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various variegated-leaved Begonias, Olea ilicifolia (already alluded to), 
a handsome variety of Bearded Lady’s Slipper, Nepenthes lanata, and a 
Dracaena. Mr. Standish had Desfontainea spinosa, well furnished with 
handsome scarlet tubular flowers tipped with yellow, and fruit of Berberis 
Bealli. Mr. Glendinning again sent Torreya grandis, and Messrs. 
Jackson some rare Thujas and CEnothera mucronata with a stem nearly 
2 feet in height bearing a cluster of large yellow blossoms on the top. 
We also noticed a fine specimen of Lilium giganteum from Mr. Low. 
Fruit was exhibited in great abundance, and most of it was in all 
respects excellent. Unfortunately, however, we have no room to notice 
it in detail. Some fine Pine-apples came from Mr. Young, gardener 
to C. Bailey, Esq.; a collection of fruit from Mr. Tillyard, and we also 
noticed many beautiful examples of Grapes, both black and white ; 
Peaches, Nectarines, and Cherries. Of Plums there were only two 
dishes. Strawberries and Melons were indifferent. 
CLOTH OF GOLD ROSE. 
That splendid noisette Rose, Chromatella, or Cloth of Gold as it 
is more commonly called, still ranks first among yellow roses. 
The only competitor that appears likely to dispute the palm with it is 
Isabella Gray, but at present Isabella’s pretensions are on paper chiefly, 
few, except nurserymen, having flowered it. As figured in the Florist 
last year, certainly it would run Cloth of Gold very close, if not beat 
it; being superior in depth of colour, not only to that, but to Persian 
Yellow, Harrisonii, and even to the old Yellow Cabbage, now so seldom 
seen. But in no other particular, even on the showing of those who 
introduced it, is Isabella Gray said to be superior, save in that all- 
important one, its being a free bloomer, while Cloth of Gold is the most 
uncertain and capricious of all Roses. Whether that capriciousness 
will ever be overcome is doubtful, every kind of treatment having 
succeeded in some instances, and having most signally failed in others ; 
the stock on which it is worked, the aspect in which it is planted, and 
the method of pruning,—long, short, or no pruning at all, having 
equally succeeded and equally failed. But while such specimens exist, 
as can every now and then be seen, let no one despair, for it is worth 
ten successive years’ failure to obtain one such crop as occasionally 
astonishes the eye of the beholder. Let any one fancy a wall, perhaps, 
30 feet long and nearly as high, covered with the strongest wood, and 
the most luxuriant foliage; and in addition to this some two or three 
hundred blooms fully expanded, and some four or five hundred buds 
ready to burst forth. Such a sight has been seen this season at Great 
Cheverell, at the Rev. R. M. Atkinson’s, on the front of the rectory ; 
—a sight that ought to make any Rose grower hesitate ere he gave up 
this Rose in disgust at its shy blooming. Such a mass of fine, golden 
Roses, has been seldom seen; nor such splendid blooms. One, and 
there are many such, was measured, and it gave a circumference of 15^- 
inches ; the colour a rich yellow, the petals stiff, thick, and waxy. The 
only fault it had, was that it was not quite circular, forming rather too 
much of a square in its outline ;—and it is only fair to state that if 
