Plate 553. 



CLIMBING HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE- 

 PRINCESS LOUISE VICTORIA. 



There are few clinibing plants that can compare in beauty 

 with the rose, when Felicite perpetuelle, clustered all over with 

 its snowy flowers, or the yellow Banksia with its golden 

 showers are in bloom. We at once pronounce them exquisite, 

 but alas their beauty is short-lived ; they have not that per- 

 manence of character which the hybrid perpetuals possess 

 (although in one sense this is a misnomer), and we must there- 

 fore hail with pleasure the appearance of a new English rose, 

 which while essentially a climbing one, is yet new in colour 

 as such, and moreover, as a perpetual, will give blooms up to a 

 late period of the year. 



Mr. Knight, of the Floral Nursery, Hailsham, Sussex, has 

 been the fortunate raiser of this flower, and when we had the 

 pleasure of seeing it, in the month of September, it had made 

 shoots during the season of six and eight feet in length. 

 It is a seedling from Baron Gonella, fertilized by Victor 

 Verdier ; the colour a bright salmon rosy pink, reflexed with 

 white ; the foliage is a brilliant glossy green ; the flowers are 

 produced in clusters, and we are assured are to be had up to 

 the end of November; it has received three first-class cer- 

 tificates. These things are sufiicient to indicate its importance, 

 and we believe it will be found a most valuable acquisition to 

 the somewhat limited class of climbing roses. 



