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Perpetual Michigan; pink, changing to purple; cupped, 

 and very double; flowering from three to four times a year. 



Superba; white, with pink centre. 



Pallida; white. 



Mr. Feast recommends the above very highly. 



Some years ago, I had the two original species, R. rubi- 

 folia and R. sempervirens var. capreolata (Ayrshire,) growing 

 side by side, and was strongly impressed with the relative 

 inferiority of the latter. I then looked forward to the time 

 when the former should be the parent of more superb varieties 

 of climbing roses than any that had ever yet gladdened the 

 eyes of the amateur; but little did I imagine that my antici- 

 pations were so soon to be realized. A ,.T A,, .n,T,TTT, 

 * AN AMATEUR. 



Art. V. FloricuUural and Botanical JVotices of new 

 Plants figured in foreign periodicals; with Remarks on 

 those recently introduced to, or originated in, American 

 gardens; and additional information upon plants already in 

 cultivation. 



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 and Shrubbery. Each number containing from six to eight 

 plates, with additional miscellaneous information, relative to 

 new Plants. In monthly numbers; 3s. plain, 3s. 6d. colored. 



Paxton^s Magazine of Botany , and Register of Flowering Plants. 

 Each number containing four colored plates. Monthly. 2s. 6d. 

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 shire. 



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Botanical and FloricuUural Intelligence. JVcto species of 

 Raffles\a. — Mr. Teschemacher, in an article in the last num- 

 ber of the Boston Journal of JVatural History, (Vol. IV., 

 Part I.,) describes a new species of the RafBesia, which he 

 proposes to call R. manilana. The specimens are preserved 

 in spirit, and weie received last spring from Manilla. They 



