obiierveJ in any other variety ; tho tube and eepal.s well formed, glossy scarlet, and well formed 

 corolla, a very pleasing rellexed variety. Othrllo is a sinuU flowered variety, short tube and 

 sepals, bright glo:<sy scarlet, and of good substance, reflexing moderately — email purjde corolla, 

 changing to rosy purple as it ages; short vigorous growth and a very free bloomer, and will 

 make a capital bedding variety. Mint Haidrry has a largo stout tube, the sepals stained with 

 ]>ink and mo lerately rotloxed, well formed liglit scarlet corolla, very free, and a good second-rate 

 llower. Jfacbeth is a free growing variety, in the way of Glonj, with intense scarlet tube and 

 well reflexed sepals of tho same color, deep blue corolla stained with scarlet. Of last year's 

 varieties. Glory is one of the best dark kinds, reflexing well. Lady Franklin, waxy white tube 

 and sepals, reflexing moderately, rosy-violet well formed corolla, a large, distinct, and handsome 

 variety. Lady Montague is a large reflexed flower with pinkish white tube and sepals and rosy- 

 purple corolla, which is rather coarse, still it is distinct and efi"ective in collections. King 

 Ok inning reflexes most gracefully, tube and sepals scarlet, blue purple corolla, and is a veiy 

 pretty variety. Dr. Lindlcy is good — bright scarlet tube, and sepals stout and smooth — thick, 

 well formed, close blue purple corolla. Duchess of Lancaster is a great favorite, as it is an excel- 

 lent bloomer and very distinct, flower large, wa.xy clear white tube and sepals, well reflexed, 

 corolla soft rose color but badly formed. It is, however, a very striking variety and should be 

 in every collection. England's Glory is also a bold, striking, light variety. I am aware that 

 the varieties I have described will not answer the descriptions in some places, but when the 

 plants are well cultivated they will be found correct. Observer. 



[Our own experience fully confirms the facts expressed above. Perhaps we should have more 

 strongly condemned one or two of the new varieties. In the list of old kinds, Bonks' Perfection 

 deserves a place as a good free-flowering dark variety, and is particularly fine in a large plant, 

 as must have been observed by those who saw Bray's plant at the Eegent's Tark. — Editor.] — 

 Florid, London. 



Ro5ES OF 1851. — Never since Roses have been cultivated in England to any extent has such a 

 fatal season as the past been experienced bj^ the growers. The severe frost in winter killed 

 nearly all the buds of the Tea-scented and other delicate Roses, and numbers of the plants. The 

 dry weather in March and April destroyed from half to two-thirds of the stocks planted in 

 December; and the frost on the 25th of April so injured the young and tender shoots, which 

 were soon after smothered with aphides, that scarcely any Roses bloomed at their usual season 

 in June and July. It was not till August that the Hybrid Perpetuals showed themselves in 

 character, and after that they flowered satisfactorily. As usual with a favored class of Roses 

 like the above, we are inundated with so-called novelties from France, plenty of variety in 

 names, lacking, however, difference in character ; but there are some few really good and dis- 

 tinct, and quite worthy of a few words of praise, and so I will endeavor to describe them. 

 Hybrid Perpetuals are the Roses of the day; they seem destined to supply all out-door wants at 

 least, and one is never tired of their varied beauties. There were forty or more Roses of this 

 class alone, with new names introduced last winter and spring, most of them of the same unva- 

 rying tints of "rose," "pale rose," and so on; many of them really good, but not difi'erirg 

 enough from well established varieties to make them acceptable to the amateur. There arc, 

 however, few and a very few, distinct, good, and acceptable to all lovers of Roses; and who is 

 not? Holding a first rank among the few is Jules Margottin, which is quite worthy of its des- 

 criptive English name. Perpetual Brcnnue; its very vigorous habit, and large finely-shaped light 

 vivid crimson flowers, remind us much of that very fine old Hybrid China Rose, Brenims. For 

 growing on its own roots, and pegging down, for a pillar Rose, and as a standard, it is equally 

 Well adapted, and will soon be in every Rose garden. Sir John Franklin and Oloirc de la 

 Franco are of tho race of the Giant des Batailles, and two fine robust growing Roses; the 

 former b: ight red, the latter more approaching to deep crimson ; they are two fine varieties. 

 General Jaqueminot is, like the above, one of our new Roses, and most striking, from the size of j, 

 its flowers, which are of rich sh^ided crimson. It has, however, two faults — its flowers 

 sufliciently double, and its habit of growth is rather slender and delicate. "We now 



