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The application of moderate heat for some time,
has the effect to change a part of the starch into
a sweetish substance, called dextrine, which is
more easily digested into fat than starch ; that
is, part of the making of fat is accomplished by
the agency of heat. When parching is done in
a proper way, and upon a large scale, it is a
cheap way of cooking corn. Let any man who
is inclined, try the experiment this fall upon
two pigs as nearly alike as possible ; feed each
the same quantity of corn, in one case parched,
in the other not, and observe the result at the
end of a week, or letter at the end of a fort
night.
The more slowly the com is parched, the bet
ter. It is not necossary to have it “ pop.’’—
Perhaps the word roasted would be better; but
in this case it is to be understood that the com
is not to be blackened, burnt, or even browned
but slightly.
As respects the importance of having a good
natured attendant, I.have become convinced for
many years, (see Lambert’s Physiology,) for I
have never met an exception to the rule, that he
who produces fat cattle, horses, hogs, or any
creature, is always good to them at least. It is ■
a pscychological fact of not a little interest. The
first two or three hundred pounds of a hog can
bo produced from com alone, but to produce
pork above that weight, good nature must be
added to the corn, and the percentage of good
nature rises rapidly as the weight increases.
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SOUTH CAKOLINA STATE FAIR.
The State Fair, at Columbia, which closed on
the 12 th instant, was highly creditable to the in
dustry and skill of the Palmetto State. All the
departments were well represented, and the
stock exhibition i 3 said to have been decidedly
the best yet mado at any similar gathering in
that State —affording evidence of the adapta
tion of our soil and climate to the successful rais
ing of fine stock. A largo number of the ani
mals on exhibition were under a year old, and
South Carolina raised. The Brahmin stock of
CoL F. Hampton, Dr. J. W. Parker, Thomas Da
vis, and Dr. F. Green were objects of much cu
riosity. One of Mr. Hampton, Dr. J. W. Par
ker, Thomas Davis, and Dr. F. Green were ob
jects of much curiosity. One of Mr. Hampton’s
animals attracted particular attention. The
stock of Col. R. Beatty, of Union, was much
admired. These were selected for Col. Beatty,
by Mr. Richard Wardle, under whose care they
were brought from England. Mr. Wm. Sum
mer, of Pomaria, had a very choice selection of
Devons, Durhams and Ayreshires on exhibition.
W. P. Smith, of Abbeville ; Dr. R. Harlee, of
Marion ; J. D. Williams, of Laurens; Col. A. P.
Calhoun of Pickens ; James T. Latte, of An
derson ; T. J. Robertson, Columbia; R. A.
Griffin of Abbeville ; Col. E. S. Ervin, of Green
ville ; L. W. Murray, and R. Arnold, of Charles
ton; D. A. C. Fuller, of Laurens; Col. Walter
Gwynn, of Columbia ; J. 11. Threewits of Lex
ington ; L. A. Osborne, of Anderson ; had also
on exhibition some very handsome Devon and
Durham stock. Some of the imported Sheep
and Goats were very fine animals. The
largest number were shown by R. S. Porcher,
of Pickens, and Mr. Wm. Summer, of Pomaria.
The Cotswold sheep of Mr. P. cannot be sur
passed. This breed is also said to be prolific,
and capable of great endurance. Their fleece
has more the appearance of strength than beau
ty. Tho dam obtained the premium at one of
the largest fairs in Scotland. • .
During the distribution of prizes, an episode
varied the regular proceedings. Col. A. M.
Hunt, of the United States Hotel, had caused to
be made some months since a handsome silver
pitcher of the value of SGO, as a premium for
the best specimen of a native African imported
in 1858 or 1859.
This pitcher is richly chased. Two Africans
are represented hoeing in a field, —a farm house
in tho distance. As competitors for this prize,
placed by the donor into the hands oi a Com
mittee consisting of Hon. J. Duncan Allen, Hon.
0. M. Dantzier and R. S. Porcher, Esq., two
“ natives ” were exhibited in front of the Am
phitheatre, standing erect in a buggy, neatly
dressed, looking well, and decidedly pleased.
Our curiosity prompted us to examine them.—
The eldest, Napoleon, about 13 or 14 years of
age, has liis two front upper teeth sharpened to
a point. He is a likely boy, of good countenance
and features. Tho other, Isaac, is about 11 or
12 years old. Ho is tattoed, but not so much as
to disfigure him. Upon him the choice of the
Committee fell. The little fellow evidently felt
gratified at the result, aud held the pitcher aloft
triumphantly.
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Prepare the Soil. — Tho effect of the frosts
of winter in disintegrating and preparing stiff
tenacious soils, has been admitted by all culti
vators of experience. Ridge up your vacant
ground before winter, that the greatest possible
surface be exposed to the ameliorating action of
the somewhat mysterious frosts. Soil in a good
stato of culture, loose and friable, it is not so
necessary that you should operate upon. Par
tially trench up—that is what old gardeners call
“ bastard trench” —all worn out soils, for escu
lent root-growing next season. This method of
trenching consists in opening a deep and wide
trench, say two and a half to three feet in width,
to a depth of two spades. The contents of the
first trench must be to removed to the further
side of tho lot; if tho space is considerable,
it had better bo carted; if not, tho wheel-bar
row will serve to transport it; let it bo deposit
ed along the ground in heaps at regular inter
vals, ss as to make lip the last trench. Instead
of throwing the active surface soil (partially ex
hausted or wholly so, perchance,) into the bot
tom of the trench, as many understand the ope
ration, turn over the bottom with the spade,
leaving the subsoil open, as in common spading;
on this spread a portion of the surface soil, then
a layer of good barnyard manure, tho coarser
the better ; then another layer of surface soil,
taking care to mingle tho soil and manure. On
the surface turn in the layer of soil formerly im
mediately before the surface soil, so that the
trench when finished will bo intermixed to a cer
tain extent, but not wholly reversed. On the
surface you will have what was formerly the se
cond layer ; the second layer will be the former
surface or exhausted soil, mixed with a good sup
ply of long manure, bones, oyster shells, or any
such refuse ; tho subsoil will bo as before, but
spaded up, so that the manure, by being wash
ed into it, will partially prepare it for coming
up into a higher tier the following season. —
This is “ bastard ” trenching, as we have prac
ticed it; it does not retard the growth of crops
by bringing the inactive soil at once to the sur
face, but partially prepares it for future active
use. The soil is always supposed to be first
"thorough drained." —[ Country Gentleman.
A Texaß correspondent asserts that that State
is the best wheat-growing State in the Union;
and that the crop of the present year is the best
he has ever seen, the wheat weighing from 75
to 80 lbs. a bushel.
wms, BouxKsms vxs&s juto vsbesxbs.
SHROPSHIRE DOWNS.
The above engraving represents one of three
prize wethers, bred by and the property of Hen
ry Smith, Jr., of Sutton Maddock, Shiffnal, En
gland. They received the first prize, with a
breeder’s silver medal, at tho Birmingham and
Midland Countidh Show of Christmas, 185 G. We
have had the cut drawn and engraved from a
fine plate in a recent number of the Farmer’s
Magazine —which speaks of the sheep them
selves as admirable for “ splendid quality of
meat, broad chines, and full plaits, and wonder
fully good loins and rumps.”
This breed—the “ Shropshire Downs ’’ —is
now rapidly coming into notice and repute in
England. They are originally descended from a
hardy mountain breed, through which they inher
it an excellent constitution. This enables them
to thrive on some of the most exposed districts ;
while on more fertile pastures they evince a ra
pidity of growth, and natural tendency to a hea
vy weight at an early age. certainly not sur
passed by any other breed. The exertions of
tho Salopians, however, have not been directed
to size and weight only. The Shropshire sheep
unite with these two recommendations—excel
lent ferm and symmetry, first-class wool of thick
pile and great length of staple, well-formed,
good dark brown heads, deep chests, famous
legs of mutton, with a good dock set high on a
straight long spine.
The class of “ Short-wooled sheep not being
South-downs," now affords the Shropshire breed
ers an opportunity of exhibiting their stock on
fair terms at the meetings of the Royal Agricul
tural Society. At Salisbury in this section, the
Shropshire Dcwns took three of the prizes for
rams out of’the four offered. At Birmingham,
as we have often had to record, the show of this
kind of sheep is one of the chief features.
[Albany Cultivator.
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Mr. Editor : In your agricultural department,
will you pleaso give some directions as to the
transplanting, culture, and soil, best adapted to
the Orange Tree —how near they should be
planted, and if to be trimmed, —and how often ?
G. M.
Will some of our Southern readers, familiar
with the culture of Orange Trees, answer the
above inquiries?
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Lice ox Fowls. —A subscriber wishes to be
informed how to exterminate the vermin that
frequently infect hens and hen roosts, Ac. Pre
vention when practicable, is always better than
cure. Strict cleanliness about the roosts and
nests, will always prevent hens from becoming
lousy. The dropping under the hens should be
removed frequently, the nests often renewed,
and an-slacked lime and ashes scattered around
the floors and roosts. Boxes of dry ashes and
lime should always be kept under cover
where the fowls can have constant access to
them, that they may wallow in at pleasure.—
With these prt cautions, fowls that are free from
vermin will never he infested. But when they
have become lousy the roosts should be thor
oughly swept and cleaned, tho straw and litter
from the nests entirely removed, and the wood
work and roost poles of the house whitewashed
with fresh slacked lime, into which a quantity
of sulphur or tobacco has been mixed. A day
or two before this operation, the fowls should
be fed with coarse com meal wet with milk or
water, into which a quantity of sulphur has
been mixed. Feed with this several days ; it
may then bo omitted for a few days, and re
repeated again at intervals of three or four days,
and continued in this way until all the nits have
hatched, when the insects will drop ofl’and leave
the fowls. Thorough cleanliness after this, will
generally exterminate them. Fowls are always
poor and uuthrifty, and setting hens are seldom
successful in hatching their eggs, when annoy
ed with vermin; a little care is all that is nec
essary to prevent it.—[ Valley Farmer.
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Cheap and Valuable Paint. —Editors Coun
try Gentleman : —Yours, requesting me to send
receipt for paint, was duly received. At the
time it was not in my power to furnish it, for
the reason that the book containing it was not in
my possession.. After many inquiries I found
it yesterday in the hands of a neighbor who bor
rowed it some years since. I did not originate
the composition, but found it in the second vol
ume of Cliaptal’s Chemistry, (pages G 8 and 69,)
an old work published in 1807.
It is intended as a substitute for white lead
paint, and is composed of
Skimmed milk, two quarts.
Fresh slacked lime, G J ounces.
Linseed oil, 4 ounces, and
Common whiting three pounds.
Directions for mixing are—“ Put the lime into
a stoneware vessel, pour upon it sufficient oft he
milk to make it like thin cream, add the oil a lit
tle at a time, stirring to mix thoroughly; add
the remainder of the milk ; then the whiting
(made fine) is to be spread upon the surface, and
the whole well stirred. It is then fit for use.—
It should be frequently stirred while using.”
It is applied with a common paint or white
wash brush, and will dry in three or four hours.
Two coats make a very perfect paint. It pos
sesses great solidity, will bear rubbing with a
woolen cloth, and does not become dingy or yel
low with smoke, Ac., as much as lead paint.
I have used the composition only for inside of
buildings on brick and wood. Twelve years
since I painted the over-head flooring and tim
bers, underside of a store. It is now perfect;
holds its color better than white lead ; is much
more cconolhical, as the chief expense is the la
bor of putting it on.
It is also recommended for out-door work by
adding to the foregoing—2 ounces lime, 6 ounces
oil, and 2 ounces whito Burgundy pitch, the
pitch to be melted in the oil by gentle heat, and
added to the mixture.—[Wm. H. White. Ver
gennes, Vs.
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A Pleasant Drink— Beer. —Take a half gal
lon of Molasses (syrup will not answer), with a
large table spoonful of best ground ginger, and
mix well into five gallons wator. In two or
three days, according to the weather, it will be
ready for use. Try it if you are fond of good
beer.
HINTS ON HOUSE PAINTING.
Tho next four months being the best season
for painting all outside work, the annexed arti
cle from the Baltimore Rural Register is appo
site.
In the preceding number of the Rural we took
occasion to recommend any quiet neutral tint as
the most appropriate color for villa residences
and country cottages. This of course had refer
ence to the mam walls of the building, and it is
now proper that we should lay down a few sim
ple rules with regard to the most appropriate
colors for the outer doors, the porches, or ver
andahs, the cornices and the shutters; in brief,
whatever may be called the trimmings of the
house. All educated architects recommend that
more than two shades of colour are required to
render the exterior of a house pleasing to the
eye, because artistic in the effects which a great
er variety of colors will invariably produce.—
Calvory Vaux, an excellent authority in such
matters, advocates the employment of not less
than four different colors, and as the cost is
not sensibly increased by so doing, and as the
monotonous appearanco which is given to a
house by sameness of color is thereby avoided,
his advice in this respect is well worth follow
ing. He says:—
“ Tho main walls should be of some agreeable
shade of color; the roof trimmings, verandahs
and other wood work being either of a different
color or a different shade of the same color, so
that a contrast, but not a harsh one, may be es
tablished. The third color, not widely differ
ent from the other wood work should be ap
plied to the solid parts of the Venetian blinds,
whilst the slats should be painted of the fourth
tint. This last should be by far the darkest
used on the premises, for the effect of a glass
window or opening in a wall is always dark
when seen from a distance, and if this natural
fact is not remembered and the shutters are paint
ed the same color as the rest of tho house, a
blank uninteresting effect is produced.”
Let us illustrate this —suppose the main body
of the house is painted a light fawn color, say
throe shades deeper than a rich cream; the
color most in harmony with this and therefore
best suited for roof trimmings, verandahs and
outside casings would be a very light chestnut
brown. The solid part of the venitian blinds
aud the frame work of the doors should also be
a rich sienna brown, two shades darker than the
roof trimmings, &c.; while the slats of the blinds
and the pannellings of the doors should be paint
ed of a much darker shade still of the same col
our. It is really wonderful how greatly the ap
pearance of a house is improved by a little atten
tion to such simple details as these, while to ne
glect them is not merely to evince a want of cor
rect taste, but is very apt to perpetuate the error
in others. Since the dark colored stand-stones
camo into fashion for building the fronts of town
houses, we have seen quite a number of villa
residences painted a deep brown with white fa
cings—nothing could be more odd or in more
violent contrast. A cream color and white
will certainly harmonize very well, and if it
should so happen that the trimmings of a house
are to be lighter than the body color, —but it is
only in a few instances that this can be safely
recommended, —the same gradation of tints
should be observed as in the directions already
given. We may as well also at this time, enter
our protest against painting the roofs of houses
a staring red. This colour may look attractive
enough in those Dutch toy houses, from which
it has been very probably imitated, but in a
landscape it offends the eye quite as much as a
brick house does, or as one of those chalk white
and spinach green cottages in which some of
our good country folk take so much delight.
Bread without Yeast, Saleratus, Ac. —A
writer in the Massachusetts Ploughman tells
how to make healthy bread of flour and water
and a little salt, and no yeast, saleratus, cream
of tartar, or any such vile soap-making stuff.
She says: “Take as much milk-warm water as
you will want to make your batch of bread, and
salt it about twice as salt as you would if you
were going to mix the same quantity into sale
ratus bread. Stir in flour enough to make a
paste about as thick as griddle-cake dough. Put
this paste into a tin pail, and' set the pad into a
pot of warm water on the stone-hearth, where
the water in the pot will keep about milk-warm
all the time. This will give the paste an even
temperature.
“ In four or five hours the paste will rise and
foam like yeast. Then turn it into your mix
ing-pan, and mix in flour enough to make your
dough for bread, and mould it into your pans
ready for baking. Set the pans in a warm
place, under or about the stove, and cover them
over with a clean cloth or paper, and let it rise,
which will take about two hours, and as soon as
it is fairly raised, put it into a hot oven and bake
it quick and thoroughly.
“You will have the lightest, whitest, and
sweetest bread that can be made, and bread
thatis healthy and will retain the natural taste
of a handful of wheat when chewed in the
mouth, and is not spoiled by saleratus, cream of
tartar, yeast powder, and such like drugs.
“If you do not put the salt into the water,
you will fail to get a good rise about nine times
out of ten, but follow the directions, and you
will seldom fail
“If people would eat this kind of bread, we
would not hear so much complaint of sour stom
ach, headache and dyspepsia.
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Good Farming in Johnston County. —We
learn from a friend that John W. Poole, Esq.,
living about two miles from Smithfield, on the
Neuse river, raised the present season twenty
four barrels of corn on one acre of land. The
acre was surveyed by Mr. Charles Massy, and
the corn gathered and measured in the presence
of several of Mr. Poole’s neighbors. The land is
on Neuse river. This is a remarkably fine field.
How many farmers in tho State have raised this
year one hundred and twenty bushels of corn to
the acre? We would be glad to hear from our
readers on the subject. — [Raleigh (X. C.) Stod
dard.
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Rye for Milcii Cows. - Mr. C. E. Brooks, one
of the best dairymen of Orange county, claims
that rye makes more milk than corn or oats, or
other meal. Brewers’ grain formerly cost six
cents per bushel at the farm, now they cost
one shilling, and are not so profitable as rye at
six shillings per bushel. Oats ho esteems the
poorest kind of grain for cattle. His daily al
lowance to each cow is five pounds of meal, giv
en with cut straw, wet with warm water. He
fed corn and oats, buck w heat and wheat bran,
changing the kind frequently, thinking his an
imals thrive best on a frequent change of diet.
in »i
Healixg Salve.—Take rosin, mutton tallow
and linseed oil, equal quantities; mix and melt;
to be spread on linen when applied.
— mam- mb
The N. Y. Post says that if General Tom
Thumb finds a fitting wife, the public will enjoy
tho pomological exhibition of a new variety of
“ Dwarf Pair.”
HORTICULTURAL.
WM. N. WHITE, Editor.
SATURDAY, NOV. 26, 1859.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
L., and other friends inquiring for pear and
other fruit trees, are referred to our advertising
columns. The editor has not a tree of any kind
for sale. Full directions for the winter treat
ment of Asparagus, you will find in Gardening
for the South.
Tan Bark, we would only use on clay soils af
ter being fully rotted. The addition of lime or
ashes will improve it and destroy its acidity. It
is best to apply it to such crops as Irish Pota
toes or Com which it certainly benefits. Ap
plied to such things as Cucumbers, Cabbage,
and most garden plants it frequently the first
season does more harm than good. It is better
to put it into the yards under cattle or swine,
where it soon becomes, a most excellent manure.
N., of Miss. Yes, J. M. Tiiorburn A Co., are
reliable. We ourselves obtained from them this
scafson, a most satisfactory collection of bulbs,
Ac.
We cannot, as a general rule, answer inqui
ries except through our columns. In these, we
are ready to impart any information that is in
our power.
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THE ROSE*
Os all flowers,
Methinks a.Rose is best. * * *
It is the very emblem of a maid ;
For when the west w ind courts her gently.
How modestly she blows anil paints the sun
With her chaste blushes ! When the north comes near
her,
Kudc and impatient, then, like chastity.
She locks her beauties in their bud again,
And leaves him to base briars.
Beavxont & Fi.etcukr.
From the very dawn of civilization no flower
has won such general admiration as tho Rose.
In the Bible it is cited as the type of grace and
beauty, and the poets of every age have cele
brated its loveliness. Two thousand years ago
Sappho gave it its title of Queen of Flowers,
and in the long period which has since elapsed,
the gardens of the world have produced no ri
val claimant to the title. What divers perfec
tions are in this one flower united! It is the
only one beautiful in every stage of develop
ment; whether in the seducing coquetry of faint
ly blushing buds, the elegant disposition of half
opened petals, or in the graceful contour of fully
expanded blooms. It glows with the liveliest,
loveliest tints, from virginal whiteness to vivid
crimson or golden yellow, and is fragrant with
the sweetest and most delightful perfume. It
is the only flower which is really rich in its con
fusioD, and is none the less elegant for the ab
sence of all uniformity and order.
*• We are blushing roses.
Bending with our fullness,
Midst our close-capped sister buds,
Warming the green coolness.
Whatsoe'er of beauty
Yearns, and yet reposes,
Blush, and bosom, and sweet breath
Took a shape In Boses.
Hold one of us lightly,
See from what a slender
Stalk we bower in heavy blooms,
And roundness rich anil tender.
Know you not our only
Rival flower—the human ?
Loveliest weight on lightest foot —
Joyvabundant woman ?
Above one hundred species of roses have been
described and there are over two thousand vari
eties in cultivation. From this chaos it is a little
difficult to decide what are best worthy of a
place in our gardens. Before we can make a
selection, we must have a distinct idea of what
are the essential characteristics of a g<®d rose.
There are certain of these distinct points essen
tial to perfection in all roses, while there are
some few that may rank as excellencies in one
group and as defects or non-essentials in an
other.
Among tho points to be sought for in all roses
whatever:
(1.) The petals should be thick, broad and
smooth at the edges. Thickness of petal is de
sirable in all flowers and is equally so in a moss
rose which is never shown fully opened, and in
the florist’s favorite, which is to be exhibited
fully expanded like a dahlia. The thicker the
petal, the longer is the bud in opening and the
longer does it remain in perfection while ex
panded. The thicker the petal, the more dense
is the shade, if colored, or if not, the more pure
its whiteness. The most brilliant scarlet would
look tame and watery, if the petal were thin,
transparent and flimsy.
(2.) The flower should be highly perfumed.
Whether a climbing rose, employed to screen a
parlor window or verandah, or a standard or
dwarf in the open garden, fragrance is one
of its most desirable charms. A rose without
fragrance should be very distinct and of remark
able merit as to color, form and habit of contin
ance in bjoom, to entitle it to retain a place in
our gardens, at this time so affluent in desirable
varieties.
(3.) The flower should be double to the cen
tre, high on the crown, round in the outline and
regular in the disposition of its petals. The
more double the flower, the more full and beauti
ful the bud in all its stages. Single and semi
double moss roseß present buds, thin and point
ed, starved looking affairs, while the old moss
rose, which is full and double as the cabbage
rose, is bold, rich and effective from the instant
the calyx bursts.
(4.) The habit of blooming freely and con
tinuously through the entire season. We have
so many excellent roses of this kind that, except
in very large collections, transient bloomers are,
with some remarkable exceptions, not worth re
taining.
Some other characteristics essential to all the
varieties, in particular groups of roses, are as
follows:
In moss roses, the quantity of moss, the length
♦Butst on tho Rose. Panl’s Bose Garden. Mrs. Lou
don, Bon Janlinier, Rural Cyclopoedla. Ac.
of the spires which form it, and its thickness or
closeness on the stems, leaves and calyx, can
not be too great; neither can the divisions of
the calyx be too long or the ramifications at the
end bo too many. The plant should be bushy,
the foliage strong, the (lowers abundant but not
crowded, and set well above the foliage on stiff
footstalks, so as to hold them up in full view.—
The color should be bright or dapae, as the case
may be, and the same at the bdflkaa on the front
of the petals.
In all roses for stands, designed to be set out
in detached flowers like dahlias, the petals should
be imbricated and in distinct rows, whether they
be reflexed or cupped, and they should continue
the same in form to the very centre, being mere
ly reduced in size. The color should be distinct
and new or striking, and stand fast against sun
and air until the blooms fall. The blooms also
should stand well out of the foliage and not in
each other’s way.
As to all Noisette roses, (which bloom in clus
ters,) the clusters should be sufficiently open to
bloom freely, and the stem and footstalks should
be firm and elastic to hold the flower face up
ward or face outward, and not to hang down,
showing the outside instead of the inside of the
blooms. The blooms should be abundant at the
end of every shoot, and the shoots should not
exceed twelve inches before they flower; the
bloom should stand out from the foliago and the
plant should be compact and bushy. The worst
habit a rose can have, is that of throwing up
several blooms close together on short stiff foot
stalks, a part of which must be cut away before
the others can be fhlly developed. As show
flowers they are bad, and as plants they are very
untidy; the side buds prevent the centre flow
ers from opening fully, and when the first beauty
is off them, dead roses are exposed, held fast
between two living ones.
As to climbing roses, they should be short
jointed from leaf to leaf; the blooms should
spring from very short branches and all up the
main shoots; the plant should be always grow
ing from spring to autumn, and the foliage
should completely hide the stems, whether the
plant be trained on the side of the house or on a
pillar or other device.
The habit. of throwing up suckers from its
roots is a great objection to any rose, it being
impossible to keep such plants within bounds,
and roses of this habit should generally be dis
carded by thoso who like neatness in their
grounds.
FALL FLO WEBS.
The Chrysanthemum, or as it has been trans
lated, the “ Golden Flower,” because the old and
common varieties had always a predominance
of the gold color about them—is now the pride
of the amateur's garden. . Go where you will—
by lane or square, by street or alley, in cottage
or boudoir, we have the Chrysanthemum. The
pest of the farmer, White Daisy, or Ox-Eye
Daisy , is the type of the family. The flower
has no connection with the Artemisia, the late
statement of a very sharp cotemporary to the
contrary notwithstanding.
And now to our subject. Chrysanthemum is
at once the botanical and popular name of our
favorite fall flower. Gold is not the prevailing
color now, as of old. We have delicate white,
soft yellow, pleasing lilac, bright red, dusky
brown, and all shades of these. The Chrysan
themum is not the flower of a class; it is with
in the means of all. It grows by the cottager’s
piazza, as well as in the rich conservatory. It
is used to form the bridal wreath as well as the
villager’s nosegay. Its culture is so simple, its
habit so robust, its means of propagation so am
ple, that we regard it as the Autumn Garland
Flower that will never disappear from our gar
den It may degenerate. The roots require di
vision, or better, the offshoots or suckers to be
broken off close by the parent root; and set up
for themselves, they will soon form new roots.
This is done in the spring, when growth has
fairly commenced. Trained to the garden trel
lis, or along the piazza railings, what can bo
more gorgeous or pleasing in the flowcrless days
of October, or early in November, than the lux
uriant trusses of favorite Chrysanthemums ? As
pot specimens, the Pompone, or dwarf sorts, are
very appropriate for decoration purposes. The
number of varieties exceed several hundred,
and is annually increased by the growth of seed
lings.
The most popular sorts are, of Pompones —
La Fiancee, white; Mignonette, yellow ground,
red tip; Henriette, white, with rose shade; Ber
nettiana, dark rose; Bob, dark brick red; Jon
gleur, fine yellow; Lais, dark crimson ; Paque
rette, blush with carmine shade; Gen. Canro
bert, fine yellow; Bouquet Parfait, purplish
rose; Drine Drine, yellow; Sylphide, creamy
white; Yaleda, white.
Large Flowered Varittfies. Annie Salter,
white; Grand Mogul, purplish lilac: Temple of
Solomon, yellow; Tnlby, creamy white; Admi
ral D’Urville, purplish rose; Bossuet, deep crim
son ; Madame Poggi, dark crimson; Heine d'Or,
orange.
Soil and culture do not require any further de
tailed directions.— [Country Gentleman.
Campanula or Bell Flower.—There are a
great many varieties in this family of plants,
most of them being perennial. The Canterbury
Bells is one of the oldest and best known. This
is a biennial. The young seedlings should be
transplanted into the border where they are to
remain, in September.
Os the perennial varieties, the Campanula car
pathica, alba and ceruleo, are dwarf sorts, and
quite desirable. The Camp, persicifolia fl. pi.
and urticifoliafl. pi., are very hamsome tall sorts.
Besides these, there are many others well worthy
of cultivation. The flowers are very diverse in
appearance; some very large, others quite small;
some deep bell shaped, others very shallow and
almost flat, and varying in color from a waxy
white to deep blue.—[ Country Gentleman.
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A New Petunia —( American at that.) —En-
closed I forward for your inspection a blossom
of a seedling Petunia raised by an enthusiastic
amateur, who has been hybridizing this charming
tribe of plants with the most- pleasing success.
Compared with a quantity of imported kinds,
many of which arc large, coarse weedy things,
and a disgrace to any respectable catalogue, this
beautiful variety stands proudly pre-eminent.
The flowers are of a medium size, with a fine
bold outline; color, a rich, deep glowing crimson
for about two-thirds the way up the corolla —the
remaining part a clear and delicate white. —
[Country Gentleman.
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