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Charles Noble, Bagshot. Such varieties as Lord and Lady Londesborough, Miss 

 Bateman, &C., are lino acquisitions. Mr Turner sent a collection of cut Tulips, 

 very bright and gaudy-looking ; Messrs G. G. Henderson & Sons, a pan of the 

 pretty Hoop Petticoat Narciss (Narcissus Bulbocodium) ; and among the Orchids 

 staged by Lord Londesborough and others were very fine examples of Cattleya 

 Wagneri, Trichopilia crispa, of which there was shown both a beautiful dark as 

 well as a very pale variety ; Dendrobium Dalhousianum, Oncidium crispum, 

 Vanda Denisoniana, Laelia purpurata, &c 



A good collection of fruit was staged by Mr Miles, gardener to Lord Carington, 

 Wycombe Abbey, which included Enville and Queen Pines, Black Hamburg 

 and Chaouch Grapes, two dishes of Cherries, two Melons, and Brown Ischia Figs, 

 a most commendable lot. Messrs Standish & Co. exhibited three bunches of 

 Royal Ascot Grapes, of fine quality, and covered with a delightful bloom ; three 

 of Muscat of Alexandria, quite as good, every way highly commendable. From 

 Mr W. Gardiner, Eatington Park, came the following Apples, all in a high state 

 of preservation : French Crab, Sturmer Pippin, Reinette du Canada, Mere de 

 Menage, Royal Russet, Dumelon's Seedling, Rymer, and Han well Souring. 



REVIEWS. 



A Book about Roses: how to Grow and Show them. By S. Reynolds 



Hole. Second Edition. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and 



London. 



No one will be surprised that this rich, racy, invigorating, pleasure-giving book 

 has passed into a Second Edition. The Author has retouched and amended 

 some portions of it, and added a postscript to Appendix No. 2, wherein he de- 

 scribes and comments on the new Roses to be sent out during the present season. 

 This is an addition of importance, as ic brings down the record of new flowers 

 to the present time. 



The matter and manner of the book who shall arraign? Any set criticism on 

 such a work would only result in the critic becoming convulsed with laughter, 

 and then aghast at his own temerity. But we stumble on two typographical errors, 

 and manage to find courage enough to exhibit them. We have no set pugilistical 

 tastes — we cannot claim to be well up in the pages of ' Fistiana,' and would much 

 rather read Mill than witness a "mill." But when even a pugilist achieves 

 immortality (sic), the least we can desire is that his name be spelt correctly ; 

 and so we hope when our author revises a third edition he will substitute 

 Langham for Langan on page 13 ; on page 201, The Rev. R. Fellowes, Shottesham, 

 should read The Rev. C. Fellowes. That worthy amateur florist has raised so 

 many fine Dahlias, besides growing lovely Roses, that it were a pity he were not 

 in a niche of the temple of fame inscribed on that page of Mr Hole's book. 



It is a book not for Florists merely, but for everybody— the work of a true 

 cosmopolitan — a man with a genial loving heart, and broad, generous sympathies ; 

 such men are at once the glory and the boast of Floriculture. 



Prize Essays on Cottage Gardening and Window Gardening. Printed for 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington. 

 This is a neat little pamphlet of 36 pages, containing the two prize Essays which 

 gained the prizes, offered by Mr W. Egerton Hubbard, and has been printed by 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, for circulation among those for whose especial 

 benefit they have been written. Both are indited in a popular manner, can be 



