II HISTORY AND CLASSIFICATION 11 
and Souvenir d’Elise, the last still one of the best 
of the Exhibition Teas. 
But taste, experience, and discrimination on the 
one hand, and demand on the other, were now be- 
ginning to tell, and in the next five years (1860-65) 
the following wonderful additions from France were 
made of Roses which are still grown :—Alfred 
Colomb, Charles Lefebvre, Dr. Andry, Duchesse de 
Morny, Duke of Wellington, Fisher Holmes, Marie 
Baumann, Marie Rady, Maurice Bernardin, Prince 
Camille de Rohan, and Xavier Olibo; and in Teas, 
La Boule d Or and that wonder among roses, 
Maréchal Niel. 
About this time English raisers first began to 
come to the front with Roses still recognised as 
good, and Mr. W. Paul’s Beauty of Waltham may 
be considered as one of the first of these, the origin 
of Devoniensis being a little doubtful. Messrs. Paul 
and Son of Cheshunt, with Mr. Rivers of Sawbridge- 
worth, Mr. Cranston of Hereford, Mr. Turner of 
Slough, and Messrs. Keynes, Williams and Co. of 
Salisbury followed, till Mr. Bennett of Shepperton 
commenced by hybridising to raise what he called 
*‘pedigree Roses,” and delighted the Rose world 
with Her Majesty and Mrs. John Laing. 
Messrs. A. Dickson and Son of Newtownards, 
Ireland, also took to hybridising with great and 
marked success, their first three seedlings, Earl of 
Dufferin, Lady Helen Stewart, and Ethel Brown- 
low, being issued in 1887, and there have been few 
years since that time when they have not sent out 
new Roses worthy to be reckoned among our best. 
This mode of obtaining new varieties from seed by 
careful interchange of pollen, instead of trusting to 
