26 THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN. 



much with the season. La Nationale is a distinct 

 variety, of a bright rose-colour, marbled and 

 striped with crimson ; one of the prettiest of its 

 class. Lucile is a spotted rose : this, like many 

 of the new variegated roses, is very pretty in dry 

 and warm seasons. 



Madame Cottin is a large and well-shaped rose, 

 adapted for a show-rose ; as is also Madame Du- 

 barry, perhaps one of the very finest double roses 

 known. These are both of the most vigorous 

 habits and first-rate excellence. Malesherbes is 

 a purple spotted rose, requiring to be kept from 

 the hot sun ; for, like all roses inclining to purple 

 or slate-colour, it soon fades. Nationale Tricolore 

 is one of the prettiest of variegated roses, gene- 

 rally shaded with red and purple, with a white or 

 yellowish centre; but this central colour is not 

 constant.* Oracle du Siecle is a most charming 

 rose, perfect in form, and rich and beautiful in its 

 fine crimson and scarlet colouring. 



Oriflamme is a rose which I ventured to 

 describe as deep scarlet, on the faith of a very 

 honourable florist, who raised it from seed. It 

 has bloomed in this country, and proves to be 

 a fine bright red rose, perhaps scarcely double 

 enough. Picotee, or Violet Picotee, in some soils, 

 produces flowers of a deep violet crimson, striped 

 with white ; in others it loses its variegation ; 



* This has, since the above was written, proved so much like 

 Belle de Fontenay that it can scarcely be distinguished from it. 



