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was very mild, and there was no spring frost there, which was of course 

 very favourable to the development of the flowers. 



Seedling Flowers. — Observing the award of a Certificate the other 

 day by the National Floricultural Society to Mr. Paul for " Seedling 

 Roses/' and having heard Mr. Paul state openly that he bought these 

 Roses in France last summer, I wish to ask the Committee if the above 

 award is to form a precedent, and if it will be allowed as such in a case 

 as follows : — A makes a journey into Devonshire, and finds a seedling 

 Rose in the garden of B, which he, A, purchases, propagates, and ex- 

 hibits in the neighbourhood of London. Now, according to our pre- 

 sent floricultural code, with the above as a precedent, A can take a 

 prize for it as a seedling by affixing his name to it, as in this instance 

 Mr. Paul has done. I do not by any means wish to impugn Mr. Paul's 

 right to do so ; I only wish to know the law upon the subject. I re^- 

 member that when Lucombe and Piuce bought the Rosa Devoniensis 

 of the raiser, they named it, but did not call it " Devoniensis (Pince's)." 

 Such an addition would have implied that they raised it from seed, 

 instead of what is called "buvinsr the stock." Takiner this view of the 

 question, Mr. Paul should have exhibited his Roses simply as Queen 

 Victoria, Robert Burns, and Prince Albert, without the addition of 

 " Paul's." A few words on this point from the officials of the National 

 Floricultural Society in your columns will be of great interest to many 

 growers, as many florists buy seedlings of amateurs. Mr. Foster, I 

 think, sells his Pelargoniums, but has his name retained as the raiser. 

 — Inquirer. {Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



Allamandas. — At the last exhibition at Chiswick I observed some 

 beautiful plants of Allamanda, which, in my opinion, would have looked 

 much more handsome if they had been left to take their natural shape, 

 instead of being twisted and bundled together round sticks or wire trel- 

 lises, as they were on that occasion, and which I believe is the common 

 way of growing them. Surely the Allamanda is neither a creeper nor 

 a climber, and why should it be made to exhibit the character of these ? 

 I have at this time plants of A. cathartica, from three to six feet high, 

 full of flower, and one stick in the centre is all I use for the tallest one. 

 My plants were started into growth in the beginning of March, on a 

 gentle bottom heat, after being cut back to the last joint, and potted in 

 a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, using a double quantity of loam to 

 that of peat. All the eyes were allowed to burst ; and when the young 

 shoots were about six inches long, they were thinned out according to 

 the strength of the plant, always retaining the strongest ; the plants 

 were kept in bottom heat as near the glass as possible, and allowed but 

 little pot-room until they showed the first flowers, when they were re- 

 moved into larger pots placed in a cooler house, without bottom heat, 

 and exposed to as much light and air as possible. I know of no stove 

 plants that repay attention better than Allamandas, for if well attended 

 to with water, &c, they will continue to produce abundance of flowers 

 from the beginning of June to the end of September. — W. S. ( Gar- 

 deners Chronicle.) 



Striped Pansies. — We have recently had a dozen varieties sent us. 

 The flowers are not only beautiful in stripes, but of very good form, 



