562 Foreign Notices. 



I shall require only a moderate premium ; if they are teachable and docile 1 

 will treat them kindly ; and when they knoAv how to manage this stock as 

 well as I do, they will think it as great a boon to the Rose-grower as all 

 those who know it well are inclined to do ; and they will then, I am sure, 

 leave off" evil speaking" about this poor Rose. How beautiful at this mo- 

 ment are the following Roses budded on it : Standard of Marengo, Duchess 

 of Sutherland, Baronne Prevost, Beranger, Caroline de Sansal, Baronne 

 Hallez (the most perfect and beautiful Rose ever seen,) Gtant des Batailles, 

 &c. In conclusion, I may mention that I have just been looking at some 

 Manetti stocks, trained for standards ; these made shoots, last year, 8 feet 

 in length ; they are this season fastened to stakes, have not been pruned, 

 and are swelling rapidly. Owing to improved agriculture we shall lose our 

 Hedge and Dog Briars, and then for standard Rose stocks. 



When all our I'riars are " gone and spent," 



ManeUi will be excellent. 



[Gard. Chron., 1852, p. 565.) 



Art. n. Foreign JVotices. 

 ENGLAND. 



Dahlias and Dahlia Exhibitions of 1852. — The season just closed 

 has been a highly favorable one for dahlia cultivators in England ; and the 

 exhibitions have been not only exceedingly fine, but have attracted great 

 attention. Indeed, the taste for this splendid autumnal flower has in no 

 wise abated ; on the contrary, there seems to be renewed attention given to 

 its cultivation and the growth of new seedlings. By the liberality of 

 Messrs. Turner, Keynes, Bushell, and other nurserymen and florists, nu- 

 merous prizes, from £1 to £5 each, have been offered to amateurs, which 

 has greatly increased the number of cultivators, and infused fresh zeal into 

 the older ones. 



The season with us has been far more favorable than that of 1851. The 

 summer was exceedingly dry ; but the moist, cool and prolonged autumn, 

 without frost, brought forward the plants rapidly ; and for four weeks, we 

 never saw a finer display of flowers. The varieties of two years have 

 thus been crowded into one ; for last year scarcely a new variety produced 

 a flower. As much as the dahlia has been improved, the newer ones are 

 far in advance of those of former years. One would indeed suppose the 

 difference could not be so great ; but a comparison of the two will show 

 the difference. 



From the following awards at some of the leading societies around Lon- 

 don, the amateur will see at once what are the leading flowers : — 



Rotal South London. — Best twenty-four: John Edwards, Snowflake, 

 Toison d'Or, Queen of Yellows, General Fauchier, Mrs. Seldon, Wellington, 

 Fearless, Seraph, Essex Triumph, Goliath, Nil Disperandum, Triumphant, 



