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to include the various matters that have acquired importance in con- 

 nection with rose-growing during the twelve years that have elapsed 

 since the original was produced. The work has had so large a sale, 

 and is still in such every-day request, that we felt bound to spare 

 no trouble to render it, so far aa we knew how, the best book of its 

 class before the public. Whether we have succeeded or not is for 

 others to judge, and, no doubt, the reviewers will scrutinize it 

 closely, and speak Avithout hesitation of its merits. 



HORTICULTURAL AFFAIRS. 



^HE Anniyeksary Festival of the Gardeners' Benevolent Institution is 

 fixed for Tliursday, July 2, under the Presidency, as announced in our 

 last issue, of Alfred de Rothscliild, Esq. The great Eose Show at 

 South Kensington ■will be held the day previous, and as several of the 

 intending exhibitors have promised to send their plants and flowers to 

 the London Tavern for the decoration of the tables and rooms, this festival is 

 likely to he of more interest than usual. 



Mk. Albert Muller, F.R.G.S., F.L.S., the well-known entomological writer, 

 has been .ippointed Director of the Zoological Gardens of Basle. 



Mr. Charles Turner, Eoyal Nurseries, Slough, had the honour of providing 

 a grand display of flowering and fine foliage plants at the Windsor Station of the 

 South-Western Eailway, on the occasion of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of 

 Edinburgli to Windsor Castle, and also a considerable proportion of the plants and 

 flowers employed in the decoration of the reception-rooms in the Castle. 



Mr. Harrt Yeitch, of the firm of Messrs. J. V^eitch and Sons, King's Eoad, 

 Chelsea, had the honour of presenting to her Majesty, on the occasion of the 

 arrival of tho Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh at Windsor, two bouquets, one of 

 them being intended for the Duchess of Edinburgh, to be presented by the Queen 

 on her arrival. At the same time, a third bouquet was presented to the Princess 

 of Wales, who was with the Queen. 



The Chiswick Trials of flowers this year will embrace New Pelargoniums 

 for bedding purposes ; pink and rose-coloured Zonal Pelargoniums for pot-culture ; 

 Fuchsias as pot plants ; Pentstemons ; flowering Begonias ; and bedding Violas 

 and Pansies. Those who possess novelties they desire to have tested, as well as 

 those who are willing to render aid in making the collection as complete as pos- 

 sible, are desired to send plants without delay to Mr. Barron, gardener-in-chief, 

 Eoyal Horticultural Society's Gardens, Chiswick. 



TuE Cercle Lyonnaise will hold a great Horticultural Exhibition on the 17tb, 

 18th, 19Lh, and 20th of September next. 



The JIidland Counties Horticultural Exhibition, to be held in the lower 

 grounds, Birmingham, i'rom Jaly 7 to July 10, appears likely to be the most im- 

 portant gathering of the year. His Eoyal Highness Prince Arthur has signified 

 his intention of becoming one of the patrons, and the schedule of prizes which has 

 been recently issued is unusually liberal and comprehensive. 



A Hyacinth, with no less than ten well-developed spikes, was exhibited at the 

 Crystal Palace last month. The bulb producing this unusual number of spikes was 

 one of a number of Norma, grown for the embellishment of the building by Mr. T. 

 Williams, the able superintendent of the indoor garden department. The flowers 

 amounted in the aggregate to 170, and had the appearance of a huge bouquet. 



Gbevillea rosmarinifolia. — This very handsome Protead, has proved quite 

 hardy in the nursery of Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, at Combe Wood, near King- 

 stcn-on-Thames. It was in bloom at the end of February, and its pretty red and 

 yellow flowers had a most attractive appearance. Our readers may make note of 

 this shrub as being specially adapted for " kind climates." 



The Eoyal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh was, we learn from the report 

 recently issued, visited last year by 78,932 persons, 



Messrs. Do">a'nie, Laird, and Laing's exhibition of hyacinths, which ooened 

 in the Crystal Palace on the 21st ult., is, as usual, remarkably good, and it has 



