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such as to call forth the highest encomiuir.s from all sides, and we hope this Society 

 will still continue to receive the hearty support which it so thoroughly deserves. 



Tlie following neAV roses (1866, 7, or 8), were contained in Mr. Keynes's prize 

 stand : Alplionse de Seyreyne., Alfred Colomh, Antolne Ducher, Charles Verdier, 

 ^Exposition de Brie, Felix Genero, Fisher Holmes, Hippolyte Flandrin, Horace 

 Vernet, Ipswich Gem, Josephine de Beauharnis, Madame Graviers, Mrs. George 

 JPaul, Madame Haussmann, Monsieur Chaix d'Fst Anye, Madlle. Marguerite 

 Domhrain, Madlle. Maj'ie Rady, Madeline Nonin, Monsieur Noman, Mrs, John 

 Berners, Princess Mary of Cambridge^ Rose Perfection, Souvenir du Monsieur 

 Boll, Ville de Lyon. 



From Mr, Keynes's other prize stands we select the following, all shown in won- 

 derfully-fine condition : Alfred Colomb, Xavier Olibo, Marguerite de St. Araand, 

 Pierre Nutting, Mareclial Kiel, Duchesse de Caylus, Souvenir de la Malinaison, 

 Charles Lefebvre, Madame Margottin, Due de Rohan, Souvenir d'un Ami, Jean 

 Lambert, Lord Macaulay, Mr. J. Berners, Baronne Gonella, La Boule d' Jr, Vicomte 

 Vigier, Marie Baumann, Scnateur Yaisse, Gloire de Dijon, Madame Villermoz, 

 Celine Forestier, Ti'iomphe de Reunes, Madame Sertot, David Pradel, Devouiensis, 

 Abel Grand, America, William Bull. 



GAEDEJVT GUIDE FOE AUGUST. 



jHE long drought and the intense heat have upset the best plans, and 

 marred the handiest -work in flower-garden and kitchen-gardt-n alike. 

 There appears to be but one subject for our consideration now, and that 

 is how best to avert or mitigate the evils that result from scarcity of 

 water, and a parched condition of the soil. Before this reaches the 

 hands of the reader rain may have fallen abundantly, and our remarks in that case 

 will be lesg useful. But as we are compelled to write in anticipation of events, we 

 will suppose the drought to continue far into the month of August. In our own. 

 trial grounds we have good crops of all summer esculents, with the exception of 

 carrots, turnips, leeks, onions, and cauliflowers, all of which have, in some measure, 

 failed. Peas have done well though making little growth, and yielding less than 

 usual. French beans have produced abundantly, though they have had but one 

 shower, that of May 29. New Z-aland spinach has afi'orded a few good pickings 

 through July, and marrows were very productive while V\'e helped them with water, 

 and kept the ground between them strewed with weeds, or manure to prevent eva- 

 poration. We have derived immense benefit by mu'ching, and have used for this 

 purpose whatever we could scrape together of vegetable rubbish. The proper course 

 for the gardener always is to go on hoping the weather will be right. Therefore we 

 advise thatturnipa be sown on ground well manured ; that round and prickly spinach 

 be sown on drills filled with three or four inches of rotten manure or leaf-mould; 

 that French beans of the earliest sorts, such as Sim House or Fulnier's Forcing, in 

 drills four inches deep witljout manure, and that Sutton's Ringleader Pea be sown in 

 the same way as the French hems. All tbe=e sowings should be made at once, say 

 on the 1st of August. They may be all wasted, but nothing venture nothing have, 

 and if we have a long, warm, showery autuim, they Avill make a grand return. 

 About the 10th sow a good breadth of Cabbage on good ground, taking care to 

 have amongst the sorts enough of the Rosette' Colewort, which is the most useful 

 cabbage for a garden, though it is not a profitable one. To say that grass mowings 

 would make a nice mulch to strew over seed beds as soon as sown v/oul I be absurd 

 noiv, because there is no grass, but we are using light surface clippings "of privet and 

 thorn hedges to cover seed beds with, and to cover the ground amongst all sorts of 

 crops. We have given a sufficient amount of advice on the use and abase of water 

 to render any remarks on that head unnecessary. Irrespective of drought there is 

 the regular work of the seas«n to be done. Caulifloweis must be sown some time 

 from the middle of this month to the middle of the next, winter lettuce and winter 

 spinach must be thought of soon ; those who liave celery must begin to earth it up. 

 In the flower-garden there is very little to be done beyond keeping things tidy, and 

 lamenting that the grass is burned up. It will take a whole winter's rain to 

 recover tlie grass, and a few thin sprinklings over the surface with Lawson's phospho 

 guano will greatly help it, but this must not be used until rain comes. 



