150 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



Madame Clemence Joigneaux, Elie Morel, and others : Lacharme, 

 the raiser of Alfred Colomb, "Victor Verdier, Madame Lacharme, 

 and other first class varieties : Levet, auother good raiser of tea- 

 scented varieties : Pernet, the raiser of Baroness Rothschild, and 

 Marquis de Castellane, two of the most popular roses we have: 

 Schwartz, the raiser of John Laiug and others : and Eugene Ver- 

 dier, the raiser of Dr. Andry, Prince Camille Eohan, Ferdinand, de 

 Lesseps, and other roses well known for their good quality and general 

 usefulness. It would not do to reject the roses of all the other 

 raisers, or even of those who come before us for the first time, be- 

 cause if we do so we shall run the risk of losing many fine varieties. 

 For example, those famous roses Grloire de Dijon, Monsieur Furtado, 

 Marechal Niel, and Comtesse Chabrilland, came from rosariaus who 

 do not appear to have raised and distributed more thau one or two 

 varieties each. At the same time, considering the risk, amateurs 

 should buy cautiously, and wait until an opportunity is afforded for 

 seeing blooms at the exhibitions before purchasing tiie productions 

 of unknown men. English raised roses are usually exhibited several 

 times before they are distributed, and consequently abundant oppor- 

 tunity is afi"orded for forming a just estimation of their merits. 



There are about fifty Continental roses on ofter this season, and 

 from this large number we may at least expect to obtain a few that 

 are really first-rate. To buy all is quite out of the question, and in 

 making a selection from the hybrid perpetuals, the undermentioned 

 appear likely to prove the most meritorious : — 



Baronne Vittat, one of Liabaud's seedlings, which is said to have 

 large flesh-coloured flowers, of fine form, a vigorous habit, and ample 

 clear, green foliage. Captain Christy is one of Lacharme's seed- 

 lings, and there need be no hesitation in buying it, for it was exhi- 

 bited in splendid condition at the Rose Congress at Lyons last year, 

 and was then awarded a first-class certificate by the jurors. The 

 flowers are large, full, and of a delicate flesh colour ; it is very dis- 

 tinct, and will most likely prove one of the finest of this year's 

 introductions. Francois Courlin and John Harrison are two dark 

 flowers from E. Verdier's seed-bed, full of promise. The colour of 

 the former is purplish cerise, and of the latter blackish crimson. 

 Miller Hayes, from the seed-bed of the same raiser, is said to pro- 

 duce flowers of large size and fine globular form ; the colour bright 

 crimson, shading to velvety red. Madame Louis Leveque, from 

 Leveque's seed-bed, is likely to prove good, for the few roses this 

 raiser has distributed have been exceptionally fine, and are gene- 

 rally found in winning stands at the exhibitions ; the flowers are 

 represented as being large, full, globular, and of a clear bright rose. 

 Madame Marie Finger has been selected from the seed-bed of Ram- 

 baud, a raiser quite unknown to rosarians here ; but as it had the 

 distinction of a first-class certificate conferred upon it at the Lyons 

 Congress, and was distributed first by Lacharme, few doubts need 

 be felt as to its merits. The habit is said to be vigorous, the flowers 

 l^rge and globular, and the colour bright flesh colour, approaching 

 to carmine in the centre. Marie Therese, from Ducher's seed-bed, 

 is likely to be a good garden rose, for the flowers are of a pleasing 



