THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE, 
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ment of 2s., or 2s. 2id. by post. It contains full reports of tlic several trials of 
flowers and vegetables instituted at Chiswick last year. 
Ro.SE Congress in France. — The Lyons Horticultural Club has decided on 
forming a Congress of Rose Growers, in order to discuss tlie question of the nomen- 
clature of roses, and to abolish, as far as possible, useless synonyms. The secretary 
is M. Jean Sisley, 1, Rue Saint Maurice, Monplaisir, I,yons (Rlione), France. 
Peter Lawson and Sons, Seedsmen, London and Edinburgh. — Tlie nursery 
and seed business of Peter Lawson and Sons has boon converted into a joint-stock 
company, with a capital of £75,000, in shares of £15 each, under the name of the 
Lawson Seed and Nursery Company (Limited). Tiiis business has been carried 
on for over a century, the originator being the late Mr. Peter Lawson, who died 
in 1820 at a hale old age ; subsequently Mr. Charles Lawson, late Lord Provost of 
Edinburgh, has been at the head of the firm. Nearly all the available shares were 
taken up within a few days of the intimation of the proposed change being made, 
and some of tlie employes of the old firm hold shares to a considerable amount, 
and will be associated with the general manager in carrying on the business. Mr. 
David Syme is the general manager of the company ; and Mr. David Mitchell has 
the management of the nurseries. 
TO COEKESPONDENTS. 
Amaleur . — The occurrence is very unusual, and it is impossible to say what the 
cause of the failure re.ally was without having seen the vines. 
M. A. D- — The first fern is Nephrodium molle corymbiferum. No. 3 is xVdiantum 
trapezlforme. 
Liliums and Gladioli. — Subscriber. — Full instructions on the Cultivation of 
Lihum.o, will be found in the Floral World for March, 1839, and in the issue 
for October, 1871. 
Rose Border. — I have a long strip of garden under a wall facing E.S.E., and 
about six or eight feet wide. Would it be of any use to plant it entirely with 
roses — principally on their own roots — not pegged down ? I have succeeded so 
well with my rose-cuttings. Tliose two articles which you gave last year on 
striking roses must have made many a lady amateur quite happy. I can speak for 
one as I have often tried to raise roses from cuttings, and never really succeeded. 
Yours very truly and obliged. — M. A. B. [The roses would do very well in the 
border, provided it is properly prepared by deep digging, and, if practicable, liberal 
manuring.] 
Carpet Bedding. — In the autumn, a gentleman looking over my garden, 
bedded as is usual hereabouts with zonal aud other geraniums (pelargoniums should 
I say ?), calceolarias, lobelias, etc., remarked on the blaze of scarlet and yellow 
which such flowers exhibit, and told me of some gardens he had lately seen where 
our routine system was broken through, and the beds filled with plants of the house- 
leek family from Mexico, from which a much greater variety of colour, and a softer 
and much more pleasing effect was obtained. I infer the plants he meant were 
Echeverias, or allied species, and I should be glad, as I live in a remote country 
place, and have no opportunity of seeing new garden methods, if you would inform 
me, through the medium of tlie Floral World, if such plants are used for bed- 
ding purposes ; if the effect is such as he describes ; if the plants in question are 
readily propagated, and kept with little difficulty through the winter ; and if they 
would be likely to stand the climate of this place, which is in the West Riding of 
the County of York, .and at an elevation of some 300 feet above the level of the 
sea. If your answer to these queries should be in the affirmative, probably you 
might write, or induce one of your talented correspondents to write, an article on 
the subject in an early number of the Floral World, giving full instructions as 
to propagating, treatment during the winter, and form of bods. — T. J. C., llkley. 
[Our correspondent appears to have overlooked the excellent articles on carpet 
bedding which have already appeared in the pages of the Floral World. The 
dates upon which the most important of these communications appeared are March, 
1871, and May, 1871. The numbers may be had through the post. The Alteruan- 
theras will, probably, be too tender so far north, and at such a high elevation. 
February. 
