66 BRIEF REMARKS. 



plants should be carefully guarded from cold or damp, as their leaves 

 are very liable to be injured thereby. 



Raising Seedling Ranunculuses. — The seed should be sown 

 every year in autumn, or early in spring ; growers will tliereby have 

 the pleasure of seeing a constant succession of new flowers of superior 

 size, shape, and colour, and will obtain a profusion of bloom. In an 

 unfavourable season, some years since, when the old roots did not bloora 

 more than ten in a hundred, even then my seedling beds presented 

 masses of bloom. If persons will only make a trial of Seedling Ranun- 

 culuses, they will find it very amply to repay them, both in its interest- 

 ing expectation of beautiful novelties, and obtaining such as are of 

 merit in form. — Senex. 



Climbing Roses. — A correspondent asks for a descriptive list of 

 a few of the best ; he does not state tiie section he wishes for, we there- 

 fore give the names of some in each : — 



Sempervirens Section. — Adelaide d'Orleans, rosy-pink. Felicite 

 perpetue, creamy-wiiite, with under side of petals pink. Leopoldine 

 d'Orleans, white siiaded with rose. Rampant, pure white. Princesse 

 Marie, French-white and pink. Carnea grandiflora, pretty flesh- 

 colour. These have shining green leaves, which are retained till 

 winter. Bloom in fine clusters, 



Ayrshire. — Dundee Rambler, white edged with pink. Queen of the 

 Belgians, white with creamy centre. Ruga, blush-pink. Myrrh- 

 scented, blush. Queen, purple-crimson. These are rapid growers and 

 profuse bloomers. 



Boursaulls. — Amadis, rich crimson and purple. Elegans, bright 

 purple with white streaks. Quick growers. 



Hybrid Climbers. — -Garland (Wood's), creamy-white and pink. 

 Clair (single), vivid scarlet. Sir Joim Sebright, brilliant scarlet. 

 Madame d'Arblay, white. 



Noisette. — Aimee Vibert, white. 



Multijiora. — Grevillea (or Seven Sisters), bright red, shading off to 

 purple. Borne in cluster of seven flowers. Does not grow so rapidly 

 as the others. 



Superb Chrysanthemums. — In our January number we inserted 

 a portion of the best Ciirysanthemums we iiad seen in 1849. The 

 following complete the list we took notes of. Ail are excellent varieties, 

 and deserving a place in every collection. Annie Salter, pale yellow, 

 very double. Airies, flame-coloured, good petal. Madame Foggi, 

 deep crimson, broad petal. Beauty, white tinged witii blusii at the 

 under side, broad petals, and incurved. Queen of tiie Yellows, rich 

 deep yellow, under side reddish, petals broad. Cyclops, yellow, each 

 petal having a broad stripe of brown at the under side, incurved. 

 Etoile de Versailles, very double, quilled, blush. Nancy de Sermet, 

 white. Anemone-flowered. Madame Mina, buff, broad petal, very 

 double. Reine des Beiges, pink with yellow centre, broad petals. 

 Diogenes, deep crimson, incurved, broad petals. Phidias, rosy-crimson, 

 very double, Rainuiculus form. Polar Star, tasselled, white, very 

 pretty. Rosa Mundi, deep rose, part tasselled. Demosthenes, brown 

 with yellow centre, very double. Competitor, purple, broad petal. 



