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green, intermingled with the more brilliant tones of floral colouring, 

 and these breadths of green will oftentimes serve to harmonize colours 

 that, by the present vitiated taste for display, are often brought 

 together most discordantly. Let us just call to mind one common 

 abortion in the planting of small gardens (an abortion, however, which, 

 with many others like it, the Floral World has well nigh swept 

 away) — that is, the association of scarlet geraniums and orange coloured 

 calceolarias, the two loudest colours known, and the two that artists use 

 most cautiously. Let the amateur persist if he will in making these 

 the chief components of a pattern ; but if we can induce him to plant 

 between them a series of clumps of perennial Iberis, Alyssum saxatile, 

 Arabis alpiua, Myosotis alpestris, some of the fancy pansies, Phlox 

 subulata, Corydalis lutea, and other early blooming plants, we shall 

 secure to him a glorious display of flowers at a time when it is too soon 

 to plant the bedders ; and when these early flowers are over, the plants 

 will furnish relieving breadths of green, to render more beautiful than 

 they would be otherwise such displays of bedders as the cultivator may 

 desire to indulge in. 



In these remarks a mere hint is given of what is meant by the pro- 

 posed combination of the principal features of the old borders and the 

 modern style of promenade colouring. If followed out, it will be found 

 to afford endless entertainment, and to be full of promise and most 

 happy results. Let those who prefer to see everything iu its season, 

 and to have flowers in ail seasons, begin seriously to consider how best 

 to combine the most attractive features of the border and the prome- 

 nade. It can be done and will be done ; those who do it first and best 

 shall have the greatest honour. S. H. 



FLOWER SHOWS IN APEIL AND MAY. 



Royal Botanic Society. — Third 

 Spring Show t , April 29 — This was a 

 beautiful and interesting exhibition, 

 and was favoured with brilliant 

 weather, and a very large and fashion- 

 able attendance. 



Roses were indescribably fresh 

 and beautiful ; the large plants shown 

 by Mr. C. Turner and Mr. W. Paul 

 were models of what exhibition roses 

 should be — large solid round bushes, 

 showing no evidences of being hard 

 tied or stiffly trained, but free and 

 natural in outline, with abundant and 

 healthy leafage down to the rim of 

 the pot, and the flowers at regular 

 distances all over the plant. The race 

 to-day was between Mr. Turner and 

 Mr. W. Paul, and they were well 

 matched. Mr. Turner's great plants 

 comprised Souvenir de Malmaison, 

 General Jacqueminot, wonderfully 



fresh and bright ; Barorme Prevost, 

 Gloire de Dijon, Souvenir d'un Ami. 

 Mr. W. Paul had Charles Lawson, 

 Madame Boll, a very coarse but 

 showy rose ; Vainqueur de Goliath, 

 Souvenir d'un Ami, Jean Goujon, 

 coarse ; Senateur Vaisse, La)lia, open- 

 ing rather confusedly, as if it had 

 been hard-up for water a week before; 

 Celine Forestier, superb. Messrs. 

 Paul and Son sent Anna AJexiefF, 

 Juno, a fine old rose, and deserving 

 of moi'e notice than it s^ets of late ; 

 Souvenir d'un Ami, Paul Ricant, 

 John Hopper, Lselia, General Jacque* 

 minot, Senateur Vaisse. 



New Roses. — Mr. Turner sent 

 Mrs. W. Paul, which happened to 

 stand in front of General Jacque- 

 minot (H. P.), and appeared so much 

 like it that the tallies aaigkt have been 

 changed, and there are not many 



