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poultry  and  stock  are  kept,  the  quantity  applied  to  the  trees  being 
€0  smill  that  it  will  have  no  effect  upon  animals.  London  purple 
is  used  as  the  above,  the  lime  being  again  essential.  Arsenate  of  lead 
is  prepared  as  follows : — Dissolve  1  oz.  of  arsenate  of  soda  in  warm 
water,  and  add  to  16  gallons  of  soft  water.  Then  dissolve  3  ozs.  of 
acetate  of  lead  in  water,  and  pour  into  the  16  gallons  of  liquid.  Add 
to  this  2  lbs.  of  treacle.  In  the  place  of  treacle  the  arsenate  of  lead 
wash  may  be  mixed  with  paraffin  emulsion,  and  so  a  double  insecticide 
prepared.  In  all  cases  prop  r  sprayers  must  be  used  with  fine  nozzles, 
so  that  a  dense  mist  of  the  wash  is  thrown  on  the  trees.  This  wash 
when  properly  mixed  is  most  successful,  and  never  burns  the  leafage 
as  grow  ers  often  find  to  be  the  case  with  Paris  green. — (“  Board  of 
Agriculture  Leaflet,  No.  69.”) 
Gadding  and  Gatlfering. 
“  Here  awa’,  There  awa’.” 
Colchester  is  the  largest  of  the  towns  in  Essex.  It  boasts  of  about 
30,000  inhabitants.  Like  Jerusalem  and  the  Modern  Athens,  it  is  built 
upon  a  hill,  with  valleys  and  broad  straths  around  it,  and  altogether 
pi  esent s  a  gratifying  composition  to  the  eye  when  viewed  objectively. 
Tall  spires  tower  upward  from  among  their  encirclement  of  trees,  and 
beautiful  villas  are  numerously  dotted  in  profusion  over  ground  of 
varying  planes.  It  is  in  juxtaposition  to  this  attractive  township  that 
the  renowned  Rose  nurseries  of  Messrs.  B.  R.  Cant  &  Sons,  F.  Cant  and 
Co.,  and  that  of  D.  Prior  &  Sms  are  situated. 
Messrs.  D.  Prior  &  Son. 
For  the  high  quality  of  their  Tea  Roses  this  firm  has  a  just  celebrity. 
Their  twenty-eight  odd  acres  of  roseland  slopes  in  a  number  of  directions, 
part  south,  part  north,  part  east,  and  part  west.  The  soil  on  the  whole 
is  amongst  the  best  in  that  part  of  Essex,  and  indeed  some  of  it  is  an 
ideal  Rose  soil.  Nowhere  have  I  seen  young  plants  grow  so  quickly  in 
a  short  period  of  time  as  they  do  in  the  nursery  of  Messrs.  Prior  &  Son. 
Here  can  be  seen  immense  arbours  screened  with  excessively  robust 
specimens  of  Crimson  Rambler,  and  the  effect  of  a  grand  Rambler 
hedge  vividly  impressed  itself  on  my  mind.  All  the  leading  Teas 
are  grown  liberally,  and  of  course  Roses  in  every  other  seotion  are 
found  in  greater  or  less  amount.  New  varieties  are  also  included  so 
soon  as  their  merits  have  been  observed,  but  I  do  not  think  the 
Messrs.  Prior  do  any  hybridising  themselves.  On  the  ocoasion  of  my 
visit  in  July  budding  had  started,  and  a  strong  gang-  of  men  were 
busily  employed. 
Standard  Roses  are  somewhat  of  a  feature  here,  and  fine  vigorous 
plants  they  were.  The  trade  in  cut  Rose  blooms  during  the  season  is 
really  enormous,  and  during  the  short  period  of  my  oall  Mrs.  William 
Prior,  who  sees  to  this  department  of  the  business,  showed  me  tele¬ 
grams  with  orders  for  as  many  as  2000  blooms  in  one  consignment. 
Indeed,  the  summer  is  the  rosarian’s  harvest  ! 
But  Roses  and  Rose  growing  are  by  no  means  the  only  stock 
handled  by  Messrs.  Prior ;  they  have  fine  ranges  of  Tomatoes,  and  a 
few  vineries.  Pot  Vines  were  stout  and  healthy.  Most  of  the  fruit, 
however,  is  disposed  of  in  the  neighbourhood.  Who  has  seen  a 
Merry  weather  patent  water-pump  at  work  P  I  saw  one  here,  and  was 
silently  amused  at  the  delightful  primitiveness  of  it.  A  small  horse 
was  “  doing  the  round  ”  of  a  very  ciroumscribed  circle,  with  a  boy  upon 
a  sort  of  axle-bar  joined  to  the  piston  which  drew  the  flow  of  water. 
I  should  like  to  have  gone  and  inspected  this  arrangement,  but  there 
were  other  places  at  whioh  a  hurried  call  had  to  be  made. 
Braiswick  Nurseries. 
The  visitor  to  Messrs.  Frank  Cant  &  Co.’s  extensive  and  well- 
situated  Rose  grounds  will  find  an  enormous  selection  of  the  exhibition 
class  of  Roses.  By  this  I  mean  all  the  tried  H.P.’s,  H.T.’s,  and  Teas. 
These  are  cultivated  by  the  thousand.  The  favourite  Bessie  Brown, 
raised  by  Alex.  Dickson,  has  come  to  the  same  high  perfection  in  the 
Braiswick  grounds  as  elsewhere  this  year.  This  is  a  wonderfully  fine 
bloomer,  and  no  praise  of  its  good  qualities  can  be  too  great.  It  is 
vigorous,  and  never  seems  to  become  “  ragged  the  colour  is  soft 
creamy  white,  and  in  shape  it  is  globular,  with  tapering  petals.  White 
Lady  is  yet  another  of  the  specially  fine  Roses  awaiting  recognition  in 
many  widely  separated  gardens.  It  was  raised  over  ten  years  ago  by 
Mr.  Wm.  Paul.  It  is  a  good  dwarf  H.T.,  with  creamy  white  flowers, 
and  resulted  as  a  sport  from  Lady  Mary  Fitzwilliam.  Amongst  H.P.’s 
that  have  seldom  been  better  than  they  were  during  the  past  season  are 
A.  K.  Williams,  a  variety  that  nearly  everyone  will  say  is  indispensable, 
and  Alfred  Colomb,  whioh  is  the  older  variety  of  the  two.  The  colouring 
in  these  red  Roses  seems  to  intensify  in  brightness  without  beooming 
less  rich  in  depth,  in  dry  seasons. 
The  pink-flowered  Roses  do  not  all  come  into  the  same  category  in 
this  reference.  The  variety  Mrs.  John  Laing,  for  instance,  has  not  been 
nearly  so  fine  on  the  average  this  summer  compared  with  past  seasons. 
Probably  the  heat  was  too  concentrated  just  at  its  hey-day  of  flowering 
perfection  ;  but  then,  again,  preceding  summers  have  been  very  dry 
and  warm.  At  any  rate,  the  Mrs.  Laing  blooms  have  not  been  nearly 
so  handsome  at  Braiswick  as  heretofore.  On  the  other  hand,  the 
recently  introduced  varieties,  Mrs.  Cocker  and  Ulster,  both  of  which 
resemble  Mrs.  J.  Laing,  have  been  as  fine  as  one  could  desire.  Mrs. 
Cocker  is  a  favourite  here,  beoause  of  its  vigour  and  the  beautiful 
globular  form  of  its  flowers.  Another  good  pink  variety  is  Heinrich 
Schultheis,  which  has  been  universally  in  good  oondition  during  the 
past  summer.  When  first  it  opens  this  is  a  charming  Rose,  and  has  the 
additional  quality  of  being  slightly  fragrant.  And  for  massing  in  beds 
few  Roses  will  yield  a  greater  wealth  of  pretty  blooms  than  H.P.  Captain 
Christy.  It  does  well  all  through  the  summer,  and  particularly  well 
late  in  the  year.  Bardou  Job,  though  oftener  inolnded  in  exhibits  of 
“  garden  ”  Roses  than  in  select  exhibition  stands  of  individual  blooms, 
is  a  very  bright  flower,  and  worthy  of  a  plaoe  anywhere.  The  same 
lines  apply  to  that  most  brilliant  of  all  yellow  H.T.’s,  Augustine 
Guinoisseau. 
Few  will  dispute  the  assertion  that  Kaiserin  Augusta  Victoria  as  an 
exhibition  Rose  has  only  about  half  a  dozen  other  rivals  in  its  section. 
The  half  dozen  might  be  named  as  Mrs.  Edward  Mawley,  Killarney, 
Clara  Watson,  Madame  Cusin,  Maman  Coohet,  and  White  Coohet.  All 
of  these  stand  so  high  that  no  further  reference  to  them  is  desirable. 
Madame  de  Watte ville  furnishes  a  very  useful  pot  Rose,  and  one  that 
throws  plenty  of  bloom.  La  Franoe  ’89  has  very  few  admirers  so 
far  as  I  can  discover,  and  oertainly  it  does  not  come  within  a  hundred 
miles  of  its  parent, .the  true  La  France.  Danmark,  whioh  came  from 
abroad  in  1890,  has  reaohed  the  high-water  mark  many  times  this  year, 
and  will  no  doubt  gradually  beoome  more  popular  on  the  exhibition 
boards.  Belle  Siebreoht,  otherwise  known  as  the  climbing  Mrs.  W.  J. 
Grant,  is  very  interesting,  and  a  great  acquisition  to  its  special  class ; 
the  vigour  of  it  oannot  be  gainsaid. 
I  mentioned  Killarney  a  few  lines  higher.  This  Rose  was  sent 
out  only  three  years  ago  from  Ireland,  but  already  it  has  beoome 
recognised  far  and  near.  The  colour  differs  from  that  of  all  other 
varieties,  being  rosy-pink  suffused  very  slightly  with  lilao,  enough 
to  give  it  great  distinctiveness  and  charm.  Gustave  Regis  and 
Griis  an  Teplitz,  though  more  useful  as  purely  deorative  varieties, 
are  rich,  brilliant,  and  free.  Marquise  Litta,  however,  is  suitable  both 
for  garden  and  for  exhibition. 
One  generally  finds  Rose  Marquis  of  Salisbury  included  in  seleot 
displays  of  decorative  varieties.  The  brilliant  and  glowing  intensity  of 
ifcs  rich  carmine  crimson  flowers  are  exceedingly  beautiful.  When 
speaking  of  the  half  dozen  that  equal  Kaiserin,  I  might  have  included 
Mrs.  W.  J.  Grant  within  the  number,  in  place  of  Killarney,  for  this 
is  certainly  an  ideal  H.T.  It  has  only  been  before  the  publio  for  a 
few  years,  yet  it  is  already  a  general  favourite.  Caroline  Tesbout  takes 
after  La  Franoe,  and,  like  the  latter,  is  a  free  bloomer  and  very  useful 
Rose. 
Of  the  Teas  proper  and  Noisettes  one  need  but  name  Anna  Olivier, 
Alister  Stella  Gray,  Franoisoa  Kruger  (a  grand  sort),  Ethel  Brownlow, 
Madame  Bravy,  Mrs.  Edward  Mawley  (already  referred  to),  and  the 
exquisitely  beautiful  Muriel  Grahame.  These,  when  at  their  best,  are 
really  so  delioately  fine,  that  it  is  only  for  a  very  short  while  one  oan 
admire  them  in  their  perfection.  They  are  quite  hardy,  even  a  long 
way  north  of  the  Tweed,  so  that  no  one  need  have  soruples  on  this 
point  Comtesse  de  Nadaillac,  an  old  favourite,  still  maintains  its  high 
position,  and  Caroline  Kuster  is  almost  equally  good.  Ernest  Metz 
appeared  in  high  oondition  in  numerous  exhibitions  during  the  past 
season,  and  must  also  be  accorded  a  place  in  seleot  lists.  Homere  is 
a  more  decorative  variety,  but  occasionally  meets  the  requirements 
of  the  exhibitors  in  classes  for  Teas.  Mme.  Berkeley,  with 
salmon-pink  blooms,  is  yet  another  variety  I  greatly  admired  at 
Braiswick. 
But  I  must  hasten  to  notice  just  a  few  other  Hybrid  Perpetuals. 
Margaret  Dickson  stands  very  high,  as  do  others  of  the  famous  Irish- 
raised  Roses,  most  of  which  have,  at  one  time  or  another,  been  awarded 
the  National  Rose  Society’s  gold  medal;  Marchioness  of  Dufferin, 
Marchioness  of  Londonderry,  Marchioness  of  Downshire,  Mavoureen, 
and  Jeannie  Dickson,  are  a  few  of  these.  They  are  all  Roses  of 
vigorous  and  cleanly  habit,  producing  blooms  of  siz9,  good  form,  and 
high  colour.  R9v.  Alan  Cheales,  a  deep  lake  colour,  is  likely  to 
come  more  and  more  into  favour;  it  is  quite  a  recent  novelty,  and 
worthy  to  bear  a  name  so  honourable.  Mrs.  Frank  Cant  is  a  new 
Rose  of  great  vigour,  with  pink  flowers,  and  is  prolific.  It  is  a 
oapital  Rose  for  bedding  purposes,  and  one  likely  to  furnish  a  goodly 
supply  of  cut  blooms.  I  have  not  yet  seen  it  on  the  exhibition 
boards.  It  resulted  as  a  cross  between  Madame  Gabriel  Loizet  and 
Baroness  Rothschild.  Mrs.  Sharman  Crawford  is  almost  as  well  liked 
as  Mrs.  J.  Laing,  and  Ulster,  whioh,  I  have  noted,  will  in  future  be  on 
a  level  with  these. 
The  new  Roses  of  recent  years  farther  include  Dawn,  a  lovely  rose- 
pink  H.T.,  useful  for  all  decorative  purposes;  Liberty,  grand  for 
autumn  use,  and  a  splendid  pot  Rose ;  Tennyson,  pearly  white,  dwarf, 
robust,  and  grand  in  form.  J.  B.  M.  Camm  is  described  as  a  Hybrid 
Bourbon.  This  is  a  very  handsome  and  distinot  pale  salmon-pink  Rose, 
commendable  in  every  sense.  There  are  also  three  Polyantha  Roses 
that  have  begun  to  create  attention,  and  these  are  Leuohtstern,  Eugenie 
Lamesohe,  and  Leonie  Lamesche. — Wandering  Willie, 
