270 THE FLORIST. 



not exactly for its colour, which is simply bright rose, but for its 

 shape, which is exquisite, and its delicious perfume, which is like that 

 of the Cabbage Rose. Madame Fremion is one of our brilliant addi- 

 tions in colour, its carmine is particularly striking ; it is indeed a very 

 distinct and nice Rose. William Griffiths, something of the same 

 race as General Negrier, is, like that very fine Rose, a standard of per- 

 fection as regards shape ; its footstalks are like those of the latter, tirm 

 and erect ; its petals thick and admirably placed ; in colour only is 

 it deficient ; its rosy lilac is merely agreeable, without being striking. 

 The news of the day about Roses is, that the gardens at Chiswick are 

 to have a Rose-house not covered with canvass but with glass, in 

 which all the finer kinds of autumnal Roses are to be planted on raised 

 beds, the plants to be kept as dwarf bushes on their own roots. 



I observed a short time since the floricultural editor of the Gar- 

 dener's Chronicle inquiring w^hy our favourite Rose should be named 

 Le Geant des Batailles ; he suggested it ought to have been Champ des 

 Batailles : surely he ought not to have been at a loss. Was not Napo- 

 leon the Geant ? and is he not alluded to by Frenchmen at all times 

 and in every thing when at all possible ? Thus we have the Standard 

 of Marengo — by the way, this fine rich-coloured Rose has bloomed 

 admirably the past autumn ; it requires a very good soil, — and we shall 

 have, the forthcoming season, in our flower-stands, " Le Lion des 

 Combats" and "L'Etendard du Grand Homme;" thus we have four 

 Roses named after his memory. Napoleon, always Napoleon : " Vive 

 I'Empire"— des Roses ! T. R. 



THE BEAUTY OF PLANTS. 



"Plants," says Reid in his Science of Botany, '^presenting an in- 

 finite variety both in external form and internal structure, calculated 

 to interest the inquiring mind, and combining beauty alike for the 

 eye and the understanding, with utility in the great scheme of crea- 

 tion, must always be regarded as among the most delightful objects 

 which man can contemplate and study. What were the face of the 

 earth without the vegetable creation ? a dreary waste, a desert, as in 

 the arid sands of Africa, or the desolate regions round the poles. 

 Plants invest with charms the scenery of nature, and clothe with 

 beauty the world around us. Presenting a rich and variegated array 

 of colours, and every variety in form, it is the vegetable creation that 

 lends beauty to the landscape. It is plants which we admire in the 

 verdure of the fields and meadows, in the flowers which enliven the 

 banks and roadsides, in the trees and forests which adorn the pro- 

 spect. We welcome re-animating nature in the buds and opening 

 flowers of spring, and to these, expanded by a genial sun, the bright 

 and joyous summer owes its bloom." 



