Plate 323. 

 HYBEID TERPETU^y;; ROSE, NAPOLEON III. 



Among the " suimyiiiemorit's " of 186G, arc two days we 

 spent, one at Lyons, the other at Vitry, near Paris, for the 

 purpose of inspecting the novelties amongst Roses, coming out 

 in the autumn. We were fortiniatc^ in both cases in being- 

 favoured with fine weather, before the excessive heat had de- 

 stroyed the beauty of the bloom. 



At Lyons, we were much interested in seeing, for the first 

 time, gardens long known to us by fame, viz. those of T^acharme, 

 Guillot _/'76', Gonod, and Duclier, and in looking at tiie new 

 Roses they were about to send out from their establishments, — 

 T/iorin, from Lacharme, the celebrated raiser of Charles Le- 

 febcre ; Horace Venief, H. P., and Madame Marrjotfin, Bonton 

 (VOr, and Madame lircmoml (Tea Roses), from Guillot Jils ; 

 Gloire de Montplaisir, Madame Reval, and Madame Anna 

 Buf/nrf, from Gonod ; and ylnfoine Bucher, Madame Pulliat, 

 Madeleine Xorrin, Monsieur Plainsanfon, and Ville de Lyon, 

 from Ducher ; and we have very little fear that their deservedly 

 high reputation will be sustained by the productions of this 

 year, for nothing could be more beautiful than some of those 

 enumerated above ; and considering the number of good Roses 

 tliat have emanated from a city which certainly to a stranger 

 does not seem a particularly favourable one for flowers, it may 

 well claim to being the ferre des roses, that some of its admirers 

 say it is. On our return to Paris, we were equally fortunate in 

 our visit to M. Eugene Verdier's grounds, at Vitry, and \vliere, 

 amongst a number of brilliant Roses, both of last year and the 

 present, we were at once struck with the brilliant colouring 

 and general appearance of the fine Rose now figured ; we secured 

 blooms of it, and it is now faithfully, as far as possible, por- 



