THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



123 



count of its dark colour), Senateur 

 Vaisse (not equal to General Jacque- 

 minot as a town rose), Vainquer de 

 Goliath, Victor Verdier, Vicomte 

 Vigier. The Bourbons are Baronne 

 Gonella, Catherine Guillot, Emotion, 

 Louise Margottin, Souvenir de la 

 Malmaison. The Teas are Gloire de 

 Dijon, Devoniensis, Narcisse, Com- 

 tesse Ouvaroff andTriomphe de Guil- 

 lot fils are under trial this season, and 

 both being strong growers, I am 

 sanguine they will do well. I am 

 less conudent of Gloire de Bourdeaux, 

 a seedling from Gloire de Dijon ; I 

 fear it is not a free bloomer. 



Our modern florists, like the an- 

 cient Athenians, appear ever desirous 

 of seeing or of hearing about new 

 things. This desire for novelty, com- 

 bined with merit, is a powerful in- 

 centive to all improvements. Ac- 

 cordingly, I dare say my confreres in 

 the love of roses will not be uninte- 

 rested in the little information I can 

 give about the novelties for the season, 

 some of which have already displayed 

 their pretensions to the floral public. 

 Upon collating the catalogues of our 

 largest importers of new roses from 

 Prance, I find not less than sixty odd 

 candidates for our insular patronage. 

 Besides these are the beautiful Eng- 

 lish seedlings of Mr. William Paul, 

 and also one announced to be sent out 

 in the autumn by Mr. Cranston of 

 King's Acre. 



It is highly gratifying to enthu- 

 siastic aspirants after perfection in 

 the rose to find our own most eminent 

 florists devoting their energies and 

 skill to the improvement of England's 

 special flower. Beauty of Waltham, 

 concerning which a somewhat tart 

 controversy has been going on for 

 some weeks in the columns of a con- 

 temporary periodical, is already well 

 known, and its merits widely acknow- 

 ledged. Mr. William Paul believes 

 that he has in this rose the parent of 

 a new race of really hardy roses, des- 

 tined to displace many beautiful 

 kinds which have become so delicate 

 in constitution as to be scarcely worth 

 cultivating. Princess of Wales, to 

 be sent out this month, is the most 

 important of the novel strain. I have 

 seen it, and can safely recommend it 



as a most promising kind, in every 

 way deserving trial, without which 

 no collection can be considered com- 

 plete. Bed Bover is also another of 

 the same class, not double enough 

 for a show rose, but a free and rapid 

 climber, blooming very late, and likely 

 to prove an acquisition in that respect, 

 especially to rosarians in the neigh- 

 bourhood of towns. I shall be able 

 to describe these seedlings more fully^ 

 when I have criticised them out of 

 doors — at present my opinions have 

 been necessarily formed upon exami- 

 tion of the forcing house. 



It is always a hazardous and con- 

 jectural undertaking to speak upon 

 the really new roses. At this period 

 the produce of small, forcedplants only 

 can be brought under review ; and 

 even such persons as have seen them 

 in bloom at the Prench nurseries, 

 have done so under such different 

 conditions to those under which they 

 will be cultivated here that their ver- 

 dict is liable to be totally reversed. 

 Viewed from their aspect, I believe 

 the best of the new foreigners to be 

 the following, which are given alpha- 

 betically, the reader being referred for 

 detailed descriptions to the growers' 

 lists. Hybrid Perpetuals : Alpaide de 

 Rotalier, Bernard Palissy, Gabriel 

 Peyronny, Kate Hausburg, Madame 

 Soupert,on account of its being white ; 

 Madame Victor Verdier, Mareschal 

 Porey, Pavilion de Pregny, that is 

 if it answer its description, in which 

 case it would be novel ; Senateur 

 Reveil, Le Geant, described as the 

 largest rose grown ; Vicomtesse Doug- 

 las, a sport from Baronne Prevost, an 

 origin much in its favour. Bourbons : 

 Madame de Stella, and Henry Dom- 

 brain are likewise promising varieties. 

 Upon Teas it is particularly unsafe to 

 prophecy. Lays seems fair, a light 

 yellow, and Alba Rosa, from De- 

 voniensis, described as good ; I am 

 not quite certain whether this is of 

 1863-64. 



I cannot refrain from a passing re- 

 mark upon the outrageously absurd 

 nomenclature bestowed by Gallic 

 raisers upon their progeny. The less 

 educated among the gardening tribe 

 must be sorely puzzled by such names 

 as " Triomphe de Villecresnes," 



