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tlie tips of the petals being of a darker shade. It is very floriferous, 

 and has attracted considerable attention here. Madame Lamoriciere is 

 a very singular and novel Rose ; there is a peculiar transparency about 

 the petals, which I have not noticed in Roses of this class : the colour 

 is a bright pink, the back of the petals being of a much lighter shade. 

 Purpurine is a very nice hybrid perpetual ; the flowers are very well 

 formed, and of a most brilliant deep scarlet. This will, I think, be as 

 much admired with you as the famed Geant des Battailles. There is 

 yet another that I find amongst my memorandums, and it has a mark 

 of admiration against it : it is Charlotte Seguier. I think, of all 

 I saw, this was one of my greatest favourites : the flowei'S were nearly 

 as large as La Reine, and of full and fine contour ; in fact, a splendid 

 and excellent-blooming autumnal variety ; colour pink. 



" You would be surprised at the immense quantity of seedling Roses 

 raised in Belgium. Many, certainly, are inferior to what you already 

 have ; and, in fact, I believe it is advisable that even those which, 

 during the warm summers here, flower so finely, should be previously 

 proved in your country. 



" In Bourbons, I did not see more than three or four that I con- 

 sidered extra amongst the new ones. General Oudinot is a remarkably 

 brilliant colour, crimson, shaded with purple ; the flowers, also, are 

 more than usually double : this, if it opens well with you, will be a 

 general favourite. Deuil de l'Archeveque de Paris, a long name truly, 

 but a fine Rose : it is a very peculiar deep purple-crimson, slightly 

 mottled or shaded with light crimson ; as a pot Rose you will,«I think, 

 find it very fine. I must now conclude my notice with a fine fancy 

 Rose, called Narcisse de Salvandy. It is a beautiful crimson-purple, 

 the petals margined with cream colour — the florists here say white, 

 but I do not call it pure ; nevertheless, it is a most striking sort. This, 

 with the others before mentioned, I think the cream of what I have 

 seen. Nevertheless, Colonel Foissy, Comte Bobrinsky, Jeanne d'Arc, 

 and Madame Guillot are very beautiful, and should, by this time, be 

 introduced into England." — Midland Florist. 



Landscape Gardening. — General leading principles : " A garden 

 should have more or less of simplicity, according to its size and 

 character in its main outlines, arrangements, and furniture. The 

 transitions in it should be easy and flowing, the lines all graceful, the 

 decorations elegant. Very rarely will a small garden bear being fur- 

 nished with any striking evidence of wealth, or luxury, or elaboration ; 

 the hand should touch it so lightly as to leave few traces of its opera- 

 tion ; its forms and figures ought all to be gently rounded off, and unite 

 softly with each other. Lawn and gravel, shrub, tree, and flower, 

 must appear to belong to one another, and to fit into the place they 

 occur. 



" At the same time the intricacy which arises from a partial and 

 pleasing involution of parts, from slight and insensible changes, and 

 from that artful arrangement of single plants and groups which pro- 

 duce freshness of aspect and newness of vista from so many points of 

 view, must not be neglected ; for a garden may be all that is correct 

 and tasteful, and classified, and yet, like a well-moulded countenance, 



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