COMPANION TO THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. 
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but who are perhaps actuated with as great a love of Flora’s favourites 
as those who possess them, we may mention, as likely to be of especial 
interest, the Rose, Gladiolus, and Fancy Pansy. Already we have heard 
of upwards of fifty varieties which French raisers of Roses have this 
autumn introduced amongst us; while our English growers, no w r ay 
envious at the honours reaped by Mr. Ward, of Ipswich, with his 
splendid Rose, John Hopper, but anxious to be fellow-workers in the same 
field, are endeavouring to solve the problem as to whether we are to be 
dependent on France for our novelties in this, the Queen of Flowers, 
Three exhibitions, all of which owe their origin to our earnest friend 
the Rev. S. Reynolds Hole, Vicar of Caunton, are announced as the 
lists where the principal tournaments in her honour are to be held, Ken¬ 
sington, the Crystal Palace, and Birmingham ; and we shall look forward 
to the pleasure of chronicling the results for the gratification of our 
readers. The Gladiolus has the last two or three years taken up a pro¬ 
minent position as one of our principal autumn flowers. A few new va¬ 
rieties have been announced from the Continent, and Mr. Standisli has 
largely added to his catalogue of seedlings this year; and with the in¬ 
creased encouragement which we hope will be given to it, we may ex¬ 
pect to see its still greater advance in public favour. It is so easily 
grown, and is so valuable as a cut flower, that we do not wonder at its 
popularity. The Fancy Pansy, of which we have given some beautiful 
examples in our present number, is likely to be exhibited this year more 
abundantly than heretofore; the Royal Horticultural Society has offered 
special prizes for it, and we are informed by Mr. Dean that he has had 
many inquiries about his valuable new varieties. With these, and the 
plants and flowers ordinarily seen at our flower-shows, we may hope, with 
a moderately favourable season, for a year full of interest and novelty. 
NEW ROSES. 
If we may draw conclusions from the number of raisers and the num¬ 
ber of flowers which are annually sent from France to this country, the 
raising of seedling Roses must be peculiarly profitable to our lively neigh¬ 
bours across the Channel. It is rather too hard, however, that they 
should be so blind as to the real character of their offspring; for notwith¬ 
standing the high-flowing encomiums bestowed upon them, hardly ten per 
cent, of the number continue in our catalogues more than a year; yet 
those nurserymen who deal in them are obliged to buy, to propagate 
largely, and then perhaps at last throw away the greater portion of the 
plants; but to get 20 and 25 francs for a sujet is, we suppose, too great 
a temptation, and hence we suffer. There is one way, and one only, 
of arriving at anything like a proximate estimate, and that is by con¬ 
sidering the results of former years. There are some raisers to whom we 
are indebted for the finest flowers in our gardens; and of these the 
