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ALPINE AURICULAS.—ROSES AND ROSE-CULTURE. 
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ALPINE AUKICULAS. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
'EEDLINGr Alpine Auriculas have been one of the specialties which, during 
the last three or four years, Mr. Turner of Slough has been in the habit 
of exhibiting at the spring shows at South Kensington ; and rich and 
Ho varied in colouring as they are, it is no matter of wonder that they, 
should generally have acted on the admiring crowd as one of the principal centres 
of attraction. Certainly, few groups of flowers could have been more truly 
beautiful, while in their beauty few could have more thoroughly combined the 
elements of simplicity and gaiety ; and when to this is added the fact that 
improvement is manifestly going on amongst them, form and colour proportions 
being moulded to the florist’s standard, who can wonder that the Alpine Auriculas 
(with the seifs, perhaps) should, on account of their more decided and richer 
hues, prove more popular, at least in general public assemblies, than their 
grotesque brethren, the greens, the' whites, and the greys—though even these we 
are glad to see meet with more attention and more admiration than they did a 
few years ago, and might probably again become popular, if growers could be 
induced to cultivate them, and exhibit them more freely. 
The accompanying plate represents three of the most advanced of these 
improved varieties of the Alpine race. John Leech (fig. 1) is a rich shaded 
crimson, smooth and well proportioned, and one of the richest flowers in its class. 
Selina (fig. 2) is a velvety shaded purple, with white paste, and in this feature 
approaching the ordinary self-coloured varieties. Monarch (fig. 3) is another 
purple, with rich shading, and of remarkably fine shape and proportions, doubtless 
one of the best in its class. 
Not only on account of their highly-coloured and richly shaded flowers, and 
the lively contrast afforded by the usually yellow colour of the paste, but also on 
account of their more vigorous constitution, and freer habit of growth, these Alpine 
Auriculas are likely to rise in popular favour.—M. 
LOSES AND EOSE-CULTURE. 
Chapter IV. —The Pillar Eose. 
^EEHAPS there is no form of the Eose more effective than the Pillar Eose, 
M and if this method of fashioning the Queen of Flowers was more thoroughly 
understood. Pillar Eoses would probably be more plentiful in our gardens. 
A Pillar Eose when fully grown should be 8 ft. high, broader at the 
base than at the summit, and in the blooming season it should be clothed with 
flowers over its entire height. The Hybrid Chinese and Hybrid Bourbon are the 
best kinds for the purpose, on account of the masses of large brilliant flowers 
which they produce. The A 3 rrshires, Sempervirens, and Boursaults stand next in 
order of merit, and these will attain the height of 10 ft. or 12 ft. if required ; 
3rd series.-III. M 
