48 THE ROSE. 



1865, by Robert Fortune, and is distinguished 

 from all other classes by its panicled blooms. 

 This peculiarity is not generally retained, 

 .however, when crossed with other roses, at 

 least not in most of the varieties which have 

 been sent out as seedlings from it. M. Jean 

 Sisley, the eminent horticulturist of Lyons, 

 says of this class : " It appears not to have 

 crossed any of the other types with its own 

 pollen. In a bed I made two years ago, with 

 the seed in question (without practising arti- 

 ficial fertilization), I found pure Eglantines. 

 I would therefore recommend rosarians to 

 try artificial fertilization on the other types, 

 as, if we could get Tea-scented Bourbons, 

 and Perpetual Hybrids with flowers in pan- 

 icles, we should change the whole aspect of 

 the rose garden, and in a most interesting 

 way modify the rose genus." 



We believe some of the French rosarians 

 have acted on this suggestion, and that they 

 have in a measure been successful in produc- 

 ing roses with these characteristics, as in the 

 two varieties Paquerette raised by Guillot- 

 fils, and Anne Marie de Montravel raised by 

 Rambaux and Dubreuil. In August, 1880, 

 when in Lyons, we saw a very pretty variety 

 of this group raised from a seedling of Poly- 

 antha crossed by a Tea. The blooms, which 



