138 TUE FLORIST. 



NEW ROSES. 



The following extract from Mr. William Paul's admirable " Rose 

 Annual for 1858-59," will furnish our readers with that excellent 

 grower's opinion respecting the more valuable of our recent additions to 

 the " Queen of Flowers : " — 



" On looking through the varieties which flowered for the first time 

 in England during the past season (1858), we find nothing very new 

 or striking in character, but many valuable improvements on existing 

 kinds. Among the Hybrid Provence we note Gracilis, one of those 

 pretty but somewhat rare flesh-coloured flowers of exquisite symmetry, 

 flowering most abundantly. 



" Reine blanche is a new pure white Moss Rose, faultless in shape, 

 and of vigorous habit. It resembles Madame Hardy, both in form 

 and colour. 



" Cimabue is of another race, belonging to the Hybrid Bourbon : 

 the flowers are large and full, of a velvety crimson, with a brighter 

 shade in their centres ; the colour is particularly rich, and the growth 

 vigorous. 



" The group known as Hybrid Perpetuals furnishes us, as usual, with 

 the longest array of names : Duke of Cambridge is a large, close, crim- 

 son Rose, of good shape ; it approaches nearer to Baronne Hallez than 

 to any other, but is of a darker hue. The constitution of the plant is 

 unmistakeably good, and the foliage handsome. Eveque de Nimes is, 

 perhaps, the greatest novelty of the season, and unquestionably a gem. 

 The flowers are of the richest crimson, of average size, containing an 

 abundance of petals, which lie closely the one over the other, in the way 

 of Paul Dupuy, and many of the Gallica Roses. The foliage is 

 particularly stout and handsome. General MacMahon is a promising 

 Rose, with rosy-carmine flowers ; the shoots and leaves are of a dark 

 green, almost thornless. Gloire de Lyon is one of the numerous 

 progeny of Geant des Batailles. It appears to possess the constitution 

 of its parent, and flowers as freely ; the flowers are dark purplish red, 

 changing to blackish violet. This will probably prove a valuable dark 

 Rose for planting in masses. Laelia was exhibited in fine condition at 

 the National Rose Show. It is a very large flower, something in the 

 way of Louise Peyronny. Lord Palmerston is a plant of vigorous 

 growth, with a good deal of the Bourbon blood in it. The flowers are 

 cherry pink, very bright and beautiful, not large, but of good form, and 

 produced abundantly. Louis Chaix is a brilliant velvety crimson Rose 

 of vigorous growth, blooming freely, and producing flowers almost above 

 the average size. I find it marked in my diary ' a large and hand- 

 some edition of Geant des Batailles.' If Louise d'Autriche will but 

 expand its flowers, it will prove a great acquisition. It is a seedling 

 from La Reine, producing large full flowers of a violet red colour. 

 Madame Van Houtte is a very pretty Rose, producing flowers of a 

 delicate satin-like rose colour ; the flowers, although not large, are 

 pleasing, from the great regularity with which the petals are disposed. 

 Madame Vigneron is a very superior new Rose, and possesses some 



