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Contributions to Horticultural Literature
Contributions to Horticultural Literature Author:William Paul Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: melting into buff. Some of these varieties I had previously seen in England, and in equal beauty of bloom, but others I there claimed acquaintanceship with for t... more »he first time. Roses in pots were numerous, but there were none remarkable as specimens of superior cultivation ; certainly none that I saw were equal to those exhibited at the Horticultural Exhibitions about London, by Messrs Beck, Lane, Paul, and others; nor is it, perhaps, right to judge them by such a standard, as they were not grown to show what could be done with Roses in pots under good management, but merely as market plants. As such, the only objection to them by Englishmen would be the tall stems on which they were worked, and the little attention paid to their beauty. The head of the plant seemed to be considered the only part worthy of notice. ROSA BERBERIFOLIA HARDH. [From " The Gardeners' Chronicle? Sept. itfh i845,/. 6z6,] THIS pretty rose, mentioned in a recent number as delicate and unmanageable, has grown and bloomed here in great perfection, and the following account of it may perhaps not be altogether devoid of interest. The Rosa Berberi- folia Hardii was raised from foreign seeds by Mr Hardy of the Jardin du Luxembourg at Paris, and was first imported to England about nine years ago. It was generally known to be a delicate plant, and various methods were taken to increase it. It was a practice with some to root-graft it on Berberis Aquifolium. but in this way it was not likely to thrive for any length of time on account of the opposite nature of the stock and scion. The former was robust and liable to sucker, the latter of delicate growth; it was also budded on the Dog-rose in which way it grows vigorously,but it is a difficult matter to get soundly ripened buds, and from their diminutivene...« less