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a black spot around the eye, so far distinct from other beans as to be easily recognised in 
this way. Its pods are long, narrow, and straight, and are both fine and handsome; still 
farther, it is of excellent quality, and well worthy of general cultivation, 
- En reference to tlie Grub amongst Carnations and Picotees^ Mr. Booth, 
of Failsworth, writes :—“ I am greatly troubled at present amongst my layers 
with a small grub, very much like the hot, which eats all the pith out of them 
and the heel. Can you tell me anything that will kill them ? There are scores of them in 
the pots. Is there anything wherewith I can water that will destroy the pest ? ” [I am 
sorry to hear of our friend’s trouble with the small black-headed grub, I do not know 
whence it comes, except that at this season of the year it is found generally in foul, un¬ 
sweetened, dank soil; but I well know the mischief it works, and the trouble involved in 
getting rid of it. Nothing known to me will destroy it, without at the same time destroying 
the plants; one only remedy exists,—the turning up and carefully picking each grub from 
the soil,—E. S. D.] 
- '0^HE following plan for preserving the Colours of Flowers in the dried 
state is recommended by M. Boulade ;—Layout the flowers between several sheets 
of unsized paper—filtering-paper; place these sheets between two fire-bricks, 
and put the whole in a stove or oven heated to 60° to 70° Cent. Change the papers after an 
hour. After two or three hours, the flowers will be sufficiently dried, and their colours preserved. 
- SlSi^BiTiNG in the Gardeners^ Chronicle^ Mr. Baines makes the following 
observations on New Roses at Cheshunt:— The Shah is the brightest of bright 
red Roses, an excellent garden variety, and through it and others of similar char¬ 
acter Mr. Paul may ultimately attain what he is trying for—a real scarlet. Sultan of 
Zanzibar is a decided improvement in the direction of colour—dark maroon, clearly edged 
with scarlet, remarkably free; Duke o f Connaught is evidently a strong-growing, vigorous- 
constitutioned variety, fine in form ; colour intense glowing crimson, flushed with a brighter 
shade. Dr. Hooker is a grand autumn Rose, the colour scarcely describable, but it may be 
set down as an intense scarlet-crimson shaded with violet. Empress of India (Laxton’s) is a 
thorough hot-season kind, crimson shaded with brown, a most distinct and pleasing colour. 
John Bright is particularly promising; it is a seedling from Lord Clyde, similar in form, 
with better outline, and more vivid in colour,—a Rose, I think, that most people will buy. 
Robert Marnock, a vivid crimson, shot with reddish brown, did not at first show its autumnal 
character, but last year some of the plants pushed again and flowered freely, these were 
worked, and the habit is fixed. Beauty of Roselands is very fine ; it is deep rose in colour, 
shaded off to violet. 
- regret to have to record that the extensive agricultural and 
horticultural implement of Messrs. Boxdton and Paul., at Norwich, were 
greatly damaged by fire on the 11th ult.. A large range of workshops, stores, 
and machinery devoted to the manufacture of horticultural requirements was totally 
destroyed; but we are informed that the disaster will not in any way affect any other depart¬ 
ment of the works, where business will be carried on as usual. Although the horticultural 
workshops are destroyed, fortunately the entire stock of well-seasoned timber, which was 
stored in sheds at a distance from the scene of the fire, was saved, and arrangements are 
being made to resume this special branch at the earliest possible date, and to continue it 
during the rebuilding of the premises. 
- JIn the Fern Paradise of Mr. F. G. Heath, a third edition of which is 
now in the press, it is remarked that “ Thousands of the tourists who annually visit 
the western ‘ Garden of England ’—for Devonshire well deserves that name—whilst 
deeply impressed with the general loveliness of the county, nevertheless find it difficult to 
explain what it is that lends the peculiar character of softness and grace to the scenery. Here 
isthe secret. The whole county is richly and luxuriantly clothed with ferns. The number 
and variety of the most exquisite forms of these beautiful plants to be found in Devonshire 
are equalled by those of no other county in the United Kingdom. Devonshire is emphatically 
the ‘ paradise ’ of the British ferns. There they are in very truth at home. The soil and the 
air are adapted to them, and they adapt themselves to the whole aspect of the place. They 
clothe the hill-sides and the hill-tops; they grow in the moist depths of the valleys; they 
