DECEMBER. 269 



NEW ROSES. 



Every season now brings with itadditions to those universal favourites, 

 autumnal Roses, and more particuhirly to that class known as Hybrid 

 Perpetiials. It is a pity some more eligible name was not at first 

 adopted ; but change in the names of plants has been and is attended 

 with so much inconvenience, that it is not advisable to endeavour to 

 give this beautiful class of Roses a more elegant and agreeable appel- 

 lation. Among the Roses of this group, seedlings from La Reine 

 seem to give much promise. We are approaching to pure white, and 

 ere long a crimson Rose, with all the beautiful characteristics of that 

 justly esteemed Rose, may be expected. We have in Auguste Mie, one 

 of the children of La Reine, a most vigrrous- growing glossy pink 

 Rose, very nearly as perfect in shape as that standard of finely-shaped 

 Roses, Coupe d'Hebe; and in Louise Peyronny, another jille de La 

 Reine, a Rose brighter in colour, and, if possible, more beautiful than 

 the preceding ; its petals are not so abundant as those of its parent, 

 so that it always opens freely. Victoria, introduced by Messrs. Paul 

 is, it seems, of the same parentage. A bloom of this Rose, which I 

 saw when being figured by Mr. Curtis last Julj% was truly beautiful 

 (I have not seen his figure) ; but owing to its thick fleshy petals, it is 

 not likely to open freely in moist weather ; for some blooms exhibited 

 at the show of the Royal Botanic Society, Regent's Park, in July, 

 as a " seedling Rose," were passed over by the judges as unworthy of 

 notice ; they were brown at their edges, and like the flowers which 

 Souvenir de la Malmaison occasionally gives when they do not open 

 well ; but when in a perfect state, no light-coloured Rose can be more 

 beautiful than Victoria. 



Baronne Hallcz has proved the past season a truly brilliant and 

 free-blooming autumnal Rose ; its colour, so lively and agreeable, 

 scarcely coming under either light crimson or carmine; in fact, Roses 

 defy words to describe their varied and beautiful shades of colour. 



Blanche de Beaulieu and Caroline de Sausal are two nice deli- 

 cately-coloured Roses, leading on to what we shall have, pure white 

 Hybrid Perpetual Roses. Chereau is a charming bright Rose, rosy red 

 or rosy crimson ; in short, very bright and very pretty. 



We have a nice addition to this family in some Roses with the 

 foliage of Bourbon Roses ; in fact. Hybrid Bourbon Roses blooming in 

 autumn ; and among these are Colonel Foissy, General Brea, Gra- 

 ziella, and L'Klegante Nouvelle (the latter a great improvement on 

 L'Elegante), all of different shades from rose to deep pink, and all 

 robust in their habits, and blooming freely in autumn. 



To Rose-lovers familiar with that free-blooming Rose, Due d'Alen- 

 9on, Desgaches will be a welcome addition. It is not what is called 

 a perfect double Rose, but, like Due d'Alen^on, it blooms in large 

 corymbs till quite late in the autumn, and in colour its flowers are of 

 the most brilliant carmine ; it is, indeed, a most elegant and charm- 

 ing variety. Lucie de Barante, or Lucie de Barante de Montozon, 

 or Barante de Montozon according to some catalogues, is remarkable, 



