Plate 389. 



HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE, DUKE 0] 

 EDINBURGH. 



We have again to welcome an addition to our English raised 

 Roses, in the brilliant-coloured flower figured in our present 

 Plate; for it is not one raised abroad and then purchased by 

 some English grower, and given an English name, but a veri- 

 table seedling raised by the well-known firm of Paid and Son. 

 of Cheshunt. 



It may be too early yet. perhaps, to speak of the prospects 

 of the present Rose season, but according to all present appear- 

 ances, it will be an early and short one. Wo have experienced 

 weather more like the heats of July and August than May, and 

 even before the month is more than half out, Poses are pushing 

 forward rapidly into bloom everywhere, and seem as forward 

 as wc have seen them in other years in the neighbourhood of 

 Paris at this time of the year. This may all be altered before 

 another fortnight; but as far as we can judge now. all the 

 Rose Sh,,us. except that at the Crystal Palace, will be too late. 



We have had this year an excellent opportunity of judging 

 of the value of the Manetty stock, having had occasion to re- 

 move OUV Poses to our present residence; we were not able to 

 lift them until the beginning of March, and notwithstanding 

 the wonderfully dry weather we have had since, very nearly all 

 of them have taken root and are pushing freely. Had they 

 been Briars, it would have been impossible to have moved 

 them with any degree of success; and as wc 1 have known our 

 friend Mr. Padelyffe to have moved them on the 23rd of 

 \uimst, it seems that there is not any time, except in the 

 height of summer, when Poses in this valuable stock maj not 

 ho transplanted. 



