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with more striking effects than the perpetual-flowering Roses. What can be 

 more cheering at this season of the year than to behold the vivid colours of many 

 of the Bourbon and Hybrid Perpetual Roses, contrasted with the more delicate 

 tints of Tea-scented, set off by their dark green foliage, now. that autumn has set 

 its seal on many of nature's earlier productions ? I am an ardent admirer of the 

 Rose, and my enthusiasm has, ere now, carried me to the Continent in the sultry 

 month of June, in searcli of new varieties. Having this year caught the au- 

 tumnal mania, I resolved to delay my visit till September, in expectation of find- 

 ing the perpetual-flowering Roses blooming in greater perfection. In this 1 was 

 not disappointed, and would here advise connoisseurs of Roses, who are accus- 

 tomed to visit the grounds of the large growers in England, to do so twice in 

 the year — in June for summer varieties, and in September for the autumnal 

 sorts. I feel assured they would be well recompensed by, and highly delighted 

 with, a September visit. The Rose gardens then assume altogether a new fea- 

 ture ; the summer Roses are gone, and the autumnal kinds appear in all their 

 richness and beauty. True, the autumnal Roses bloom in June, but they seem 

 to require the long dewy nights to bring out their flowers in trueness of cha- 

 racter, and the diffeience is oftentimes so great that the well-known Rose of 

 June would be scarcely recognized when blooming in September. Thinking, 

 however, that many lovers of Roses might not have leisure or inclination to travel 

 so far in search of one object, which, among a multiplicity of affairs, becomes of 

 small importance, I will endeavour to give an account of what struck me as most 

 remarkable during my late trip. After having visited the grounds of the Hert- 

 fordshire growers, anil collected the choicest of Rosa's train there, I departed 

 well pleased with what I had seen, and resolving to make further additions from 

 foreign cultivators. Having reached the French capital, the first cultivator to 

 whom I paid a visit was M. LafFay, the r nserof Madame Laff'ay, William Jesse, 

 La Reine, and many other of our most beautiful Roses. I there saw Hybrid 

 Perpetual La Reine in great beauty, and should pronounce it one of the gems of 

 the season; the colour is pink, with a lilac hue, very glossy ; the flowers are 

 globular in shape, large, and very sweet. Another of his seedlings, Comtesse 

 Duchatel, is a Hybrid Perpetual of a superior kind. The flnwers are of a rose- 

 colour, with thick petals, closely set ; Perpetuelle Indigo is a distinct variety, of 

 a peculiar Colour, to which its i ame relates ; Hybrid Perpetual, Mrs. Cripps, a 

 pale Rose, appears likely to become a profuse autumnal bloomer; Perpetuelle 

 ponctuee, a bright Rose with white spots, is a very pretty variety. Of the four 

 last mentioned, M. LafFay has, I believe, the entire stock at present, but intends 

 selling plants of them this autumn. He has also a Moss Rose, Princesse Ade- 

 laide, of a pale rose-colour, blooming in corymbs, and said to be very handsome. 

 The habits of the plants were certainly remarkable, having a degree of vigour 

 quite foreign to the Moss tribe. Their season of flowering was past, but. he said 

 that the flowers were like those of Ornament de Parade, a well known Gallica 

 Rose; and other growers spoke well of it. Among others noticed here were 

 Lady Alice Peel, Duchess of Sutherland, De Marx, Coquette de Bellevue, and 

 Coquette de Montmorency — all Hybrid Perpetuals of recent introduction ; the 

 last-mentioned is in every respect a beautiful flower. M. LafFay is an enthu- 

 siastic cultivator of Roses, but a lover of fruits also. 



To enumerate the various grounds visited would, I find, become tedious, and 

 occupy too much space, having often looked through several in the course of 

 a day. I must thetefore arrange the varieties noted down as most remarkable 

 in their respective families. 



Among the Perpetuals and Hybrid Perpetuals were — Laurence de Montmo- 

 rency, a free-flowering variety of a purplish-rose colour; Lady Elphinstone 

 rosy-crimson, also a good autumn bloomer; Barouue Prevost, pale rose, sweet 

 sweer, and of an immense size; Comfe d'Lu. a most beautiful carmine, but 

 scaicely double enough, though apparently superior to Gloire de Rosamenes ; La 

 Bedoyere, a variety of the character of Comte d'Ku, more double, and quiie equal 

 in colour ; Marquisa Boccella, delicate flesh, a decided acquisition among a class 

 if Roses, the prevailing colours of which are purple and crimson ; Prince de 

 Galies, purplish-crimson, a free grower, and seemingly well adapted for a pillar 

 Rose. 



