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a superior variety. Its colour, from 

 which it derived its popularity, is so 

 fleeting that in an hour or two after 

 expansion it changes to a foxy pur- 

 ple, most offensive to the eye of taste. 

 Moreover, in any but the most favour- 

 able, soils and atmospheres, it degene- 

 rates in growth and size, losing even 

 its brilliant temporary scarlet. Eugene 

 Appert, the best of its descendants, 

 has but the one point — colour — in its 

 favour, and will, I suspect, be relegated 

 at an early date from the " stand " to 

 odd corners in the border. I would 

 earnestly recommend amateurs who 

 cannot give roses the highest treat- 

 ment to avoid this rose, and conse- 

 quently its seedlings, such as Louis 

 Chaix, Bachus, Buff n, Comte de 

 Beaufort, Comte de Fnlloux, John 

 Waterer, Gregoire Bourdillon, Andre 

 Desportes, Francis I., and others. 



Then, again, there are tlie " bad 

 Jacqueminots." I am not going to 

 question the " General" himself, for 

 he has undoubted excellences to com- 

 pensate for one or two deficiencies. 

 These are copiously represented now- 

 a-days ; perhaps half the novelties 

 brought out, season after season, 

 belong to them. Colour in some de- 

 gree they all possess, but their other 

 prime features are large petals, loose 

 forms, and goggling eyes. In fact, 

 they are mere exaggerations of their 

 parent's defects, and should only be 

 tolerated in distant corners, where 

 colour may tell, but approach to 

 which is too difficult to allow their 

 inherent viciousness to thrust itself 

 into sight. Some of the most promi- 

 nent varieties of these, often shown, 

 too, which the uninitiated should 

 avoid, are Oriflamme de St. Louis, 

 Triomphe d'Amiens, Abd-el-Kader, 

 L'Eblouissante, Turenne, Madame 

 Valembourg, Amiral La Pe} rouse, 

 Abbe Reynaud, and others too nume- 

 rous to mention. I am not sure that 

 Lord Clyde should not be included. 

 Triomphe des Beaux Arts comes 

 nearest in good qualities to its pro- 

 genitor. I have seen it, iu rich soil, 

 ou a south wall, make a splendid 

 climber, flowering up to Cliri.^tinas. 



Louis XIV. is also reidly a bad 

 rose, and the type of an undesirable 

 race, in spite of richs^ga of c ilbur. 



Remembering the severe remarks, in 

 one of the Editor's interesting papers, 

 upon those who depreciated this rose, 

 I fear this statement mav bring down 

 upon me a castigation. Nevertheless, 

 experience will not permit me to 

 shirk the matter. I confess I have 

 never been able to do this variety, 

 and I have seen, at several nurseries, 

 whole quarters of it, from which a 

 single tolerable bloom could not be 

 cut; some plants were covered with 

 mouldy unopened balls ; some never 

 showing for bloom at all. One cha- 

 i racteristic of the growth of this 

 breed appears to be long and vigorous 

 shoots the first season, after which it 

 throws out only twiggy laterals, most 

 of which are blind. To stand a 

 chance, therefore, of flowers, you re- 

 quire fresh plants every year. Em- 

 peror Napoleon, Leonce Moise, Wm, 

 Paul, Alphonse Lamaizin, are after 

 the same style, which only ought to 

 be ventured upon by the select 

 few. 



Lord Baglan, I am sorry to say, 

 must come under condemnation for 

 its unthrifty constitut'on : it has a 

 habit, on worked plants especially, of 

 turning sickly, and dying off without 

 any apparent cause. Francis Arago 

 is a bad Lord Raglan. 



La Beine may be considered as 

 the parent of the bad openers. This 

 fine rose, when it will do, has given 

 several excellent seedlings, and many 

 more of an inferior quality, some of 

 the least suitable of which for general 

 purposes are, Beine de Danemark, 

 Louise d'Autriche, Due d'Ossuna, 

 Auguste Mie, bad near towns; Bobert 

 de Brie (P), Beine d'Augleterre : 

 perhaps Jean Baptist, Guillot, 

 Ardoiste de Lyon, and other hard- 

 eyed roses, have also a touch of this 

 blood, in spite of their colour. 



There are many other roses which 

 may be considered relatively bad, 

 o? ing to some prominent drawback, 

 that are not easily referable to special 

 types, such as the following : — Ma- 

 dame Furtado and Prince Leon, 

 unsatisfactory growers. General 

 Washington, blooms apt to split. 

 Gloire de Chatillon, a bad Madame 

 Masson, itself too dwarf in growth. 

 Deuil de Prince Albert, and Scnateur 



