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planting of Boses , if not done last month. This is a good time to plant rose- 
stocks for budding next season. Proceed with alterations and ground work when 
the weather permits. Dig shrubberies ; rake and clean walks in plantations; sweep 
and roll lawns; and keep every part as neat as possible.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
NOVELTIES, Etc., AT FLOWER SHOWS. 
TILL more meagre than that of last month is the record of these. The 
deepening autumn days are never favourable to the production of new 
flowers, hence the scarcity with which they are produced. 
The meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural Society on the 1st of Novem¬ 
ber was of a specially interesting character, because of the presence of a large 
number of Seedling Gladioli raised by Mr. John Standish, from a cross between 
the somewhat newly-imported species G. cruentus , and hybrids of G. gandavensis 7 
chiefly brenchleyensis. The effect of the cross appeared to be more or less apparent 
in most of them, but in some much more clearly than in others. One, 
named Alice Wilson , was quite a new type of flower, having a regular and 
altogether reflexed form, like a Lily, the ground-colour being pale cream, the florets 
deeply tipped with purplish carmine. This was quite a surprise, and a decided 
acquisition. As the seedlings had been grown in pots, and had done remarkably 
well, it did seem as if they were better adapted for pot-culture than many of the 
ordinary forms of G. gandavensis, and the colours were very bright and effective ; 
very useful indeed for conservatory decoration, for instance. 
Seduin acre elegans (f.c.c.) was shown by Messrs. E. G. Henderson and 
Son. It had the same silvery-grey appearance as Seduin glaucum during the height 
of the summer, with patches of creamy white on the shoots. If the variegation will 
stand exposure to wintry weather, it will, no doubt, prove a capital companion 
for Sedum acre aureum , the golden-tipped Stone-crop, now beginning to look 
bright and pretty, as it always does at this season of the year.=—E. D. 
SOUVENIR DE LA MALMAISON TREE CARNATION. 
' AEDENEES’ holidays are somewhat rare, but they are the more appreciated 
when they occur. In the month of August last, by the kind invitation of 
a gentleman residing in the North of Scotland, I went to see his garden, 
and the gardens of some of his friends in Eoss-shire and Inverness-shire. 
In the conservatory of Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, Guisachan, I saw for the first 
time a grand display of floral beauty made by a Tree Carnation, named Souvenir 
de la Malmaison, which is of nearly the same colour as the rose of that name, 
but of rather a deeper blush, while in size it eclipsed everything in the way of a 
carnation I had ever seen, the blooms being as large as a good-sized rose. There 
were hundreds of them, there being not fewer than fifty plants in full bloom at 
the time of my visit. Mr. McCallum, the gardener, told me that he sent the 
blooms to London every week all through the winter, so that it may be considered 
