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nicely the curious bunchy style and pecu- 

 liar colour — a bluish rose-pink — of this 

 rariety, and the specimen was, more- 

 over, finely grown for size and compact- 

 ness. 



Royal Botanic, June 11th. — This was 

 the great show of the season, comprising 

 the usual great tent filled with plants and 

 flowers, a corridor tent filled svith cut 

 flowers, novelties, and fruits, and Mr. 

 John Waterer's exhibition of rhododen- 

 drons in a separate tent, where the speci- 

 mens were all planted out on banks, 

 intersected with gravel walks. To report 

 upon the details would be to repeat much 

 that has been already said, though there 



were, of course, many subjects not pre- 

 viously exhibited this season, and many 

 never before exhibited. But, as in the 

 preceding notices, most of the more im- 

 portant subjects have been dealt with so 

 as to place before our readers the best 

 species and varieties in each, it will be 

 better for the economizing of space to 

 remain content for the present with this 

 general remark, that tbe most fastidious 

 of the visitors must have been abundantly 

 satisfied ; and, as the place was thronged 

 throughout the day by a most fashionable 

 company, we may fairly say that the exhi- 

 bition was in every sense a complete 

 success. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Usefulness of British Birds. By 

 Isaac Illsey. London : W. H. Colling- 

 ridge.— This is very interesting and trust- 

 worthy account of the habits of the birds 

 which frequent British gardens. The au- 

 thor doos not deny that birds oftentimes 

 do mischief to growing crops, and his 

 defence of their general utility is of a much 

 more common-sense character than many 

 of the defences that have been attempted. 

 It is, in fact, the best book on the subject 

 we have yet seen, and should be distributed 

 freely among gardeners, cottagers, in vil- 

 lage schools, and wherever there are folks 

 given to bird-nesting, shooting, trapping, 

 etc., etc. 



Memory Tablets of Garden Work : 

 The Flower Garden. Edited by William 

 "Wardle, Nurseryman and Florist.— This 

 consists of six cards containing directions 

 for the management of the flower garden 

 throughout the year. It is the old story of 

 " dahlias may be planted," etc., etc., etc. ; 

 not a word of original matter, not a single 

 practical hint of any kind worth having. 

 We usually give away to our young friends 

 all the good little gardening books that 

 come to us for notice, but having noticed 

 this, we toss it to the waste basket. It is 

 not worth having as a gift. 



The Utilization of Minute Life. By 

 Dr. T. L. Phipson, F.C.S., etc. Groom- 

 bridge and Sons. — This is a thoroughly 

 scientific treatise on the insects, molluscs, 

 worms, infusoria, etc., etc., which contri- 

 bute to the wealth of nations and the com- 



fort or luxury of individuals. Coral-reefs 

 and honeycombs, cochineal, and sea-pearls, 

 are examples of the utilities of creatures 

 of whose histories but little is known, and 

 that little is made the most of by Dr. 

 Phipson in an elegant volume, which will 

 delight all who read it, whether they be 

 simple or subtle, young or old. 



The Rose Boole ; a Practical Treatise 

 on the Culture of the Bose, etc., etc. 

 By Shieley Hibbekd, F.K.H.S. Groom- 

 bridge and Sons. — The object of this work 

 is to supply the amateur cultivator with 

 reliable information on every department 

 of rose culture,so that the merest beginner 

 will be enabled to proceed safely in select- 

 ing, cultivating, and propagating, and the 

 experienced rosarian know best how to 

 proceed in the improvement of his collec- 

 tion, and in the higher departments of hy- 

 bridizing, multiplying seedling varieties, 

 etc., etc. There is a general review of all 

 the families of cultivated roses, and chap- 

 ters on forming the rosarium, cultivating 

 yellow roses, descriptions of all known 

 methods of propagating, and a calendar of 

 operations in the rose garden. 



The Garden Oracle, 1864.— The new 

 edition just published contains a revised 

 and enlarged descriptive list of new and 

 interesting fruits. Amongst them are 

 many fruits not before described, and some 

 important hints on the cultivation of 

 varieties usually regarded t as difficult to 

 manage. 



