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ihc (Sardfiw's Ponthlg. 



Ami, Dr. Andry, a trulj^ grand rose ; Greneral 

 Jacqueminot, now superseded by some of liis pro 

 geny; Jules Margottin, Victor Yerdier, Senateur 

 Vai.'se, Madame Knorr, Md'lle Emain, Grioire de 

 Dijon, and Marechal Vaillant. Messrs. Paul & 

 Son had some fine boxes, containing in especially 

 good condition Lord Herbert, Duchesse de Caylus, 

 Josepli Fiala, Alfred Colomb, and Triompbe de 

 Ilenhes. Mr. Mitchell had some very fine boxes of 

 twenty-five Roses, three trusses of eacli. They 

 were La Tour de Crouy, too full, and rejected by 

 me, long ago, for that reason, but here very fine ; 

 Alfred Colomb, Maurice Bernardin, Celine Gronod, 

 John Hopper, Pierre Nottino-, excellent; Charles 

 Lefebvre, still unsurpassed ; Le Rhone, Madame 

 Boll, Senateur Vaisse Anna de Diesbach, Madame 

 Furtado, Gloire de Ducher, Marecbal Suchet, 

 loose; Madame Domage, ditto; Louis Van Houtte, 

 rough ; Madame Clemence J oigneaux ; Marechal 

 Niel, fine (it is, by-the-by, a mistake to call this 

 hardy); Charles Margottin, rough ; Louise Pey- 

 ronny ; Adolphe Rothschild; Xavier Olibo, 

 crooked on opening; Caroline de Sansal and 

 Madame Victor Verdier. Messrs. Paul and Son 

 were second with fine flowers, containing, amongst 

 others, Princesse Marie do Carn'ori'lge, ]M.-Klame 

 Pillion, Beauty of Waltham, Alba R.>-!ea, Olivier 

 Delhomme, Francois Lacharme, Achille Gonod, 

 Madame Victor Verdier, Gloire de Dijon, Xavier 

 Olibo, Comtesse de Chabrillant, Madame Charles 

 Wood, Marguerite de St. Am and, very fine; Pierre 

 Netting ; and Alfred Colomb, a very fine Rose. 

 Before leaving the Queen of Flowers, I must no- 

 tice a truly regal addition, in every sense of the 

 word, to our already numerous favorites, but in a 

 class in which we are very deficient. I allude to 

 Miss Ingram, a Rose raised at the Royal Gardens, 

 Frogmore, by Mr. Ingram, the veteran and ac- 

 complished gardener at that truly regal establish- 

 ment. It is a lovely white Rose, with a blush 

 centre, somewhat of the shape of the old Cabbage, 

 perfectly hardy, having withstood the frost of 

 January, which destroyed nearly all the light 

 Roses in that locality. I venture to predict for it a 

 career, as an English Rose, equal to John Hopper. 

 — Journal of Horticulture, English. 



Australian Spinach.— At the commencement 

 of last year, Mr. Ramel, who introduced into the 

 French colony of Algiers the Eucalyptus globulus, 

 received from Australia a new vegetable. His 

 friend. Dr. Mueller, of Melbourne, had it sent to 

 him as a substitute for Spinach ; it is superior in 

 every respect to that vegetable, easier of cultiva- 



tion, and of an enormous and rapid growth, less 

 subject to run to seed, and also of better flavor. 

 He called the plant New Queensland Spinach. The 

 New Australian Spinach is, however, a better 

 name. It belongs to a group in which is com- 

 prised our -common Spinach ; it answers botanically 

 to the Chenopodium auricomum of Lindley, who 

 described it in a few words in Mitchell's Journal on 

 Tropical Australia. It grows abundantly in the 

 East part, following the course of the Paver Nar- 

 rau, and is again found in Queensland The Che- 

 nopodium auricomum is an annual, with a long 

 stalk, rising to a metre. In its general appearance 

 it resembles Chenopodium hybridum, that trouble- 

 some weed which overruns our fields, excepting in 

 certain points, especially in the inflorescence, which 

 d.ff'ers. The stalk is erect, robust, angular, fluted, 

 streaked with a violet kind of red. As regards the 

 eatable qualities cf the plant, we have recently 

 gathered an abundant harvest of leaves from two 

 or three plants growing in our garden. These 

 leaves were put into boiling water to bleach them, 

 and they were then cooked as an ordinary dish of 

 Spinach, with this difl'erence in favor ot the new 

 plant, that there was no occasion to take away the 

 threads which are so disagreeable in Chicory, 

 Sorr 1 and ordinary Spinach. We partook of this 

 dibh with relish ; the flavor, analogous to Spinach, 

 had something in it more refined, less grassy in 

 taste. The cultivation is easy ; sow the seed in 

 April, in a well-manured bed, for the plant is 

 greedy; water it. The leaves may be gathered 

 from the tiine the plant attains 50 centimetres in 

 height. They grow up again quickly. In less 

 than eight days afterwards another gathering may 

 take place, and so on to the end of the year. — 

 Journal de la Ferme et des Alaisons de Campagne. 



^orfirulfupel ^efirps. 



PEMA. HOETICULTUEA.L SOCIETY. 



The Annual Exhibition was held on the 24th, 

 25th and 26th of September, and was, in many re- 

 spects, one of the most successful held for many 

 years. Particular inteiest attached to it, on ac- 

 count of its being the first annual one held in the 

 New Hall, and the result was looked for^^ard to as a 

 test of the succc ss of the idea. The Society is not 

 blessed with many active, working members, though 

 with a very large list of subscribers and well wishers. 

 The only wonder is that with so few persons to in- 

 terest themselves personally, so good an exhibition 

 could be gotten up. 



