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and Alphonse Damaizin, both very fine flowers; Souvenir de Comte Cavour, 
very bright; Alexandre Dumas, fine, dark; Souvenir de Lady Eardley, 
fine; Marechal Vaillant, very bright, and of good quality; Louise 
Darzens, a good white, purer in colour than Mademoiselle Bonnaire, and 
of better habit, but not so good in form ; Madame Charles Wood, a large 
Hose, a little coarse, but very showy, and retaining its colour for a long 
time after expansion ; Prince Camille de Rohan, very fine, dark i one of 
the best of its class; Robert Fortune, very globular; Professor Koch, a 
fine flower; Lord Clyde (Paul and Son), very fine and dark. It will thus 
be seen what a prolific year it was ; not so, we imagine, will 1862-63 
prove. Of the flowers already exhibited, the best are Andre Le Roy, 
exhibited by Mr. Standish, a flower of very fine build and substance ; 
Baron de Rothschild, bright fiery red; Due d 3 Anjou, a promising flower; 
Le Rhone, brilliant crimson, somewhat in the style of Senateur Vaisse, 
but shaded,—this promises to be one of the best of the season ; President 
Lincoln, a good flower, so far as one may judge: but, with regard to 
these new varieties, it becomes almost impossible to determine their true 
character, and we therefore speak with much diffidence on them. While 
on this subject, we may mention that we have had blooms sent to us from. 
Paris of a new Hose, which we hope to figure next month, and which pro¬ 
mises to be a great addition to our dark-coloured Bourbons. 
Amongst the older varieties, there were shown in Teas some excellent 
blooms of Madame Falcot, one of the deepest of yellows; Rubens, very 
fine; Souvenir d’un Ami, Devoniensis, Gloire de Dijon, L 3 Enfant Trouve 
(which we wonder any one could have confounded with Eliza Sauvage), 
and Enfant de Lyon. Amongst Hybrid Perpetuals, Senateur Vaisse, 
Comtesse C.de Chabrillant, Jules Margottin, General Jacqueminot, and Lord 
Raglan, were in almost every stand; while Souvenir de la Malmaison, 
Catherine Guillot, and Louise Odier, maintained the position of the 
Bourbon Fmse. 
Large numbers of visitors bore witness to the great and increasing 
popularity of the Hose; and at no exhibitions throughout the season do 
we see more real interest taken in the flowers than at our Hose Shows. 
DISA GHANDIFLOHA. 
Through the kindness of Mr. Charles Leach, of Clapham Park, whose 
name is now inseparably connected with the growth of this fine Cape Orchid, 
we have at present a plant flowering in our possession, and a lovely thing 
it is; the culture which he recommended has been entirely successful; it 
has never been allowed to get dry, and indeed, we may say, has stood in 
water all the year. The young offsets, which will supply the place of the 
flowering stem, have already made their appearance, while four blooms 
