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will soon colonr and make a fine featare in panel and geo- 

 metrical groundwork. 



5. Eoheveria glauoa metallica. A very distinct and valuable 

 addition to this class of summer bedding plants, A deep 

 glaucous green with a bronze liue, large showy leaves, free and 

 dwarf grower. Propagated by offsets and seed. 



BED B. 



1. Golden Pyrethrnm. 



2. Lobelia Stonei, new, and producing a profusion of dark 

 blue flowers. A very compact and upright-growing variety ; a 

 marked improvement on the speciosa section ; it is the deside- 

 raium in the Lobelia group. Cuttings iu March or April make 

 nice plants by the Ist of June. Grow them on in heat the 

 fore part of the time. 



3. Altemanthera paronychyoides major, new, orange and 

 carmine. It makes a beautiful contrast with the blue Lobelia. 

 It has proved one of the distinct and attractive bedding plants 

 of the past season, so it can be recommended on its merits ; 

 in a word, it is an exceedingly pleasing acquisition. 



4. Altemanthera magnifica. Orange and red. We use this 

 sort very extensively in the London parks, and with great suc- 

 cess. It is most highly ornamental, and rather a vigorous 

 grower, but still close 



and compact. This 

 beautiful variety will 

 be found as effective in 

 tone of colour for ele- 

 gant contrasts as others 

 in the same group. 



5. Echeveria secunda 

 glauca. The utility of 

 this plant for bedding 

 purposes is well known 

 — for margins of beds 

 it is extremely effective ; 

 indeed, it is one of the 

 most attractive and 

 useful bedding plants 

 in Hyde Park, where 

 there is an immense 

 quantity of it used. 



6. Altemanthera 

 amoena. Colour ma- 

 genta. 



7. Stellaria graminea 

 aurea, a new and ele- 

 gant little golden plant. 

 It is exceedingly useful 

 and ornamental. It is 

 a valuable addition, and 

 is very effective as a 

 margin, and the closer 

 it is kept clipped the 

 brighter it becomes in 

 colour. It is worthy of 

 a place iu the most 

 select designs. It ia 

 hardy, and may be pro- 

 pagated by puUing it 

 into small pieces. It contrasts beautifully with the grass, and 

 shows the bed to perfection. — N. Cole. 



Fig. 114.— Bed B, 



IN THE "WEST COUNTEIE.— No. 1. 



THE EXETEE ROSE SHOW. 

 The first gage in the great tournament of 1875 was thrown 

 down as it ia fitting in the fair capital of the west, and right 

 well (notwithstanding the really awful weather of the past week, 

 when storm, and hurricane, and rain seemed to be striving for 

 the mastery), was the contest upheld ; and yet it was not a 

 little strange that the only exhibits iu the large classes amongst 

 nurserymen came from Slough and Cheshunt, while Exeter, 

 Torquay, and Hereford were unrepresented ; and although the 

 first prize amongst amateurs fell to Mr. Baker of Heavitree, yet 

 the second prize was carried off by Mr. Gould of Reading, in 

 the large class. It was indeed a marvel that such flowers 

 could be staged after such weather as we have had. Doubtful 

 indeed must have been the thoughts of the indefatigable 

 Secretary of the Exeter Society when, the day before, rain and 

 sunshine alternated throughout the day, and happy must he 

 have felt as the day broke with a fine clear sky, and a really 

 perfect day for a show day succeeded the stormy and chilly one 

 of Thursday; and as he looked through the tents and saw the 



trays of bloom that were all ready for the fray, Mr. Gray must 

 have felt that the growers had well bupported him in his time 

 of need. 



The contest in the nurserymen's class lay between Messrs. 

 Paul & Son and Mr. Charles Turner — close enough in the class 

 for seventy-two, and so close in that for forty-eight trebles that 

 the Judges were compelled, after much hesitation, to place them 

 equal Messrs. Paul & Son's were a more even lot, and Mr. C. 

 Turner's bore the palm in size. In the collection of the former 

 the following were particularly f^ood ; — -Madame Charles Wood, 

 Diipuy-Jamiu, Reynolds Hole, Fisher Holmes, Robert Marnock, 

 Marquise do Castellane, Wilson Saunders, Cheshunt Hybrid, 

 Marguerite de St. Amand, Louis Van Houtte, Prince de Portia, 

 Madame Lacbarme, Etienne Levet, Camille Bernariiin, M. Hip- 

 poljte Jamaiu, General Jacqueminot, The Shah, La France, and 

 Thomas Mills. In Mr. Turner's the following were especially 

 fine : — Nardy Frures, La France, Xavier Olibo, Abel Grand, 

 Ferdinand de Lesseps, Devienne Lamy, Monsieur Boncenne, 

 Centifolia Rosea, SenateurVaisse, Charles Lefebvre, Marie Van 

 Houtte, Mrs. Baker, Madame Lacharme, and Mens. Boncenne. 

 And here let me say that it is my decided conviction that I 

 ought to advise (save that I am a man of peace), my good old 

 friend Lacharme to indict that reverend libeller the Rev. 

 J. B. M. Camm and other offenders for a libel on his wife. No 

 names were too bad for her — " coarse as a navvy," and " dirty as 



a scullion " (pretty well 

 that, I think, for a mild 

 man), had I not then a 

 grim satisfaction in tak- 

 ing this reverend ca- 

 lumniator by the ear 

 (metaphorically), and 

 bringing him over to 

 these blooms and mak- 

 ing him confess that aa 

 a white Rose she is ut- 

 terly unrivalled. It is 

 said she requires fair 

 weather (well, we have 

 not exactly had fair 

 weather lately), and so 

 do other high-prized 

 Roses — Mons. Neman, 

 Mdlle. E ugenie Verdier, 

 and others ; yet no one 

 abuses them, no! Ma- 

 dame Lacharme is the 

 best white pot Rose we 

 have, and I would fain 

 believe we have none to 

 equal her for outdoor 

 work. In the class for 

 forty-eight trebles Mr. 

 Turner and Messrs. 

 Paul & Son were, after 

 a very close contest, 

 placed equal first. In 

 Mr. Turner's were good 

 examples of Baronne 

 Rothschild, Devonien- 

 sis, Alfred Colomb, Ma- 

 r<jchal Niel, Madame 

 Lacharme, without a 

 tigne of blush ; Louis 

 Van Houtte, and Eti- 

 enne Levet. In Mr. 

 Paul's were Marquise de Mortemart, Cheshunt Hybrid, Francois 

 Michelon, Madame Lacharme, The Shah, Beauty of Waltham, 

 Eugenie Verdier, Reynolds Hole (very good), Senatenr Vaisss 

 and Marquise de Castellane. 



Amongst amateurs Mr. R. G. N. Baker of Heavitree was pre- 

 eminently first, and some of his blooms could not be surpassed 

 for colour and form. I have never seen, I think, Duke of Edin- 

 burgh BO thoroughly and intensely scarlet without an atom of 

 shading, while such a box of Charles Lefebvre as he set up I 

 have rarely if ever seen. Among his forty-eights the following 

 were very fine— Madame Caillat, Alfred Colomb, Duke of Edin- 

 burgh, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Catherine Mermet, President 

 Thiers, Senateur Vaisse, M. Neman (very fine), Fisher Holmes, 

 Souvenir d'Elise Varden, and Marquise de Mortemart. In his 

 twenty-fours I noticed Madame C. Wood, Baronne Rothschild, 

 Madame Victor Verdier, Duie of Wellington, Marie Van Houtte, 

 Horace Vernet, Marie Baumann, and Souvenir d'un Ami. In 

 the claEs for eighteen trebles Mr. Baker was again first, amongst 

 others with grand blooms of Mad. Eugenie Verdier, Savior 

 Olibo, Baronne Rothschild, Marquise de Mortemart, Ferdinand 

 de Lesseps, Duke of Edinburgh, and Lord Macaulay. In the 

 class for twelve Roses of any one sort the first prize was awarded 

 to Mr. Baker for Charles Lefebvre, and the second to Oomtesse 

 de Paris, bright crimson rose, unknown to me, but as shown 



