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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
The Lawn Conservatory is made of different sizes. That here shown is in 
12-ft. lengths, and is 3 ft. 6 in. wide at the base, and about the same in height. 
The next size is in 20-ft. lengths, and is made 6 in. higher and 6 in. wider. The 
glass is removable at pleasure, as is the whole of the front and side shutters, or the 
latter may be lowered to water, shift pots, &c. Every part is movable, and this gives 
immense ventilation, besides which ventilating slides for the winter are provided. 
The case stands on a single row of bricks, and when set down on a lawn 
the effect is very good. M. Brehaut has since added iron spikes along the ridge, 
in order to admit of a stout curtain being drawn over the glass in cold weather. 
The smaller size is the handier of the two, especially for moving, to facilitate 
which the glass may be slipped out and the case lifted and set down where 
required. The case is a sort of “ first-fruit ” propagator; indeed, any early 
vegetables would thrive in it. The advantage it offers is that no shifting or lifting 
of glass lights is necessary, the cultural work being done by removing the back 
and side shutters, which are made in 4-ft. lengths for this purpose. 
These Lawn Conservatories and First-fruit Cases are to be recommended for 
the facility with which they can be moved from place to place, and thus, if 
required, be used to forward various crops in succession—which can hardly be done 
by the use of the more ponderous old-fashioned frame. Amateur gardeners 
especially will find them useful, since being limited in size, one might be devoted 
to this hobby, and another to that, the treatment being modified in each case so 
as to suit the contents. The structure might, moreover, be used either for 
accelerating or retarding the blooming of such plants as will bear the tempera¬ 
ture they afford, by giving the one a southern and the other a northern aspect. 
There are many ways in which such a contrivance can be turned to good account. 
—T. M. 
ROSES AND ROSE-CULTURE. 
Chapter IX.— Autumnal Boses. 
HE favourite group among Autumnal Boses is presumably the Hybrid 
Perpetual. They are the largest, handsomest, sweetest, and hardiest, but 
—I wish there was not a but—few of them bloom freely in the autumn. 
Look at that Auguste Mie, how exquisite the form, how lovely the tint of 
its delicate pink blossoms; it blooms later than its compeers, and how sparingly 
are the after flowers produced ! What object is that seen some hundred yards 
off, the brilliant colour of which rivals the carnation, and draws us insensibly to 
its side ? It is the General Jacqueminot, who has unfurled his banner ; gaily it 
floats in the breeze, and shines conspicuously among the crowd of varied uniforms 
with which he is surrounded. And there is a host of other Generals and Marshals 
by his side, scarcely less distinguished when in full dress or on parade, but who 
taken unawares often cut but a sorry figure. Take another example, in that 
charming Bose Madame Victor Verdier, which is certainly one of the handsomest 
