Foreign Notices. 67 



Seine." This is the name of a new Horticultural Society established 

 within the last year by the Nurserymen and Florists of Paris, and, at present, 

 I believe, almost entirely confined to tlieir body. It does not, however, 

 exclude others, and will, no doubt, soon number among its members many 

 of the principal amateurs of tlie neighborhood. Its President is Monsieur 

 Br^on, a very respectable nursery and seedsman, who formerly held the 

 office of Government Botanist in the Isle de Bourbon, and to whom we 

 are indebted for the introduction of i26sa borboniana and its new splendid 

 varieties. Unlike its more exalted companion — tlie Royal Society — it 

 seeks no patronage from state, but hopes by its own merits to win public 

 favor ; it starts upon the maxim, " Be just and fear not," and certainly its 

 first public exhibition, which was holden at the Tuilleries from the 20th to 

 24th of this month, argues well for its impartiality and future prospects. 

 The weather for the last four months has been any tiling but favorable 

 for floricultural exhibitions ; therefore the plants were neither so numer- 

 ous nor fine as could have been desired. Nevertheless, fine specimens 

 were exhibited of Strelitzta regina; and augusta, Amaranthus gi^anteus 

 (12 feet high), Musa Cavendishn in fine fruit, Thunbergia Baxtern, Rus- 

 selm jiincea, Bouvardia splendens, Achimines longiflora, Leschenaultm 

 formosa, Ericas, Cypripedium insigne, &c. &c. Bignom'a jasminiflora, in 

 fine flower by M. Modesto Guerin ; also, a splendid large branch of Tam- 

 arix orientalis, twelve feet high, literally covered with delicate pink 

 flowers ; and a plant of i^axinus lasciniata, grafted in May, which had 

 made a shoot 12 feet long. The neriums of M. Mabire were, as usual, 

 remarkably fine. China Roses were in great abundance, there being no 

 less than ten exhibitors of them as cut flowers, or plants in pots. In spite 

 of the untoward season, many were in all their beauty, especially the 

 Bourbons, which, together with the hybride remontantes, are the reigning 

 favorites ; certainly their large finely formed flowers, and handsome glossy 

 foliage, eminently entitle them to this distinction. The collections of 

 M M. Verdier, Paillet, Leveque, were tlie most worthy of praise, and con- 

 tained, among others, full-grown specimens of the devoniensis, Bougere, 

 Goubalt, Mansais, Triomphe de la Gullotiere, Elise sauvage, Triomphe de 

 Luxembourg, Princesse Helene, Caroline, Duchesse d'Orleans, Isle de 

 Bourbon, Pacquin, Chatenay, Reine des Bourbons, Doctor Roques, Tri- 

 omphe de Plantier, Breon, Paul Joseph, (a fine new variety of a very dark 

 purplish crimson by M. Leveque, Boulevard de I'hospital,) Victoire Paumy, 

 Prince Charles, Cornices de Seine et Marne (this is the splendid crimson 

 seedling raised by M. Desprez) ; Emelie Courtier, Pucelle genevoise and 

 Fabert ; hybrids Comte de Paris, Due d'Aumale, Rivers, Belle Sara, 

 Prince Albert, Clementine Duval, Prudence, &c. &c. The Dahlias were 

 neither numerous nor fine ; indeed one half of the plants round Paris have 

 given no blooms : and as to those which have, the red spider and earwigs 

 have held mastery so complete over both leaves and flowers, that a fine 

 show was all but impossible. Had this, however, not been the case, the 

 stands would (to English eyes) have been so disfigured with tipped varie- 

 ties as scarcely to deserve attention. M. Soutif had some large blooms 

 of Reine des Fees, Pygmalion, Reine d'or, Caroline Walner, Modesta, 

 purpurea alba, Beaute de Paris, Prince Albert, President of the West, 

 Poole's White, Lady Cooper, Chas. XII., Constantia, Comte de Cussy, 

 RouUard, Triomphe de Tours, Andrew Marvel, Maid of Bath, Rival Re- 

 venge and Winterton Rival Some few seedlings were also exhibited, but 

 none above mediocrity. 



