THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



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growing roses of all kinds, and in my 



garden list there are entered 150 sorts 

 that I can keep. Thoso that fail hero 

 will certainly have no chance nearer Lon- 

 don, and many that do well I would not 

 recommend to Londoners. Among the 

 teas, Gloire de Dijon and Niphetos are 

 the only two of which I would speak as 

 fit for any climate and the most smoky 

 places ; and they may be tried with a pro- 

 spect of success in the heart of any towa 

 not further north than Nottingham. At 

 the Temple Gardens, Gloire de Dijon is 

 nearly as good as I get it here, but it is in 

 an open place, and in the hands of a 

 master. People as well off as I am as to 

 circumstances, may plant Eliza Saurage, 

 Semele, Madame Bravy, and Devouiensis, 

 for they do amazingly well here, and the 

 dwarf plants of thetn get through the 

 winter without lifting by laying a few foot 

 tiles over their roots. Among the Bour- 

 bons, noisettes, hybrid perpetuals, and 

 Chinas, we shall find a sufficient number 

 to make up a rosery in any town garden, 

 especially if the grower will be content 

 with a few safe sorts instead of aiming at 

 great variety. The summer roses and the 

 climbers offer but few, and though com- 

 mon moss and common cabbage — two of 

 the most beautiful roses in cultivation — 

 grow here to perfection, and have not 

 quite done blooming on this 25th of Au- 

 gust, yet I would not recommend them for 

 people living an inch nearer London than 

 I am. But Maiden's Blush, Damask, 

 Ville de Bruxelles, Gallica Napoleon, and 

 Boula de Nanteu.il, and hybrid China 

 Chenedole will give summer blooms any- 

 where if on their own roots in good soil, 

 and not utterly shrouded by high walls 

 and trees. Among the climbers, Felicite 

 perpetue, Ruga, Boursaut Crimson, and 

 iuermis, are all that I can recommend ; 

 the mnltifloras are useless, they want high 

 aud hot walls in good country air. In all 

 classes the hard-eyed roses are useless ; 

 they make good growth and abundance of 

 bloom buds, but not one bloom in fifty 

 opens properly. H.P. La Reine, one of 

 my old favourites, has ceased to be a 

 favourite since I came to Newington, it 

 never opens ; H.P. Augusta Mie, the same ; 

 and as for H.P. Louis Bonaparte, one of 

 the freest flowering and finest formed 

 roses we have, it is here the ugliest fright 

 imaginable. 



I will now, for the sake of brevity, give 

 lists of the roses which I class respectively 

 as good and bad. I do not so class them 

 in regard to their intrinsic merits, but 

 simply as to the way in which they be- 



have here ; some of the best roses come 

 into the list of bad ia that way, aud some 

 of the least prized in places where all 

 kinds prosper are here of much value. 



SUMMER ROSES, GOOD. 



Common Cabbage, Common Moss, 

 Maiden's Blush, White Moss, Luxem- 

 bourg, Purpurea rubra, Countess Mari- 

 nais, H.C. GeneralJacqueminot, Brennu?, 

 Beauty of Billiard, Fulgens, H.B. Chene- 

 dole, Coupe d'Hebe, Charles Duval, Paul 

 Perras, French Boula de Nanteuil, Napo- 

 leon, D'Auguesseau, Ohl. 



AUTUMN HOSES, GOOD. 



Hybrid Perpetual. — Alex. Baehineteff, 

 August Guinoisseau, Baronne Prevost, 

 Caroline de Sansal, Dr. Marx, Colonel 

 de Rougemont, General Jacqueminot, 

 Duchess of Sutherland, Geant des Ba- 

 tailles, Jules Margottin, General Pelissier, 

 Lord Palmerston, General Simpson, 

 Madame Domage, Leon des Combats, 

 Souvenir de Leveson Gower, Ornementdes 

 Jardins, Lord Raglan, Alphonse Karr, 

 Madame Manoel, Madame Vidot, Mrs. 

 Elliot, William Griffiths, Noemi, Pius 

 IX., Prince Leon, Prince Noir, Cardinal 

 Patrizzi, William Jesse, Madame Stan- 

 dish, Louisa Odier, Madame Louisa The- 

 nard, Madame Hitz, Comte d'Eu, Anna 

 Alexieff, Lselia, Charles Duval. 



Bourbon. — .Acidalie, Bouquet de 

 Elore, Souvenir de Malmaison (under 

 the deep shade of large apple-trees, and 

 in a rather close corner, this grows and 

 blooms superbly), Pierre de St. Cyr, 

 Justine, Aurore du Guide, Marquise 

 dTvry, Leon Oursel, Armosa, Etoile do 

 Gironde (excellent under trees), Omar 

 Pacha, Madame Nerard, Dupetit Thouars. 



Noisette. — Aimee Vibert, Caroline 

 Marniesse, Jaune Desprez, Lamarque, 

 Vicomtesse d'Avesne, Triomphe de la 

 Duchere, Ophirie, Fellenberg, Madame 

 Schultz, Madame Massot, Jeanne d'Arc 

 (this under trees comes fine, and is as 

 good as a tea rose), Mecklenberg. 



China. — Mrs. Bosanquet (comes fine 

 under trees), Verginie, Cramoisie sivpe- 

 rieure, Fabvier (both these have their 

 high colour and extraordinary profusion 

 of bloom partially shaded by large trees), 

 Paul Ricaut, Blairii, Brenmis. 



Tea-scented. — Gloire deDijou,Madame 

 Bravy, Niphetos, Semele, Devoniensis. 



SUMMER ROSES, BAD. 



Crested Moss, gets coated with soot 

 and never looks nice, but it grows well 

 and flowers freely ; Alice Leroy, a very 



