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LAE GARDENERS CHRONICLE 
[JULY 25, 1874. 
pleteness of the arrangement may be surmised 
from the fact that about 6000 trusses of flowers 
e Blossom, Madcopiseil¢ Thérése 
Levet, rose coloured ; me Plantin, and 
Mrs. nquet, white; Madame Falcot, 
yellow; and most of the leading Roses, new 
rery 
ndividually Firebrand, which 
as a crimson Baronne sud Rothschild, was the 
most effective in the sh 
The figures will serve ag show the arrange- 
ment of the colours ; thus in A the space num- 
bered r was filled with crimson Roses ; 2, with 
blush varieties ; 3 and 4, with flowers of rose- 
coloured hue. 
In B, t was filled wit flowers ; 2 and 3, 
with rose 5 t and 5, with crimson ; 6 and 7, 
i 8 and 9, with rose ; and 10, with 
i ed flowers 
In C, I and 2 were filled with white Roses ; 
-3 4 and 5, with rose ; and 6, 7, 8, with crimson- 
_ coloured flowers. ; 
The arrangement of the flowers in D was as 
follows :—1, 
25: Fy yellow ; 45 Ss (6, -7,.. rose- 
» 9, 10, crimson ; while II was 
s 
filled with Roses of 
) —I,.2, white ; 3 and 4, 
crimson; 5, g iare paR: -CO) 
9, 10, crimson; II, 12, yellow ; 13, 14, rose ; 
: 15y 16, aaraa ; <9 crimson. 
ose grower and a Rose exhibitor 
of e the example, we see the fal- 
lacy of the objections commonty raised ; and 
we we say. to flower-show Rage and to Rose 
exhibitoni-go and do likewise, 
—— SINCE writing the paragraph in ee report of 
e Scientific Committee: 
. 
a means of destroying 
-i ot Enea gi. The Gishurst was first 
the strength eT n paa to 12 gal- 
, followed the the eisai ped a good 
atom ough 
ie 
Mr. 'NIE, Manager of the British 
asie e Company, introduced the a of 
DYNA an ctual | 
Perret E STUMPS AND Roors or | 
TREES, boulder-stones, and ot obstacles to the 
ther 
n vation of woodland and rough and un- 
tivated pation Some recent trials, at which 
Professor ABEL was present, with other gentlemen, 
have arei ar . oe that 
in the middle of the 
easy. Also 1 g 
exploded on the chek of a Noeides will effectually 
break it up into pna fr 
limestone pits at Duiley, and at the Mount Sorrel 
granite ies, Lei 
French markets may be seen country- 
women offering bunches of WHITE LILY ae 
for sale. A great number of these are purchased, n 
to make lagean ts, but = preserve in brandy. The 
petals a lled off o one and put into wide- 
Heere pickle tings containing or arina ary eaw- de-vie 
They ar TES in m y o year. When 
any one receiv eat or oiak a bánd Lily:pet tal 
s a applied t to the place, and fastened there 
age. ery powerful he virtue is 
attributed to taa floral plaister ; and so general is the 
belief, that many grocers’ shops keep in stock a glass 
jar f Li pë , which they retail at a sou a-piece. 
ut it is more probable the benefit proceeds rather 
the stimulating action of the brandy than from 
any virtue extracted from the flower. 
Whee a 
; 11, White. e.—(E) 1, 
» Crimson ; 
oo various ; Ta 12, Yellow, various ; 13, 14, Boos various; 15, 1 
n Thursday, Jul 36, a the Zool 
Gardens, Clifton, Mr Me Donn 
1: | that we s report may 
a: events steps should be taken to prevent its | ni 
on colonies : such a 
an ome vof Acrrcunronan cm 
; ch in Millbank Street, 
Westerns: mei who haved depots in Liverpool, 
Hull, Southam Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, have faii held tor Eere annual meeting 
at No. 6, The Crescent, ee The 
this house as s povate hot 
pee the 
a mem seet it > we = old, 878. 
capital, which seven ics ago 1666, is 
stated to be £21 armed for 
500... T 
ame ae in 1868 was £493, during 
eans of presenting the aped oi s 
Vine p ree the Phylloxera vastatrix, 
been found, in the pees of a ine =) e 
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Fie. naa sae STYLE OF SHOWING ROSES: PLAN. 
eg SP ae 3, Rose; 4, 5, ewes & 7 
yt Crimson D] > > 3, bin ale as x 
sa, s ey , Rose, 
6, Mixed 7, Crim: 
on the ground — oe ae of the plants. — 
sand is said to r this insect to 
throng, and the eoi ence oy 
tion in of our 
. 
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a acres. se of foes 
aver 
