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filthy witli fly, and thrco-fourlhs of the expanding buds were spoilt by the 

 ravages of maggot. So much for roses in a hot dr}- season, when 

 neglected bv the cultivator. But the help afforded them was sufficient ; 

 they were effectually cleansed by means of pure water alone, and the rain 

 that came shortly afterwards sustained them in the vigorous start they had 

 made, and suiHced for an abundant and a beautiful bloom. From the 

 5th to the 24th of Juno there fell in London about three inches of rain, 

 and in many parts of the country as much as five inches, and to that we 

 were indebted for the glorious displays of roses made subsequently at the 

 Crystal Palace, the Iloyal Horticultural Society's Gardens, Stamford, and 

 Birmingham, for from the 24th of June to the 21st of July not a drop of 

 rain fell in any part of the countrj^ excepting only one or two storms of 

 brief duration in Yorkshire and Norfolk. It was the general remark of 

 rose growers at the beginning of June that the I'oses had not looked so poor 

 for many years past. Many of them anticipated that the rose shows would 

 be mockeries; j'et it has turned out quite otherwise, and though the first 

 blooms were worthless, a fine display followed, and the rose has again 

 maintained iier high position as the queen of flowers. The lesson of the 

 season is, that roses love water, need water, and must have water, either 

 from heaven or earth, or they become the prey of hosts of insect depreda- 

 tors, and have little beautj' in either leaf or flower. 



Njiw llosEs.— The report of the Crystal Palace Rose Show (which 

 appears iii the usual place) will furnish our readers with lists of the best 

 exhibition varieties in the several classes. In reviewing the season we 

 naturally inquire Avhat has it brought ua in the way of novelties? Not 

 much certainly, nor do we desire to have very many new roses under con- 

 sideration at one time. But a few have been added to the lists, and the 

 varieties of 18GI and 1862 have been submitted to a farther test by being 

 exhibited side by side with the best of those already established in ])ublic 

 favour. Messrs. Paul and Sous, of Cheshunt, Mr. William Paul, of 

 Waltham Cross, and Mr. Staudish, of Ascot, have shared between them 

 the principal honours derivable from new roses this season. In looking 

 over our notes we find that about eight-tenths of the best new roses of the 

 past five years are high-coloured flowers, and a considerable pro}X)rtion 

 owe their parentage, on one side at least, and geuerully the masculine, to 

 General Jacqueminot, which is now quite surpassed by Lord Ilacaulay, 

 President Lincoln, Alphonse Damaizin, and a few others. We have thrown 

 out from our select list a considerable number of recently-ini reduced roses, 

 as being either worthless, or not in advance of varieties -nhich have 

 acquired fame for their general usefulness, or some special merits of 

 form and colour. It may be as well perhaps to enumerate those which we 

 consider as of little or no value among the new roses, and so we begin with 



Nkw Eosks Hejkcted. — Souvenir de Covite Carour (Moreau). There 

 are two roses of this name. The other is a fine rose, and is entered in 

 another paragraph as worthy of honour. This is a poor imitation of that 

 moderattly good rose Colonel de Pougemont, colour lake, shading to lilac- 

 rose, bad centre, petals loose, and the flower without character, or rather 

 a decidedly bad character. Alba .Rosea, a tea rose, colour creamy-white, 

 with rosy centre, small, thin, and loose. As we have an abundance of fine 

 teas of the same colour, Ave cannot accept this until we see it shown in a 

 much better state than it has been hitherto. Gloire de Chatillon, brilliant 

 red shaded with violet, large and full, and every way a good rose. But Mar- 



