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are stamped being wrapped round bits of "Vine prunings, 

 stuck in the earth. The beds are also carefully examined 

 during the blooming season^ so as to destroy all those not 

 true to name^ or what are termed " rogues/^ Such are the 

 chief points as to cultivation — next for a selection of the 

 varieties. 



There are altogether in cultivation here between 250 and 

 300 varieties. Of these, we first selected the undermentioned 

 as best,, and then went over them again, marking the very 

 best of all. This second or choicest selection is indicated 

 by an asterisk to all those so chosen : — 



Achille, 

 Anais. 



Belle Gabrielle. 



Charles Dickens. 



Cherubini. 

 *Dr. Liadley. 

 *Duo de Malakoff. 



El Dorado. 



Fulton. 



Galilee. 

 *Imperatrice Eugenie. 

 *James Veitcli. 

 * J olin Waterer. 



Lady Franklin. 



Laquintinie. 

 *Le Poussin. 



La Titiens. 



Linne. 



*Lord Byron. 

 *Madame Furtado. 



Madame Les^ble. 



Madame de Sevigne. 

 *MadarQe Vilmorin. 



Marechal Vaillant. 

 *Marie Dumortier. 



Mazeppa. 



Metdore. 

 *Meyerbeer. 

 *Milton. 



*M. Ad. Brongniart. 

 * Napoleon III. 



Newton. 



Ophir. 



Oracle. 

 *Pdnelope. 



Prince of Wales. 



Princess of Wales. 

 *Princesse Clotbilde. 

 ^Princess Mary of Cam- 

 bridge. 

 *Queen Victoria. 



Eeverend Mr. Berkeley. 



Eoi Leopold. 



Eubens. 

 *Shakspeare. 



Sir William Hooker. 



Stephenson. 



Stuart Low. 



Thomas Moore. 

 *Sir Joseph Paxton. 



Vesta. 



*Sir Walter Scott. 



It is evident there is an ample field from which to select, 

 and a sufficient variety to please the most fastidious. M. 

 Souchet grows exclusively for wholesale houses, and a 

 large proportion of the bulbs of these attractive autumnal 

 flowers, which are met with in the stores of the Paris and 

 London nurserymen or seedsmen, are derived from the 

 grounds of this most successful of cultivators. I cannot 

 close this without acknowledging the great kindness of M. 

 and Madame Souchet, both as amiable and excellent in 

 private life as M. Souchet is distinguished in horticulture ; 

 and some of the pleasantest of the many agreeable visits I 

 have made to great gardens were those paid to M. and Madame 

 Souchet and the forest and gardens of Fontainebleau. 



In France the Gladiolus is cultivated much more abun- 

 dantly than with us — a state of things which should not 



