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to sap, and certainly are anything but sappy and un- 
i i ression is not 
fall 3 and not experience 
- mcha man bears privation t better than the man already 
: p ? Suchtreatment and want 
of skilful atten indrat erghi is, tapari scp en of Roses, we 
know, potty rare. In conclusi do 
on mug , but, 
what must be my last y rierren to this controversy, 
I must yet yn ask fi to you for t 
fairness and courtesy with ‘which you have guided 
this ad Garge Pau 
The present mode of showing Roses can- 
not be much pegowei t will never hey to dress 
up Rose boxes with ngage substances.” It is 
ondi ition, not o ood o arre 
cet one and ons ‘bat one. W. E Rade cy ff, “Se 27. 
From sev ma private communications which 
have reached me during the last  Srnieht, Iam bee 
ve been 
acquainted with the fact that I in some 
instances ii mperfectly ekirir ii oa I 
(Th * D — 
Perm ermit me to state that thi ba eiai 
esti as to whit corp 
to increase the estim 
held, and which I hase lready debated. i l 
say, however. ion should be worth some- 
1g, as 
l es therein six Maa sa a 
tyers- to Slow, and 
ing a a 
a Content wrked plan misunder- 
Standing were possible in ge to what I have srg 
is but just I Soak ie pee se, te e more particular 
"F study no inte any remarks I m think it 
desirable to make, Wiliam Earley. yi 
As the 
who took up the ee 
= article printed in 
ver do this, 
think, seems to have been entirely lost 
pe tae * viz., the difficulty . ee Roses to = show. 
it pos sible, unless uch plan sf coh 
kopti to get them, sa say ise s Mr. Cis 
brings ies in the ee Hag Of ‘perfection hey 
how 
are s eli e present system of show 
has eee the makes ods taste for Roses that hp 
extends far and wide. I see no signs of its diminu- 
tion, nor urserymen, happen to know that one 
grower, whose stock had recently to ued in 
onnection with a change in the firm, hi p 
dormant buds = <n S = I vent to pro- 
phesy that if f correspondents a 
hesy 
troubled with a headache wil the present system is | 
old a is no | fat 
age. 
love of old ways sakes ie say this, and it is the 
ybservatii but 
eS T ay spoken © (and they are many) on the 
subject. eal, 
ae “aut = with the remarks of your 
correspondent, Mr. . Fish, as to the advan- 
i es Mrs the prasad system 
Flo Th abei divi oe band 
by ara sete 
and reminds m 
made, Í I think, by Hogg, te celebrate 
grow: en asked what green re wou å 
| dress ‘his favourite flower, tie” ae ied, ‘* Sarve ’em up 
in their own sauce.” F. Sheppard, Miesse 
The Gre Rose,—I observe that your a 
ha ete Kew “thinks that the green Rose w: 
ot known in a till 1856. Isaw it in 1852 i 
Baltiniove A S.), and got my own plant early in 
I reer a nay, to show how it flourishes 
with me, TL. 
Royal Horticultural 
Exhibitions. — 
perhaps, it 
if a 
Society’s Provincial 
e lost in deciding it, this doubt- 
lose being sai cause of last year’s failure), as the can- 
l nvolves no 
vassing for the local special prize fund i 
aaia all amount of time and labour. It willbe a matter 
ncere regret i Hiere anni porin ae meetin 
of the Royal Horticu! mae 
rt from the 
icone Fo dev wt 
The Determination of Fungi, &c.—Your cor- 
respondent, M. Roumeguére, is ae very cieo 
pa orrecting this writer’s errors (p. 298) I never said 
: Pa anus oe Get oe now pce f hi 
spo 
it, and which (5 (as all fungo- 
logistsieno w)isatotally thing. M. Roumeguére 
_ tells us that all the authors he has been able to 
aps 
nsult say the spores ies are white, except 
as Fries himself is doe founder.of the genus, 
and raggi says under Pan Pic. 4 P- ‘t Spo- 
ri a ain, in his Monographia Hymeno- 
ores m3 é 
me Russulze 
illusion,” my a needs = Aias told there 
whe le section ~~ Russulz whose 1 ae character 
jis 
has been 
nity of hea pray i theory ” over deny the M. 
Roumeguère has expended so many heavy blows. Tt 
is, indeed, now a question with me sh 
necessary to reply to a writer like M 
all it employs exploded 
than a century old, and who says it isa « 
opinion ” whether a 
dockets W his now, or ever had, any exist 
where. Worthi ington G. Smith. 
Potatos.—Potatos ae in the ground till now ate 
fearfully diseased ; the only exce 
ed rball, a fin 
æ being | 
"interesting na at Be 257, it i 
plained how it b 
skinned Flou e 
l 
neighbour last week, but my white Potatos were m 
affec up my 
ho is no elo 
that if I had left them in the ground they would have 
een much affect a 
Myatt’s Ashleaf an nd F 
blue spl 
at the eye, which I believe ‘i rie ni disea 
W. F. Radciyfe, Sept. 28. 
tah ge Har 
otection for a {oe yea sg an 
season, in the tory gardens 
ants. Other reputed greenhouse climbers 
found there, hardy. ould 
planting out many of these 
ness and adapta eg as uE ah: 
se more variety t 
Here 
opening for the F iil Conia An Old Wall 
Erythrina Parcellii.—The plant figured 
under this name is no doubt the E. picta a of 
a Meg ar variety of E. indica. The 
good plate of he in mphius’ 
pa oinense eee i 
its habitat Raiinnee says: ‘‘hec 
Amboina occurrit 
nm arbor prope æ 
say that it has been observe 
the eastern part of the Moluccas and Ce 
ver estern. 
owering 
(Erythrina indies) which takes place about 
July or the ning of song is the gel 
f the natural 
planting the se Pa and o 
pon which the Fijian O endar | is based. F 
reason the is foun ar almost ev 
in the Prodrom 
us again separates it. 
erose. —Although the facts 
thi 
so widely di 
cords 0! 
|. Polyanthes tuberosa as Sumbul. Of § 
probable tt that the Persians would 
