246 Notes and Gleanings. 



China. — Mrs. Bosanquet. 

 . Perpetual Moss. — Madame E. Ory. 



Tea-scented Noisettes, a noble class. — Solfaterre, south wall; Gloire de 

 Dijon, Celine Forestier, Triomphe de Rennes ; Marcchal Niel, a noble rose, 

 requires a south wall. For beginners, Gloire de Dijon is best. 



Tea-scented Roses. — For beginners, Sombreuil, Devoniensis, and Rubens. 

 For others, Adam, Homer, Madame Margottin, Madame Willermoz, Souvenir 

 d'Elise, first-rate ; Bouton d'Or, first-rate for button-holes ; and Souvenir d'un 

 Ami. For glass, £lise Sauvage, Madame Bravy, and Vicomtesse de Gazes. 



Tea roses are in their proper place when under glass. No roses are 

 superior to them for this purpose. They may be grown under a south wall. 

 They require but little pruning, good drainage, high cultivation, plenty of water, 

 and great heat. 



Hybrid Perpetuals, Tea-scented Noisettes, and Tea-scented roses are the 

 best three families ; and they are rapidly and justly superseding all others. 



We have had a trying season, and it may help purchasers if I give the names 

 of those roses that have beaten every thing here this year. These are, — 

 Charles Lefebvre, Jules Margottin, Duchesse d'Orleans, Sceur des Anges, 

 Baronne Prevost, Monsieur de Montigny, Marguerite de St. Amand, Madame 

 Knorr, Gloire de Vitry, Isabella Gray; in the open ground, Gloire de Dijon, 

 Celine Forestier, Triomphe de Rennes, Sombreuil, £lise Sauvage, Devoniensis, 

 Rubens, and Souvenir d'£lise, a most beauti'ul rose. Others have done well. 

 On the whole, I have had a splendid season. It is almost impossible to conceive 

 or describe the magnificence of the first series of flowers. 



I advise persons about to commence rose-purchasing to find out what are 

 really good, and accumulate them rather than heaps of roses erroneously termed 

 varieties. The variety consists in the name. Begin with fifty or a hundred each 

 of Charles Lefebvre and Jules Margottin. These are every-day and all-the- 

 season roses. They always open, and never have a defective bloom. The same 

 may be said of Gloire de Dijon, Celine Forestier, and Triomphe de Rennes. 



I have discarded some roses here ; but I have filled up their places with well- 

 known good kinds rather than with unproved novelties. The best novelti'es that 

 I have had of late years are Alfred Colomb, Charles Verdier, Antoine Ducher, 

 and Prince de Portia. 



The Comte Lelieur Pear is described in the " Revue Horticole " for 

 March, 1868, as a new variety ; the seed having been sown in 1859, and the first 

 fruit produced in 1865. 



We received from M. De Wael, Secretary of the Horticultural Society of 

 Antwerp, in the spring of 1842, grafts of a variety under the same name, which 

 fruited in 1848. It has not been much disseminated: but we remember giving 

 scions to the late Aaron D. Williams of Roxbury, and afterwards seeing tlie 

 fruit in his grounds ; and we also propagated it in the nursery. 



The similarity, in form, color, season of maturity, and flavor, of this fruit. 

 to the plate and description in the " Revue Horticole," suggests the inquiry, 

 whether these two varieties are identical, or whether that described as new is a 

 reproduction from seed of the older kind. R- M. 



