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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



W. F. Watson, Esq., Isleworth, have 

 taken the first prize wherever they 

 have been shown this season. 



Stove and Greenhouse were very- 

 plentiful, but the only apparent dif- 

 ference between them and those at 

 Kensington the previous week, was 

 that the AUamandas were in unusually 

 fine bloom, and made brilliant objects. 

 Stephanotis floribunda, Dracophyllum 

 gracile, Everlastings, Kalosanthes 

 ininiata, and K. coccinea superba were 

 shown in excellent condition. 



Fuchsias were in lots of six, but 

 were not so fine aa they will be in a 

 few weeks. 



Miscellaneous and Novelties. — 

 Messrs. T. Jackson had a beautifully- 

 grown specimen of the Pitcher plant, 

 Cephalotus foUicularis, and good ex- 

 amples of the lattice plant, Ouviranda 

 fcenestralis and O. bermeriana. The 

 novelties were numerous. Mr. Ivery 

 had a new British fern, Polystichum 

 angulare. Mr. Bull had one which 

 had not been before shown in London, 

 Athyrium filix foemina coronatum. 

 Messrs. Yeitch had Juniperis rigida, 



a Cryptomeria, and a pretty-looking 

 Retinispora from Japan ; also Wood- 

 wardia Japonica and Lastrea erytliro- 

 sora, from the same country, of the 

 hardy evergreen class, and decided 

 acquisitions. 



Ferns. — A great number were 

 shown. Messrs. A. Henderson and 

 Co. had a beautiful lot of twelve exo- 

 tics — Drynaria musfefolia, D. coro- 

 nans, Angiopteris erecta, Cibotium 

 Schiedei, Phlebodiura fulvinatum, 

 Alsophylla Australis, Lastrea patens, 

 Cyathea voconensis and Brainea in- 

 signis. The British ferns were shown 

 in groups of twelve, Messrs. Ivery 

 and Son showing a lot which cannot 

 be too highly praised. They were 

 Lastrea filix mas. cristata, Athyrium 

 filix fcemina plumosum, Osmunda re- 

 galia cristata, Pseudathyrium flexile,' 

 Adiantum capillis veneris, Asplenium 

 fontanum, Woodsia ilvensis, Poly- 

 stichum angulare imbricatum, Hy- 

 menopliyllum Wilsonii, Blechnum 

 apicant ramosum, Trichomanes radi- 

 can3, and Scolopendrium sculptura- 

 tum. 



ROSE GOSSIP.— No. IV. 



AUTTJMlSrAL BLOOMERS. 



In the desire to possess exhibition 

 flowers and novelties, rosarians too 

 often forget varieties more suitable 

 for the usual run of amateurs, who 

 have neither the space nor accessories 

 at command for growing large collec- 

 tions. Amateurs so circumstanced 

 should make free and hardy growth, 

 brilliancy of colour, and profusion 

 and frequency of bloom, their pri- 

 mary consideration ; and though some 

 of our choicest kinds combine these 

 qualities, such are the exception and 

 not the rule ; while many others of 

 equal merit as garden decorations, 

 though inferior in properties for the 

 " stand," are lost sight of. There are 

 kinds also valuable from coming into 

 flower at a time when the first efibrts 

 of the perpetuals are over, and they 

 are preparing for a second display, 

 which too often, however, never 



i comes. These sorts must be looked 

 for among the Bourbons and Noi- 

 settes, deficient, perhaps, in size and 

 symmetry, but nevertheless charming 

 as denizens of the borders, afibrding 

 the luxury of a fragrant bouquet 

 when roses are really a treasure. 

 The chrysanthemum has attained its 

 popularity more from the period at 

 which it comes into bloom than from 

 its intrinsic beauty ; yet there are not 

 a few roses which flower quite as late, 

 and better withstand the influences 

 of an unfavourable autumn. Any 

 one visiting the nurseries in ISTovem- 

 ber to select plants for lifting from 

 the rose beds, can scarcely fail to 

 remark some kinds full of flowers, 

 or of buds which only require a few 

 days of open weather to arrive at 

 maturity. Such are the kinds for 

 amateurs to select, and such, I be- 



