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Cloth of Gold; flowers large, semi-double, erect, colour bright red with 
coppery base. 
Secretaire Poe .—A climbing Tea, with solitary erect globular flowers, 
colour bright red with yellow base. 
The rise Desehamps .—A red Tea, sometimes margined or laid with 
white, the flowers large, semi-double, and produced in clusters. 
Marie Poussin .—A Dijon Tea, with erect chrome yellow flowers ; free. 
Pinesse Cretwertinshy (N.).—A climber, producing freely large well- 
formed flowers, clear straw yellow, deeper in the centre. 
DUCHER FILS. 
Ad'ele de BeUabre .—A variety of erect habit, flowers peach colour, 
shaded with deeper red, and with yellow base to the petals ; reverse of 
petals pale rose, shaded with bright rose. 
BERNAIX. 
Bunnert Fridolin .—A climbing Tea, with fresh carmine flowers, 
shaded with brighter red, the petals having a yellow base. 
M. Jules Gambon .—Moderate growth, flowers fresh carnation colour, 
margined with shades of carmine. 
Joseph Mctral .—Petals wavy, and recurved at the margins, crimpled 
in the eentre, dark magenta colour, passing to cherry red, shaded with 
PUrple ' BONNAIRE. 
Capitainc Lefort .—A plant of erect habit ; flowers very large, 
purple colour ; reverse of petals China rose. 
Edmond Sablayrolles .—Habit very erect ; flowers of medium size, 
peach yellow in the centre, with orange shades bordered with bright 
rose, the whole flower being suffused with rose colour when fully 
expanded. dubreuil. 
Carmen .—A Dijon Tea, with flesh-coloured flowers passing to straw 
colour, the petals crimpled or wavy at the margin. 
SODPERT ET NOTTING. 
Comtesse Julie de Hunjadi .—Powers Naples yellow, shaded canary, 
petals margined with rose lake. 
Emilie Vleberghs .—Flowers of medium size, straw colour, shaded 
with rose madder. 
Madame Mdgonette .—Flowers of medium size, chrome yellow tinted 
Withied - PRIES. 
Franc isca Pries .—Flowers rosy white, centre coppery, outer petals 
tinted with rose ; of good size, cup-shaped, fragrant, and free. 
Souvenir d'Espagnc .—Flowers reddish orange on an orange yellow 
ground margined with rose; of medium size, cupped, very fragrant, and 
moderately vigorous. 
LIABAUD. 
Francisque Morel .—A Dijon Tea, seedling from Madame Berard ; 
flowers of good size, cupped, white with yellowish centre. 
PERNET PeRE. 
Monsieur Desir.—A Dijon Tea with crimson flowers, nearly full, 
often shaded with dark violet. 
BRASSAC. 
Herodiade, AT .—Flowers of good size, colour chamois, darker in the 
centre, sometimes lighted with shades of bright rose, darker in the 
centre. 
I cannot say that one feels very much drawn by the lists. So many 
are Dijon Roses, probably very little differing from the parent ; others, 
although the raisers say nothing about it, seem to me of the Hybrid 
Tea class, with flowers of medium size and semi-double, and are not 
of much use. Probably as we have looked to Guillot before, so we may 
expect from him the cream of this year’s Teas and Noisettes.—-D., Deal. 
THE WEATHER AND CROPS IN MARCH. 
I have thought that the severity of the weather might be worth 
recording for the month of March. The opening day of the month 
was very cold and stormy with searching north-easterly wind and 
driving snowstorms, with frost every night, but the 2nd and 3rd were 
the sharpest. On the 2nd the mercury of the thermometer fell to 15, 
or 17° of frost ; on the third to 14, or 18°, with a little snow on the 
ground in shady places. This has been a very trying season for vege¬ 
tables in this neighbourhood. Autumn-planted Cabbages are very much 
cut and gappy, owing to the free growth they made in the autumn, and 
the severe weather which followed in the early part of the new year, when 
we registered 21° of frost ; most kinds of vegetables suffered very much ; 
the greater part of our Broccolis have been killed, and the outlook in this 
neighbourhood is anything but cheeiing. Most kinds of vegetables are 
likely to be very scarce, more so than I have known them for some time. 
Owing to the unfavourable state of the weather, garden work is very much 
in arrears. The rainfall for 1888 was 21*GI inches, ditto for 18871G'76 inches. 
—G. R. Allis, Old Warden, Biggleswade. 
HARDY EUCALYPTUS. 
The “Kew Bulletin ” for March in addition to chapters on “ The Fibre 
Industry at the Bahamas,” “The Yam Bean,” “West African Rubbers,” 
Ac., contains the following note on hardy species of Eucalyptus : — 
“ It is well known that some species of Eucalyptus are hardy in 
certain districts in this country, but the ordinary Blue Gum, E. 
globulus, is only sparingly so. We have recently received from Mr. 
F. Abbott, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens at Hobart Town, 
Tasmania, a small quantity of seed of this species collected from trees 
growing at high altitudes and exposed to severe frosts. Seeds were 
also received of E. coccifera from trees which were coated with icicles 
1 a foot long.’ It is probably that plants raised from seed of such hardy 
forms would be likely to bear with impunity the rigours of an English 
winter. The seed received has all been sown, and the results will be 
duly noted later. In the meantime the following extract from a letter 
received from Mr. Abbott will be read with interest : — 
“‘In the same package I put a little seed of Eucalyptus globulus 
from Tullochgorum, a part of the colony where the winters are severe, 
and on that account the plants raised from the seed forwarded are 
likely to withstand an amount of cold that would kill the ordinary- 
form, at all events it is so here, as all attempts to introduce the plants 
into the district from the southern parts of the island failed, the cold 
proving too severe. Eventually a few isolated plants of E. globulus 
were found growing in a sheltered gully some twenty miles from 
Tullochgorum. These were the only plants of the species that have 
been found growing naturally in so cold a climate, and plants raised 
from these trees were planted about Tullochgorum, and grew into large 
trees, without ever suffering from the severe frosts so prevalent in the 
district which has always killed plants brought from the warmer parts 
of the island. It would therefore be well worth while to give any 
seedlings you may raise from the seed sent a fair trial, with a view of 
proving whether this particular variety is sufficiently hardy to withstand 
the cold of an English winter. It will not be possible to obtain much 
seed, but any I may get I will forward to you, as you will have a better 
opportunity of testing it. I have a little more drying out which will 
be forwarded as soon as it is ready. I send with this a little seed of 
the hardy E. coccifera which I have seen on the top of Mount Wellington 
completely coated with ice, and shielded with icicles a foot or more long 
hanging from the branches. I have no seed of E. verrucosa at present, 
but will get some as soon as possible. This is a very dwarf species, 
usually under 4 feet, and at best is very sparing at producing seed. I 
have no doubt it will be hardy.’ ” 
MARCH INUNDATIONS. 
The floods which occurred in different parts of the country last 
week are so extraordinary at this season of the year that a record of 
them should appear in this Journal, and the following narrative of a 
special correspondent of the Daily News will be of interest to many of 
our readers who could not see that paper. It may be stated that when 
the frosts departed last Wednesday rain fe’l during the night and for 
the greater part of Thursday in and around London, but not heavily, 
and as there was little or no snow to melt when the weather changed, 
no flooding occurred. Flowers and vegetables in gardens have sustained 
great injury, and not a few have been totally destroyed. After stating 
that if, with our modern system of drainage, waters rise more rapidly 
than they used to do, they also fall with equally swift speed, the 
writer proceeds :— 
“ The journey from London last Saturday by express, leaving Padding¬ 
ton at 11.45, was an experience to be long remembered. Some intima¬ 
tion of what was coming was given by the clerk at the window when 
he informed applicants that they could not be booked beyond Bridg¬ 
water. Anxious were the inquiries as to how passengers wishing to 
push further west were to prosecute the journey, and there were a 
couple of clergymen with me at tbe window of the ticket-office who 
were due in their pulpits somewhere on the borders of Devonshire to-day 
who refused at first to be comforted. One of them eventually allowed 
himself to be easily persuaded by a friend to telegraph liis inability to 
reach home and thus snatch a few days’ extra holiday in London. The 
other determined to take the train at all hazards. Near London there 
were no actual floods. The little stream at Ilanwell was swollen, dark, 
and angry : and the Colne as seen at West Drayton, and the Thames 
across the meadows at Reading, were what poets call a ‘ brimming 
river,’ and anglers a ‘ banker.’ They were rolling thick, but not with 
dangerous strength. It was at Bathampton that the first evidence of 
mischief appeared. Great expanses of yellow water stretched away to 
the right of the line, and after the first sense of surprise had worn 
away, and one could spare time for detailed observation, the severity of 
the floods could be studied. If there was any river hereabouts, it was 
as much lost as if it had been swallowed up by the ocean. Sometimes a 
line of queer-looking growths suggested the sinuosities of the course of 
a stream. There were the pollarded heads of willows with their 
branches. The flood had risen higher and higher until the whole of the 
trunks were under water, and only the dark brown heads were visible, 
squat upon the face of the flood. The top rail of an occasional five- 
barred gate and the uppermost branches of hedgerows just peeping 
above water afforded us also an estimate of the height of the water. 
BATH. 
“As we neared Bath we found that it was even now threatening, for 
there was a high tide in the Bristol Channel, and people were preparing 
for the worst. The orchards and fields along the line were completely 
submerged, but fortunately there were few houses on the lower ground. 
In one suburban garden I noticed the devastation was complete with 
the exception of one mound, upon which a small summer-house was 
erected, and in the raised beds at its side there was an oblong bed of 
golden Crocuses beautiful in the bright sunshine, and looking all the 
more beautiful because they were left within an inch of destruction. A 
gentleman who joined us at Bath told us that the people in the lower 
