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climbing autumnal Roses. It is a seedling from Ophirie, which it 

 resembles in habit : the flowers are white, with yellowish centres." 



Let us add, that the work from which the foregoing extract is taken is 

 intended to be published once a year, virtually as a continuation of 

 the " Rose Garden and Supplement," which brought down the informa- 

 tion on Roses, descriptive and cultural, to the year 1853. 



The present number contains charming illustrations of Louis Chaix 

 (of which a representation was given in our pages for December last) ; 

 Madame William, a yellow tea-scented Rose, which was much admired 

 when shown in St. James's Hall last spring ; Lord Palmerston, a 

 Bourbon Perpetual, whose habit and constitution is stated to resemble 

 Louise Odier, but the colour distinct and more striking ; and last, but 

 not least, a small Perpetual Moss, called Empress Eugenie. " There 

 are no fewer," says Mr. Paul, " than three different Roses named in 

 compliment to the Empress Eugenie, so loyal and gallant are our Rose- 

 loving neighbours, the French. Those who admire this kind must 

 take care that they obtain the right one. Unlike the preceding kinds, 

 the present does not belong to the showy and effective, but it is one of 

 those perfect little gems which the close observer of nature would be 

 content to dwell upon. The plant is of dwarf growth, but not delicate : 

 it deligh's in a rich soil, requires close pruning, and is even more 

 beautiful in the forcing-house than when grown out of doors. It was 

 raised from seed by Monsieur Guillot, of Lyons, some two or three 

 years since, but is still scarce, both in France and England." 



THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S "GRAND" SHOWS IN 

 ST. JAMES'S HALL. 



Mr. Editor, — I implore you to hear my plaint and to plead my cause. 

 I am a deeply injured, highly respectable, and numerous section of the 

 iamily of Flora, and for many years have been, and still am, a great 

 favourite with the ladies, and have always, until this present year, been 

 invited to assist at the horticultural fetes, which used to be so much 

 admired at Chiswick ; and, indeed, I never before heard that any one 

 in any place had for a moment thought that a show could be a show 

 unless I was present ; but, alas ! a change has come over the " spirit 

 of my dreams," I mean, over the spirit of the " powers that be ;" and 

 in the schedule which the Society sent forth for the grand spring 

 and summer shows, it has entirely left me without invitation or 

 place ; and, indeed, it has done the same shabby and ungrateful 

 thing to my esteemed friends the stove and greenhouse plants, which 

 I always used to meet and admire on those occasions with so much joy 

 and pleasure. Wishing to put as charitable a construction as possible 

 upon this slight, I thought perhaps the Society could not find room for 

 all. But surely that cannot be ; it must be this, and nothing else — the 

 Council have got their greengrocer to prepare the schedule, and he, to 

 suit his own trade, has left us out, and put in our place seven classes of 

 Greens, and offered fifty guineas prizes for them. Thus, at the grand 



