148 THE GARDENER. [April 



Duchess of Sutherland, introduced by Monsieur Laffay in 1839, but still fresh, 

 fair, and fragrant ; and though surpassed as a model flower, a beautiful addi- 

 tion to the Rose-garden. 



Eugene Appcrt is very effective for the purpose under consideration, being con- 

 spicuous for the intensity of its glowing crimson hues, and its dark-green 

 lustrous leaves. 



General Jacqueminot, for so many summers the Rose of our gardens, is still a 

 glory and grace, its petals, soft and smooth as velvet, glowing with vivid crim- 

 son, and its growth being free and healthful. I well remember the time when 

 we welcomed this conquering hero, in his brilliant uniform, as being invincible ; 

 but development in Roses is no theory, as in certain schools of theology, but a 

 sure reality, and the General must now pale bis ineffectual fire in the presence 

 of such Roses as Charles Lefebvre. As a Pillar Rose, notwithstanding, he is 

 not surpassed. 



Gloire de Bourdeaux is a Tea-Noisette, or rather it is classified among the Teas, 

 and is a Noisette. It has been known latterly in the catalogues as Belle de 

 Bourdeaux — Bacchus, as I suppose, having expostulated with Flora, and con- 

 vinced her that the real glory of Bourdeaux is its wine — its Lafitte, Latour, and 

 La Rose, of another description. Its numerous flowers are interesting — individ- 

 ually, from the striking contrast between the colours on cither side of the 

 petals, these being of a rosy lilac without, and within of a pale silvery flesh 

 colour ; and en masse, effective and showy. It " grows like a willow," to use 

 a gardener's phrase, much resembling in habit 



Gloire de Dijon, described among the Climbers, but excellent in every phase. 

 Like Phyllis, it " never fails to please;" unlike Phyllis, it is never " coy." 



Jaune Desprez, Noisette. — Phoebus, what a name ! Little thought poor Monsieur 

 Desprez, when he sent out his seedling in the pride of his heart, that it would 

 associate his name throughout the Rose-loving world with jaundice and bilious 

 fever. Yellow Desprez, moreover, is not yellow,^but buff or fawn colour, delici- 

 ously fragrant, of beautiful foliage, blooms freely in autumn, and makes, with 

 careful culture, a pretty Pillar Rose. 



Jean Goujon, a handsome, healthful giant, with grand, well-shaped flowers of a 

 deep rose-colour, well deserves a place in the front rank of Queen Rosa's 

 Grenadier Guards. 



Jules Margottin bears the honoured name of one who has enriched our Rose- 

 gardens with many a precious treasure — Mons. Margottin of Bourg-la-Reine, 

 near Paris ; and no column could declare his praises so suitably, or perpetuate 



; his fame so surely, as a pillar of this lovely Rose. I would rather that a pyra- 

 mid of its sweet bright flowers bloomed above my grave, than have the fairest 

 monument which art could raise. But " there's time enough for that," as the 

 young lady observed to her poetical lover, when he promised her a first-class 

 epitaph. 



La Heine, once Queen of the Hybrid Perpetuals, is still a most royal Rose ; and, 

 with the attention which royalty has a right to expect, will give magnificent 

 blooms in a genial — that is, in a hot sunny — season. In wet or cold summers 

 the immense buds do not open kindly. It is not, in fact, to be relied upon, 

 like 



La Ville de St Denis, which, faithful as she is fair, and bounteous as she is beauti- 

 ful, always gladdens us with flowers of exquisite symmetry, and of a deep fresh 

 rosy pink. 



Leopold Premier well deserves his title — I do not mean as Roi des Beiges, but as 

 a Rose de la premiere qualite among the deep-red varieties. There is a lovely 



