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372 THE FLORIST. 



ROSA DEVONIENSIS. 



Prom the remarks that have appeared in recent numbers of the Florist, 

 respecting the above named Rose, and feeling very much interested in 

 the same, I am induced to give you a genuine account of its history. 



It was raised from seed by George Foster, Esq., of Outland House, 

 about a mile distant from the towns of Devonport and Plymouth. It 

 flowered for the first time in the summer of" 1837, and was sold to 

 Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, & Co., in 1840. It was a seedling from the 

 Yellow China. Your Deal correspondent asserts that it was raised in 

 France, and is not an English Rose ; as has already been stated, I can 

 only say that the assertion is untrue and unfounded. I may here 

 remark that the raiser of this Rose was a gentleman well known to 

 Mr. Pontey, the proprietor of the Plymouth Nursery, and also to Mr. 

 Rendle, Plymouth, and it was Mr. Rendle who was in the habit of 

 purchasing seedlings of the gentleman I have named. The Glory of 

 Plymouth Dahlia was raised the same year as the Rose in question, 

 and by the same gentleman. 



In Rivers' "Rose Guide," at page 118, 5th edition, are the following 

 remarks : — " Devoniensis, the only Tea-scented Rose ever raised in 

 England, is still unrivalled." I should have thought that such an 

 authority as Mr. Rivers would have been sufficient to have satisfied 

 any one as to its being an English Rose, unless they have strong proof 

 to the contrary. 



John Conning, 

 Gardener, Royston, Herts. 



ROSE RECOLLECTIONS. 



If your readers have not already heard sufficient about Roses and their 

 management, perhaps it may interest some of them to know how this 

 pet of flowers will succeed under more than ordinary difficulties of culti- 

 vation. I may premise that, three years ago, having commenced the 

 formation of a new garden, I laid in a stock of Briars for budding in the 

 following season, with the intention of removing the worked plants to 

 their permanent places in the autumn of last year. Circumstances, 

 however, supervened to prevent that intention being carried into effect, 

 for, having to add several acres to the pleasure-ground, it became 

 impossible to plant the Roses until such time as the final arrangements 

 as to the shrubbery borders were complete. Now the order to "go 

 ahead " in the addition to the pleasure-ground was not given until the 

 10th of March, at which time Rose-growers will say the Roses ought 

 to have been planted and growing. I will grant that much, but at the 

 same time endeavour to show that success is not incompatible with 

 planting at a much later season ; or, if you like, planting and trans- 

 planting several times in the course of a few weeks, and that at the 

 worst end of the season for deciduous plants. 



In anticipation of not being able to plant until very late, the Roses 



