Plate 532. 

 TEA-ROSE- UNIQUE. 



Many who are ignorant of the peculiar forms of the Tea- 

 scented Roses, might be inclined to question whether this were 

 a rose or not. When we received it from our esteemed friend 

 Mons. GmWot^ls, of Lyons, he sent with it a description which 

 it has fully borne out, as far as we have seen it, namely, that 

 it was like a half-expanded tulip, bearing in that respect some 

 similarity to one sent out by M. Ducher the year before, 

 though still more remarkable, and diifering from it in colour. 



The last winter has been in many cases very disastrous, even 

 in the South of England, to Tea-scented Roses, the intense frost 

 of Christmas Eve especially injured them, and many growers 

 have to deplore the almost total loss of those which they had 

 ventured to leave in the open ground. In our own case the 

 frost was not so severe, and we took the precaution of covering 

 all our roses with short hotbed litter, through which it does not 

 readily penetrate, and in our entire collection we have not lost 

 a rose. 



We have received but few new roses from France this year, 

 and those we have received have been from Lyons, which has 

 been exempted from the horrors of the war. They are chiefly 

 Tea Roses, and we may by-and-by report on them ; as 

 in the meantime our thirst for novelty must remain unsatisfied, 

 we have given one of the roses for the season of 1869. 



