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Baroness Rothschild, H.P.; Edward Morren, H.P.; Général Jacque- 
minot, H.P.; John Hopper, H.P.; La France, H.P.; Madame La- 
charme, H.P., white; Madame Victor Verdier, H.P.; Madame 
Thérése Levet, H.P.; Maréchal Vaillant, H.P.; Marguerite de St, 
Amand, H.P.; Miss Ingram, H.C.; Paul Verdier, H.C.; Victor 
Verdier, H.P.; Charles Dawson, H.C. Teas: Céline Forestier, N. ; 
Cheshunt Hybrid, Madame de St. Joseph, Madame Falcot, Madame 
Willermoz, Marie Van Houtte, Perfection de Mont Plaisir, Madame 
Bravy, Souvenir d’un Ami, Madame Margottin. There are not 
many Bourbons wanted while so many of the foregoing classes are at 
command, but we can scarcely do without Souvenir de la Malmaison, 
which is superb when nicely done asa pot plant. 
MESSENGER’S PATENT HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS. 
sm HE system of building fruit and plant-houses, invented 
fl some years since by Messrs. Messenger and Co., Mid- 
land Horticultural Building and Hot-water Engineer- 
ing Works, Loughborough, has so fully realized the 
anticipations of the inventors, and satisfied the require- 
ments of cultivators, that we shall be doing good service to our 
readers by giving a brief description of the principles on which 
their houses are built. We would say, first of all, that although 
their structures differ in principle from those of other builders, 
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there is nothing fanciful about them, to give them a heavy, cumber- 
some appearance. Neither are they so light that they look as if 
a puff of wind would blow them down. The inventors appear, 1n 
working out their system, to have been fully alive to the importance 
of strength, elegance, and simplicity in the construction of hot 
houses, and they have certainly succeeded in combining these 
important qualities in a remarkably happy manner, They have 
January. 
