16 INTRODUCTION. 



ticularly instanced : Teas: Mme. Hoste (Guil- 

 lot, 1887), Mme. de Watteville (Guillot-fils, 

 1884), Mme. Pierre Guillot (Guillot, 1888), 

 Papa Gontier (Nabonnand, 1883), Queen (Din- 

 gee & Conard Co., 1890), Climbing Niphetos 

 (Keynes & Co., 1889), Climbing Perle des 

 Jardins (J.Henderson, 1890). Hybrid Remon- 

 tants: American Beauty (Hon. G. Bancroft, 

 1885), Earl of Dufferin (A. Dickson & Sons, 

 1887), Gloire de Margottin (Margottin, 1887), 

 Lady Helen Stuart (A. Dickson & Sons, 1887), 

 Mrs. John Laing (Bennett, 1887). Hybrid Ru- 

 gosa: Mme. G. Bruant (Bruant, 1888). Bour- 

 bon: Mrs. Degraw (Burgess, 1887). Hybrid 

 Tea: Meteor (Bennett, 1887). Polyantha: 

 Clothilde Soupert (Soupert & Notting, 1890). 

 Of the numerous varieties produced since 

 the present volume was written, few possess 

 greater claims to recognition than the rose 

 raised by the author .and named by him after 

 the distinguished jpomologist, Marshall P. 

 Wilder one of the most fragrant, beautiful, 

 and free-flowering of the hybrid-remontant 

 class, and equalled by few roses as an autum- 

 nal bloomer. By many, American Beauty, 

 supposed to be a cross from Mine. Victor 

 Verdier and a Tea of unknown origin, is re- 

 garded as the finest of roses. In its class it 

 is certainly unrivalled, with its immense fra- 



