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pictured to themselves the fronts of their houses covered by a climbing 

 Rose like a Rosa sempervirens in habit, giving large double crimson 

 flowers. It is really a nice Rose, with a very moderate degree of 

 vigour in its growth. Williams' Evergreen Climbing Rose has also 

 had a false character. About ten or twelve years since I was walking 

 through the grounds at Pitmaston with the late Mr. Williams, a most 

 ingenious fertiliser, when he pointed out to me a climbing Rose, the 

 result of a cross with the white Ayrshire and the yellow China or Tea 

 Rose ; it was growing most luxuriantly, and gave large flimsy flowers 

 of a dirty white. I remember that we both thought it unworthy of culti- 

 vation ; but soon after his death it came out, and was puffed off" as a 

 new and very desirable climbing Rose. All such exaggerations should 

 be discountenanced by English Rose growers.* 



Among the new creations, the Perpetual Moss Roses are, I think, 

 most interesting. Only a week or two since I gathered some fine 

 bunches of buds and half open flowers of Salet, a most vigorous 

 growing Rose, and also of Madame Ory ; they had the true fragrance 

 of the old Moss Rose, and carried one back to June, thus giving us four 

 Moss- Rose-months instead of barely one. This summer fragrance is 

 so exhilarating, it reminds us so vividly of charming June days in the 

 fickle and often gloomy month of October, that every Rose lover should 

 cultivate a few Perpetual Moss Roses. 



The new Roses sent out in 1855 have not cut a brilliant figure this 

 summer. Triomphe de I'Exposition, Arthur de Sansal, Ornement 

 des Jardins, and Triomphe d'Avranches, have bloomed well, and 

 are good Roses. Mathurin Regnier is also likely to prove a fine 

 Rose, without any novelty in colour ; but not a new Rose ap- 

 proaches Prince Leon or Jules Margottin in colour, form, or habit. 

 Lord Raglan has this season been remarkably beautiful, not scorching 

 under a burning sun, and being even more brilliant than the Geant. 

 Victor Trouillard, a new Rose, presented to Messrs. Standish by a 

 florist at Angers, which has been exhibited the past season, is said 

 to be a fine dark Rose ; and Bacchus, introduced by Messrs. Paul, has 

 thick shell-like petals, and is likely to prove an acquisition. 



There are, I observe, nearly forty new Roses to be sent out this 

 autumn by the French florists ; most of these are Hybrid Perpetuals, 

 twenty of which are described as having shades of rose colour, six 

 shades of crimson — three or four of these are seedlings of the Geant. 

 There are also two new Summer Moss Roses by Laffay, both of which 

 are rose coloured, and a new Perpetual Moss by him, described as 

 " rouge vif centre rouge violace, superbe." Three new Noisette Roses 

 are also offered, one white, another a seedhng from Lamarque, " d'un 

 beau jaune canari," another crimson partaking in its habit of the 

 Bourbon family. Three new Tea-scented Roses are to be sent out — 

 their characters as described are an "oft-told tale." 



We still lack a fine crimson Tea Rose, a pure white Hybrid Per- 

 petual, a yellow ditto, a good crimson Rosa sempe rvirens, a yellow 



* The figure of the Tea Kose Souvenir d'Elise Vardon, in the Florist for last 

 month, is by far too perfect ; it rarely gives such a flower. 



