174 Floricultural and Botanical Notices 



ceed in number even that of European ones, possessing the 

 same relative beauty. 



The Tennessee or P}-airie Rose. In our March number, 

 (p. 98,) we gave an article by Mr. Pierce, on the Prairie 

 rose. It has since been copied into the western papers, and 

 in .the Ohio Statesman with some preparatory remarks, 

 which may be interesting to lovers of this beautiful class. 



The writer states that our correspondent Mr. Pierce, was 

 mistaken in saying that this rose has produced no double 

 variety. " Twenty-two years since, Mrs. Montjoy found a 

 double multiflora rose growing wild, on an island in the 

 Licking River, Ky., a few miles south of Cincinnati. It 

 had all the peculiarities of the single variety, except that 

 ttie petals were as numerous, and were formed similar to 

 the Chinese multiflora, the rose being about three times as 

 large. This rose was brought by Mr. Buchanan to this 

 city fifteen years ago. He obtained the cuttings from the 

 garden of Gen. Taylor, of Newport, Ky. Mr. B. gave 

 some to Mr. Schnetz, who raised many of them, since 

 v/hich it has been widely disseminated. It is known here 

 by the name of the ' Montjoy Rose,' or ' double native 

 multiflora,' and it deserves to be a great favorite. 



Another variety of our wild multiflora rose was found 

 in the Scioto Valley, near Chillicothe, by Mrs. Gov. Wor- 

 thington ; this was semi-double. 



Another beautiful variety was found near Urbana, O., 

 by Mr. John H. James. This was single, but with spotted 

 petals. 



The same writer states they have the promise of an 

 article shortly, accurately describing all the varieties and 

 the peculiarities of the western Prairie rose, which will be 

 interesting and valuable to horticulturists." — {Ohio States- 

 ma??, Api'il 10, 1844.) 



New varieties of the Gladiolus. — Great attention has been 

 given in Belgium to the cultivation and production of new 

 hybrid varieties of the Gladiolus. From a communication 

 in a Belgian Journal, translated in the Gard. Chrn??icle, 

 we copy the following account of some of these new vari- 

 eties. 



Many of the new seedlings surpass the finest we have 

 hitherto possessed of this genus, namely, the G. cardinalis 

 and floribundus, introduced from the Cape in 17SS and 

 1789, and the G. ramosus. The G. natalensis, perroquet 



