium cuttings, also pot Roses. 
•Shall I pot the latter after they are taken 
inside, and would you prune, as many of the 
branches have a few inches of dead wood at 
the ends? In your answer November gth, 
No. 2341, you state you think I have not 
•much command of fire heat. I will explain 
as briefly as possible how I am situated, as 
I do not wish to trespass too much on your 
valuable paper. There is a range of houses 
in one line, all heated with hot water pipes, 
and I can shut off and on the heat. The first 
house nearest the boiler has Cucumbers, the 
second is a vinery, the third greenhouse and 
Tomatos, the fourth a vinery, all divided 
with glasfc partitions. I have also one 
greenhouse detached and unheated. I may 
say I have got good information from other 
questions which have been asked in your 
paper recently. If my enquiries are too 
long, you can .reduce them to what you think 
is necessary. (Gardener, Blackpool.) 
Vineries where Grapes are kept hanging 
need not have fire heat every night after the 
Grapes a,re properly ripened and the canes 
as well, but i.f frost threatens, it would be 
necessary to light the fire and raise the tem¬ 
perature to 40 or 45 degs., which would 
make the Grapes and the other plants in the 
house'perfectly safe. You would have to 
be always on the lookout for frosty nights, 
so as to make- sure no frost gets in. the house 
during the night or early morning. After 
the Grapes have been cut, the Palms and 
Ferns which you have could be removed to 
the heated greenhouse, when it would be en¬ 
tirely unnecessary to heat the vinery at all, 
as the Vines are perfectly hardy. Indeed, 
you could leave on air all night, which will 
help to keep down vermin. Should frosty 
weather occuj, if there are any plants in the 
vinery, such as bedding stuff, it would be un¬ 
desirable to leave the ventilators open. It 
would have been well if you had potted } r our 
Roses just after thev had flowered and w.bfe 
still growing, as they would have got es¬ 
tablished before they went to rest. If they 
particularly need repotting, we should do 
this at once. Pot Roses should be pruned 
quite hard, cutting back the weaker shoots 
to 1 in. from the base of side shoots, and 
those that come up from the root to 9 in., or 
even to 6 in. if not very strong. It would 
be less expensive to get The Gardening 
World direct from the office than it ■would be 
to get it from the railway bookstall if you 
have to pay fare to get there. 
2395. Season of Apples and Pears. 
I shall be grateful if you will inform me 
in your next issue the names of the Apple 
and Pears w<hich I am sending? Say, also, . 
if the latter are for dessert or cooking. If 
for dessert, how long do they require keep¬ 
ing respectively? (M.C.F., Sussex.) 
Your fruits, were as follows : — (1) Apple 
