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of " The Nigger." Of the recently introduced light coloured Roses, to 

 Madame Vidot and Belle Lyonnaise is here given the preference, and 

 Duchesse de Cambaceres is generally admired as a noble flower, colour 

 bright rose, and does not belie its title as a Perpetual. We are much 

 pleased at the novel colour and style of Souvenir du Petit Corporal — 

 the outer petals being pale lilac rose shading to a bright crimson centre, 

 and it was hoped that a confident opinion could have been given of the 

 new striped Hybrid Perpetual Madame D. Giraud ; but rather than 

 mislead, should you not in the meantime receive a description of it, I 

 have no doubt of being enabled to do so in your next. The high 

 character given to General Jacqueminot has disappointed some growers, 

 from its fault of not being fully double being omitted in its descrip- 

 tion in most of the catalogues ; its glowing colour, however, makes it 

 really a glorious flov^er. Although not now coming properly within 

 the description of a new Rose, it is mentioned to give it a general 

 recommendation to all who have not added it to their collections, it 

 having won golden opinions for habit, colour, and shape, and is best 

 described, with but little exaggeration, as " a Perpetual Brennus." 



Recent additions to the Bourbons are very few, but we can safely 

 recommend amongst those called " new," Reveil as a finely shaped, 

 full sized, free blooming variety, of the richest purple colour and of good 

 habit ; and Souvenir de I'Arquebuse, of deep but brilliant crimson, 

 not desirable for its shape, but for profuse flowering and strikingly 

 effective colour. It is very gratifying that the Perpetual Moss Roses 

 have lately been receiving some really excellent additions. Salet is the 

 nearest approach to the old Moss, and really an autumnal bloomer. 

 Madame Ory and Maria de Bourg are not of equally robust habit, but 

 still very desirable, as they give their flowers so late as to be great 

 acquisitions. 



Many novelties in summer Moss Roses have been received, but as 

 they require a season or two longer to prove than Perpetuals, I hope to 

 speak more confidently of them another year. 



C. G. Wilkinson. 



Western Rosert/, Ealing. 



VINES AND VINE BORDERS. 



Grape growers have lately been informed of facts which, as our 

 neighbours say, have created a sensation. The Editor of the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle informs his readers, that to make a fuss about 

 the soil of Vine borders, or to build costly houses for their growth, is 

 useless ; for that this present season very first-rate Grapes have been 

 grown near London, in the one instance without any prepared border 

 — and in the next under such conditions that the generality of gardeners 

 would pronounce impossible. Let me, however, give the editor's own 

 description more at length. In the first place we are informed, at 

 page 499, that under a glass shed (sic) in the nursery of Mr. Glen- 



