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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



the Crystal Palace Show, usually the 

 chief of the season, was an absolute 

 failure, both in the quality and 

 quantity of the blooms displayed. 

 Fortunately, a short but favourable 

 change took place, in the shape of 

 welcome rains ; and rose lovers, at 

 the later exhibitions, were enabled to 

 behold their special favourites in 

 something like their natural linea- 

 ments. 



The few varieties which showed 

 especially well are here enumerated, 

 and deserve the highest consideration 

 in future arrangemeut of our roseries. 

 It may be safely said, that no rose was 

 more universally good than Madame 

 Charles Wood. Either the season 

 suited it, or, although always a rose of 

 superior pretensions, it has improved 

 with time. Charles Lefevre also main- 

 tained its position as the finest of its 

 colour. Naturally a robust growing 

 kind, I have found it on the Manetti a 

 rampant grower, throwing up shoots 

 of six or seven feet long, and as thick 

 as one's finger at the base. John 

 Hopper is a match for it in good 

 qualities. Madame Victor Verdier, 

 another vigorous rose, may be de- 

 scribed as an improved Duchess of 

 Norfolk, but a larger flower. Prince 

 Henri de Pays Bas (a crimson) was 

 frequently and well exhibited ; as I 

 have not seen it growing, I will not 

 venture to pronounce upon its habit. 

 Maurice Bernardin and Olivier Del- 

 homme were also fine, but are not for 

 townsmen, I think. Others that I noted 

 were, Adolphe de Roths child, Alfred 

 de Rougemont, Claude Million (dark), 

 Prince Camille de Rohan, Duchesse 

 de Morny (of good size and habit, and 

 a true perpetual), Francois Lacharme, 

 Beauty of Waltham, Le Rhone (an- 

 other tree bloomer of brilliant colour), 

 Jules Margottin, Madame Clem. 

 Joigneaux (a most robust grower, 

 equal to Madame Domage in that 

 respect), Madame Furtado, Souvenir 

 de Oomte Cavour (scarcely double 

 enough), Vicomte Vigier, Victor Ver- 

 dier, and Lselia or Louise Peyronny. 

 Among the Bourbons, Baron G-onella 

 must be considered the finest ; Cathe- 

 rine Guillot, Henry Dombrain, Sou- 

 venir de la Malmaison, still unsur- 

 passed in beauty among the tinted 



whites, only seen to perfection in the 

 autumn ; and Victor Emmanuel were 

 also fine. Several tea-roses were good, 

 particularly Alba Rosea, after Madame 

 Bravy. In this class many blooms 

 exhibited were evidently cut from 

 plants cultivated under tiffany or 

 glass. Gloire de Dijon, taken alto- 

 gether the most useful rose there is, 

 is seldom well shown at the earlier 

 exhibitions. The first to come into 

 flower, it is frequently off by mid- 

 summer, and is, moreover, seen in 

 greater perfection as to colour in the 

 autumn. The new yellow tea, Mares- 

 cha'l Niel — is it not really a noisette P 

 — created a great impression, but it 

 remains to be seen whether it is hardy 

 and vigorous enough out of doors to 

 suit the purposes of general culti- 

 vators. 



It may be desirable to take this 

 opportunity of selecting some varieties 

 to be relied upon for autumnal bloom. 

 They are Alfred de Rougemont, 

 Monsieur Montigny, Jules Margottin, 

 Jacqueminot, Senateur Vaisse, Emo- 

 tion, Jean Bart, Madame V. Verdier 

 (I think), Domage, Cambaceres (a 

 variety of splendid habit, truly cupped 

 in form, always double and of fair 

 size). It is a discouraging sign when 

 roses of this type appear going out of 

 fashion. Perhaps one reason for its 

 decline is the absence of that loose 

 petalled monstrosity which appears to 

 delight the taste of some of the judges 

 of the day. La Duchesse de Morny, 

 Lselia, Pierre de St. Cyr, Le Rhone, 

 Madame Enorr (another of the " cab- 

 bage " style), Gloire de Dijon, Mrs. 

 Bosanquet, Beauty of Waltham , Victor 

 Emmanuel, Lord Palmerston, Therese 

 Appert, Louise Darzins, Beaux Arts, 

 Victor Verdier, Narcisse, Catherine 

 Guillot, and the peculiar but pretty 

 Pavilion de Pregny, which ought to 

 be placed in the section of hybrid 

 noisettes. With these, and doubt- 

 less some few more, which the expe- 

 rience of other rosarians might sug- 

 gest, the luxury of cutting roses late 

 in the season may be enjoyed till the 

 blooms are destroyed by the cruel 

 grasp of the tyrant Frost. 



The effect of the weather during 

 autumn upon the blooming power of 

 roses in the succeeding year appears 



