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M. Paillet, for CO vars. of Bengales, TWs, Bourbons, and hybrids, imonff 

 wliich were some tolerably guod plants of Clara Silvain, hclle Octavie, 

 Carniin d'Vebles, (ieneral Sayez, Fredric, La Pactole, Barbot, Trioiriphe 

 de la Giiillotiere, Boiifferc, Goinbault, Princesse JMarie, Niplictos, Coiiite 

 de Paris, Arance de Navaro, Trioinphe d'Orleans, Reine Victoria, Manz- 

 cais, TliL'rese, Isabello, Comle d'Eu, Prince Charlets, Doctour Roques, 

 Reine, Coinice de Seine et Marne, Grand Capitaine, Rivers, Prince Al- 

 bert and Clementine. 2d prize, M. Leveqiie, for (iO varieties. Cut Roses, 

 50 varieties, 1st prize, M. Gauihier, for Prmce Albert, Comte de Paris, 

 Madame Liffay, Bernard, Coquette de Montmorency, Reine des Ama- 

 teurs, Rivers, Josephine, Amene Duval, Gloire de Guerin, Belle Fabert, 

 Reine Victoria, Louis Bonaparte, Isaure, P^ilgorie, Luxembourg-, Aurore, 

 Helene, Bougere, Lamarque, I'aul .losepli, Madame Des|)rez, Bouquet de 

 Floce, Cornice de Seine et Marne, Jaune Desprez, Docleur Roques, Emile 

 Courtier, Aimcie Vibert, &c. 2d prize, M. Margottin, for '■]() varieties. 

 Setillina; Rosr., 1st prize, M. Liffay, for Hybrid perpetual, La Reine. 

 j\'(:rium'}, 1st prize, M. Mabire, for album duplex, atropur])ureum. odora- 

 tissimum, (very fine), nigrum, speciosum, candidissimum, cn])reum, ele- 

 gans, gran liflorum, novum, lacleolum, Mabirii. ochroleucum, purpureum 

 plenum, roscum PTandiflorum, splendens coccineum, macuophyllum, maxi- 

 mum, splendidissimum, striatum plenum, veiuistum and puniceum. Dah- 

 lias in pots, 1st prize, M. Barbier: 2d prize, M. Dufay ; both these col- 

 lections were poor, the varieties being those which are cultivated for the 

 markets. Cut Dahlias, 1st prize, M^ Soul ip, for Poiteau. Miss Chester, 

 Favourite, Reine des Fees, Prince of Wales, Reine d'Or, Patentt'e, Caro- 

 line Walner, Antagonist, Beaute de Paris, Annibal, AkhbarKhan, Orion, 

 Eveque de Nanum, Thiers, North Midland, Beauty of Sussex, Virgil, Sir 

 F. .lohnson. Dame de Beaute. Henri IV., Liberty, Die Wiesse Dame, 

 Vandal Queen, Charivari, Exinua, Baronne Gerard, Heloise, Mary Jane, 

 Surprise, Alba purpurea superba, Boule d'Or, Perfection, Mrs. Shelley, 

 Lady Cooper. Pierre Pugct, Miranda, Dumont d'l'rville, &c. ; 2nd prizes 

 to M. Roblin and M. Uterhart. J\'ew Plants, prizes to M. Thibaut, for 

 Phlox Van Houttei, Cypripedium barbatum, Griffinia purpurascens, Pit- 

 cairnia punicea, Dionasa muscipula. Begonia manicata, and hydrococtyli- 

 folii. Prize to M. Salter, for Archimenes pedunculata, and two seedling 

 Fuchsias, Aurlot and Le Chinois. China Asters, prize to M. Pansnrt, for 

 2.5 varieties, very poor. Fuchsias, prize to Al. Malingre, for 15 veiy old 

 varieties, every one of which (except Chandlerii) is now cast aside b^v 

 En'i-lish growers as worthless. M. 7'repet Leblanc exhibited several 

 seedling plants of Daubentonia Tripetiana. in bloom, and although the 

 seed was only set in February last, some of them Mere five feet hiL'"h; the 

 briL'"ht oransre scarlet flower ffives this plant a very gay appearance, but 

 its sfrio-1-linT habit of growth deteriorates from its general merits. — Paris, 

 29i/i September. 1843. Gard. Chron., 1843, p. Wi.) 



Art. HL Domestic Notices. 



Destruction of the Public Conservatory by Fire. — We regret to state that 

 the large and fine collection of plants belonging to the I'ublic Garden in 



