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be expected to afford. The a 
rmixture, which renders 
best — — t rose colours; 
and so is Nero and Onslowianum are two 
new and rab iuda i ni gim 
and rubrum, the former having exchanged the spots 
petals for a blotch of deep 
Fastu 
double kind, which “stil maintains its good character. 
The following free blooming ree growing, varieties 
of catawbiense should be in every garden, viz. : el 
azureum eg, ecelestinum, e. pictum, e candidissimum, for I fo 
E buff colours of the Azaleas, 
delicatissimum, Everestianum (an old but very fine z 
kind), g — boys upon a summer's we pl into rivers of 
— — — has, and — she aries it may be, and doomed after their ee 
latter has a lovely effect in t e of a standar sest kind of to toweling, but for the time 
e 
flowers last longer in — fection — the se of 
A 
coccinea major 
3 
abe 
a, oblivious of all the ills N the fl 
hei athed in 
.| Shore, where, 
3) would say) they revel i flo 
e | at enen — from Rivers, and wander to — 
Rose h dw 
e disap Seedlin 
odendrons are very plentiful here, — it i is only 
now and then that such gems as Brayan 
others we — mentioned, — be — from — 
MR. Jonn War ERRR's Nursery at Basnor is charm- | 
ingly situated on two sides of a valley, over which a 
view ed i ound on either 
side; a en from such elevated positions, the 
scene at the time is magnific 
Standard Rhododendrons of no ordinary magnitude 
nt the ins ain walks, ell as th 
interior of the compartments into which r 
divided by Arbor-vitæ 2 ; and the pn broad, deep | * 
t here and th 
banks of . aleas, which e are truly 
i lly in setting off to advan 
elr tes, the Rhododen In addition to the 
varieties of Azalea mentioned above, of which we 
e remarked some promising ngs, 
result o g the yellow Chinese kind with the large 
q =: Reet cer some o 
ross look as if they would be — A 
ed ododendrons 
Grand Arab, Soleil 
Char aud, 
and 
large, very finely | blossoms, 
which must ever render it a favourite. Captivation is 
worth atte on account of its compact, ne 
Blatteum is a very dark kind, with large trusses ; 
and Nobleanum bicolor is 
— 
— ie 8 and roseum elegans. e also 
remarked here a very excellen 
is shrub, that the pce has — 
been budded here on the 
kurnishing another means of inereasing 1 — 
layering 
shot, — nifers grow splendidly 
and many fine examples of all the leading kinds 
at both A tree of Pinus macroe 
P 
at Knap hill i is at oa pa feet oo. rp jus 
band f the bunches of 
chis inated. 
„ both here and at Knap have had 
— killed by the late frosts. Taa n 
——— a 
ut Bagshot have also suffered in a similar manner, while 
— plants have escaped. We therefore trust that 
BUTILON VITIFOLIUM is now in full flower in 
Antony Gardens, the seat — st H. 
M. P. e forms a m autiful, hardy, eve 
— now 12 feet mna ond 1 covered with large white 
blossoms from top to botto 
FLORICULTURE. 
Ruaprsopies Ano Roses (continued 2 ad p. 343.)— 
I can quite corroborate what Shaksper of 
Books 
ay puma of — 
as though they Lethe. And as, 
— * young —.— aforesaid — — to 
diversify ‘their sport by periodical excursions to the 
& cool Mrs. 
o long “ to blus 
—— a * 
unseen, an 
3 sea a 
pa 
wih will be less 
Ee 
r | show 
| confidentially info 
Pole ee — „ i 
Grenadier in brilliant uniform; Proserpine with hep 
a 
the Conqu 
After M. La affay had kisse 
(to 2% enen disgust of the 
ver the grounds by a pane who (Mr. Rivers 
e) w. e celebra 
formed 
doh! mee 1 i 
7 
ar 
e and just as 
gigantic officer, a regular — 1 Grand Capitaine, was 
going to cut me down—I awoke 
In terror I woke, crying This is no joke 1 
And ju amp'd out of bed Une Aam Puan king Priam! 
mark, if — ure still in the —_ 
You’re not a whit iuris off than I am, than I a 
S. N. H. 
3 HORTICULTURAL Society: We learn that the 
ond exhibition will ake piace at 1 Royal, Oia ¥ Wells on 
atiy next, when, gtot ried an charac- 
ter of the schedule jon — ed as, — —— — — 
e display. We sha not fail to give it. 
New DanLIAS : 2 The few eee at p. ksi were 
er exhibited — the whole of last season; they 
should be puis now. 
New peas A — We are — to assist you. Inquire of 
some of the large Rose gro 
RECEIVED: eae of the Shack ewe, img Newington, end 
Hackney Flori — iety; tings the second Thurs- 
y in each month, schedule of the 
meeti 
Sx 8 o'clock. Aiso 
Horticultural Society’s Prizes ; show days, June 16 
d August 25, The — Horticultural N ; show 
days, June 24 and Se r8. And the Prize List of the 
Ips Horticultural — — tives 3 Fans 30, on which. 
— we find that a Silver Cup, v ue 5l., is offered for the 
collection of 24 2 of — Roses. Other prizes, 
varying 4 rom 5s. to — o offered by the same Society 
was a standar 
beautiful, in size first rate 
that Coupe d' Hébé was the gem = its family, 4 
M 
and 
ji Laffay ought T be in every —. en, eh > = find 
her in mine; nsoled by th 
the produce from 
— 
Tae 
les Truff 
ý And that n 
was soon 
e 
harm 
“honesty is the best polic; 
the best, and you give a man a chance of being a 
and a customer. Once make him really an — 
r, as“ ever n his time swallows a 
peck of dirt, 3? 80 every ay om in qh time 1 a deal of 
rubbish. Bu t 3 him rubbish at fir st, an — he will 
never be a flor o not e from 
nor do 
Ais 
Paes 
— sccm aet nay fiow 
Exhibito it is unfair for 
Son . We — of your opinion; 
— 8 Sotlety to issue . prize list only a few days before the 
exhibition takes class. Many prizes offe: such cir. 
cumstances fail to A 3 ce course 
N. 
W W. The breeder flowers — 2 uae = . — 
petal of the broken flower also ra every — justif the 
opinions that were then — essed of it. 
EDLING FLOWERS, 
CALCEOLARIA Very much flattened an 
apparently io remarkable. vera 
CINnERARIAS : W. Quite withered up when received,—J ¢ 
Winslow. colour 
d crushed, but 
n self ; 5, purp! ple weit; 6, crimson- 
38 white self; 10, ditto; i, 
hese, 3 is by far the best, and 
pay prove to g more quality 
ban all the rest combined; si fe ‘attractive, and should be be 
ried gain. -H E H. Of a ogi: Am white 
road en 
—.— 
—A very Ana v 
colour, brigh 
zg — — All “inferior to Kinde ve we in cultivation. 
— will rant as r will eee 
and of e substance 
apt we —.— bold bac! 
What do you 22 8 call ii? As a rule we — not 
— se of large flowers—-still, size has its ——— 
marks apply to the flower noticed las 
— inthe = — — Hamilton. 
— 
A Rob ‘soe 1 Mr. Newall, granite- 
hewer in "Dabeati, jan lately plying his vocation at 
raignair Y, Pie — arrest eries 
3 3 of "dist tress proceeding from one or 
other the feathered denizens of the wood. On 
ls 
r t 
— on the subject of guano from those who may 
have purchased 
trees themselves 
“loam” in lien of the Ag rant urs 
s giv | 
throwing í rom him his i n 
whence t e sounds roceeded, he discovered a 
. What trees, for instan 
splay in the budding-ground as Géant deal 
tailles, Duchess of Sutherland, and Paul Ricaut ? 
“That Paul Ricketts,” said a quaint old gardener to 
Ricketts sets to — at top of a briar, 
gino — sucks up the sap like 
to return to vo history ; I finished my book just at 
a that L on 
Wh 3 d of even 
“Th e 5 light dec 3 
And Hesper, on ihe — ‘of Heaven, 
His glittering gem display a” 
night I had an extraordi dream 
amt,” irat “that I dwelt in marble halls ;” SF en 
ent 
7 
iat I with a large party, y members Newall was iling the addek, the joy of the t bird. 
abide: itated for th ion, so excessive, that she actually perched on the left 
pia quite at their ease, to see the gardens | arm of her benefactor, and watched with an unmistake- 
of ear Paris. noti among our and intense delight 3 r — c — his 
company Shakspere in a coat of rich crimson velvet, right on her merciless and disappo and 
eared with the n of De Hamlet’s | when that enemy lay dead, — alighted ee — 2 — 
mother), about that unpleasant little affair in | the lifeless gel ee all her vig gour; and revenge thus 
orchard ; the es 3 of Sutherland, in an | take ä nest, and ha aving 8 that all 
t rose- coloured silk (wa a reprimanding a was safe, swi wiftly 1 repaired to a neighbouring branch, 
pretty femme de cha aire Jenny, for talking to af and piped, as she best sola; what was no doubt meant 
