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is at least weeks earlier than the brier, and roses on it are from 
twenty to thirty days earlier in coming into bloom. 
The undermentioned varieties of roses do not take freely 
to the manetti, nor to the cultivated brier, namely :—Madame 
Furtado, H.P.; Devienne-Lamy, H.P.; Henri Ledechaux, H.P.; 
Clémence Raoux, H.P.: Hippolyte Flandrin, H.P.; Jean Towvais, 
H.P; Josephine Beauharnais, H.P.; Lelia, H.P.; Souvenir de la 
Malmaison, B.; Louis Magnan, H.P.; and Queen Victoria, H.P. 
HEBECLINIUM ATRORUBENS. 
HIS handsome asteraceous plant is rarely seen in good 
(ij condition, though it is abundantly worthy of the care 
required to insure a full development of its beauties. 
It 1s a native of the tropical parts of Mexico, and con- 
sequently should have stove treatment, and, as it 
flowers in January and February, it must be wintered in the lightest, 
HEBECLINIUM ATRORUBENS,. 
as well as driest, part of the stove, for the flower-buds fall without 
expanding if exposed to a damp or low temperature. When well 
December, 
