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THE FLOEIST AND P0M0L0GI3T. 



[ February, 



trice Eugenie, Byron, Ensign, Carminata, Etendard, Marie Dumortier, Samuel Weymouth, 

 Mozart, Linne\ Reverend Berkeley, Madame Basseville, Madame Rabourdin, Le Poussin, 

 Empereur Napoleon, Lady Franklin, Sir Joseph Paxton, Anais, Achille, Le Titien, Cherubini, 

 The Colonel, Bernard Palissy, Madame Furtado, Fulton, James Veitch. 



For a still more numerous class, who may wish for a nice little collection at a moderate 

 cost, I add a list of 50 older and less expensive varieties, of good quality, which any respectable 

 establishment iu the seed and bulb trade should be able to supply together, for about 50s.: — 

 Archimedes, Madame Binder, Due de Malakoff, Laslia, Jeanne d'Arc, Mrs. Siddons, Lord Raglan, 

 Madame de Vatry, Ophir, Madame Souchet, Madame Eugene Verdier, Dr. Andry, Ninon de 

 l'Enclos, Cldmence, Adonis, Endymion, Isoline, Rembrandt, Napoleon III., Comte de Morny, 

 MarcSchal MacMahon, Marie, Bertha Rabourdin, Theresa, Julia, Ceres, Janire, Galathee, 

 Rebecca, Cuvier, Brenchleyensis, Victor Verdier, Madame Domage, Dr. Hogg, Clara, Madame 

 Haquin, Zoe, Mars, Oracle, John Bull, Madame Truffaut, Mr. Marnock, Madame Leseble, Lord 

 Granville, Juliet, Princesse Mathilde, Calendulacus, The Cardinal, James Watt, Canary. 



Dublin. J. F. Lombard. 



MONTHLY CHRONICLE. 



| CCOBDING- to the Keport of the Examiners of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society, the December Examination of young Gardeners gave results 

 which were below the average, the candidates showing themselves specially 

 deficient in respect to orthography. The awards made were as follow : — 



5£he late Black Orleans is a fine but neglected Plum, ripening about 



the middle of October. It is round, sometimes inclining to oval, of a deep 

 purple, with yellow flesh, and very rich and good. It is not such a wild grower 

 as that called Sandalls, which forms a large tree, and comes earlier into bearing. 

 Compared with the latter, it seems a superior variety as to size and flavour. 



©bituarg* 



fRR. William Hurst, the senior partner in the well-known and highly 



respected firm of Hurst and Son, seedsmen, of Leadenhall Street, died on -the 

 24th of December last. He had been for some time in failing health, and had 

 all but reached the allotted threescore and ten, being G9 years of age. 



|$R. Edward Parke Francis died on the 11th of January, at his 



residence, North Eoad Cottage, Hertford, in his 67th year. He was well known 

 as a Rose-grower, and had been in business for nearly 40 years. 



■ $jXr. James Backhouse, the senior partner of the eminent firm of 



Backhouse and Son, nurserymen and seedsmen, York, died on the 20th of January, 

 at his residence, Holdgate House, near York, in the 75th year of his age. 



