10 THE FLOItlST AND POMOLOGIST. [JANUABT, 



year by rival establishments at Lyons, are both creditable to the raisers. Madame Noman 

 pleases me best as a flower, but Boule de Neige is of hardier constitution, and will, I think, 

 make a better garden rose. 



Merveille d'Anjou (H.P.) is a very large, full rose, the colour fine bright, deep, purplish 

 crimson. I find it marked in my note-book as " a crimson Baronno Prevost." The form is 

 expanded, reflexing sometimes as the flower ages ; the growth is vigorous. 



Pitord (H.P.) is a pretty enough fiery-red flower, of good form ; very velvety, something 

 in the way of Le Rhone ; the flowers of average size, and full ; the growth vigorous. 



President Willermoz ("H.P.) will please all who do not insist on a rose being quite full ; 

 the colour is bright rose ; and the flowers are large and very beautifully cupped. The growth 

 is vigorous. 



Prince. Humbert (H.P) is a dark rose, in the way of Black Prince. I have a doubt, how- 

 ever, whether it will surpass that fine variety. I saw it at the Paris Exhibition last year, and 

 in Margottin's nurseries both last year and this. There it was fine, but Margottin's roses aro 

 usually finer with him than over seen afterwards. The colour is bright velvety-violet red ; the 

 flowors are of good size and full, usually produced in clusters. 



Peine de Portugal (Tea-scented) is a deep, bright yellow, sometimes shaded with rose and 

 copper. Although this variety has received a first-class certificate in England, yet from what 

 I have seen of it both at home and abroad, I have much doubt of its merit. With me it has 

 been all through of irregular form, and seldom opens well. 



Souvenir cTAdrien Bahivet (H.P.) seems to be a good hardy rose of free habit ; the colour is 

 reddish crimson, shaded with purple ; the flowers are large and full ; the form globular and fine 



Souvenir de Caillat (H.P.) was very good here last spring ; the flowers aro violet, purple' 

 and scarlet ; of large size, full, and produced in clusters. The raiser states that it is superior 

 to Lord Clyde, a variety raised by me in 1859, but of this wo require further proof, good as it 

 undoubtedly is. 



Souvenir de Francois Ponsard (H.P.) is a bright, rose-coloured flower of globular form, 

 largo, full, and very sweet ; the petals are large, smooth, and well rounded ; the growth is 

 vigorous. 



Souvenir de Pierre Vibert (P. Moss) is a great acquisition among perpetual moss rosos ; the 

 flowers are dark red, shaded with blackish carmine, large, full, and of good form, not unlike 

 the old French rose Boula de Nanteuil. 



Souvenir de Ponsard (H.P.) is a rose-coloured flower, flamed with scarlet, large, full, and 

 of vigorous habit ; it flowers freely. 



Sophie de la Villeboisnct (H.P.) is also a rose-coloured flower, frosted with silver ; it is of 

 good form, large and full, and flowers freely ; the growth is vigorous. 



Vicomtesse de Vesin (H.P.) is a beautiful bright red, of fine form, large and full. This 

 promises to be a free, hardy rose of first-rate quality. 



The above are my favourites of 1867. The following also flowered here : — 

 Baroness de Beauverger, Charles Turner, Christine Nilsson, Clotilde Bolland, 

 Conitesse de Falloux, Madame Baudot, Madame Louisa Seydoux, Madame 

 Bolland, Mademoiselle Elise Chabrier, Monsieur Barillet Deschamps, and Souvenir 

 de Madame Corval. They are pretty enough roses, but are not in my judgment 

 equal to the first list. 



Paul's Nurseries, Waltham Cross, JV. William Paul. 



THE QUALITY OF MELONS. 



fT is rather a curious fact that at a great many of our Provincial Fruit Exhi- 

 bitions we should meet with Melons which are very inferior in quality. 

 V. I Why it is so may appear to be a mystery ; but no matter whether we 

 '§> travel east or west, south or north, the same condition presents itself. 

 We might have expected that during the past summer there would have been 

 some amendment, as it has been one of the best adapted for Melon culture 



