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THE FLORIST. 
importance of having Roses, especially standards, in a bed by them¬ 
selves, where they may receive the treatment they require. I hear 
many of my friends complaining that, after one year's good bloom¬ 
ing, their standards gradually decline, until, in about four years, they 
are dead, or only sightless objects ; and, when I have visited their 
locality, I have found them placed in crowded beds with shrubs 
and annuals, and learned that they have never received more atten¬ 
tion than the turning and cleaning of the soil around, and the prun¬ 
ing of their branches. 
Let me recommend to any one who wishes to fill up a corner in 
his garden, or to close in the lower parts of a plantation, to obtain 
one or two plants of Leycesteria formosa. They grow here most 
luxuriantly, are perfectly hardy, though in exposed situations ; the 
branches are cut down in frost, and they seed so abundantly, that one 
plant in three years, without any attention, will produce a little 
forest. It is a beautiful shrub itself, and a great acquisition in 
autumn, with its pendant flowers and seed-vessels. Salvia Grahami, 
often called Dulcis, is also an acquisition. Slips of last year are now 
bushes of three feet in diameter, every branch terminated by rich red 
flowers, and the leaves a beautiful green. It will survive a mild win¬ 
ter here, and, with protection, may be preserved through a severe one. 
S. S., near Lancaster , 12 th October. - 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
At a meeting held in Regent Street on the 3d ult., Messrs. Paul, of 
Cheshunt, shewed two nice trays of autumnal Roses. The varietieswere: 
Hybrid Perpetual —Lady Sefton, lilac blush; Lady A. Peel, rosy car¬ 
mine ; Louis Bordillon, rose; Jacques Lafitte, cherry crimson, edges 
pale; Mrs. Elliot, rosy purple; Comtesse Duchatel, rose; La Reine, 
pink tinged with lilac ; Dr. Marx, carmine; Marquisa Boccella, 
pink, blush edges; William Jesse, crimson, tinged with lilac; Ma¬ 
dame Laffay, rosy crimson; Edward Jesse, crimson, shaded, dark 
purple; Baronne Prevost, pale rose ; Duchess of Sutherland, ditto ; 
Lawrence de Montmorency, rosy pink, tinged with lilac ; Du Roi, 
or Crimson ; Mogador. Bourbon —Acidalie, blush white ; Amaran- 
tine, purplish rose ; Comte d’Eu ; Madame Desprez, rosy lilac; Ce- 
limene, clear blush; Irina; Armosa, bright pink; Comice de Seine 
et Marne, crimson; Queen, fawn-coloured rose; Pierre de St. Cyr, 
pale rose; Vicomte de Cassey, lively red; Le Grenadier, light crim¬ 
son ; Due de Chartres, deep rose; Souchet, deep crimson purple. 
Tea —Caroline, blush pink, centre rose; Comte de Paris, light crim¬ 
son, tinged with lilac. China —Mrs. Bosanquet, pale flesh; Cra- 
moisie Superieure, velvety crimson. 
