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THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



either themselves to select such successful candidates, and to ad- 

 judge such prizes, or to delegate and commit the said selection of 

 candidates and adjudging of prizes either to some one or more of 

 their body, or to the committees or committee, secretaries or secre- 

 tary, managers or manager of the exhibitions at whicli the same 

 prizes may be offered for competition, or to any other person or per- 

 sons whomsoever as to the said trustees shall seem meet and expe- 

 dient. Provided further, that the said trustees shall have full power 

 at their discretion to retain the annual income arising from the said 

 trust fund for any number of years not exceeding three, and to add 

 the same by way of accretion to the said trust fund, or to accumu- 

 late the same and to devote and apply the accumulations thereof in 

 any one year for and to the same purposes and objects as are herein- 

 before directed, of and concerning the income of the said trust fund 

 in any one year ; but so, nevertheless, that the total amount of the 

 additions to the principal trust fund shall not at any time exceed 

 one-third part of the total amount theretofore received by way of 

 dividend or income upon the said trust fund." 



REVIEW. 



L'AmorpkopAallus Iiivieri. Par Auguste Riviere. 



This monograph is an exceedingly good illustration 

 of the care, even to the minutest details, which our 

 French neighbours exercise in small matters. The 

 plant here described was received as a small bulb by 

 M. Riviere amongst some seeds from Cochin China. 

 Like many of the Aroids, when it flowers it emits a 

 nauseous, abominable odour ; and happily its flowering 

 season is of very short duration. The foliage is exceed- 

 ingly elegant, and constitutes the beauty of the plant. 

 Figures are given of it, and the whole is edited with the 

 scientific care which our esteemed friend brings to 

 everything he undertakes. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Catalogue of Flower and Vegetable Seeds. W. Bull, 

 King's Road Chelsea. — Catalogue of select gladioli — 

 copious and well arranged. Mr. Bull's seeds have a 

 high character, and especially from foreign correspon- 

 dents. 



Vick's Illustrated Catalogue and Floral Guide, 1872. 

 James Vick, Rochester, New York. — A remarkable in- 

 stance of the go a-headism of our American cousins. 

 The frontispiece is a photograph of the proprietor, of 

 whicli he says he could only obtain 120,000 — then 

 there are coloured plans of ribbon-beds and of pansies. 

 The catalogue itself is printed on toned paper, with 

 an ornamental border to each page, while the illustra- 

 tions literally crowd the pages. We have already 

 noticed some very admirably illustrated catalogues, such 

 as Messrs. Sutton's and Carter and Co's., but here is 



one we are incliued to think equal to any for copious- 

 ness of illustration and elegance of appearance. Our 

 home friends must look to their laurels. 



Catalogue des Rosiers Nouveaux, 1872 ; Charles 

 Verdier, Rue Dumerel, No. 12, Paris. Rosiers Nou- 

 veaux, de Guillot fils, Lyon ; Catalogue des Rosiers 

 Nouveaux ; J. Schwartz, successeur de M. Guillot 

 pere, Lyon. — The war of 1809-70 prevented our receiv- 

 ing the usual supply of new roses, and consequently of 

 new catalogues, and, with the exception of a few from 

 Lyons, none reached us last year ; but this season all 

 is altered. We find in these catalogues between seventy 

 and eighty new varieties described, but of what cha- 

 racter they will be it is impossible to form any judg- 

 ment : the names of some of the raisers are a guarantee 

 that something good may be found amongst them. 

 But when they have not been seen, and where a vivid 

 imagination is at play, it is very difficult to decide. 

 Any of those whose business it is to cultivate and pro- 

 pagate, must be sorely perplexed as to those on which 

 to bestow their attention. 



SPECIAL PRIZE LIST FOR THE BIRMING- 

 HAM EXHIBITION. 



We understand that in addition to the Carter Chal- 

 lenge Cup of fifty guineas, offered by the Messrs, 

 Carter and Co., for a collection of vegetables, and the 

 liberal prizes of ten guineas offered for peas by the 

 Messrs. Sutton of Reading, Messrs. J. C. Wheeler and 

 Son of Gloucester offer a prize of ten guineas for the 

 best collection of plants in pots, in bloom, bearing 

 sweet-scented flowers : such as roses, lilies, honey 

 suckles, stocks, jasmines, magnolias, violets, carnations, 

 pinks, &c, ornamentally arranged. This ought to be 

 an interesting competition, and we believe has been 

 suggested by Lady Corisande's garden in " Lothair." 

 These special prizes (while evidencing the enterprize of 

 the firms by whom they are offered) cannot but add 

 much to what we believe will be a grand exhibition. 



{JTo Correspondents. 



A. Z. — The weekly gardening papers give such copious details of 

 operations necessary to be performed from time to time, that anything 

 we could do would be utterly useless in comparison. 



W. S. — The Metropolitan Floral Society's Report can be had of the 

 secretary ; but we may just add that there is a balance in hand, and 

 that it is proposed, in addition to what was done last year, to include in 

 the programme for 1872 an International Fruit Show at the same time 

 as the Autumn Show. 



