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to the ground : fiilgens, eight feet high, diameter of the 

 head six feet, and trained to a single stem; number of co- 

 rymbs expanded, thirty. These two plants are as richly 

 worth seeing, as one of our entire annual exhibitions; we 

 only hope that, with some hints on their cultivation which 

 we shall give hereafter, similar specimens may be found in 

 the collections of our own country. These specimens, it 

 will be understood, are only tioo, out of at least fifty^ that 

 we have seen, nearly or quite as large. 



New Roses. — We had a fine treat, yesterday, inspecting 

 the colleciion of roses of Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth. 

 They are grown here in large quantities, and whole beds 

 of the hybrid perpetuals were radiant with bloom : Madam 

 Laifay, Louis Bonaparte, Lady Fordwich, the old crimson 

 perpetual, together with many new ones of this class, and 

 the Bourbons, Bengals, Teas and Noisettes, were in full 

 flower. The weather for the last several days has been 

 delightful, and favorable to an abundant bloom : for an 

 entire week there has been a cloudless sky and a bright 

 sun. We shall not now occupy space to enumerate any of 

 the new roses, as we shall, we doubt not, be better able to 

 do so, after we have seen the collections of the Parisian 

 rose-fanciers. Queen of the Prairies has flowered very 

 well in Mr. Rivers's collection, and is considered by him a 

 great acquisition, as it undoubtedly is. It is, however, as 

 yet quite unknown, as only a small number of plants have 

 yet been distributed around London : when the plants have 

 become strong, and show their real beauty, it will have a 

 more extensive sale than any other rose of late years. 

 The Persian yellow rorje has flowered finely this year, and 

 far eclipses all other yellow roses; it has a better habit 

 than the Harrisonii and is equally as free a bloomer, and 

 as double as the cabbage rose. Noisette Cloth of Gold has 

 not yet flowered at Sawbridgeworth, as the rapid propaga- 

 tion prevents ; but Mr. Rivers saw it again this season, in 

 France, and states that it is a most superb variety. But 

 of roses, more in our next paper. 



Double white and purple Chinese Primroses. — We have 

 noticed at times, in the Gardening periodicals, some account 

 of double Chinese primroses, but no plants have, we be- 

 lieve, ever reached our collections. The first we saw here 

 were at Chatsworth, where large specimens of both the 

 white and purple were in fine bloom. The white is more 

 beautiful than the purple, though both are desirable plants : 



