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particular  merit,  although  raised  from  such  notable  parents  as  Duchess 
of  Sutherland  (Walker)  X  Salvator  Rosa. 
Fiest-eate  (Spencer). — See  Saeah  Ann. 
Fieebeand  ( - ). — Bizarre.  Shape  long  and  bad  ;  petals 
narrow.  An  obsolete  scarlet  feathered  bizarre,  much  grown  in  the  North 
of  England  about  fifty  years  ago. 
Fieefly  (Horner).  —  Bizarre.  A  good  red  bizarre  breeder,  still 
undistributed. 
Fleee  des  Dames  (Dutch). — Rose.  Dwarf;  shape  good;  base 
pure.  A  well  marked  flamed  variety,  highly  esteemed  fifty  years  ago. 
Fleue  de  Maeie  (Groom),  —  Rose.  Dwarf  ;  shape  fair  ;  base 
pure.  One  of  the  best  of  Mr.  Groom’s  rose  seedlings,  much  liked  in  its 
day,  both  in  feathered  and  flamed  states.  The  marking  colour  was 
cherry  red  on  a  good  white  ground. 
Floea  McIvoe  (H.  Goldham).— Rose.  A  flamed  flower,  which  has 
never  yet  made  any  reputation  as  an  exhibition  flower  ;  the  marking 
colour  is  bright  rosy  scarlet  on  a  good  white  ground.  A  seedling  from 
Rose  Brilliant  x  Mary. 
Feanciscus  Peimus  (Dutch).  —  Bybloemen.  A  flamed  variety, 
very  highly  esteemed  by  the  London  growers  forty  years  ago.  It  is  still 
catalogued  by  some  of  the  Dutch  growers,  but  whether  correct  or  not 
in  their  collections  I  am  unable  to  say. 
Feiae  Tuck  (Slater). — Bybloemen.  Shape  rather  long;  pure. 
A  well-marked,  flamed,  and  occasionally  feathered  variety.  The  colour 
is  too  rosy  ;  but  although  it  cannot  be  called  a  first-rate  variety,  it  is 
still  well  worth  growing  as  an  exhibition  flower. 
Feiend  (Lawrence). — Bybloemen.  Shape  fair  ;  base  pure.  Much 
esteemed  fifty  years  ago  as  a  feathered  variety.  The  feathering  was 
heavy,  glossy,  and  almost  black,  and  the  white  ground  was  good  ;  it 
was  therefore  an  universal  favourite  for  many  years.  It  was  broken 
and  named  by  Mr.  Lawrence  of  Hampton  from  one  of  Mr.  Clark’s 
breeders.  In  1844  the  same  breeder  was  broken  by  Mr.  Biowne,  and 
named  Jersey  Wonder.  Another  synonym  was  Addison. 
Ganymede  (Thurstan). — Bizarre.  Shape  good  ;  base  and  filaments 
pure.  A  dark  flamed  variety  in  the  style  of  Polyphemus,  but  having  a 
clearer  yellow  ground  than  that  old  favourite.  A  promising  kind, 
certificated  in  1894,  and  still  entirely  in  the  hands  of  the  raiser,  A 
seedling  from  Masterpiece  X  Sir  Joseph  Paxton. 
Gaeibaldi  (Ashmole). — Bizarre.  Shape  good  ;  base  and  filaments 
pure.  A  striking  feathered  flower,  the  feathering  being  a  heavy  rich 
chestnut-brown  on  a  good  yellow  ground,  which  latter  is,  however, 
rather  paler  outside  than  inside  the  flower.  A  good  grower,  and  a  large 
flower  which  is  somewhat  inconstant  in  its  markings,  the  feathering 
being  often  too  heavy  and  lacking  refinement.  A  very  useful  exhibition 
variety. 
Gaeibaldi  (Headly). — Bizarre.  Shape  good  ;  base  pure.  A  dark 
feathered  bizarre  with  a  pale  lemon  ground .  Not  much  grown  now. 
Gaeibaldi  (Hepworth). — Bizarre.  Shape  fair;  base  pure.  A 
lightly  feathered  dark  bizarre  with  a  clear  yellow  ground,  and  some¬ 
times  is  useful  as  an  exhibition  flower,  although  it  cannot  be  called 
first-rate. 
Gauntlet  (Hepworth). — Bizarre.  Shape  fair  ;  pure.  A  red  bizarre 
only  of  value  as  a  breeder,'  as  it  is  characterless  when  broken. 
Syn.,  100/64.  _ 
ANTHRACITE  COAL. 
In  reply  to  the  inquiry  by“W.  S.”on  page  455  of  the  Journal  re 
anthracite  coal  versus  coke,  1  may  say  that  personally  I  am  greatly  in 
favour  of  the  anthracite,  and  much  prefer  that  sold  as  cobbles.  It  has 
advantages  over  coke,  firstly  in  being  much  more  lasting,  requiring  less 
than  half  the  attention  of  the  latter  ;  secondly  with  the  fiercest  fire 
there  are  scarcely  any  clinkers ;  and  thirdly  it  is  cleaner,  as  being  smoke¬ 
less  there  is  no  soot  to  corrode  the  boiler.  In  stoking  anthracite  the 
fire  must  be  thoroughly  cleaned  out  first  thing  every  morning  when  the 
fire  will  be  at  its  lowest,  and  in  the  case  of  saddle  boilers  see  that  the 
back  of  the  boiler  is  cleared  of  all  small  ashes.  After  the  fire  has  been 
made  up  all  that  will  be  required  until  the  following  morning  will  be  to 
clear  the  fire  from  under  the  bars.  I  know  of  no  other  fuel  so  clean, 
economical,  and  that  requires  so  small  an  amount  of  attention. 
If  “  W.  S.”  uses  the  large  lumps  and  finds  much  small  accumulating 
from  breakage,  he  might  try  the  very  economical  way  the  Welsh  people 
have  of  utilising  the  same  by  treading  equal  quantities  of  clay  and  small 
coal  together,  adding  a  little  lime  and  rolling  into  balls.  Lime  may  be 
omitted,  but  the  carbon  contained  in  it  naturally  clears  the  fire.  Fires 
banked  up  with  this  mixture  will  last  for  twelve  hours  and  are 
beautifully  bright  and  clear. — C.  Fostee,  Alerpergwm  Gardens,  Glyn 
Nea  til .  _ 
We  have  had  four  boilers  going  from  October  till  May  for  the  last 
six  years,  using  nothing  but  anthracite,  and  have  saved  £10  per  year 
over  coke.  From  coke  you  have  a  fierce  fire,  which  lays  hollow,  burns 
much  quicker,  requires  more  feeding,  and  during  severe  weather  the 
fire  must  be  attended  to  early  in  the  morning,  or  it  will  go  out. 
Anthracite  requires  a  quicker  draught.  When  stoking  draw  the  poker 
under  the  bars. — W.  G.  Deovee, 
I  FIND  the  yearly  cost  of  anthracite  and  coke  about  the  same.  The 
advantages  in  favour  of  anthracite  are — much  cleaner,  steadier  beat,  lees 
carting  from  the  wharf,  which  is  nearly  six  miles  from  here,  and  less 
stoking,  the  latter  item  being  greatly  in  its  favour.— Jas  Hamilton, 
Burton-on- Trent. 
In  the  “  City  Press”  of  Saturday,  January  6th,  1894,  at  the  ead  of 
an  interesting  article,  “  The  City  and  the  Coal  Trade,”  occurs  the 
following : — 
”  A  City  rector,  living  not  a  hundred  miles  from  Wardrobe  Chambers, 
Queen  Victoria  Street,  is  a  firm  believer  in  this  kind  of  coal,  and  uses 
it  regularly,  but  when  during  the  recent  coal  strike  he  distributed  some 
to  needy  old  ladies  living  in  his  parish,  he  was  besieged  with  complaints 
respecting  its  obstinacy  to  burn.  Upon  diving  diplomatically  into  the 
real  nature  of  the  opposition  to  anthracite  he  discovered  that  the  old 
ladies  wanted,  as  usual,  to  continually  stir  their  fires,  and  it  appears 
that  if  there  is  one  thing  more  than  another  which  upsets  the 
combustible  equilibrium  of  this  particular  coal  it  is  continual  poking 
and  stirring.  Thus  it  happened  that  while  the  estimable  City  rector  was 
prepared  to  swear  by  anthracite  coal  the  impecunious  old  ladies  of  his 
parish  swore  roundly  at  it.” 
It  is  amusing,  but  not  true,  so  far  as  to  being  “besieged  with 
complaints  resnecting  its  obstinacy  to  burn.”  So  far  from  complaining, 
all  to  whom  I  gave  the  coal  expressed  themselves  highly  in  its  favour. 
The  oldest  of  the  “  old  ladies,”  aged  eighty-six,  one  among  others  whom 
Mr.  Fydell  Rogers  (Secretary  to  the  City  Coal  Kitchen)  and  I  visited,  in 
order  to  see  how  they  could  get  on  with  anthracite  in  their  small  open, 
fireplaces,  said  it  was  “  beautiful  coal,”  and  there  it  was  burning 
brightly,  and  that  she  had  had  no  difficulty  in  lighting  it. 
I  can  number  now  several  converts  to  anthracite  among  my  friends, 
who  on  first  trying  it  did  not  quite  like  it.  It  is  invaluable  in  sick 
'rooms,  burning  brightly,  noiselessly,  no  smoke,  no  dust,  keeping  in  all 
night.  This  has  been  my  own  experience  during  an  attack  of  influenza., 
A  fire  made  up  at  10  P.M.  was  alight  at  8  A.M.  next  morning,  without 
having  been  touched  all  night.  Anthracite  coal  is  for  all,  but  especially 
for  those  living  in  cities ;  far  better  than  bituminous  coal,  more 
economical,  cleaner,  and  requiring  less  attention.  Suitable  for  stove, 
church  furnace,  kitchen  range  (we  bake  excellent  home-made  bread  in 
ours),  or  open  fire  grates,  especially  those  that  have  fire-brick  and  a 
blower.  This  is  my  experience  after  three  years’  use  of  it. — P.  Clemente 
Smith,  Rector  of  St,  Andrew-by-tlie-Wardrohe,  London. 
Mr.  Clementi  Smith  also  informs  us  that  a  civil  engineer  paid  a 
visit  to  Wales,  in  order  to  glean  all  possible  information  respecting  the 
properties  of  anthracite  coal,  and  returned  convinced  of  its  many 
advantages.  He  found  that  not  only  for  big  boilers,  but  also  for 
ordinary  grates,  this  coal  was  superior  either  to  bituminous  coal  or 
coke,  combining  slow  and  certain  combustion  with  perfect  cleanliness. 
“Rosaeians’  Yeae  Book.” 
We  understand  that  the  forthcoming  issue  of  the  “Rosarians’  Year 
Book  ”  will  contain  a  paper  by  the  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Penzance,  on  the 
“  Hybridisation  of  Sweet  Briar  Roses.” 
’  Rose  Niphetos. 
I  enclose  for  your  inspection  leaves  of  Rose  Niphetos,  which 
attracted  my  attention  when  on  a  recent  visit  to  Messrs.  Perkins  &  Sons’ 
Nurseries  at  Coventry  ;  also  examples  of  the  ordinary  form.  The  former 
were  gathered  from  a  robust  plant  in  a  pot  amongst  hundreds  of  others 
of  the  original  form.  The  leaves,  as  you  will  observe,  have  much  more 
deeply  serrated  edges  than  the  latter,  the  prickles  on  the  shoots  also 
much  larger,  and  the  plant  altogether  somewhat  more  robust  in  habit ; 
but  its  flowers  are  hardly  of  so  pure  a  white,  the  petals  being  suffused 
with  a  tinge  of  green.  Messrs.  Perkins  are  puzzled  as  to  its  history,  or 
where  it  came  from,  and  regard  it  only  as  an  interesting  novelty. 
Possibly  the  variety  in  question  may  be  known  elsewhere — W.  G. 
[The  leaves  are  quite  dissimilar.  The  plant  may  be  the  result  of 
sportiveness.] 
The  Fox  and  the  Roses. 
A  COKEESPONDENT  writes : — Mr.  Machin  of  Gateford  Hill,  neat 
Worksop,  who  is  a  staunch  fox  preserver  as  well  as  a  rosarian,  was  oat 
with  Viscount  Galway’s  hounds  on  the  morning  of  the  Chrysanthemum 
show  at  Worksop.  He  rode  to  covert  wi'h  the  huntsmen  and  hounds  and 
made  it  known  to  the  former  that  Reynard  nightly  prowled  along  the 
walks  of  his  rosarium  (1^  acre  in  extent).  Mr.  Machin  explained  that  he 
had  to  go  home  early  to  be  present  at  the  opening  of  a  show  at  Workeop, 
and  expressing  his  anxiety  for  fear  Reynard  shculd  lead  his  pursuers 
amongst  his  Roses.  Sure  enough  Mr.  Machin’s  cause  for  anxiety  wa« 
not  without  foundation,  for  whilst  he  was  away  at  the  Worksop  show, 
one  of  his  coverts  (one  that  has  never  been  drawn  blank  for  four  years) 
provided  a  fox  which  ran  straight  through  his  rosarium  ;  luckily  taking 
his  line  up  a  border  that  had  just  been  cleared  ready  for  replanting. 
Over  the  fence  went  the  hounds,  but  very  few  luckily  ran  in  amongst 
the  newly  planted  quarters.  Several  sportsmen,  who  did  not  know  of  i 
the  presence  of  a  field  of  Rcses,  were  just  going  to  jump  the  fence  into, 
it.  but  were  prevented  from  doing  so  by  a  friendly  warning  “’Ware 
Roses.”  Oidly  enough  Reynard  ran  to  ground  in  a  rabbit  hole  within 
5  yards  of  the  rosarium. 
