T/o Notes and Gleanings. 



Bedding Roses. — Some people have an idea that any rose is a good pole 

 or wall variety that grows strong enough to run up a pole or wall, and that any 

 rose which is of a striking color and free-flowering is good for bedding. A pole 

 or wall ro:se should be short-jointed, break well at all the eyes, with foliage or 

 bud-stalks, and its side-branches should not grow longer than twelve inches 

 without flowering. 



My present purpose, however, is to speak of bedders. These should be 

 roses of moderate growth, of striking colors, and of tolerably erect habit, requir- 

 ing no props. Cardinal Patrizzi is a perfect type of a bedder. Let us suppose 

 Ihat you have parterres, and wish to have each filled with a separate sort on 

 the principle of Tom Thumb pelargoniums : I think these would gratify your 

 wishes : — 



Hybrid Perpetua's. — Cardinal Patrizzi, deep rich purple-crimson ; Triomphe 

 d' Angers, brilliant velvety red-purple ; Geant des Batailles, scarlet-crimson ; Le 

 Rhone, ruddle red ; Jean Bart, the nearest to lake ; Pauline Lanzezeur, bright 

 crimson ; Louise Margottin, delicate satin-pink ; Prince Henri de Pays Bas, 

 brilliant crimson, folded like a ball ; Madame Alfred de Rougemont, white ; 

 Vainqueur de Goliath, crimson-scarlet ; Madame Bonnaire, white, with peach 

 blush ; Duke of Wellington, rich crimson, with dark shade ; Belle Normande, 

 pale rose shaded with silvery white. 



Bourbons. — Dupetit Thouars, beautiful crimson ; Oueen, buff-rose. 



China. — Cramoisie Supcrieure, rich velvety crimson ; Eugene Beauharnais, 

 amaranth. 



Tea. — La Boule d'Or, egg-yellow ; Auguste Vacher, very curious : the petals 

 are pure deep gold at the base, and pure bright copper at the edges. The colors 

 are half-and-half, without confusion. 



Galilean. — The only good variegated roses suited for bedding-purposes are 

 CEillet Parfait and Perle des Panachees. The former is by far the best variegated 

 rose known, and most beautiful. 



The best roses of a very dark nature for bedding-purposes are Alexandre 

 Dumas and Vulcan, both hybrid perpetuals. 



Beds of the above, with from twelve to twenty plants in each, would look 

 well ; and they are best suited to the purpose. — VV. F. Radclyffe, In Florist. 



A Plea for the Phal.enopsis. — To the class among plant-lovers (it is 

 hoped not small) whose pleasure lies not only in posse'jsing what is rarest of 

 floral beauty, but in the sharing the aesthetic delight it offers. 



One tiny plant, imported within the year, has yielded so munificently of un- 

 equalled bloom, and given so many cultivated people a new pleasure of the right 

 sort, and doubtless awakened much dormant love for what is best, that it would 

 seem selfish to retain the experience. 



The plant in question, Plialcenopsls aniabllls, came from England in July of 

 last year, opened its first flower Nov. 14, quickly followed by four others, which, 

 for an average of seventy-one days, afforded a delight hard to convey through 

 wonls. Eighty-two days was the longest duration, in perfection, of any one 

 of these floweis, and fifty-six the least. In the mean time, the same stem 



