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the same individual with the highest degree of success. As the results sought are 

 different, so are the means used in their attainment. Those who grow for show 

 let the dormant buds of the last year's budded plants flower from the first growth, 

 and by means of high manuring, copious watering, and disbudding, induce a fat 

 growth and fat flowers, which, by the use of hand-glasses, flower-pots, mats, 

 canvass, and other warming, bleaching, shading, or disbudding processes, as the 

 case may require, obtain flowers of a size and complexion which are not often 

 met with except on the exhibition tables. True, the garden during this process 

 is in a state of infinite disorder, but what does that matter to your exhibitor ? 

 He grows for a purpose, and attains it. The grower for plants, on the contrary, 

 stops the shoots of the last year's budded plants when only a few inches long, 

 whereby he destroys the first bloom ; but he gets a later bloom, and, what he 

 chiefly aims at, instead of a few stout and often ill-ripened shoots, many well- 

 placed shoots^of moderate growth, and well ripened. 



In France, although some growers show and some do not, there is not this 

 broad difference in their practice of cultivation. All grow for plants. I dis- 

 cussed at length with several of them the different ideas of showing prevalent in 

 England and in France, and agreed with them that the extra size of the flowers 

 obtained in England by the disbudding process was dearly bought by the absence 

 of flower-buds. I discussed this with M. Margottin, especially at the flower- 

 show at Sceaux, where the roses were in some cases very good. There was one 

 fully expanded flower of each sort exhibited, surrounded with leaves, and two, 

 three, or four beautiful buds in various stages of development. There was far 

 more beauty, to my eye, in these Eoses, than in the larger flowers seen afterwards 

 at the Costal Palace and Kensington, leafless and budless, bald and unnatural, 

 though very tidily set up like so many rows of balls or of teacups in a toy or china 

 shop. But chacun a son gout. 



The effect of a rose in the garden, the tout ensemble, constitution, constancy, 

 durability, leaves and buds as well as flowers, enter more into the calculation of 

 the French than the English grower. Here, too, I venture to think that the 

 Frenchman is right. But here, again, chacun a son gout. 



Of the new Roses of 1867-8, I have seen the following good both at home 

 and abroad : — 



Alice Dureau, Aristide Dupuis, Baron Haussmann, Boule de Neige, Clotilde Rolland, Oomto 

 Rairubaud, Cure 1 de Charentay, Duchesse dAoste, Elie Morel, Francois Fontaine, Impe>atrice 

 Charlotte (of doubtful constitution), La France (a grand garden rose), Madame Barriot, Madame 

 Obirard, Madame la Baronne de Rothschild (very beautiful), Madame Marie Cirodde, Madame 

 Noman (a good flower, but delicate), Pitord, President Willermoz, Prince Humbert, Reine du 

 Midi (much like La Reine), Souvenir de Caillat, Souvenir de Francois Ponsard, Sophie de la 

 Villeboisnot, and Vicomtesse de Vezins — hybrid perpetuals ; Souvenir de Pierre Vibert — 

 perpetual moss ; Clotilde (much like Bougere), and Jean Pernet — tea-scented. The colours 

 of these varieties will be seen on reference to any of the Rose-growers' catalogues. 



Of the new Eoses of 1868-9, I am waiting for further evidence, and shall 



make them the subject of a separate paper by and by. 



Paul's Nurseries, Waltham Cross, London, N. William Paul. 



