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THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 
Surrey Zoological Gardens. Many years back, some 
of the finest shows of fruits and flowers ever held in 
London were held here, and although the taste for them 
has somewhat declined, yet the very liberal schedule, in 
which nearly 150^. are ofiered for cut blooms of Dahlias, 
Hollyhocks, Gladiolus, Asters, Verbenas aud Roses, will 
doubtless bring together a fine exhibition. Schedules 
and all particulars may be obtained from the Hon. Sec., 
the Rev. H. Honywood Dombraln, Westwell Vicarage, 
Ashford, Kent. 
VALUE OF FRUITS AND FLOWERS. 
Fruits and flowers have too often been considered only 
as the luxuries of life ; but the more we use them, the 
more we are associated with them, the nearer shall we 
approach a refined and healthy temperament both of 
body and of mind. It is therefore our duty to develop 
these wonderful resources of nature, and to increase and 
improve them to their utmost extent. No employment 
is more consonant with the refinement and happiness of 
a rational being, none better calculated to develop the 
purest sentiments of our moral nature. “Theyare,^’ 
said Mr. Webster, “a constant field where all sexes and 
ages, and every degree of taste and refinement, may find 
opportunity for gratification.” — {Extract from a Lecture 
hy the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder to the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society.) 
THE NEW ROSES OF 1871. 
Mr. John Keynes of Salisbury did good service to all 
lovers of the Rose on July 16th, by bringing up to South 
Kensington 3 boxes containing 72 blooms of the best 
24; roses of 1871 ; it is manifestly impossible to judge 
of new roses the first season, and hence the value of 
such an exhibit as this. We give brief notes of 
them : — 
Etienne Levet, brilliant carmine rose. 
Souvenir de Paul Neron, beautiful waxy white and 
salmon tea rose. 
Madame Geo. Schwartz, beautiful soft rose, large and 
fine form. 
iMadame Lefebvre Bernard, shelly petals, rosy pink 
colour, fine flower. 
Baron Bonstetten, deep rich dark crimson. 
IMadame Louis Corbie, pretty, soft crimson. 
Bessie Johnson, sport from Abel Grand, pale blush. 
iMadame Bellon, pretty pink. 
President Thiers, bright crimson, thin. 
Pran 5 ois Michelon, large pink globular flower. 
Andre Dunaud, soft pink. 
Auguste Rigotard, cherry red, fine form. 
Baronne Louise Uxhull, carmine rose, fine colour and 
form. 
Lyonnaise, light rose, dark centre. 
Madame Sclpion Cochet, cherry red, not full enough. 
Richard Wallace, fine bright rose. 
Victor Verne, red, very effective. 
Abbe Bramerel, bright crimson, shaded with velvet 
brown, fine garden rose. 
Out of these we think that five or six may be relied 
upon as being quite first rate roses. 
PLUCK THE FLOWERS. 
All lovers of flowers must remember that one blossom 
allowed to mature or go to seed injures the plant more 
than a dozen buds. Cut your flowers then, all of them, 
before they begin to fade. Adorn your room with them ; 
put them on your tables ; send bouquets to your friends 
who have no flowers, or exchange favours with those 
who have. All roses, after they have ceased to bloom, 
should be cut back, that the strength of the root may 
go to forming new roots for next year. On bushes not 
a seed should be allowed to mature. 
As a caution to exhibitors, we give particulars of a 
painful incident which occurred at the Royal Botanic 
Society’s Show on Wednesday last. Prizes being 
offered in the schedule for 12 tricolor and variegated 
Pelargoniums, Mr. Turner, Slough, sent up the required 
number of nicely-grown plants. They were put up in 
the usual way by Mr. Turner’s man, who finally gave 
them a watering overhead with, as he thought, pure 
I water. It turned out, however, that instead of getting 
I the W'ater at the usual place, he took it from a tub 
! nearer at hand, which appeared all right, but which un- 
I fortunately contained sulphuric acid, which had been 
used the night before by some of the workmen preparing 
j for the gas illuminations. The plants commenced to 
flag almost immediately, and in the course of an hour 
every leaf had become perfectly rotten, the whole pre- 
senting a very pitiable condition. — Gardener's Chronicle.. 
Slnstucrs la GTovTcspontients. 
E. H. — Yes, we have unhappily traces of the Gladiolus disease, and 
have heard of its existence from others — it is a plague. 
