24 THE FRENCH EOSE. 



striped roses of this family. Our Village Maid 

 or La Villageoise, now an old variety, was one 

 of the earliest proceeds from the above : this is 

 now a well-known, and, in some seasons, a very 

 beautiful striped rose. Qllillet Parfait is a rose 

 raised in the west of France, and given out to the 

 world before its qualities were appreciated. It is 

 a hybrid between the Damask and the French 

 rose, so exactly like a carnation in its beautifully 

 striped flowers as scarcely to be distinguished 

 from one : its ground colour is pale blush, striped 

 distinctly with dark red and crimson : no other 

 variegated rose approaches it in beauty. 



Perle des Panachees, with flowers of a pure 

 white, striped with lilac and red, is an acquisi- 

 tion ; and Tricolor de Flandres, a new and very 

 double striped rose, may be retained. 



Van Houtte, in the ' Flore des Serres,' * gives 

 the portrait and description of four sorts of French 

 roses : Alexandre Laquement, marbled-violet ; 

 Ciceron, deep purple-marbled; Due d'Enghien, 

 purple changing to bright red ; Peron de Gosart, 

 deep purple reflexed with red. 



The hybrid perpetual roses contain all that is 

 excellent in roses of this class, and surpass them in 

 the duration of the blooming season, and also in 

 variety and beauty. In favour of French roses it 

 may be said that the plants seldom present the 

 rusty appearance after blooming that Hybrid Per- 

 petuals are afflicted with, and, although the plants 



* ' Journal des Roses.' 



