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cloth ; colour maroon-crimson, with the throat thickly speckled with 

 shining black, which spots get more dim towards the base of the 

 flower j truss compact, good build. 



VAEIETIES OF THE ROSE SECTION. 



Euclid : Flowers medium size, cupped ; colour brisk rose-peach, 

 upper petal freckled sparingly with brown ; neat truss. — Narcissus : 

 Rosy blush, freckled closely with dark-brown halfway up the petals ; 

 a large handsome crown of flowers. — Atrosanguineum : Corolla cam- 

 panulate ; deep lobes ; substance good ; colour rosy crimson ; interior 

 mottled halfway up with black ; more conspicuous on the upper por- 

 tion ; pretty. — Brayanum : Delicate rose-blush, with short obtuse lobes 

 without a stain ; pretty. — Barclayanum : Delicate rose, sparingly 

 mottled with lively brown; corolla divided into six well-rounded 

 segments, campanulate. — Hendersonii : Throat dull white, suffused 

 with purple, margined by a broad band of rose-purple; the upper 

 petal furnished with mottlings of deeper shade of same colour. — Mrs 

 John Waterer : Delicate rose colour, deeply shaded above by violet- 

 purple ; dark pencillings strongly defined on centre of superior seg- 

 ment ; fine. — Regalie : A grand flower, quite in keeping with the name ; 

 colour dark rose, with a few stray mottlings of deep brown on the 

 upper petals ; texture leathery and shining, bell-shaped ; truss extra 

 large, dome-shape. — General Wilson : Pale crimson, with dark pencil- 

 lings scattered over uppermost part of corolla ; both flowers and truss 

 neat and compact. — lago : Has flowers perfect in form, of extra tex- 

 ture, which last in condition a most incredible time ; colour brilliant 

 rose-crimson, with a visible dash of maroon incorporated ; the throat 

 strongly marked by dots of brownish-black. — Madame Fitzgerald : A 

 most dazzling rose of deep hue ; corolla cup-shaped, marked on the 

 uppermost petals by small brown spots ; truss moderately large, dome- 



Cultural Hints. — Most people are acquainted with the proper mode 

 of outdoor treatment. In short, their whole requirements are com- 

 prised in being planted in good rich peaty soil, well drained, screened 

 from cutting blasts, and if possible in some measure shaded from the 

 mid-day sun, with an open sky above. This, with copious supplies of 

 water while making wood, is about all they need. Now let us sup- 

 pose it is autumn and we have a goodly number of plants in full bud, 

 some of which we desire to force a little for conservatory use. We 

 should at once select what we require of those known to be the earliest, 

 have them potted into well-drained pots and put under glass, with no 

 artificial heat until New Year's Day. The soil should be of equal 

 parts turfy peat, leaf -mould, and a portion of loam and old reduced 



