138 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



An exhibition of roses is not always the best place to select 

 varieties for general culture, as the exhibitor is forced to take 

 whatever is at hand on the required day ; it might perhaps be a 

 single bloom of Horace Vernet, and the only one of the season, 

 or perhaps Gloire de Bourg la Reine, or Mile. Marguerite Dom- 

 braiu. How seldom we find the last in bloom for any purpose ! 

 Another instance is Mme. Lacharme ; I do not remember ever 

 having seen more than one show specimen in our Hall, of the last 

 named rose. 



The chief purpose of my paper, however, is an endeavor to name 

 and describe about a hundred or more varieties of Garden and 

 Exhibition Roses, and from this list we shall be able to select 

 twelve, twenty-five, or more kinds suitable for general culture. 

 I describe them under their typical forms, adopting the standard 

 of the National Rose Society of England, viz : 



1. Cupped^ as Baroness Rothschild. 



2. Imbricated^ as A. K. Williams. 



3. Globular, as Pierre Notting. 



4. Globular, high centre, as Alfred Colomb. 



5. Flat, as Mile. Annie Wood, Boieldieu, and Souvenir de la 

 Malraaison. 



1. Cupped. 



Alphonse Soupert (Lacharme, 1883). Bright rose, very large ; 

 in the form of La Reine, free, a little coarse, but a useful rose ; 

 forces well. 



Anna de Diesbach (Lacharme, 1858). Clear, bright rose ; large 

 petals ; a good grower ; fragrant, hardy, and full-blooming ; an 

 excellent early forcing variety. 



Baroness Rothschild (Fernet, 1869). Beautiful pale rose shaded 

 with white ; very large, perfect form, with splendid foliage carried 

 well about the flower, with a strong stem ; the true type of an ex- 

 hibition rose ; a little tender, for this reason starting a little later 

 in the spring than many other kinds, its only fault being a lack of 

 fragrance. One of the best forcing kinds. 



Bessie Johnson (Curtis, 1872). Light blush color, a good 

 grower, of excellent habit, a free bloomer, and very fragrant ; 

 forces well. 



Boule de Neige (Noisette, by Lacharme, 1867) . Pure white ; a 

 beautiful constant bloomer and good grower, though the flowers 

 are small. 



