68 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



hardiness of tlie shrubs wc so largely depend upon for out-door decora- 

 tions. 



Roses have suffered to a tremendous extent. At the Cheshunt Nur- 

 series the losses may be set down at near 20,000 plants. "We have not 

 heard to what extent Sawbridgeworth has been ravaged; Mr. Cran- 

 ston at Hereford, and Mr. Standish and Mr. Noble at Bagshot, Mr. Francis 

 at Hertford, and the Messrs. Lane at Berkhampstead, have had immense 

 losses. Mark this, the greatest mortality has been among worked plants ; 

 roses on their own roots are mostly alive below the surface, and where 

 they were heavily mulched in time, according to the dicta of the books, 

 they will throw up as good a growth from the eyes about the collar as if 

 nothing had happened. Teas and noisettes have suffered most among the 

 classes. Bourbons have not escaped, and of the hybrid perpetuals we learn 

 that some that were thought the hardiest, proved the weakest, and 

 vanished altogether. Among the teas and noisettes that have escaped, 

 we must mention Gloire de Dijon, which appears to be frost-proof; so to 

 its intrinsic beauty, fiiU habit, capability of enduring smoke, we may now 

 add a farther qualification to give it rank as one of the most useful 

 varieties in existence. Triomphe de la Duchere, Pellenberg, Yicomtesse 

 Decazes, and Caroline Marniesse arc but little hurt, but death has fallen 

 upon Ophirie, Triomphe de Eennes, Miss Gray, and, almost without excep- 

 tion, all other teas and noisettes openly exposed to the influences of the 

 weather. Of hybrid perpetuals it is impossible now to make a complete 

 list of dead and wounded, but we can comfort rose-fanciers with the as- 

 surance that the best of recently introduced varieties are as hardy, per- 

 haps more hardj*, than some of the older kinds they have superseded. 

 Victor Yerdier, Eugene Appcrt, Senateur Yaisse, Louis XIY., Celine 

 Forestier, Anne Alexicff, Comtesse do Chabrilland, Eveque de Mmes, Lord 

 Raglan, Louis Chaix, Gloire de Santenay, and Admiral Nelson are, gene- 

 rally speaking, unhurt, though the plants were mostly young, and in many 

 instances were put out last season. It is therefore certain that the rose 

 has lost nothing of its hardiness bv high breeding. 



"VYe did not expect so soon to be called upon to raise a new defence of tif- 

 fany. Mr. Gosse bas raised the question by a distinct assertion that in his 

 hands it has proved a failure. We must remind our readers that we never 

 suggested its use as a substitute for glass, except in certain specified cases ; 

 as, for instance, for blooming chrysanthemums — which, if exposed to the 

 weather during November, are usually more or less injxired, and the past 

 three seasons have been all but destroyed, when at their highest state of 

 perfection — for the growth of orchard-house trees which do not need ar- 

 tificial heat, but mere protection from night frosts diu-ing theii" season of 

 bloom ; as a protective material for tender roses and for all kinds of nearly 

 hardy plants with ornamental foliage. To these suggestions have been 

 added various testimonies of the efficiency of tiffany, and memoranda of its 

 adoption at the Wellington Nurseiy, and other places, where plant houses 

 of all possible kinds are in constant use and variously tested as to their 

 merits. It should be remembered also that the proposal to use tiffany came 

 originally from our Bagshot correspondent, Mr. S. W^aymouth, who gave 

 an account of Mr. Standish's adoption of it, and that he was followed by 



