16 INTRODUCTION. 
ticularly instanced: Zeas: Mme. Hoste (Guil- 
lot, 1887), Mme. de Watteville (Guillot-fils, 
1884), Mme. Pierre Guillot (Guillot, 1888), 
Papa Gontier (Nabonnand, 1883), Queen (Din- 
gee & Conard Co., 1890), Climbing Niphetos 
(Keynes & Co., 1889), Climbing Perle des 
Jardins (J. Henderson, 1890). Hybrid Remon- 
tants: American Beauty (Hon. G. Bancroft, 
1885), Earl of Dufferin (A. Dickson & Sons, 
1887), Gloire de Margottin (Margottin, 1887), 
Lady Helen Stuart (A. Dickson & Sons, 1887), 
Mrs. John Laing (Bennett, 1887). AMybrid Ru- 
gosa: Mme. G. Bruant (Bruant, 1888). Sour- 
bon: Mrs. Degraw (Burgess, 1887). Hybrid 
Tea: Meteor (Bennett, 1887). Polyantha: 
Clothilde Soupert (Soupert & Notting, 1890). 
Of the numerous varieties produced since 
the present volume was written, few possess 
greater claims to recognition than the rose 
raised by the author and named by him after 
the distinguished pomologist, Marshall P. 
Wilder—one of the most fragrant, beautiful, 
and free-flowering of the hybrid-remontant 
class, and equalled by few roses as an autum- 
nal bloomer. By many, American Beauty, 
supposed to be a cross from Mme. Victor 
Verdier and a Tea of unknown origin, is re- 
garded as the finest of roses. In its class it 
is certainly unrivalled, with its immense fra- 
