MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



lina. pure white; with a salmon, and sometimes quite an orange centre— splen- 

 did ; and Wells' Red, No. 21, rich red and pink — the flowers are produced in 

 the most graceful clusters. Musk : — La Princesse de Nassau, pale straw colour, 

 very highly scented. Microi'Iiylla : — Pourpre du Luxembourg, fine dark red ; 

 and Tnom'phe de Macheteaux rose, beautifully edged with white, cupped, and 

 vary lan»e. Bracteata : — Lucida duplex, fine large double white, with glossy 

 foliage; and Maria Leonida, beautiful white, with a rosy centre.— Gardeners 

 Chronicle. 



At the London Horticultural Society's show, at Chiswick, we carefully in- 

 spected the very splendid exhibition of Roses, and out of the many thousands 

 exhibited, we took minutes of all the best in each class ; we shall give them in 

 this and the next two Numbers. 



By Messrs. Wood and Son, Woodlands Nursery, Marbsfield, Sussex. 



Hybrid China Roses. — Becquet ; very rich beautiful deep dark purple. Fili- 

 al ns; very bright dazzling scarlet, capped, most beautiful. Coupe d' Amour; 

 bright pinkish rose, cupped, middle sized, very beautiful. 



Mareschal Lannes. — Most beautiful bright red shaded with purple. 



Bizarre de la Chine. — Very rich red and purple. 



Lilac Queen. — Purple and lilac, large ; a splendid flower. 



Vingi Neuf Jvillet. — Very beautiful bright dazzling scarlet, shaded with 

 purple. 



Petit Pierre. — Purple and red. cupped, large and very double. 



Triomphe iV Angers. — Most brilliant crimson, striped with light, delightfully 

 fragrant. 



Magna rosea. — Very beautiful deep rose. 



Camuzet carnee. — Magnificent bright rose ; a very delightful scented kind. 



Smith's Seedling. — Bright rosy-crimson. 



Pallagi. — Bright scarlet, very showy. 



Madame de St. Her mine. — Deep rich cherry colour, very beautiful. 



Sandeur l'nnachee. — Rosy-lilac, beautifully and distinctly striped with white. 



Blairii. — Beautiful rose coloured. 



Laseatut. — Fine rose coloured, very large and splendid. 



Attelainede Bourbon. — Beautiful bright mottled rose colour: large and very 

 double. 



Beaute vire. — Fine distinct rosy red. cupped : a beautiful kind. 



Coccinea superha. — Fine scarlet and crimson, beautifully cupped. 



(To be continued.) 



FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR DECEMBER. 



Plant Stovk. — Roses, Honeysuckles, Jasmines, Persian Lilacs, Azaleas, 

 Rhododendrons, Carnations, Pinks. Primroses. Mignonette, Stocks. Aconites, 



Persian Irises, Crocuses, &c. required to lilonrn from January, should be brought 

 in early in the present month. The plants should be placed at Brat iu the 

 •; part of the bouse: never allow them to want water. Pots or boxes 

 containing bulbous-rooted flowering plants, as Hyacinths, Narcissus, Persian 

 Irises, Crocuses, &c, should occasionally be introduced, bo as to have a suc- 

 cession of bloom. All stove-plants will recpnre occasionally syringing over the 

 top, in order to wash off any accumulated du»t from the foliage. Cactus plants 

 that have been kept out of' doors, or in the greenhouse, should occasionally be 

 brought mto the stove for flowering, which gives a succession. If any of the 



forced plants be attacked with the green fly, a syringe with diluted tobacco- 

 water will destroy them. If the leaves appear bit, and turn brown (the effect 

 of damage by red spider), a syringe of soap-suds at the under side of the leaves 



