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attached to this plant, we naturally enough supposed 
this to be the one alluded to, but on reconsideration 
we conclude that we are the party on the wrong scent, 
and that a better yellow is yet forthcoming. Now after 
all this, the plant in question is not at all a bad one, 
or to be despised, and we allude to it more particularly 
to condemn a practice that is gaining ground of trum¬ 
peting forth the praise of new plants before their capa¬ 
bilities for our climate and soil are tested, or even 
thought of. We ran our eyes first over the yellow 
roses to see if possible what change a new rule of the 
Society’s had brought about since last season, for we 
recollect to have then heard some sharp canvassing on 
the subject. The Society having last year cancelled 
the usual prizes for a collection of yellow rose3, we 
thought the exhibitors would either come out very 
strong in yellow roses this season or discard them 
altogether, and take more to those of easier growth ; 
hut it now appears that we reckoned without our host, 
for there was a very good sprinkling of those light 
buffs, formerly styled yellow roses, such as Safrano, 
Eliza Sauvage, Devoniensis, and the like; but we 
missed a new good, or, rather, the best buff yellow 
new rose, which we first saw in these same gardens at 
the July exhibition last season, and we fully expected 
to meet with it again last Saturday, even in better 
condition than when we first made its acquaintance. 
However it did not appear, and in the absence of any 
reasons for its non-appearance, if only for the purpose 
of advertising it—we must conclude that it either does 
not fulfil our former expectations of it, or that being 
new and scarce it has been cut to pieces for purposes 
of propagation. We are thus particular respecting it, as 
we recommended it last winter to one of our correspon¬ 
dents as one of the best new tea-scented ones by the 
name of Viscountesse las Cassas. Of all the roses that 
were exhibited last Saturday, our own choice would be • 
Barronne Prevost, one of the hybrid perpetuals, and 
the largest rose we ever saw from a pot; but they 
were all good, and most creditable to our great rose- 
growers. The following hybrid perpetuals we noticed 
in Messrs. Lane’s groupe :—Lady Alice Peel, William 
and Edward Jesse, Robin Hood, Barronne Prevost, 
Countess des Chalet, Duchess of Sutherland, and Due 
de Chatres ; all of different shades of salmon, rose and 
red; and in other collections some of these, and others 
equally as good ;—such as La Reine, Comte de Paris, 
Charles Duval, Paul Perras, Armoza, and, the best of 
all the light Bourbon roses, Souvenir de la Malmaison ; 
a rose that ought to be in every collection. Of these 
beautiful roses—which are as familiar to us as house¬ 
hold words—we thought La Reine the most backward, 
compared in our mind with the same from the open 
ground; and, on the other hand, we do not recol¬ 
lect ever seeing Mrs. Elliot in better colour from the 
open garden ; but as yet we are only in our infancy 
in our knowledge of the effects of in-door cultivation 
on roses; and these remarks are the mere outlines of 
a skeleton which we mean to fill up from time to time, 
as opportunity occurs, and, in the mean time, will form 
topics of weekly discussions in our columns, or fall 
into our useful articles as answers “ To Corres¬ 
pondents.” 
Roses in Pots. (Nurserymen's prizes.) —The first 
prize (gold Banksian medal) to Messrs. Paul, of Ches- 
lmnt. In this collection the following were truly mag¬ 
nificent: Comte de Paris, Madame de St. Joseph, 
Niphetos, Mrs. Bosanquet, and Mrs. Elliot. 
The second prize (silver gilt medal) to Messrs. Lane, 
of Berkhampstead. We would particularize in this 
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lot the following, as being specimens of excellence : 
Yellow Banksian, Louis Buonaparte, and Duchess of 
Sutherland. Messrs. Lane also exhibited (not for com¬ 
petition) a climbing rose, of the class Rubifolia, called 
the Baltimore Belle, a singular yellowish rose, which 
bids fair to he a great acquisition. 
The third prize (certificate of excellence) to Mr. 
Francis, of Hertford. The following were truly fine 
in this collection : Comte de Paris, Souvenir de Mal¬ 
maison, and Eliza Sauvage. 
Roses in Pots. Amateurs' Prizes. The first prize 
(silver gilt) to Mr. Stowe. The second (silver Bank¬ 
sian) to A. Rowland, Esq., Lewisham. 
PELARGONIUMS. 
Pelargoniums ( geraniums .)—The spring has been 
too late and cold, and the exhibition too early, to do jus¬ 
tice to this fashionable class of flowers; yet those that 
were exhibited were, on the whole, as finely bloomed 
and in as good condition as we have seen them at any 
former May exhibition. The best white pelargonium 
we have, as far as we can recollect, is Pearl. It was 
certainly the best of four varieties at this exhibition. 
Blanche being the next best, followed by Mount 
Blanc, and Emma. The latter we have often seen in 
good condition, but seldom better than on this occa¬ 
sion. We must premise, however, that we do not 
look on this class of flowers with a florist’s eye ; there¬ 
fore those that struck us as the most marked sorts 
would, probably, attract also ninety-nine out of every 
hundred persons — not professed florists. We have 
been more particular in noting the above white, as we 
ourselves often regretted the want of really good 
white pelargoniums among the endless variety of other 
colours and shades. Foster’s Painted Lady, and 
Beck's Hebe’s Lip, are the next two on our list; and 
both of them are exquisitely beautiful, as are also the 
following:— Gulielmi, a recent variety originated by 
Mr. Beck. The dark back of this flower, the pure 
white eye, as florists call the bottom of the flower, 
and the shaded light front petals are so beautifully 
blended, and in such good contrast that we at once 
pronounced it our favourite of all that were exhibited 
on this occasion. We also much admired one called 
Forget Me Not ; it is higher coloured than the last, 
and probably fanciers would prefer it before Gulielmi, 
but a lady would point out Gulielmi among a thou¬ 
sand. Grandijlora is another one that we admired 
much ; the flowers and trusses are very large, the 
colour orange red, with light rose front petals. Negress, 
one of the Rev. Mr. Garth’s raising, we were very 
glad to see in three collections, showing that other 
growers beside ourselves look upon it as a very useful 
early sort; for there can be no question that all those 
now exhibited were more or less “forced,” or rather 
assisted to “ come out” so handsomely. Negress we 
have also found an excellent one to come in late in 
the autumn; say, plants of it noiv just forming flower- 
buds, to be cut in four or five eyes with as many 
leaves on each shoot, to be allowed to break slowly,— 
or, in other words, to make another growth in a cool 
situation, and not to be potted until the new shoots 
are two or three joints long; then to be removed to a 
pot two sizes larger, and to be liberally encouraged 
with liquid manure once a-week. Thus treated, we 
have proved it a very useful autumn flowering pelar¬ 
gonium : on the other hand, if put into a moderate 
forcing any time in January, the Negress might be 
