106 THE HYBEID PERPETUAL ROSE. 



Le Ehone, Lord Macaulay, Antoine Ducher, 

 Baronne Adolphe de Rothschild, Comtesse d'Ox- 

 ford, Dr. Andry, Duke of Edinburgh, Fisher 

 Holmes, Louis Van Houtte, Mademoiselle Annie 

 Wood, Marie Baumann, Vainqueur de Groliath, 

 Lord Clyde, La Rosiere, Monsieur E. Cx. Teas, 

 Reynolds Hole, Baron de Bonstetten, Sir Grarnet 

 Wolseley, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Dr. Hooker, 

 Duke of Connaught, Colonel de Gransal, and 

 Richard Wallace, form a perfect galaxy of rose 

 beauty. I cannot see the possibility of surpass- 

 ing the above by new varieties, and yet they 

 come, or pretend to come, every season from 

 France. Every spring some fine new varieties are 

 ushered into the rose world of England, and some 

 thousands of francs have been sent over to our 

 neighbours in exchange for a host of new names, 

 to be added to the rose catalogues of the day, so 

 as to perplex both buyers and sellers. This in- 

 cessant introduction of novelties without novelty 

 is, I fear, bringing rose-cultivation to charlatan- 

 ism, which can only be stemmed by the English 

 growers being well assured of the qualities of a 

 new rose before they recommend it. We must 

 not pass over some old friends in this class of 

 colour. Greneral Jacqueminot, with its luxuriant 

 growth and magnificent clusters of flowers, has 

 always been a favourite, and will continue to be 

 so, although its large crimson flowers are not so 

 full and perfect in shape as those of the varieties 



