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duce the best effect puts out of view many rare and valuable plants — on the 

 other hand setting each collection by itself, would make the small ones look 

 meagre in comparison; — a table or portion of the room set apart for novel- 

 ties or for specimen plants would be preferable; — at the triennial exhibition 

 at Ghent, the collections are placed together and premiums awarded by the 

 committees, after tha4; they are arranged on the stages, and the public ad- 

 mitted — another thing which should be imitated in this country — all awards 

 should be made before the exhibition opens. 



The New Rose " Souvenir de la Reine des Beiges," from evidences col- 

 lected by Mr* Yan Houtte, seems to be identical with the Rose "Prince 

 Albert," Mr. Laffay, says in a letter to him. 



I received this rose in November, 1851* * * * * From its arrival I 

 thought I recognised the wood of this plant; it resembles very much that of 

 one of my seedlings, the Prince Albert. The specimens which I received as 

 well as the grafts which I took from them, only furnished me with individ- 

 uals entirely like this last rose* as well in the structure of their branches 

 as in their leaves ; the buds, calices, and flowers varying in colour, according 

 to the season from a clear red to a shaded and velvety violet. In fine, sir, 

 I have not grafted a single branch for next year^ being persuaded that this 

 variety La produced by an error. 



The New York Horticultural Society are making arrangements 

 for their Fall Exhibition, which we hope will be worthy of the oc- 

 casion . We annex the circular of the committee : 



The Fall Exhibition of the New York Horticultural Society will 

 be held at Niblo's Garden, corner of Broadway and Prince Street, New 

 York City, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, September 20th, 21st, 

 and 22nd, 1853, to which the undersigned earnestly solicit your attention. 

 The Crystal Palace will doubtless attract large numbers of persons, not only 

 from all parts of the Union, but also from various countries of Europe, and 

 the undersigned therefore propose to put forth unusual efforts to get up a 

 Horticultural Exhibition which shall be worthy of the great commercial me- 

 tropolis. The fact of a large number of Europeans congregating in New 

 York, will give our next Exhibition something more than a local interest; 

 for they will expect to see in the first City in the Union, a fair exposition of 

 what we are doing in the United States for Horticultural Science, and will 

 judge U3 accordingly. It is very important, then, that their minds should 

 be favorably impressed. The undersigned confess to feeling something more 



