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The New Roses of 1869 demand a few words. We find a list of seventy- 

 eight varieties, with the names of the raisers appended in the case of tifty-one 

 of the whole number. Those wlio speculate on new roses attach great impor- 

 tance to the names of the raisers, for they are in some degree guarantees of merit 

 or of something else. There appears to be but one from Lacharme in this year's 

 lot, but many from Ducher, Granger, E. Verdier, C. Verdier, Gonod, Pernet, and 

 Liabaud. Our readers will not expect us to select largely from the Continental 

 list ; we trust, indeed, they will not select in a prodigal manner for themselves, 

 for we need rather to check than encourage the spirit of our noble allies in the 

 matter of circulating new roses, though we could not wish to damp their ardor in 

 raising them. Let us for the present be content with the following French 

 Perpetuals : — 



Alexander Hicmboldt (C. Verdier), Edward AIorre?i (Granger), Elise Boelle 

 (Guillot pere), Geiieral Grant (E. Verdier,) Louis Van Hotitte (Lacharme), Madlle. 

 Eugenie Verdier (Guillot fils), Perle Blanche, Souvenir du Baron Rothschild^ 

 offered as a bedder, Tiiovias Metiiven (E. Verdier). Amongst the tea-scented, 

 Ducher's Jeanne d'Arc and Mont Blanc will probably be found first rate. The 

 English roses are few in number, but they are good ; so good that we begin to 

 believe that our amateurs have but to give their minds to the matter, and they 

 may equal the best accomplishments of our fellow-laborers on the other side of 

 the Channel. Duchess of Mecklenburg {Awkviglit) is extremely beautiful in bud ; 

 Monsieur IVoolfield (Turner) is a fine, large, globular flower, of the deepest rose- 

 color. Prince Leopold (W. Paul) takes rank with Red Rover as a showy climbing 

 rose, and affords an agreeable reminder that one of the most accomplished and 

 conscientious of English raisers is not yet tired of his work, or deserted by that 

 good fortune with which he has long been familiar. The raising of roses in 

 Enghsh gardens is an infantile art at present, but the triumphs accomplished 

 hitherto justify perseverance, and afford reasonable grounds for hope that greater 

 things will in this way yet be done than have been dreamt of hitherto. 



Gardener'' s Magazine. 



New Rose Louis Van Houtte. — This bids fair to be the rose of the sea- 

 son. I have heard a good deal of it. Its raiser, Lacharme, the raiser of Charles 

 Lefebvre, thinks very highly of it, and I find the following in the last number of 

 L'Horticulteur Francjais : — 



" This variety has given occasion to an act of rare probity, which we are happy 

 to record. Last September, at the Horticultural Exhibition at Lyons, the jury 

 gave the premier prize to a rose of IVL Guillot pere. This honorable grower 

 having heard that AL Lacharme had one exactly resembling it in color, they com- 

 pared their two flowers, and it being found that that of M. Lacharme was supe- 

 rior, AL Guillot suppressed his own, which had been already announced, and 

 sends out in its place the variety of his competitor, which is the Rose Louis Van 

 Houtte. This conduct of M. Guillot pere needs no commentary." 



D., Deal, in English yourtial of Horticulture. 



Horticultural Exhibition in the Crimea. — A Russian journal an- 

 nounces an exposition of the fruits of the Crimea during the year 1870. 



