RAISERS OF THE BEST ROSES. 155 
and for exhibition purposes are only to be 
had insmall quantities. Some voters did not 
consider the Teas at all, confining their votes 
to hardy varieties, doing this on account of 
the radical differences which exist between 
the twoclasses. This hasan important bear- 
ing in estimating the comparative standing 
of the various growers; thus, Ducher’s forte 
has been the production of fine Tea Roses, 
and this last list does not give him his just 
position. We must consider it therefore 
from the standpoint of Aardy exhibition vari- 
eties; in doing this, we find an interesting 
impartial comparison. Seven raisers named 
in our list find no representation in the elec- 
tion list, these are Sprunt, Nabonnand, Le- 
déchaux, Charles Verdier, Vigneron, Mar- 
gottin fils, and Oger. We believe our own 
list to represent more correctly the compara- 
tive merit of the various producers of new 
roses; but the latter, as has been said, is 
certainly impartial, and is the more gladly 
inserted, to show that we have no bias that 
influenced us in our arrangement, 
