22 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Wildfire, Model of Perfection. Priory Queen was in all cases a mass of bloom, 

 and though not equal in some respects to some of the above, as a neat, beautiful 

 showy kind is not excelled, and deserves to be grown in every greenhouse. There 

 is a cheaper class which ate beautiful, and of superior merit, a list of which may 

 be found in the accounts of winning kinds at the London Horticultural Society's 

 and the Surrey Zoological Gardens' Exhibitions, in our numbers for June, July, 

 and August, 1842. A list of the best herbaceous border plants, as requested by 

 our correspondent, will be given in our next. 



o. orange, s. scarlet, b. blue, p. purple, r. red, re. rose, w. white, y. yellow. 

 The above signify the prevailing colour. — Conductor.] 



REMARKS. 

 Double Yellow Rose. — A great deal having been said about the Double 

 Yellow Rose, the following extract from a work called ,; Dictionavium Rusticum," 

 Svo. third edition,' 1726, may not prove uninteresting to your readers. — " The 

 Double Yellow Rose bears not so well when thus natural, nor in the sun, as other 

 Roses do, but must be placed in the shade ; and for its better bearing and having 

 of the fairest flower, first, in the stock of a Frankfort Rose put in the bud of a 

 single Yellow Rose near the ground; that will quickly shoot a good length; 

 then slip into it a bud of Double Yellow Rose of the best kind at about a foot 

 high in that sprout. Keep suckers from the root, as in all other inoculated 

 Roses, and rub off all the buds but of the desired kind. When big enough to 

 bear, prune it very near the preceding winter, cutting off all the small shoots, 

 only leaving the bigger, the tops of which are also to be cut off as far as they 

 are small. When it buds for leaves in the spring, rub off the smallest ot them ; 

 and when for flower, if too many, let the smallest be wiped oft', leaving as many 

 of the fairest as the strength of the tree will bring to perfection, which should 

 be a standard, not set by a wall, and rather shaded than in too much heat of the 

 sun, and watered sometimes in dry weather, by which means fair and beautiful 

 flowers may be timely brought forth." — Antiquahius. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



Protecting tender kinds of Roses. — Some of the teuderest Standard 

 Bourbon, Noisette, and Tea-scented Roses will require winter protection. The 

 best plan I have found to succeed is to prune in the head as desired, and then 

 spread among the shoots branches of furze, securing them with tar-band. This 

 covering is such that it protects wholly from injury, and at the same time ad- 

 mits sufficient air to prevent the too early pushing of the buds, which, if not 

 done, they would be liable to be damaged by early spring frost. I take off the 

 covering about the first week of March. Tor dwarf plants I stick fuize branches 

 into the ground, and secure them at the place by a few sticks put round. Over 

 the roots I lay about six inches deep of dry leaves, covering them over with a 

 sprinkling of soil, sloping to the sides, as the Conductor recommended for 

 Fuchsias, &c. ; this entirely preserves from injury. Rosa. 



December 13, 1842. 



LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 December 6. — The Exhibition, both of fruits and flowers, was exceedingly 

 good, but, in consequence of the dulness of the day, the brilliant colours of the 

 latter were not seen to advantage. Mr. Paxton, gardener to his Grace the presi- 

 dent, exhibited a magnificent plant of the beautiful Laelia anceps, with six long 

 slender spikes drooping gracefully around, each bearing at its extremity a cluster 

 of rich violet-purple flowers ; a species of Renanthera. with small dark chocolate- 

 coloured blossoms, lately introduced by Mr. Cuming from the East Indies; and 

 the singular little Trias racemosa, resembling a drooping feather, ami exhaling 

 .ui odour not unlike that of new hay; a Knightian medal was awarded for the 

 Laelia. From Mr. Goode, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, a remarkably fine plant 

 ui Epidendnim nutans, above six feet high, loaded with racemes of greenisli- 

 white flowers ; a variety of the same, having a slight tinge of yellow ; Oneidium 

 excavatum, and 0. leucochilum, the former with bright yellow blossoms mottled 



