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Among the Bourbons were — Charles Suchet, purplish-crimson, of a very 

 pretty shape ; Comte de Rambuteau, of the same cast ; Delisle, a dark Rose, 

 finely cupped ; Due de Chartres, pale red, and a most superb Rose ; Dumont du 

 Courset, blight carmine, sometimes curiously marbled ; Edward Defosse, a bright 

 pink, shaped like Madame Nerard, first-rate; George Buvier, pale rose ; Glory 

 of Paris, another crimson variety, marbled with violet, and a fine ruse ; Impera- 

 trice Josephine, pale pink, of a very elegant shape, blooming in corymbs ; La 

 Gracieuse, reddish crimson, a seedling from Emile Courtier, and an estimable 

 variety; Le Grenadier, vivid crimson, frequently tinged with violet ; Madame 

 Suchet, rose and blush marbled, a delicate and beautiful variety ; Princesse 

 Clementine, violet-crimson, good ; Princesse de Modena, flesh ; Suchet, bright 

 purplish-crimson, very fine; Souvenir d'Anselume, a lively cherry colour; 

 Souvenir de Dumont d'Urville, crimson, changing to violet after expanding, and 

 Souvenir de la Malmaison, a magnificent flesh-coloured Rose. 



Among the Noisettes were — Mrs. Siddons, in the way of Le Pactole, but in its 

 then state not superior ; Similar, a yellowish buff, but in appearance a weak 

 grower ; and Chromatella, or Cloth of Gold, a Rose of yellow Noisette cast, of a 

 paler yellow than I expected, and which does not appear to open too freely. It 

 has, however, been an unfavourable season there for its flowering, and not being 

 very plentiful, it may yet prove better than is anticipated. 



Among the tea-scented I noticed Adam Rose, the flowers were bold and 

 large, but not very abundantly produced; Barbot, yellow, tinted with rose, 

 a vtry pleasing kind ; Boutrand, rose ; Comte de Paris, flesh, one of the finest 

 tea-scented Roses; Delices de Plantier, copperas-rose, very rich looking; Jose- 

 phine Malton, buffish yellow, of a beautiful form ; Julie Mansais, sulphur 

 white, the buds large and handsome ; La Renommee, a whitish-yellow, not new 

 but apparently little known ; Madame Roussel, white ; Marie de Medicis, rose, 

 with fawn centre, good and distinct ; Moire, large full pale yellow, a superb 

 Rose ; and Safranot, a distinct and striking variety, of a beautiful saffron colour 

 when first expanding, gradually melting off into buff Some of these varieties 

 I had previously seen in England, and in equal beauty of bloom ; but others 1 

 there claimed acquaintanceship with for the first time. 



Roses in pots were numerous, but there were none remarkable, as specimens of 

 superior cultivation ; certainly none that I saw were equal to those exhibited at 

 the Horticultural Exhibitions about London by Messrs. Beck, Lane, Paul, and 

 others ; nor is it, perhaps, right to judge them by such a standard, as they were 

 not grown to show what could be done with Roses in pots under good manage- 

 ment, but merely as market plants. As such, the only objection to them by 

 Englishmen would be the tall stems on which they were worked, and the little 

 attention paid to their beauty. The head of the plant seemed to be considered 

 the only part woithy of notice. 



Cheshunt. W. Paul. 



On Cotoneaster micijophi-li.a, trained as an Edging to a Flower Bed. — 

 We recently saw a bed of hardy heaths surrounded with an edging, about nine 

 inches high, formed of the Cotoneaster microphylla. It had been neatly framed, 

 so as to form a compact edging, and when in bloom, no doubt would produce a 

 pretty effect; but now being loaded with its beautiful red berries, produced a 

 very pleasing contrast to the heaths then in bloom. Conductor. 



ANSWER. 



On Culture of Calcrolarias. — A correspondent recently soliciting some 

 directions about growing the Calceolarias, and as I grow plants, which I exhibit 

 at the London shows every year, from two feet to three feet in diameter, in 

 profuse bloom, I give him the plan I pursue in as concise a way as I can. As 

 early in autumn as I find shoots pushing rootlets, I take them off, put in loam, 

 peat, and vegetable mould, in small pots, and put them in a slight hot-bed 

 frame ; when well rooted I place them near to the glass in a plant-house ; having 



