342 THE FLOEAL WOELD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 



Eor the full enjoyment of a plantation of roses, it is of the 

 utmost importance to have them legibly and correctly labelled. If 

 the calico labels the nurserymen put on are allowed to flutter in the 

 wind all winter, the chances are that the writing will be washed out 

 before spring. Therefore, to complete the labelling quickly is a 

 matter of considerable importance. There are a thousand ways of 

 forming and attaching labels to trees. The cheapest are wooden 

 labels smeared with white lead, and written on with a pencil while 

 the paint is soft. Attach these with a copper wire, and take care 

 not to cut the bark of the tree, and leave the wire loose enough for 

 t he tree to swell. Once a year look at every label, and keep a list 

 of all the sorts, in W'hich you may make notes of their characters 

 and behaviour. A capital label for rose trees is that made of terra 

 cotta by Messrs. Maw and Co., Benthall Works, Broseley, Salop. 



S. H. 



rEENCH EOSES AND EAISEES EOE 1868-9. 



BY W\ D. PKIOE, ESQ., CLAPTOI^. 



0"WEVEE much the caprices and tyrannies of fashion 

 may influence the taste for other flowers, it does not 

 apjDear to afi'ect the popularity of the rose. Shows are 

 better attended, and apparently with greater interest, 

 eyerj year, and every year more plants are sent out from 

 the principal nurseries, and fresh varieties imported, regardless of 

 expense and risk of failure, to satisfy the ever-craving desire of the 

 rose-growing community for originality and improvement. The 

 number of foreign raisers (chiefly French) now engaged in pur- 

 veying novelties, may be reckoned at about a score ; all, however, 

 are not equally successful, nor are their productions equally entitled 

 to the confidence of speculative experimentalists. Some rarely send 

 out an inferior rose ; others, again, have never originated anything 

 of really first-rate merit. Amongst the former, the names most 

 entitled to distinction are those of Lacharme, raiser of some of the 

 best kinds that boast of Gallic origin, of which Charles Lefebvre 

 and Madame Victor Verdier are enough to immortalize any rosarian's 

 name. We must, however, deal with our French purveyors in the 

 order in which their catalogues come to hand. Beginning, there- 

 fore, with Margottin, originator of that still unconquered and 

 indispensable rose, Jules Margottin, we find him displaying four 

 candidates for our favour this year, all hybrid perpetuals. They are 

 as follows : 



AdolpJie JBrongniart. — Very vigorous ; footstalks upright ; flower 

 large, full, of most perfect form, slightly incurved ; petals of large 

 circumference, well rounded, lightly turned, of a fine bright carmine 

 red, and very fragrant. 



Adrien de Montelello. — Moderately vigorous ; footstalks upright; 

 flower large, full, flattish, of a fine, fresh, satiny rose ; very free- 

 flowering. 



