THE 



GARDEN GUIDE. 



November, 1864. 

 EOSES FOR PRESENT PLANTING. 



]S T the communication from our correspondent 

 at Pinner, preference is given to autumn as 

 the season for planting roses, and after all 

 that may be said' about planting in spring and 

 summer, we gladly confirm the opinion ex- 

 pressed in the interesting paper from Pinner, 

 and advise our friends who want roses to pur- 

 chase and plant without delay. Looking over 

 our own roses previously to sitting down to 

 write this (Oct. 24), we find abundance of 

 beautiful blooms on the following : William Griffiths, 

 Duchesse d' Orleans, Triomphe d'Alencon, Sir Joseph 

 Paxton, Madame Domage, Madame Cambaceres, Jules 

 Margottin, Comte de Nanteuil, Madame Pierson, 

 Bourbon Queen (this is a perfect bouquet, the trees 

 being smothered with delicate flowers, which in this cool weather emit a 

 most agreeable perfume), Clement Marot, Pierre de St. Cyr (on this the 

 blooms hang down, owing to the weakness of the shoots, and hence are 

 not seen to advantage), La Ville de St. Deois, Auguste Mie, Victor 

 Emmanuel, Octavie Fontaine, Empress Eugenie, Charles Robin, Armosa, 

 Emotion, Modele de Perfection, Jules Margottin, La Biche, Aimee Yi- 

 bert, and Marquis Balbiano. Not a bloom can be found now on any of 

 our plants of Anna Alexielf, General Jacqueminot, Geant des Batailles, 

 or even Gloire de Rosomene. But nothing is to be said against these for 

 their present condition ; they have made a grand display during the sum- 

 mer, and have bloomed profusely and finely almost without intermission 

 from the end of May to the end of August, and then, as if exhausted by 

 drought, they made an end of their display for the season. It has been 

 a good season for roses spite of drought and the piercing east winds in 

 spring. In our visits to nurseries of late we have observed that rosea 

 have made free growth, though the growth being late is at present in 



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