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be good flowering roots in the third year. I have a bed of three-year-old seed¬ 
lings in flower at the present time, but, being late in flowering, the frosty morn¬ 
ings have nipped them sadly, and spoiled some fine varieties just showing their 
spikes. They are principally raised from Shakespeare, Norma, Newton, Meyer¬ 
beer, Thomas Moore, Eurydice, and Marechal Vaillant. A very novel-coloured 
variety from this bed bearing the name of Celestial has been certificated; and 
another variety just showing flower has a white ground, edged with purple, and is 
quite new in colour; it is a seedling from Michael Ange. 
In a conversation which I lately had with Mr. Standish, who is one of the 
most experienced growers of the Gladiolus in England, I learned that he believed 
that in-and-in breeding of the gandavensis varieties of the Gladiolus had been 
carried on so far as to lead to the disease in the plant. He says that the fine old 
sort called brenchleyensis seldom shows the disease like the new varieties. Mr. 
Standish has great faith that the new Gladiolus cruentus (see Florist and 
Pomologist, 1869), by furnishing some fresh blood with which to cross our present 
varieties, may tend to make the race healthier.— William Tillery, WelbecJc. 
BREHAUT'S LAWN CONSERVATORY. 
'HIS form of Plant Protector, called the Lawn Conservatory, and First-fruit 
Case, was first exhibited at the Nottingham Show of the Eoyal Horticul¬ 
tural Society, and greatly commended itself to the judgment of many of 
the practical gardeners who were present at that meeting. It has since 
been described by its designer, the Eev. T. C. Brehaut, in the Gardeners' Chronicle , 
and we have to thank Mr. Eendle for the figure of it here introduced. 
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