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to glow with the intensity of its coloring, and is to the fore and middle ground of 

 shrubberies what the taller beech is among other trees. The beach has a soft 

 fluffiness and semi-transparency about it that the filbert, glorious as it is, lacks; and 

 the richest coloring treat — a very feast of glowing magnificence — is spread around 

 every far-reaching purple beech. One of the best modes of enjoying it to the full 

 is to put the trees between the beholder and the sun, and look through the leaves 

 towards him soon after he has risen, or a few hours before his setting. The purplo 

 is thus flooded with golden magnificence, and each leaf and branchlet is set ofi" to 

 admirable advantage. Purple beeches are especially rich as foreground to masses 

 of green oaks, elms, or other deciduous trees ; or set against larches, birches, or 

 limes, the light foliage of these or the flowers of service trees, wild crabs, pears, 

 apples, etc., give a deep tone to the glowing purple. Further, the young leaves 

 especially, contrast admirably with most conifers ; though it must be admitted that 

 the darker hues of the purple beech in autumn become too sombre accompaniments 

 for most pinuses. The place lor the purple beech is the background of shrubberies, 

 home plantations, belts, the park, and even the woods and forests ; for the purple 

 beech is not weakened by its color. It grows as fast, and forms timber neither 

 better nor worse than any other beech, and assuredly its more general use would 

 give a glow to forest scenery that would add much to its beauty, and to the breaking 

 of its dead monotony of color as well as form. Clumps of purple beech here and 

 there would change the face of our landscapes, and render them more agreeable 

 without their being one whit less profitable. What with our want of direct sunshine, 

 and our dripping clouds, and leaden skies, we have often a deficiency of cheering 

 color, and there could hardly be an easier and cheaper method of supplying this want 

 than the planting of our copses with groups of purple leaved filberts, and our woods 

 with purple beeches. 



The New Itoses. 



A cori'espondent of The Garden says the following are the best of the new 

 roses, brought out in England this year: "I must give the palm to Hybrid 

 Perpetual, Star of Waltham ; a seedling raised by William Paul, of Waltham, 

 Cron. This is a very fine pale, bright red-colored flower, very full, with great 

 depth of petal, and an abundance of them in it ; habits, vigorous and free, as 

 seen at a recent meeting of the Royal Botanic Society ; the flower was as near per- 

 fection as a rose could well be. 



Hybrid Pei'petual, Mons. Claude Levet, is also remarkably fine ; color, shaded rose, 

 flushed with violet, large and full, and with a good free habit. 



Hybrid Perpetual, Madame Jarvain^ is another splendid flower; and its beautiful, 

 pale, blush-pink tint will be certain to render it acceptable to everybody. If the 

 testimony of our leading rosarians be of any value, this will prove to be one of the 

 best of the new roses just being put in commerce. 



A thorough good rose is Hybrid Perpetual Etien-)ie Levet ; and this so completely 

 established its character as a good autumnal flower, that its general good qualities 

 may be taken for granted. This is of a shaded brilliant rosy hue, flushed with 

 violet ; the habit appears to be all that could be desired. 



Tea, Madame Cecille Berthod, is a beautiful, bright pale yellow flower, of 



