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Isolier, rosy-red, in clusters. 

 Leontine, brownish-red, double, pretty. 

 Louis Philippe, purple-lilac, very double, pretty. 

 Lamarque, orange, very pretty. 

 Malvina, purple, very double, pretty. 

 Marechal Soult, yellow, pretty. 

 Queen of the Gipsies, orange-red, very double. 

 Phidias, rosy-red, very double, pretty. 

 Princess de Lamballe, in-curved, rosy-lilac, very double. 

 Sappho, reddish-brown, very double. 

 Venustum, rosy-amar.inth, pretty. 

 Luxury, yellow, double, very pretty. 

 Saladin, dark orange, very pretty. 

 Competitor, salmon- rose, pretty. 

 Bertram, rosy-purple, pretty. 

 Achmet Bey, dark purple-crimson, very prett3'. 

 Prince de Benevento, quilled pink, pretty. 

 {To be continued.) 



Prairie Roses. — This is a new group of Climbing Roses, which promises to 

 be of much interest. Mr. Samuel Feast, of Baltimore, United States, has had 

 the pleasure of raising the above-named varieties, from the seed of the single 

 Michigan Ro>e, Rosa rubil'olii, an American trailing briar ; they are all of 

 most robust and vigorous habits, making shoots ill one season more than twelve 

 feet in length. No, 3 is the most perfect and beautiful of the whole, giving clus- 

 ters of flowers containing from twelve to twenty each ; at first they are finely 

 cupped; in a day or two they become imbricated, like those of the Duke of De- 

 vonshire. It seems to resist the hottest sunshine, and the flowers remain on the 

 plant for a longer period than usual with any other Rose ; in wet we.ither, how- 

 ever, they are not at all bright in colour, as was the case with some that bloomed 

 the past summer ; this has been named also Beauty of the Prairies. My name 

 is that given to it by Mr. Feast. No. 2 only occasionally gives autumnal 

 flowers. No. 1, owing to most of the imported plants dying, is more scarce than 

 the other varieties. All these Roses are perfectly hardy; they will form fine 

 pillars and pendulous standards. 



Ci.otii of Gold Rose, owing to an accident to the plant left for blooming, has 

 not flowered here this season ; I saw it, however, in the commencement of last 

 June, at Angers, in great perfection. A strong plant against a wall had pro- 

 duced from four to five dozen of its splendid flowers ; it had made vigorous shoots 

 the preceding season, and every bud bad produced its spike of flowers, the ex- 

 treme outer petals of which were of a creamy sulphur, the inner a bright and 

 beautiful yellow; its flowers were nearly or quite as large as our common Cab- 

 bage Rose. This variety will require a south wall in this country, and, like Noi- 

 sette Lamarque, it must be established one year, so as to produce some vigorous 

 shoots; these the following season will give flowers from nearly every bud ; 

 these shoots must not, however, be shortened to any extent; four or six inches 

 taken from the end of each will be quite sufficient. If it growswith extra vigour, 

 so as to make shoots from twelve to fourteen feet in length, they must be trained 

 in a serpentine form, or in any other mode, so as to avoid the necessity of shorten- 

 ing them. Like Lamarque, it will form a fine standard, but like that it must 

 either be removed to a north wall, as leeommended for standard Tea Roses in 

 winter, or have its stem wound round with hay-bands, and its head protected 

 with a prepared calico or other cap. Having introduced this Rose, I feel it 

 my duty to give directions for its culture. 



Sawbridgeworth. T. Rivers. 



On Brunsvigia Josephina. — By the following mode of treatment I never fail 

 to bloom vigorously, every second year, the fine bulbous plant Brunsvigia Jose- 





