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generally grown. It was exhibited at the Horticultural Society's 

 rooms in September last. 



Trop^olum umbellatum — Umbellate Indian Cress. 



TropaolacecB. Octandria Monogi/nia. 

 A remarkably distinct and handsome species, having its flowers dis- 

 posed in umbels of five or six or more in each. It was originally 

 discovered by Professor Jameson, of Quito, growing on the lilzhum 

 mountain, at an elevation of 7000 feet above the level of the sea. 

 Messrs Veitch received it from tlieir collector, and flowered it during 

 the last summer in their nursery. It is likely to prove one of tlie 

 most hardy of the genus ; and being a very profuse bloomer, it is 

 certain to become highly appreciated. The flowers are each rather 

 more than an inch in length, of a rich orange-red colour tipped with 

 yellow and green. Tlie foliage, borne on long flexuose footsta ks, is 

 of a bright liglit green, about three inches across, and deeply five-lobed. 

 It is a verv novel and beautiful acquisition. (Figured m Bot. Mag., 

 4337.) 



THE ROSE. 



From the first day of November to the middle of December is the best 

 period in which to plant the Rose— the earlier the better. Each season 

 we are favoured with valuable additions to tliis lovely tribe of flowers, 

 and in the lists sent us this autumn we notice many such described. 

 We took notes of most, from our own stock as well as those oi others, 



a list of which we insert. . -„ , , t * • 



Tiie catalogues of Messrs. Rivers, Francis, Paul, and Lane, contain 

 valuable collections, and useful notes on the cultivation of various 



^^ L^Mr. Rivers' we observe the following judicious particulars, which 



" Standard Climbing Roses are the most beautiful objects the Rose- 

 garden can show ; they form, in the course of two or three seasons, 

 lar-e umbrageous heads, drooping in the blooming season with abun- 

 dance; they should never be pruned, but left entirely to NaUi^e. 

 Owing to the luxuriance of their growth, they seem to take off" all the 

 sap the stem of the Dog-rose can furnish consequently, rarely is a 

 sucker, those pests to the Rosarium, seen. The stems of some Standaid 

 Crimson Boursaults, four years old, now growing here, are eight inches 

 in girth, and their heads spread over a space of ten feet in diameter ; 

 they continue to flower all tlie summer, owing as I f>"/nchn«"i t^ 

 think, to tiie vigour they derive from tlie stock, for on their own roots 

 thev seldom bloom but once in tlie season. 



R "I may, perhaps, venture to give the results of some experiments 

 made these three last seasons with Roses. I have ound n.ght-so. , 

 mixed with the drainings of the dunghill, or even with common d.tcli 

 or pond water, so as to make a thick liquid, the best possible manure 

 for Roses, poured on the surface of the soil twice in winter, from one 

 to two gallons to each tree. December and January are the, best 



