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is Duchesse de Nemours, rich rose-pink with a delicate shade of 

 lavender in the centre, and the habit most stately and commanding. 

 Another fine high-coloured variety is Buckii, a rich rosy-purple ; 

 and in the Tenuifolia section, which is so graceful in habit of growth, 

 we have Tenuifolia Smottthii, vivid rosy-crimson, and Tenuifolia 

 flore plena, deep rich crimson. The following light-coloured varieties 

 are the best in cultivation for distinctness and fine character. Alba 

 mutabilis, immense size, superbly formed, cup-shaped petals, blush 

 deepening to rose, creamy inside ; a most luxurious flower. Comte 

 de Paris, rosy-blush with bright citron centre, like a huge tea rose. 

 Fdidis superbo, deep rose, edged blush. Festiva, cream and canary, 

 like a tea rose, with hollyhock guard. General Bertrand, pure rose, 

 double to the centre, stately in habit, fine to stand by itself on a 

 lawn in a three-feet bed of deep rich soil. Grandiflora carnea plena, 

 blush and lemon. Grandiflora nivea plena, lemon blush. Lutea 

 variegata, light rose guard, buff centre changing to white. Lilacina 

 superba, rose-lilac and saffron, very distinct, and has a very fresh 

 and pleasing effect in the midst of other colours. Nivea plenissima, 

 a large flower of the most delicate blush-white. Prolifera tricolor, 

 white and lemon, shading to lavender-blush on the outside. Queen 

 Victoria, the form that of a rosette, with bold guard, inside lemon, 

 outside blush, and attaining to a great size, a circumference of near 

 thirty inches being by no means uncommon. Peine des Francais, 

 blush guard, pale straw inside tinted with red at the base. Sulphur ea 

 superba, delicate creamy sulphur, like a tea rose. TJmbellata superba, 

 blush outside, rich yellow within, the substance wax-like, and the 

 flower like a water-lily ; a good substitute, in fact, for the Victoria 

 regia, and only needing a square yard of good loam in any open 

 spot. Virginalis, primrose and white, most delicate and beautiful. 

 Walneriana, blush and yellow. It would be idle work for any one 

 to enter upon the raising of seedlings, unless with such varieties as 

 the foregoing to begin with, for the common pseonies of the borders 

 are trash compared with them. But given good varieties, there 

 may be some pleasure in saving and growing seed, which of course 

 is an easy task enough, and only needs one remark to be made about 

 it, and that is, that it is much better to sow as soon as ripe, than to 

 keep it till the spring ; and the best place for the seed-bed is under 

 a common garden frame. S. H. 



Culture of Pawxonia Imperialis. — This most beautiful plant can be propa- 

 gated either from the root or cuttings of the stem. It requires a very rich soil to 

 do well in, and if you give it plenty of dung when you plant it, especially when 

 you want to propagate it by the roots, you will be more certain to make fine plants ; 

 and if you planted in the autumn, you will be able to get roots large enough to 

 make plants the next autumn, when you can dig round the mother plant, and cut 

 off as many pieces as you think you require ; place them round the sides of your 

 pots or pans, the latter being preferable, and put in the middle of your pots or 

 pans a mixture of loam, peat, dung, and road-sand. Put them in a cold frame till 

 spring, and then remove them into heat, and in a short time they will start 

 vigorously. When they are grown about three inches, put them into a cooler 

 frame or greenhouse, and, by degrees, harden them off, and stand them out in a 

 shady place all the summer ; and early in autumn plunge them in a south aspect; 

 there let them remain till spring, then pot them off, or turn them out as you may 

 require to use them. 



