The Garden.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 195, 5 April 1878, Page 7

The Garden.

NOTEWORTHY JNEW ROSES. Of all the new roses annually sent to this country from Europe, only a very small number ever prove worthy ofa second year's trial. As the^eas appear to be coming into fashion on' acb^u'nt of their many excellent qualities, we append a list of the cream of those tested by a trustworthy rosarian: — MarieGuillot, is truly a first-class rose, and the best of its colour in our collections.. It is pure white, of large size, and very fragrant : the petals also are of fine substance. Perle des Jardins, a variety of the bighest promise in this country as well as abroad is a grand deep yellow tea, holding its blooms well up (a great consideration in tea roses) ; it gives one an icie& of Marechal Niel and Madame Falcor> mixed. Mmc Devacout is in the way of Isabella Sprunt, only better, and, should it prove as free a bloomer, we shall have a great acquisition. The flowers are large, double) and of a bright canary yellow. The fragrance is very decided. Mmc Celine Berthod is another grand new rose of | good form and substance, and of a deep clear yellow colour. It is of very large size, and exceedingly fragrant. To these we might add as being especially worthy of notice, Alin Sisley and Marquis de Sanima. The former is of a rare shade of violet red, large, double, and sweet, and forms beautifully imbricated buds. The latter is copper-yellow with a bright rose centre, and is very double, and especially sweet. Tea roses to succeed properly should be lifted in autumn, potted, and placed in a cool pit or cellar during «qnter. Tbe practice ot forcing them in a warm room is not to be recommended as all vgetation delights in a eeason of rest. If one desires, to have flowers duriug winter months, it is all very well, but t,he same plants should not be. expected to do double duty — bloom all the year round.-— i New York Tribune. Well may it be said that Kent is the garden of England, for Mr Connell states that his neighbour Mr Vinson sent to market last Wednesday 2500 pecks of strawberries. This, reckoning 141bs to the peck, would amount to upwards of 15^ tons. Tbe American Chemist says tbat, a western farmer discovered many years ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron in the ground. Time and weather, he says, seem to have no effect on it. The posts can be prepared for less than two cents apiece. This is tbe receipe: — Take boiled linseed oil' and stir it in pulverised charcoal to the consistency of paint 7; But a coat of this over the timber, and he adds there is not a man who live to see it rot. A correspondent forwards to the Journal of Horticulture the following description of fruit-growing on a railmay embankment in Brittany.' "The whole of the usually waste ground by the sides of tbe line was planted with fruit trees, chiefly ■ pears and apples. They were planted about 3 feet apart each way, each tree having two stems. One was bent to the right the other to the left, and when those limbs crossed each other they were tied together so that the vvhole presented a continuous trellis. of fruit trees, and as they were then (first week in. May) in full blossom -they added beauty to the scene." It is reported, on good authority, that those who suffer from rheumatism are cured in a few days by eating asparagus, while even chronic cases are much relieved, especially if they avoid all acids, whether in food or drink. The Jerusalem, artichoke is reported to have a similar effect in relieving l-heu matism. Most plants which grow, naturally near the sea-coast contain more br less iodine, and in all rheumatic complaints has been a tavourite remedy. Some 'physicians also recommend 'the .free use of fhe tomato. -It is! said to act very favourably upon the liver (in place of calomel), '.and. , its efficiency -in relieving dyspepsia is remarkable.' Raw or cooked it is considered te be equally wholesome. ' ' , . Mr Thomas Baines* in a chapter entitled ".The Amateur's Garden," thus discourses on* the .subject,:— -" In plant training, amateur cultivators will do ;well to avoid the' two extremes pt tying their^lants toopformally, "and !the"'o'p/ 1 posite of allowing them," toT hang, about, in astraggling unsightly state} |Eyery^

plant, so far as is consistent with ttas « position it occupies, should be train-ed-fed as to exhibit as near as .possible the form it would assume in a state vt nature. No rt;ore supports should be used than will keep the plant collectively in shape, as anything bevomi this is objection-able $ the sticks in all cases should never be used stronger than necessary, and mi^ht to be painted a shade of green the leas- conspicuous^ always tying the branches, as far as possible, in. suoh a manner as they will hide the sticks In the case of th* commonest plant, tho least susceptible of injury to the root*, and sticks should never be inserted in tne .soil deeper than necessary to hold them with the branches attached in the position tliey are placed. With tender-rooted, hard-wooded sub* jects. it is requisite to be careful in this matter; quantities of trained plants iv all stages, from a small state up to full-grown specimens, are annually killed by numbers of sticks being thrust unnecessarily deep in the soil, the effect of which, in mutilating all the fine roots they come in contact with, needs only a slight consideration to fully realise, < are should always be taken n-.it to draw the. tying material so tight as not to allow room for the branches thickening, more particularly iv the case of such plants as go on from yoar to year without being bended back. This applies to heaths, Azaleas, and all other plants ofa similar hard-wooded character. In this annual training the largest portion of the stock should be first commenced with, as the old sticks from these, replaced by larger ones, will come in for others a size less, and so on Until the smallest are completed.