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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
March  S6,  1SS6. 
nitrogenous  manures  are  of  great  importance,  they  do  not  alone  entirely 
meet  the  requirements  of  the  case. 
Although  within  the  last  two  or  three  years  several  cases  have  come 
under  my  own  observation  where  gardeners  are  becoming  impressed  with 
the  importance  of  this  subject  as  to  bring  it  within  their  yearly  routine 
work,  the  fact  remains  that  the  economical  aspect  of  plant  foods  is 
probably  the  least  appreciated  subject,  because  in  the  abstract  it  is  also 
the  least  understood  of  any  ordinary  garden  operation.  Therefore, 
“  British  Gardener’s  ”  wish  for  discussion  on  the  matter  will  do  great 
service  by  emphasising  the  need  of  a  more  detailed  acquaintance  with 
it. — Azota. 
The  Late  George  Prince— A  Lesson  to  Losers. 
I  SHOULD  like  to  add  my  regrets  to  those  of  “  D.,  Deal,"  and  many 
others  as  to  the  loss  we  have  all  sustained,  who  love  the  Rose,  by  the 
death  of  George  Prince.  It  is  true  that  ever  since  that  accident  he  has 
never  been  the  9ame  man  as  before  ;  but  a  brain  injury,  which  so  often 
leaves  the  sufferer  disagreeable,  seemed  to  have  had  very  little  effect  on 
the  genial  gentle  temperament  of  our  departed  friend. 
Well  do  I  remember,  soon  after  the  determination  of  the  National 
Rose  Society  that  Hybrid  Teas  should  no  longer  be  exhibited  as  Teas, 
judging  the  class  for  twenty-four  Teas.  There  was  a  Comtesse  de 
Nadaillac  there  that  stamped  the  stand  as  coming  from  the  champion 
grower  of  that  glorious  Rose.  Alas  1  there  was  also  included  in  the 
twenty-four  a  Grace  Darling.  Tbe  stand  simply  had  no  other  approach¬ 
ing  it  in  merit  ;  but  I  turned  to  my  fellow  Judge  and  pointed  out 
that  her  “  Grace,”  had  no  business  there  ;  we  therefore  had  only  one 
course  to  adopt,  and  so,  with  the  greatest  regret,  we  disqualified  what  I 
considered  the  most  splendid  twenty-four  Roses  in  the  exhibition. 
Mr.  Prince  was  at  the  show,  and  accepted  the  decision  without 
the  slightest  ruffling  of  spirit  that  was  perceptible  to  myself,  and  I  was 
with  him  frequently  during  the  rest  of  that  day.  1  could  not  help 
feeling  here  was  an  instance  of  the  character  of  the  man,  and  that  he 
was  an  example  of  the  truth  of  Solomon’s  words,  that  “  he  who  ruleth 
his  spirit  is  better  than  he  that  taketh  a  city.”  It  was  a  lesson  to  see 
him,  for  to  us  maniacs  it  requires  something  more  than  human  power  to 
lose  gracefully.  This  George  Prince  did  in  tbe  highest  sense  of  the  word. 
To  my  fellow  Judge  and  myself  it  was  no  small  satisfaction  to  award 
the  silver  medal  for  the  best  Tea  bloom  in  the  show  to  the  Comtesse. 
I  like  the  idea  of  a  Prince  Memorial  prize,  to  which  certainly  I  should 
wish  to  add  my  mite.  With  such  a  name,  it  can  only  be  awarded  in  the 
Tea  section.  I  hope  it  may  be  carried  out,  and  we  should  then  have  a 
continual  memorial  of  one  whom  all  who  knew  must  have  sincerely 
esteemed.  Personally,  he  was  one  of  my  Rose  friends  whom  it  was  my 
greatest  pleasure  to  meet. 
Our  friend  “D.,  Deal,"  writes  of  his  “introduction  of  the  seedling 
Briar  as  a  stock.”  Though  our  friend  who  has  passed  away  brought  its 
value  before  the  rosarian  public,  it  had  certainly  been  used  long  before, 
as  nearly  fifty  years  ago  old  Tommy  Cole  of  the  Rosery,  Wellon,  near 
Bath,  mentioned  it  to  me,  saying,  “  If  you  want  to  get  rid  of  suckers 
sow  the  Briar  seeds  and  bud  below  the  radicle.” — Y.  B.  A.  Z. 
Mr.  Machin’s  Roses. 
I  have  planted  more  than  10,000  stocks  for  budding  on  this  season. 
I  have  some  10  000  Roses  (cut-backs)  of  exhibition  varieties,  also  about 
the  same  number  of  dormants  on  Manetti,  Seedling  Briar,  Polyantha, 
and  half  -  standards,  and  so  I  cannot  claim  to  give  my  undivided 
attention  to  garden  Roses.  Amongst  the  latter  I  am  perhaps  more  fond 
of  the  Polyanthas  than  any  other.  A  verse  of  poetry  by  Mrs.  Hemans 
always  makes  me  think  of  one  of  my  favourite  Polyantha  Roses, 
Anna  Maria  de  Monlravel.  It  runs  thus  : — 
“  How  much  of  memory  dwells  amidst  thy  bloom 
Rose  !  ever  bearing  beauty  for  thy  dower  ! 
The  bridal  day — the  festival — the  tomb — 
Thou  hast  thy  part  in  each,  thou  stateliest  flower!  ” 
Anna  Maria  de  Montravel  is  certainly  a  Rose  that  can  take  “its  part 
in  each,”  and  not  be  misplaced,  and  it  is  not  the  only  one  of  its  class 
that  can  do  so.  I  am  sending  a  few  notes  of  the  names  of  the  garden 
Roses  I  grow.  My  memory  may  be  a  little  rusty,  but  I  live  amongst 
my  Rose",  so  that  my  rosarium  is  fairly  pictured  in  my  mind. 
Last  November  I  replanted  my  five  borders  in  tbe  old  drying  ground. 
They  run  east  and  west,  are  from  123  to  105  feet  long  and  about  5  feet 
wide,  with  grass  walks  between  them  about  4  feet  6  inches  wide.  There  is 
a  high  Holly  fence  about  5  feet  6  inches  high  running  along  the  north 
side  of  the  drying  ground,  which  is  bounded  on  the  other  three  sides  also 
by  Holly  fences  from  3  to  4  feet  6  inches  high,  the  one  on  the  south 
side  next  the  stable  yard  being  the  lowest.  On  the  west  side  of  the 
borders  beyond  the  fence  is  a  plantation  of  high  trees,  on  the  north 
an  orchard,  and  on  the  east  the  kitchen  garden  wall,  staging  shed,  &c. 
This  is  my  ideal  spot  for  Roses,  and  I  wish  I  had  more  like  it.  If  I 
could  afford  it  I  should  grow  nearJy  all  of  my  Roses  in  borders  6  feet 
wide  with  grasR  walks  in  between.  The  soil  in  the  drying  ground  is 
good  loam,  with  clay  subsoil,  and  drainage  all  that  could  be  desired. 
The  diagram  (which  is,  of  course,  not  to  scale)  will  show  the  arrangement 
of  the  borders  and  planting. 
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Plants  in  the  Borders. 
No.  1  (plants,  dwarfs). — 96,  Red  Pet  (China)  ;  12,  Golden  Fairy  (Rosa 
Polyantha),  running  east  to  west  ;  18.  Princesse  de  Sagan  (t  )  :  61,  Dr. 
Grill  (t.)  ;  24,  Gloire  de  Polyantha  ;  27,  Crested  Moss  ;  9,  Homere  (T.)  ; 
10,  Marquis  of  Salisbury  (H.T.). 
No.  2  (dwarfs). — 66.  Perle  d’Or  (R  P.)  ;  63,  Mignonette  (R  P.)  ;  18, 
Paquerette  (R.P.)  ;  3,  Rosa  Indica  (Miss  Lowe’s  variety,  c.)  ;  106, 
Madame  P.  Ducher  (h  t.). 
No.  3  (dwarfs). — 102.  Anna  Maria  de  Montravel  (R.P.)  ;  75,  Ma 
Capucine  ;  88,  Cecille  Brunner  (R.P.). 
No.  4  (dwarfs). — 102,  Rosa  rubrifolia  ;  12,  Tbe  Pet  ;  15,  Camoens 
(h.t.)  ;  24,  Grand  Dae  Adolphe  de  Luxembourg  ;  21,  Laurette  Messimy 
(c.)  ;  94,  Gustave  Regis  (h.t  ). 
No.  5. — Standards  and  half-standards  of  Her  Majesty,  La  France, 
Souvenir  de  S.  A.  Prince  (T.)  ;  Catherine  Mermet  (T.)  ;  and  Caroline 
Testout  (h.t.).  A  row  of  standards  running  down  the  centre  of  the 
border  and  one  row  of  half-standards  on  each  side. 
N.B. — In  planting  this  drying  ground  an  eye  was  given  to  contrast 
of  bloom  or  foliage  or  both. 
Inside  the  garden  I  grow  a  good  many  garden  Roses,  including  “  Rosa 
Mnndi,”  Maiden’s  Blush,  Ruga,  Madame  Plantier,  Damask,  Coupe 
d’Hbb^,  Monthly  Chinas,  Common  Mosses,  Rugosas  (alba  and  rubra), 
Persian  Yellow,  Harrisoni,  White  Bath  (Moss),  Lucida,  Fairy  Roses,  and 
many  others  (the  names  of  some  I  do  not  know). 
I  grow  some  good  Roses  of  the  Dijon  family  on  walls,  also  such 
varieties  as  W.  A.  Richardson.  R6ve  d’Or,  Fortune’s  Yellow,  L’Ideal  (one 
of  my  greatest  favourites),  Climbing  Niphetos,  and  Mardchal  Niel.  The 
last  named  I  cannot  “do”  well  out  of  doors,  and  W.  A.  Richardson 
does  better  facing  east  than  south.  I  should  grow  many  more  climbing 
varieties  had  I  large  walls,  arches,  or  pillars  to  cover. 
On  a  special  quarter  of  my  rosarium  (in  the  field  to  the  north  of  the 
gardens),  devoted  more  or  less  to  garden  Roses,  I  grow  the  following 
varieties  as  dwarfs  : — 36,  Rosa  Pomifera  ;  5,  Clothilde  Soupert  (R.P.)  ;  19, 
Beautd  Inconstant ;  24,  Bardou  Job  (h.t.I  ;  92,  L’Ideal.  Also  a  few  plants 
each  of  Fortune’s  Yellow,  Solfaterre,  Paquerette,  Coupe  d’Hbbe,  Crimson 
Globe,  Little  Dot,  Alba  Simplex,  Madame  Allegatiere,  Marie  Leonida,  De 
Meaux,  Austrian  Yellow,  Carolina,  Austrian  Copper,  Marie  Pavie,  Gloire 
de  Moussueses,  Celina,  Janet’s  Pride  (Sweet  Briar),  Georges  Pernet, 
Zenobia  (Mosb),  Salet,  Baron  de  Wassenaer,  The  Green  Rose,  Angelique 
Quetier,  Lanei,  Perpetual  White,  White  Bath,  Kamschatka,  Madame 
C.  F.  Worth,  Madame  George  Bruant,  Alfred  de  Dalmas,  and  many 
others  (including  varieties  of  recent  introduction,  such  as  Duke  of  York, 
Jean  Andrb,  and  Clara  Pfitzer.  On  the  boarded  fence  at  the  top  of  my 
rosarium  (i.e.,  at  the  north  end)  I  grow  Polyantha  Simplex,  Celestial  (a 
Rose  I  am  very  fond  of),  Aim£e  Vibert,  Lucida,  Lucida  Plena,  &c.  I  have  a 
quarter  of  dormant  buds  on  the  seedling  Briar,  containing  such  varieties 
as  Golden  Fairy,  Aimbe  Yibert  Gustave  Regis,  Madame  Pernet  Ducher, 
Crimson  Rambler,  R.  Indica  (Lowe’s),  Celestial,  Paul’s  Single  White, 
Marquis  of  Salisbury,  Marie  Pavie,  Red  Pet,  China,  Bennett  s  Seedling, 
Macrantha,  Cecile  Brunner.  On  the  Polyantha  stock  I  have  Bardou 
Job  and  a  few  more. 
I  grow  the  following  on  standards  and  half-standards : — Beautd 
Inconstant  (T.),  Papa  Gontier,  L’Ideal  (lovely),  Mdme.  Pernet  Ducher 
(H.T.,  lovely  in  the  bud)  ;  Mdme.  Pierre  Cochet,  Golden  Gate,  Laurette 
Messimy  (lovely),  Bardou  Job,  Camoens  (does  well),  Gustave  Regis 
(H.T.),  W.  A.  Richardson,  Crimson  Rambler,  Hombre  (T.),  and  others. 
On  the  pillars  and  over  the  arches  of  tbe  Rose  arbour,  a  picture  of 
which  once  appeared  in  the  Journal  of  Horticulture,  I  grow  Macrantha, 
Turner’s  Crimson  Rambler,  Paul’s  Single  White,  Thoresbvana,  Coupe 
d’Hbb£,  Ffflicitb  Perpetue,  Ruga,  and  another  or  two.  The  borders 
immediately  round  about  the  arbour  are  all  planted  with  common 
Monthly  China  (dwarfs).  If  Jack  Frost  is  as  merciful  as  he  has  been 
