ON THE DERIVATION OF SOME RECENT VARIETIES OF ROSES. 451 
growth. Later introductions in this class have been the result of succes- 
sive and more extended crossings, and in some instances have led to the 
production of larger individual flowers, although in smaller bunches.. A 
recent variety, however, which possesses to a remarkable degree the 
original characteristic of producing its flowers in handsome corymbs, is 
‘Madame Norbert Levasseur’; its rich masses of crimson blossoms 
recall those of the ‘Crimson Rambler,’ and its period of flowering would 
appear to extend from earliest summer until late in autumn. I have 
been unable to obtain any authoritative information as to the parentage 
of this variety. Some distinct dwarf autumnal-flowering Polyantha roses 
of recent introduction are : 
Aschenbrédel—Dwarf Polyantha ‘ Petite Léonie’ x R. lutea bicolor 
(Austrian Copper). 
Rosalinde—Dwarf Polyantha ‘Georges Pernet’ x a seedling from 
‘Crimson Rambler.’ 
Katherine Zeimet—Dwarf Polyantha ‘Fitoile de Mai’ x Dwarf 
‘Polyantha ‘ Marie Pavié.’ 
‘Petit Constant —Dwarf Polyantha ‘ Mignonette’ x Tea ‘ Luciole.’ 
Primula—Dwarf Polyantha ‘ Mignonette’ x unnamed seedling. 
Eugénie Lamesch—Multifiora ‘Aglaia’ x Noisette ‘William A. 
Richardson.’ 
Léonie Lamesch-—Multiflora ‘Aglaia’ x seedling Polyantha. 
It is remarkable that in the case of ‘ Eugénie Lamesch’ the union of 
two strong-growing climbing varieties should have resulted in a progeny 
of dwarf habit of growth. There is, 1 think, in R. multiflora always a 
tendency to give dwarf forms from seed; and in the case of ‘ Waltham 
Rambler,’ raised in the Waltham Cross Nurseries, the original seedling 
plant was quite dwarf in habit and the variety did not develop its climb- 
ing form until budded on various stocks. 
For town gardens under unfavourable climatic conditions, and for 
hedge planting and other bolder purposes in the rose garden, the Rugosa 
roses have proved most valuable acquisitions, and some very distinct and 
handsome hybrids have been introduced of late years: these, while retain- 
ing the vigour and hardiness of the type, have lost some of the roughness 
of contour which is sometimes objected to in the latter. Commencing 
with ‘Madame Georges Bruant’ (Rosa rugosa x Tea ‘Sombreuil ’), which 
was introduced from Poitiers in 1887, we now have a series of large 
double-flowered varieties of various shades of colour produced on strong- 
growing shrubs of absolute hardiness. A distinct variety with fringed 
petals, called ‘ Fimbriata,’ was the result of a cross between FR. rugosa 
and the climbing Hybrid Tea ‘Madame Alfred Carriére.’ One of the 
most beautiful of recent introductions is ‘Conrad Ferdinand Meyer,’ 
raised in Germany as the result of a cross between ‘Gloire de Dijon’ and 
‘Duc de Rohan’ (H.P.), the offspring being again crossed with the 
Rugosa variety ‘Germanica.’ Other new varieties that have reached us 
from the neighbourhood of Paris are ‘Souvenir de Philémon Cochet,’ 
a naturally fertilised seedling from ‘Blane double de Coubert’ and a 
distinct advance on the latter variety and ‘Rose 4 parfum de |’Hay’ 
(Rf. damascena x ‘General Jacqueminot’ x FR. rugosa germanica). The 
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