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only be said that it is n, valuable addition to the list of climbing 

 roses. Mr. Charles Turner has also exhibited several remarkably 

 fine seedlings, of which the undermentioned, belonging to the liybrid 

 perpetuiil section, are especially deserving of attention, namely, Rev. 

 J. I',. Camm, a dark rose, rich in colour, and superb in form. Royal 

 Stcmdard, a light variety which without doubt is the most perfect 

 rose we have, the flowers areas round as a ball, and very full. Miss 

 Hassard is a pink variety, of the most attractive character, and 

 although not equal in quality to the two preceding, it possesses 

 sufficient merit to justify its taking high rank amongst gardeu roses. 

 To speak of the established varieties, would occupy more space 

 than can be well afforded. Moreover, it is not needful to do so, for 

 selections of the best roses arranged according to the purpose for 

 which they are specially adapted, are given in the new edition of 

 the "Amateur's Rose Book," of which doubtless the majority of the 

 readers of the Floeal Would possess a copy. 



BEAUTIFUL SHEUBBEEIES. 



BY ALEXANDER M'kENZIE, ESQ., 

 Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill, N. 



|F late years more attention has very properly been paid 

 to trees and shrubs remarkable for their picturesque 

 appearance or richly coloured leafage, and as a natural 

 result the shrubbery borders in many gardens are 

 beginning to present a more attractive appearance 

 than in years gone by. There, however, yet remains much more 

 to be done in this direction, for even in some of our best gardens 

 the planting of the commoner kinds of trees and shrubs is carried 

 on as if there was nothing better obtainable. This may, in a large 

 measure, be attributed to a lack of knowledge of such things as the 

 richly marked foliage of the golden hollies, the elegant plumy growth 

 of the choicer Betinosporas and Cupressus, or the startling colours 

 of the variegated Spanish Chesnut and the ash-leaved Maple. Then, 

 again, there are a considerable number of the most beautiful 

 flowering trees which are very sparingly planted, some of them 

 being hardly known beyond the principal nurseries. People who 

 have hitherto confined their observations to the shrubberies in 

 private gardens which have been planted some years, would be quite 

 astounded, were they to visit a first-class nursery, at the vast 

 number of beautiful trees and shrubs available for the embellishment 

 of the garden. 



I would here pause to say that the garden should be planted in 

 a quite diff"erent manner to the park. There are plenty of people 

 who think that park and forest trees are the mosb suitable for the 

 garden also ; but nothing more directly opposed to the principles 

 of gardeu decoration could well be advanced. In the garden we 

 require materials of the richest description, which are also remark- 

 November. 



