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pale yellow green colour, the colour being given by oxide of copper, 

 and is so transparent that scarcely any light is intercepted. In 

 examining the spectral rays througli it, it is found that the yellow is 

 slightly diminished in intensity, and that the extent of the red ray is 

 aflected in a small degree, the lower edge of the ordinary red ray being 

 cut off by it. The tint of colour is not very difterent from that of the 

 old crown glass ; and many practical men state that they find their 

 plants flourish much better under this kind of glass than under the 

 wliitest sheet glass commonly employed. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



FLORAL EXHIBITIONS. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The season for selecting pot Roses being arrived, we insert the 

 names of the sorts exhibited at the June show of the Horticultural 

 Society. 



Collections of twelve distinct varieties of Roses, grown in pots. — 

 Large silver-gilt medal to Mes.srs. Lane and Sons, for Niplietos, Souchet, 

 Queen of La Reine, Ceres, Triomplie de Luxembourg, Elise Sauvage, 

 Madam Bureau, Dumont de Courset, Prince Charles, Queen, Clara 

 Wendel, and Nesida ; silver-gilt medal to Messrs. Paul and Son, 

 Cheshunt, for Madame Aude, General Kleber, Lutea, Comte de Paris, 

 Fulgens, La Reine, Mrs. Elliott, Captain Sisolet, Lady Alice Peel, 

 Persian Yellow, Bouquet de Flora, and Athelin ; silver medal to 

 Messrs. Lee, Hammersmith, for Lady Alice Peel, Mrs. Bosanquet, 

 Comice de Seine, Lane's Hybrid Perpetual, Madam Laff'ay, Prince 

 Charles, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Ploralie, La Reine, Cramoisie, 

 Eblouisante, Armosa, and Miss Clegg. Collections of eiglit distinct 

 varieties of ditto. — Large silver-gilt medal to Mr. Francis, for Great 

 "Western, Selina, Mrs. Elliott, Lane's Hybrid, Demnark, General 

 Kleber, Chenedole, and Comtesse de Lacipede. Cut flowers, collections 

 of 100 distinct varieties of Roses. — Silver medal to Messrs. Paul and 

 Son, for Lady Fordwich, Nathalie, Daniel, Madame Laff'ay, Blairii, 

 Hippocrates, Prince Alfred, Safrano, Tlie Pactolus, Captain Sisolet, 

 IMonteau, Cramoisie, Superieure, Sylvain, Parney, Princess Helene, 

 La Grandeur, Devoniensis, Grandiflora, Coupe d' Amour, General 

 Allard, Selina, Queen Adelaide, &c. ; small silver medal to Mr. Fran- 

 cis, for Mrs. Elliott, Madam Laffay, Double Margined, Elise d'Henning, 

 Safranot, Smith's Yellow Noisette, Elise Sauvage, Mirabile, Leopold, 

 William Jesse, Napoleon, Comte de Paris, Due d'Aimiale, Gardenia, 

 General Kleber, Charles Duval, Belle Marie, &c., &c. 



The following were the splendid Heaths exhibited at the same show. 

 Our readers will perceive which are most grown and thus distinguished 

 for their merits. AVe insert it to be somewhat a guide to selection by 

 any desirous to possess a superb collection. 



Cape Heaths. — There were three superb collections of fifteen plants 

 in each. They were fine grown specimens, hushy down to the jjot, and 

 in profuse bloom, generally from two to three feet high. Each kind 

 is suited to grow in any collection, more especially those sorts found to 

 be included in each of the three collections shown as Cavendishiana, &c. 



First prize, Mr. May. Erica Beaumontiana, Cavendishiana, campa- 



