154 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



Jaune Desprez, Noisette. — Phoebus, what a name! Little thought 

 poor Monsieur Desprez, when he sent out his seedling in the 

 pride of his heart, that it would associate his name throughout 

 the Rose-loving world with jaundice and bilious fever. Yellow 

 Desprez, moreover, is not yellow, but buff or fawn color, deli- 

 ciously fragrant, of beautiful foliage, blooms freely in autumn, 

 and makes, with careful culture, a pretty Pillar Rose. 



Jules Maj'gott'm bears the honored name of one who has enriched 

 our Rose-gardens with many a precious treasure — Mons. Mar- 

 gottin of Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris; and no column could de- 

 clare his praises so suitably, or perpetuate his fame so surely, 

 as a pillar of this lovely Rose. I would rather that a pyramid 

 of its sweet bright flowers bloomed above my grave, than have 

 the fairest monument which art could raise. But " there's time 

 enough for that," as the young lady observed to her poetical 

 lover, when he promised her a first-class epitaph. 



La Reine, once Queen of the Hybrid Perpetuals, is still a most 

 royal Rose ; and, with the attention which royalty has a right 

 to expect, will give magnificent blooms in a genial — that is, in 

 a hot, sunny — season. In wet or cold summers the immense 

 buds do not open kindly. It is not, in fact, to be relied upon, 

 like 



La Ville de St. Denis, which, faithful as she is fair, and bounteous 

 as she is beautiful, always gladdens us with flowers of exquisite 

 symmetry, and of a deep fresh rosy pink. 



Madame Boll, a Rose whose foliage alone, with the dew on it, is 

 worth a getting up at sunrise to see, but having flowers to cor- 

 respond of an immense size, exquisite form, and of a clear bright 

 rose-color. 



Madame Clemence Joigneaux. — Were I asked to point out a 

 Rose-tree which I considered a specimen of healthful habit and 

 good constitution, I know of none which I should prefer before 

 M. C. J., with its long, strong, sapful shoots, its broad, clear, 

 shining leaves, and its grand cupped carmine flowers. 



Marechal Vaillant well merits his baton for distinguished con- 



