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25. Madame Hippolyte Jamain 37. Madame Lacharme 
26. Princess Mary of Cambridge 38. Madame Victor Verdier 
27. Abel Carriére 39. Mdlle. Eugénie Verdier 
28. Abel Grand 40. Marie Rady 
29. Marguerite de Sit. Amand 41. Mrs. G. Paul 
30. Beanty of Waltham 42. Olivier Delhomme 
31. Capitaine Christy 43. Star of Waltham 
°32. Centifolia Rosea 44. Sultan of Zanzibar 
-33. Devienne Lamy 45, Xavier Olibo 
34. Duchesse de Vallombrosa 46. Boule d’Or 
35. Elie Morel 47. Comtesse de Nadaillac 
36. Louis Van Houtte 48. Catherine Mermet 
-49. Comtesse de Serenye 61. Prince Arthur 
50. Duc de Rohan 62. Sénateur Vaisse 
-51. Edouard Morren 63. Victor Verdier 
52. Général Jacqueminot 64. Annie Wood 
53. John Hopper 65. Dupuy Jamain 
54, La Rosiére 66. Jean Ducher 
-55. Le Havre 67. Devoniensis 
56. Lord Macaulay 68. Niphetos 
57. Mdlle. Marie Cointet 69. Alba Rosea 
58. Madame Charles Wood 70. Anna Ollivier 
59. Nardy Fréres 71. Souvenir de la Malmaison , 
60. Pierre Notting 72. Princess Beatrice 
* The first twelve “are thcse which we would select supposing each Rose 
could be had in its best form on the same day. 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
NATIONAL ROSE Soctery.—A meeting of the General Com- 
mittee was held at the rooms of the Horticultural Club, 
Arundel Street, Strand, on the 22nd inst., the Rev. Canon 
“Hole in the chair, when the Hon. Treasurer (Mr. W. Scott) 
submitted his accounts, showing a balance in favour of the 
Society. The dates for the exhibitions for 1879 were fixed, 
subject to the approval of the annual meeting. The first show 
is to be held at the Crystal Palace on June 28th, the second at 
Manchester on July 14th. It was also arranged that a paper 
‘of instructions on Rose-growing should be drawn up and 
widely distributed. It was announced that the “ Rosarians’ 
Year Book” would be issued, as last year, independently of 
tthe Society. 
—— AFTER an extraordinary term of dry autumnal weather 
‘in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, which has rendered 
street watering necessary and garden watering incumbent, a 
aefreshing shower fell on Monday night. So dry had the soil 
‘become that we have seen such shrubs as Aucubas, Euony- 
muses, and Rhododendrons, where planted in proximity to 
large trees, with flaccid leaves and drooping shoots as if they 
were suffering from the drought of July instead of that of 
October. The rain has proved very, welcome for such shrubs, 
aalso for accelerating the establishment of the recently planted 
autumn crops of Cabbages, Lettuces, &c., which were almost 
an a standstill state. 
A CURIOUS case of DICHROISM has occurred on a plant 
-of the Dahlia in the garden of the Rey. R. H. Webb of Essen- 
don, the author of the “Flora Hertfordiensis.’’ The plant is 
-a very old variety of double Dahlia, the flowers of which are 
yellow. This year one of the early blooms showed some red 
‘florets round the base, all the others being yellow as usual ; 
‘but now a perfectly dark maroon flower has been produced on 
the same stalk as one entirely of the normal colour. Mr. 
‘Webb informs us that during the great number of years he has 
-grown this yariety no such occurrence has taken place before. 
‘Such instances are not rare in the Chrysanthemum, but we 
‘haye neyer known it in the Dahlia till now. 
—— Messrs. JAMES CARTER & Co. have been awarded 
“FIVE GOLD MEDALS at the Paris Exhibition—namely, for seeds 
and a general collection of typical horticultural and agricul- 
tural produce, for lawns and Potatoes. Four of the medals 
sare recorded in the official list of awards to exhibitors—the 
only record in the list of four similar medals being granted to 
any exhibitor—the fifth being mentioned in the French “ Jour. 
nal Officiel :” the firm, therefore, have good reason to be satis_ 
‘fied with the result of their enterprise at the Great Exhibition. 
In the garden of Dr. Rogers, the Warden of Sackville 
College, Hast Grinstead, there are several strong healthy plants 
of EUCALYPTUS GLGOBULUS out of doors which have stvod 
‘without protection for some years, and promise to become 
darge handsome trees. 
NOTEWGRTHY in Messrs. Veitch’s collection of fruit 
arranged at the last meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
yyet not noticed in our report, were some tempting dishes 
of AUTUMN RASPBERRIES Belle de Fontenay, large, highly 
coloured, and excellent ; Large Red Monthly, also good; and | 
the October Yellow. Autumn Raspberries are so useful and 
continue in use for so long that it is somewhat surprising that 
they are not more generally cultivated. We lately saw in 
Lord Londesborough’s garden at Norbiton a fine quarter of 
Raspberries from which Mr. Denning has been gathering 
daily for months, he having sent many hundreds of fine dishes 
to the family which have been highly appreciated. Mr. Den- 
ning considers this one of the most useful of crops in affording 
a continuous and acceptable supply of fruit for tarts, and occa- 
sionally for dessert, for a large family. 
A CORRESPONDENT, “ G. C.,” asks if cultivators will give 
their experience with the LoRD PALMERSTON PEACH grown 
in pots in unheated orchard houses. He had a good tree ina 
pot which ripened thirteen Peaches fine to look at, but they 
were tough and altogether uneatable. Our correspondent fur- 
ther asks if any special treatment is requisite to have this 
Peach in good condition. 
ONE of the most useful Fuchsias that we have seen for 
a long time is BLUSHING BRIDE. Unlike many varieties 
which are remarkable for their fine flowers the one under 
notice is of extremely free growth. Feed it well and it will 
produce fine sprays of flowers for cutting for vase ornamenta- 
tion, while for conservatory decoration it is one of the most 
free in growth that has come under our notice. In habit it is 
erect, yet short-jointed and sturdy. It is a light variety, the 
sepals being white and corolla scarlet. When grown as we 
lately saw it in Mr. Cannell’s nursery it is one of the most 
serviceable decorative Fuchsias in cultivation. 
Mr. IGGULDEN writes to us as follows relative to a 
SECOND CROP OF PLUMS in Essex :—“In a preceding number 
mention is made by me of the extraordinary crop of Victoria 
Plums in this district. Since then the trees have produced a 
second crop consisting of several pecks of useful fruit. This 
was the case last season, but the crop was much smaller. Know- 
ing from experience that they would not ripen, they were 
gathered and used in a green state. This phenomenon is at- 
tributed to the extremely hot and dry weather experienced 
during June and July, causing a premature ripening of the 
wood ; the very humid August following had the very unde- 
sirable effect of causing the trees to bloom a second time. 
Pears frequently perfect a second crop of small fruit, but with 
Plums this is seldom the case.” 
A VERY bright and cheerful display of ORCHILS is 
arranged in one of the houses in Messrs. Rollisson’s Nursery 
at Tooting. Numerous and highly attractive are the Calanthes 
vestita Veitchii and lutea; very fine are the Vandas, especially 
Y. tricolor meleagris. There are also good examples of Odon- 
toglossums varicosum, crispum, bigibbum, and incuryum, with 
Odontoglossum Roezlii, Pleiones, and Cattleya marginata. In 
the nursery a bed of Anemone japonica alba is a mass of 
purity, and affords good evidence that this Anemone is one of 
the most valuable of late hardy-flowering plants. 
THE prolonged term of dry weather has had the effect 
of ripening THE GROWTHS OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS more fully 
than usual, and fine displays of this valuable autumn flower 
are being anticipated at the approaching shows. The plants 
in the Temple Gardens, London, are arranged under the 
temporary glass erection. The early varieties are just expand- 
ing ; and although too early to judge of the individual merits 
of the flowers, it is not too soon to perceive that the display as 
a whole will sustain the repute of the gardens and Mr. New- 
ton’s skill as a cultivator. 
SWEET CHESTNUTS, writes Mr. Iggulden, “are plenti- 
ful and good this year. I have collected a quantity for use in 
the dining-room. The cook nips off their points, boils them till 
they are soft, then bakes them till they are dry, and when thus 
treated are delicious.” 
— A CORRESPONDENT writing from county Down on 
HYDRANGEAS IN THE OPEN AIR, states that for ten years 
his plants all died down from the frosts and shot up again 
in the spring, but never flowered. For three years he has 
covered each plant with poles and Spruce Fir branches, and 
they now flower luxuriantly every year—some with 130 trusses © 
of bloom on each plant. 
WE are informed that the CELERY FLY has been un- 
usually destructive this autumn in many of the market gar- 
dens of Fulham, notably those in the Thames valley, where 
the plants are almost deyoured by the grubs. On this account 
many acres of Celery are being dug and hurried into the 
market as rapidly as possible, as it is considered that the crop 
