176 THE FLORIST AND 



Turion. A stem partly developed ; covered with scales, as the young 

 stem of asparagus. 



Vimineus. Slender, flexible. 



Virgate. Slender, but less flexible than the preceding. 



Viticulose. Producing vines or trailing stems. 



Viviparous. Increasing by buds falling from the stem. 



Volubilis. Twining; having the property of twisting around another 

 body. W. S. 



NEW BOURBON ROSE. 



At the weekly meetings of the Horticultural Association at Washington, 

 Professor Charles G. Page has exhibited a new Bourbon Rose of his own 

 production. It is from one of four seeds, and of the progeny of the 

 common Chinese daily upon the Pourpre de Tyre, Florists, Fanciers and 

 Critics pronounce warmly in its favor as a first rate rose. 



The color is a fine crimson, form perfect, very double, size large, habit 

 strong and healthy, bloom perpetual and abundant, and deliciously fragrant, 

 a quality generally wanting in the best Bourbon Roses. It has been tested 

 for only one year, out of doors and in, the bush being but two years old 

 from the seed ; but its only change is for the better. 



FOREIGN PATRONAGE, No. 2. 



Under the head of Foreign Patronage, a correspondent has exposed the 

 prejudiced ignorance of a critique of Dr. Leidy's Fanna and Flora within 

 living animals, in the Gardeners' Chronicle. It is very much in the style 

 of a certain class of Englishmen when speaking of anything American. 



We have another cause of complaint against the Gardeners' Chronicle ; 

 which is this ; in a late issue under the head of Floriculture, is copied almost 

 entire, an article from this Magazine by Mr. Wm. Chorlton, on the Pink 

 (p. 243), without credit, merely signed with the initials W. C. Now we 

 object decidedly to such theft, and it is done with bad grace by persons who 

 are continually harping upon the reprinting of articles in our literary 

 magazines. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle is a most valuable paper, and the articles we 



