The Hudson, N. Y., Republican notices the production of a new variegated rose by a florist of that city, and says that this is the second one allowed to come into bloom of the cuttings from which he is propagating this rare novelty. It has been named the "Cora Macy," after one of his daughters, and promises to become a flower of great beauty and value. This rose originated as a "sport" from an ordinary monthly rose of deep red color in Mr. Macy's dooryard last season. It was transferred to his greenhouse and judiciously forced until several healthy plants have been obtained, and found true to color. The form and fragrance of the parent rose are fully preserved, while the leaves are all beautifully variegated in red and white, blending in the most perfect manner.

Aralia Veitchii is regarded by Messrs. Veitch as entitled to the highest rank as an exhibition foliage plant, and as a dinner table decorative plant it is probably without a rival. The plant has a slender-growing, erect stem, furnished with handsome digitate leaves, composed of about eleven narrow linear elongated leaflets, which are distinctly wavy at the edge, of a dark, glossy green color on the upper surface, and dark red beneath. These standing out on their long, slender, but rigid petioles, have a remarkably elegant character.