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ground, and then leaving it to fight the battle with the elements, is not 

 cultivation at all. 



Glancing through the names of the winning collections, it is grati- 

 fying to observe that among the recently-introduced varieties there are 

 many of very superior excellence. The good roses of 1862 still hold 

 a high place, but a fevr of those of 1868, 1864, and 1865 are evidently 

 worthy to be associated with them. Among high-coloured kinds, Lord 

 Macaulay, Senateur Vaisse, Alfred de Rougemont, Baron Adolphe de 

 Rothschild, Charles Lefebvre, Due de Rohan, Francois Lacharme, Le 

 Rhone, and Maurice Bernardin, are all magnificent roses, and if any one 

 of them is to be selected from the rest as pre-eminently beautiful, it 

 must be Francois Lacharme, the colour of which is exquisite, and the 

 form absolutely perfect — that is to say, when well grown, and it ought 

 to be well grown, or it may lack its proper character, and be unjustly 

 pronounced second-rate. With these varieties at our command, why 

 should we any longer propagate such varieties as Geant des Batailles, 

 Lord Eaglan, General Jaqueminot, and the rest of the thin and quickly- 

 changing, crimson-coloured perpetuals? In its own particular section, 

 Jules Margottin, that most constant of old friends, remains as stedfast 

 as ever. The newer Victor Verdier is as yet unsurpassed, and it is 

 perhaps unsurpassable. Comtesse de Chabrillant is still a first-class 

 rose. But here we may place as their equals a few of the newest, such 

 as Beauty of Waltham, John Hopper, a magnificent flower when well 

 grown ; La Esmeralda, which has improved since it made its first appear- 

 ance ; President Lincoln, Princess Alice, Soeur de Anqes, Alpaide de 

 Rotalitr, Kate JLausbury, La Duchcsse de Horny, Madame Derreux 

 Douville. Good white roses are almost as scarce as ever, although 

 among the novelties of the past few years several specimens have been 

 offered us. Louise Darzins is certainly acceptable and ought to have 

 a place in every garden, though it cannot be considered a first-class 

 rose ; it is in fact too much of a noisette in style and habit ever to 

 acquire importance at exhibitions. But among the light kinds, we have 

 Madame Alfred de Rougement, with the exquisite form of the old 

 " cabbage rose," the ground pure white most delicately shaded with 

 carmine. Nearly, but not quite so good, is Madame de Canroberi, white 

 tinged with peach, a large, full, and nicely-cupped flower. Emotion 

 is a pleasing flower, the form good, and the arrangement of the petals 

 most refined and distinct. Madame Macker, white, with a rosy tinge, 

 is also worth a place in the rosarium. 



Having made a general survey of the hybrid perpetuals, the result 

 is the following selection of varieties as the best in the several classes, 

 including old and new, to the autumn of 1864. 



Rose akd Bed. — Alpaide de Botalier, Alphonse Belin, Alphonse 

 Karr (shy but beautiful), Anna Alexieff, Anna de Diesbach, Beauty of 

 Waltham, Belle de Bourg la Beine, Comtesse de Chabrillant, Comtesse 

 de Courcy, Emile Dulac, General Washington, Jules Margottin, Kate 

 Hausburg, La Duchesse de Morny, La Heine de la Pape, La Ville de 

 St. Denis, Louis Van Houtte, Madame Domage, Madame Eugene 

 Verdier, Madame Hector Jacquin, Madame Knorr, Mathurin Begnier, 

 Souvenir de la Beine d'Angleterre, Victor Verdier, William Griffith, 

 Baron Gonella, Modele de Perfection. 



