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shade of rose, and are said to be produced continuously throughout 

 the season. Prince Paul Demiduff, one of Gruillot Fils' productions, 

 appears likely to prove a valuable addition to our list of bright car- 

 mine roses. The flowers are large, full, of good form, and said to be 

 produced continuously throughout tlie season. This also was 

 awarded a first-class certificate at the Lyons Congress. Macllle. 

 Marguerite Jamain, one of Jamain's seedlings, is full of promise. 

 The flowers are of a lively shade of rose-pink, of fair size and fine form. 

 Triomphe tie Eosomenes, from Gronod's seed-bed, is represented as 

 producing flowers remarkable for size aud perfection of form; the 

 colour, deep .velvety-crimson, the petals shading to fiery red. 

 The growth is said to be vigorous, and the flowers produced 

 contiuuously. Pe.rfectioyi de Blanches, a variety raised by Schwartz, 

 will most probably become a general favourite, for the flowers are 

 said to be pure white, of medium size, and of good form. There are 

 several good tea- scented varieties, but they do not appear to be of 

 sufiicient importance to justify their beiug purchased at the price 

 usually charged for new roses. Besides, we have so many good 

 things in the same class that we could well afibrd to wait for them. 



The beautiful light rose, Madame Lacharme, has been presented 

 in splendid condition at the spriug meetings of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, and the last time it was exhibited it had a first-class 

 certificate conferred upon it. It is no doubt one of the best roses of 

 last year, and the finest of all the light hybrid perpetuals. Mr. 

 Bennett, of the Manor Farm ifTursery, Stapleford, Wilts, who exhi- 

 bited the specimen which had the certificate conferred upon it, 

 exhibited at the same time two stands of blooms of a seedling of 

 his own raising, under the name of the Duchess of EdinhurgTi, and 

 was most deservedly granted a first-class certificate for it. The flowers 

 are of a similar character and colour to La France, one of the most 

 beautiful and popular of pink roses, but they are much fuller, and of 

 finer form. This will ultimately become a very popular variety, for it 

 is wonderfully free flowering, good blooms being produced on each 

 ahoot, even when the plants are grown in pots and forced into bloom. 

 Indeed, some plants I had the opportunity of seeing early in. the 

 season were literally smothered with flowers. 



SPEING FLOWERS. 



|E begin to be persuaded that our advocacy of the claims 

 of hardy spring flowex"s, aud our criticisms of their 

 merits, have not been in vain, and that possibly we have 

 turned the tide of fashion in favour of the many beau- 

 tiful hardy plants that are adapted for the embellish- 

 ment of our gardens, but which have for many years past been 

 neglected, owing to the rage that has prevailed for plants that are 

 tender in constitution and ephemeral in their attractions, and com- 

 paratively destitute of interest. In a certain sense, every plant has 

 a claim upon our admiration of its structure, and some points of 

 interest arising out of its history, physiology, uses, or distribution. 



M,.y. 



