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Mr. Seldon, Duke of Wellington, Fanny Keynes, Plantagenet, Beauty of 

 Hough, Bob, Miss Caroline, Sir F. Bathurst, E. Forster, Mrs. Ferguson, 

 Ruby, Queen, Malvina, Admiral Dundas, Lady Folkstone, Annie, Empress, 

 Fred. Jerome, Port Royal, and Sir C. Napier. 



Royal South London. — The first prize was awarded to Mr. C. Turner, for 

 the best twenty-four, as follows : — Bessie, Mr. Seldon, Triumphant, Robert 

 Bruce, Preeminent, Rachel Rawlings, Miss Speers, Lollipop, Constancy, 

 Sir R. Whittington, Miss Caroline, Cossack, Yellow Beauty, Duke of Wel- 

 lington, Amazon, Miss Burdett Coutts, Duchess of Kent, Fearless, Annie, 

 Annie Salter, Sir C. Napier, Lilac King, Empress, and Agincourt. 

 • The Fancy dahlias, in the winning stands, were the following : — Triumph 

 de Roubaix, Claudia, Mrs. Hansard, Mrs. Willis, Duchess of Kent, Baron 

 Alderson, Jonas, Phaeton, Comet, Kossuth, Princess Charlotte, Pigeon, Em- 

 peror de Maroc, Admiration, Glorie de Kain, &c. 



The following are new seedlings of merit: — Enchantress, a striped fancy 

 variety ; Bessie, a full-sized yellow ; Lollipop, a very fine fawn-colored va- 

 riety ; Miss Burdett Coutts, shaded salmon ; Mrs. Wheeler, a first-rate 

 crimson scarlet; Reignald, primrose, slightly tipped with purple; Orange 

 Perfection, (Keynes,) shaded orange, of beautiful outline ; Duchess of Wel- 

 lington, (Turner,) soft creamy white ; Grand Sultan, (Turner,) dark maroon ; 

 Chameleon, (Rawlings,) yellow, occasionally tinged with yellow ; Eclipse 

 (Wheeler,) dark purple ; — each of which received first class certificates. 



Management of Roses in Beds. — Mr. Rivers, in his new catalogue,* 

 now before me, recommends dwarf roses, forming beds or groups, to be 

 transplanted and highly manured annually ; and, after some experience, I 

 am convinced that this is the only method by wliich free growth and an 

 abundant bloom can be maintained. It is deplorable to obsarve how soon 

 and how certainly roses, (unless under very favorable circumstances,) dete- 

 riorate, when left to themselves, or to the culture generally bestowed on them, 

 and to remark how unlike the beauteous objects first planted, a few years 

 of neglect makes them. Now, the remedy for this great evil being so sim- 

 ple, and within the reach of all, surely we may expect to see it generally 

 adopted ;~~and, for the guidance of those about to adopt such treatment, I 

 may repeat, that no renewal of the soil or change of site is necessary, but 

 that careful taking up, well manuring, and careful replanting, at this, the 

 proper season, is all that is requisite. Plants neglected, and that have been 

 stationary for a number of years, may experience some check on such trans- 

 planting ; but when it becomes annual, the very reverse is the case, and 

 increased luxuriance the invariable result. Where pegging down the 

 shoots, so as to cover the entire bed or borders, is practised, (and an admira- 

 ble practice it is,) this treatment will not apply ; but two or three inches of 

 good rotten manure, over the entire bed, in autumn, will answer the same 

 purpose for many years. — [Gard. Chron., 1855, p. 709.) 



CupHEA FLATTCENTRA. — My employer has succeeded in raising stand 

 arda of this beautiful plant, four feet high, with large heads, which are a 

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