150 THE GARDENER. [April 



Blairii 2, a perplexing title (transposed to "Bleary Eye" by a cottager of my 

 acquaintance), until we receive the explanation that the Rose was one of two 

 seedlings raised by Mr Blair of Stamford Hill, near London. No. 1 is worth- 

 less, but No. 2, with its large globular flowers, the petals deepening from a most 

 delicate flesh colour without to a deep rosy blush within, is a gem of purest 

 ray serene. A bloom of it, cut from the tree before it was fully expanded, 

 in the intermediate state between a bud and a Rose, and tastefully placed with 

 a frond of Adiantum (Cuneatum, Sanctsc Catharinse, or Tenerum) in her back 

 hair, would make even a Fury good-looking. It belongs to the hybrid China 

 family, as does 



Brennus, far more happy as a Climbing Rose than when, scaling with his Gauls 

 the Tarpeiau rock, he woke up the geese who woke up the Romans to repel 

 him headlong, and to save their capital. It is a most free-growing, free-bloom- 

 ing variety, with large deep carmine flowers. 



Charles Laioson, a hybrid from the Isle de Bourbon Rose, makes a noble specimen, 

 producing magnificent blooms of a bright glowing pink abundantly in all 

 seasons. This glorious Rose well deserves all those adjectives expressive of 

 beauty which, I begin to fear, my readers will regard as wearisome and vain re- 

 petitions. I can only plead that the epithets are true, and cry " Excuse tauto- 

 logy ! " as I once heard a parro* scream for the best part of a summer's day. 



Chenedolle, hybrid China, is a v<;ry attractive garden Rose. Not "an article 

 which will bear the closest inspection " of anatomical eyes, but adding greatly 

 to the general effect of the Rosarium with its vivid crimson flowers. 



Coupe dHehe, hybrid Bourbon, is perhaps a size smaller than we should have 

 expected Hebe's cup to be, considering the requirements of such inflammatoiy 

 personages as Jupiter, Mars, and Bacchus. Probably, when the gods set up a 

 butler, as they did on the dismissal of Hebe, in the person of Ganymede, they 

 may have enlarged their goblets ; but it was a fashion of the ancients, including 

 our own grandfathers, to take their wine from egg-cups and extinguishers of 

 glass. Be this as it may. Coupe d'Hebe is undoubtedly one of our most grace- 

 ful and refined Roses, exquisite in form and in colour, the latter a silvery 

 blush. Referring to a list of the Roses which I grew in 1851, I find that, of 

 434 varieties, 410 have been disannulled to make way for their betters ! Of the 

 two dozen which are in office still, three-fourths are climbing or decorative 

 Roses, and six only of sufficient merit to pass the ordeal of exhibition — namely, 

 Blairii 2, Cloth-of-Gold, Devoniensis, La Reine, Souvenir de Malmaison, and 

 Coupe d'H^b^. 



There was another 



General Jacqueminot, a hybrid China Rose, in high favour at that time; and though 

 he cannot compete with his modern namesake, his regimentals being neither so 

 well made nor so brilliant, he is still a very handsome hero, and forms, with his vig- 

 orous branches and fine large purple-crimson flowers, a fine Pillar Rose. So does 



Juno, H. C, a Rose which, like the goddess, may justly complain of neglect, ap- 

 pearing in few gardens, and well deserving a place in all. I must allow that 

 Juno is sometimes " inconstant ; " nor does the son'owful fact surprise us, fore- 

 knowing the provocation of her husband Jupiter ; but she is, generally, all that 

 a good Rose ought to be, and then most divinely fair. "We have so few Roses 

 of her pale delicate complexion, that, until we are favoured with more Per- 

 petuals of the Caroline de Sansales style, Juno is a most valuable Rose, large and 

 full, and, in her best phase, an effective flower for exhibition. 

 Paul Perras, H. B., is another valuable Rose in this section, of robust growth, and 

 producing plentifully its well-shaped blooms, of a light rose-colour. 



