46 THE SUMMER HOSE GAEDEN. 



Fleurette offers quite a contrast in its small deli- 

 cately-coloured, and finely shaped flowers ; it is a 

 desirable and pretty variety. Fimbriata is a most 

 curious and beautiful rose : each flower-leaf is cut 

 something like the petals of a pink, and as it is 

 imbricated, it looks more like a large self-coloured 

 carnation than a rose. General Lamarque is one 

 of the darkest of roses, a most luxuriant grower, 

 and very distinct : in wet weather it is apt to lose 

 its colour, and to change to a dull brown. 

 /^Bivers's George the Fourth is still, perhaps, 

 one of the best of this family : it was raised from 

 seed by myself, about twenty years ago, and con- 

 tributed probably more than any thing to make 

 me an enthusiastic rose cultivator.* It is now 

 much esteemed in France, where it is compara- 

 tively a new variety. / Grilony is a new and fine 

 rose, of a purplish slate colour, and first-rate form 



* I hope to be pardoned the digression, but even now I have 

 not forgotten the pleasure the discovery of this rose gave me. 

 One morning in June I was looking over the first bed of roses I 

 had ever raised from seed, and searching for something new among 

 them with all the ardour of youth, when my attention was at- 

 tracted to a rose in the centre of the bed, not in bloom, but grow- 

 ing with great vigour, its shoots offering a remarkable contrast to 

 the plants by which it was surrounded, in their crimson purple 

 tinge ; upon this plant I set my mark, and the following autumn 

 removed it to a pet situation. It did not bloom in perfection the 

 season after removal, but, when established, it completely eclipsed 

 all the dark roses known, and the plant was so vigorous that it 

 made shoots more than ten feet in length in one season. This 

 plant is still living, and nearly as vigorous as ever. 



