190 DESCRIPTION OF THE ROSE. 



upon it. All the roses just named are hardy, vigorous, 

 and of easy culture, available to the half-practised amateur 

 as well as to the experienced cultivator. But the class of 

 Hybrid Perpetuals of which the Giant of Battles is the 

 type, and, to a great extent, the parent, requires more skill 

 and precaution for successful culture. They are all more 

 or less liable to mildew. "I can do nothing with the 

 Giant, because the mildew destroys it," a well-known 

 nursery-man writes me. Besides this tendency, it is by 

 no means of the vigorous growth which the catalogues of 

 nursery-men commonly ascribe to it. Its flowers, how- 

 ever, are very brilliant, and, in a favorable season, are pro- 

 duced in abundance. In color, they resemble those of 

 General Jacqueminot. Some of the seedlings raised from 

 them are much darker; and among these may be men- 

 tioned ARTHUR DE SANSAL, CARDINAL PATRIZZI, and the 

 EMPEROR OF MOROCCO. LORD RAGLAN is one of the very 

 finest flowers of this section ; and the plant is more vigor- 

 ous, and less liable to mildew, than the rest of the group. 



The following are of the lighter and more delicate 

 shades : CAROLINE DE SANSAL is of a clear flesh-color, 

 large, full, and of a vigorous, hardy constitution. MADAME 

 VIDOT is, when in perfection, an exquisite rose, of a trans- 

 parent, waxy, flesh color, and formed like a camellia: it 



