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of the best for garden decoration, for it is viororoua in habit and free 

 flowering, as well as producing large handsome flowers. Auother 

 good rose of 1872, the year in which the four last-meutioned varieties 

 ■were distributed, is Francoise 3Iic]ielo7i, a, beautiful flower, the 

 colour clear rose, the reverse of petals silvery ; this also is an excellent 

 garden rose. Madame LacJiarme is in a certain sense disappointing : 

 the flowers are not pure white, and even with a dozen or so of plants 

 there is a difficulty in obtaining a really first-class bloom. As a 

 blusli rose when grown under glass, it is simply superb, but as a 

 garden flower it is quite surpassed by Perle ties BlaucJies, which pro- 

 duces its pure white flowers in large clusters. Coquette des Blanches 

 is another good pure white variety. Ferdinand de Lesseps, a fine 

 dark rose, the colour crimson with violet shade, is rapidly gaining 

 ground in the estimation of rosarians, as it well deserves to do, for it 

 is one of the best roses of its colour for exhibition as well as for the 

 garden. Faul Neron and Marquise de Castellane are rather too old 

 to have a place amongst the foregoing, but they are so very attrac- 

 tive in the garden, as well as being valuable for exhibition, that they 

 are well deserving of a place in the smallest rosery. 



In turning to the new roses to be distributed during the ensuing 

 winter and spring, I shall say nothing of the new continental varieties, 

 of which lists have been received from the raisers. It is possible 

 that Bernard Ferlou, Henri/ Ward Beeclier, La t^onveraine, and 

 Souvenir de Ducher, offered by Eugene Verdier, and Damaizia's 

 La Bosiere, Levet's Antoine Monfan, and Liabaud's Anne Blanchon, 

 may be first-rate, but it is purely a matter of chance, as so little 

 reliance can be placed on the raisers' descriptions. The new English 

 roses that have been offered, have been exhibited several times dur- 

 ing the past season, and no difficulty whatever ia experienced in 

 speaking of their merits; Duchess of Fdinburgh, a tea-scented 

 variety, in the hands of Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, is as remark- 

 able for its distinctness, as it ia for its superb qualities ; the flowers 

 which are of good form and produced abundantly, are of a deep 

 rich purplish crimson, and therefore perfectly distinct from every 

 other variety in the same class. As exemplified by the plants exhi- 

 bited at the winter meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society, it 

 forces well, and is consequently valuable for supplying winter flowers. 

 The Duchess of Fdinhurgh, in the hands of Mr. H. Bennet, is a 

 hybrid perpetual in the way of La France, but much superior to 

 that justly famous light rose ; the flowers are larger, fuller, and 

 of better form, and the colour is several shades deeper. Sir Garnet 

 Wolseley, a hybrid perpetual, now being offered by Messrs. Cranston 

 and Mayos, is a high-coloured variety of great merit ; the flow^ers 

 are large, globular, and full ; the colours brilliant crimson ; it is first- 

 class both for exhibition and the garden, as the growth is vigorous 

 and the flowers stand out boldly. Crimson Dedder, in the hands of 

 this firm, belongs to the same class as the preceding, and is remark- 

 able for its floriferous character and brilliant colour, and will be 

 most valuable for planting in masses in the flower garden. Climhiwj 

 Jules Margottin is a scandent form of one of the best known of 

 pink rosea, and as it differs in habit only from the parent, it need 



