40 BRIEF REMARKS. 



a vigorous plant, I commenced to pinch off the young shoots as soon as 

 they were two inches long. The operation was performed about the 

 end of April. This year, the same plant produced three flowers and 

 twenty-seven wood buds or shoots, of which a good number were borne 

 on the wood three and four years old, a circumstance which never 

 happens in the absence of such an operation." This system has 

 been generally adopted by cultivators with other straggling plants, 

 but we have not seen or heard of its being applied to this Camellia by 

 any other individual. 



Iron Trellis. — In Belgium, a neat, light, iron trellis, to which 

 plants are trained, is thus formed : there is a centre stem three or four 

 feet high, having three prongs at the bottom to secure it properly when 

 pressed into the ground or in the soil in a pot. At the top there is a 

 frame-work, in form like a parasol. It has three circular rings ; and 

 four or six strong wires are secured from the top of the centre stem 

 down the circular frame, and to each wire a branch or shoot is trained, 

 and extending beyond the lower ring the drooping flowering-shoots 

 have a very pretty appearance. 



Tulips op 1850. — Our respected friend, the editor of the Midland 

 Florist, is an ardent cultivator of Tulips, and wisely takes notes in the 

 blooming season of the properties of the best. The following abridged 

 remarks are from what he has recorded : — 



Polyphemus (feathered bizarre), highly pleased with even the muti- 

 lated specimen shown at Belle Vue. 



Magnet (a feathered bizarre), bloomed in his own collection ; com- 

 bined to perfect purity, the edging was laid on in a remarkable manner, 

 not feathering, but plated. 



Leonidas, a London, or south country, flamed bizarre ; pure, good 

 form, regular in its marking, and standing well up ; first-rate. 



Rhea Sylvia (Dixon's), feathered-rose ; most beautiful. 



Earl Stanhope (Waters's), a deep rosy-claret; first-rate in form, 

 purity, and substance. 



George Glenny, a light-beamed Bybloemen, of good form. 



Hampden (Finlayson's), raised from Polyphemus, but is superior to 

 it in colours, being black, on rich yellow. 



New and Superb Roses. — " The list of Moss Roses has amazingly 

 increased of late years — ' quantity at the expense of quality ' I fear is 

 the case. I, however, recently noticed at Brussels a beautiful variety, 

 called Aristobule. Its colour is a very pretty pink, slightly shaded 

 and mottled. This will, I think, become a favourite with your Rose 

 cultivators. There was also a novelty, in fact, a great one. Picture 

 to yourself that old and deserved favourite, Crimson Perpetual : well 

 then, take from the plant its beautiful deep pink flowers, and replace 

 them with creamy flesh-coloured ones, then you have it; but, positively, 

 as the flowers age, they become white. It really is a good thing, very 

 ftagrant, and, like the Crimson Perpetual, flowers very freely in 

 autumn. It is called, from its similarity of habit I suppose, Blanche 

 du Roi. Your florists appear to appreciate this class of flowers, and 

 good hybrid Perpetuals and Bourbons are much in vogue here. 

 Madame Clavel is a splendid Rose of this class ; colour a lively pink, 



