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shining crimson, flowers large and very full; Constance, -pale flesh, flowers large 
and full, and of a very pleasing hue; Junia, pale primrose, deeper towards the 
base of the flower, regularly suffused and stained with purple, novel and dis¬ 
tinct in colour; Leah^ apricot yellow, but with a pleasant yellow glow, flowers 
large, full, and of flne form; and Walden Queen^ deep salmon-pink, flowers large 
and full, and a flne exhibition variety. In addition, Mr. Ohater has Autumn 
Queen^ rich carmine, large, and full; Peri^ creamy-white, a fine and well-formed 
flower ; Purity^ soft bright pink, very pretty and good; and Rosa Mundi, bright 
carmine, of a showy hue of colour. 
A personal inspection of Messrs. Downie Laird and Laing’s new flowers enables 
me to speak of them with some confidence. Taking the flowers according to 
their alphabetical arrangement, they are found to be: Alexander Henderson, light 
ruby-crimson, of fine form and full substance; Jamieson^ deep rose,^ 
shaded with dark, forms a fine spike for exhibition; Captain Grants light rosy- 
crimson, flowers large, full, and extra fine; Cloth of Gold^ pure bright yellow, of 
fine form and quality, and very promising as a fine show kind ; David Marshall^ 
clear deep rose, of fine form and substance ; James Mclndoe, bright rosy crimson, 
forming a grand spike of large and full flowers ; John McDonald, very dark ruby 
crimson, fine spilie ; Mrs. T. H. Douglas., pale soft rose, flowers of the finest form 
and quahty; Mr. Downie Improved, bright orange, slightly shaded with rose, a 
fine variety, whether used as a spike or required for cut blooms; Novelty, mauve 
at base of the flower, and greyish-white, quite distinct in character and novel in 
appearance ; and Richard Dean, a splendid exhibition flower, of a dark glossy 
crimson hue, of fine form and quality, and forming a grand spike. This fine 
variety was awarded a First-Class Certificate at the Eoyal Caledonian Society’s 
Exhibition at Edinburgh in September last.—Quo. 
GAKDEN GOSSIP. 
T the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society., on the 8th 
ult., the Council announced in its annual Report that it had come to the 
conclusion that Chiswick Garden must be abandoned, owing to the large 
expenditure it involved, and its growing unfitness for the purposes to which 
it was devoted ; and the question of purchasing a smaller garden in some more favourable 
locality was submitted to the judgment of the Fellows, the means of acquiring this new establish¬ 
ment being, it was believed, provided by a bequest of £2,000 to the Society from a late Fellow, 
Mr. A. Davis. It was also stated that whilst the country shows at Bury and Leicester had 
proved to some extent remunerative, that held last summer at Manchester would not more 
than meet its expenses. The Council, moreover, claims to have taken the necessary steps to secm*e 
the advantage of international competition for Horticulture at the approaching annual Exhibition 
of Art and industry. 
- are glad to find that Rendle's Plant Protectors, to which we alluded 
in our last volume, are engaging the attention of some of our foremost gardeners. 
Mr. Ingi’am, of Belvoir, we learn, purchased all the specimens exhibited at Man¬ 
chester, with the view of giving them a fair trial, and those who have seen them in use at 
Belvoir speak very highly of their efficiency. Mr. Rendlo informs us that he is about to make 
