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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
or copper-coloured flowers, is without a rival in richness of foliage and variety of 
colour. And these are autumn roses. Then there is another group, the Chinese, 
which naturally falls into the same category. The scarlet tints of Fabvier 
dazzle us with their brilliancy. Cramoisie Superieure, if less flame-like, is even 
richer in colour and more velvety. President d’Olbecque and Prince Charles are 
charming roses of elegant form and pleasing colour, and Mrs. Bosanquet is still 
a flower of rare merit. 
The Tea-scented Roses alone remain to be spoken of under the heading of this 
chapter, and perhaps no others produce so great a quantity of large handsome 
flowers in autumn. How sweet they are, too, and how delicate and uncommon 
the colours ! Cream, primrose—I had almost said yellow—salmon, copper, 
orange, bronze, buff, fawn, are colours not commonly met with except among 
these roses. How unfortunate that the plants are not more hardy. It is not, 
however, prudent to attempt their cultivation otherwise than under glass, except 
in highly-favoured situations. Is it asked, what are these ? I reply, a pure 
mild air, a dry warm soil, a sheltered situation ; one of these conditions is 
essential for their successful cultivation out-of-doors and the combination of all 
will increase the measure of success. Fortunate, indeed, are they who possess 
these advantages. The dry warm summers of the last two years were summers 
they delighted in, and what masses of flowers they brought forth in the autumns 
of those years. Madame Villermoz, Niphetos, Safrano, Narcisse, Vicomtesse de 
Cazes, Adam, Comte de Paris, and Madame de St. Joseph were unusually 
abundant ; while Devoniensis, Moiret, Souvenir d’Elise, Marechal Niel, and 
Gloire de Dijon were of unusual size and splendour. Julie Mansais, Josephine 
Malton, and other delicate kinds attained a degree of perfection in which they 
are rarely seen. All these are of the very first order as autumnal roses, and there 
are some new kinds introduced but recently, and only now becoming known to us, 
which promise great things. But I need not say more here, as I intend to make 
tea-scented roses the subject of a separate chapter.— William Paul, Paul's 
Nurseries, Waltham Cross, N. 
AMARANTHUS SALICIFOLIUS. 
S HIS new half-hardy annual, which was obtained by the late Mr. John 
Gould Veitch in Manilla, is one of the most ornamental of its family— 
f beautiful as a specimen pot-plant for the conservatory, and beautiful in 
suitable sheltered situations for the formal flower-garden during the 
summer season. It was exhibited for the first time on the 6th ult., at South 
Kensington, and received the unanimous award of a First-Class Certificate from 
the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
The plant appears to grow from 3 ft. to 4 ft. in height. It is of pyramidal 
habit, branching freely from the base upwards, and everywhere furnished with 
long narrow linear drooping leaves, 5 in. to 6 in. long or more, having the margins 
