Notes and Gleanings. in 



New Roses of 1869. — A little information on this subject, acquired during 

 a short visit to Mr. Keynes's Salisbury Nursery, may possibly be interesting to 

 some of your readers. In his trade-list of new roses for 1869, there are thirty- 

 two varieties ; twenty-seven Hybrid Perpetual, four Tea, and one Noisette Rose. 

 These I saw under glass in various stages of growth ; most healthy-lookin*'- 

 plants, though, unfortunately, none in flower. 



The very intelligent foreman, Mr. Gill, mentioned to me the following, most 

 of which had bloomed, as among the most promising: Bertha Baron (seedlin"- 

 from Jules Margottin), Charles Lee, Julia Touvais, Madame Creyton, Marquise 

 de Mortemart, Perfection de Lyon, Thyra Hammerich, Victor le Bihan, and 

 Monplaisir. Monplaisir is a tea-rose, raised by Ducher, a seedling from Gloire 

 de Dijon ; it is described as " very dark salmon-yellow, large and vigorous." 

 Mr. Keynes had not seen it in flower, but had propagated it very largely, expect- 

 ing it to be one of the best of the season. I was shown one of the parent 

 stocks, which was certainly a noble plant, considering all the cutting it had gone 

 through, and with a four- feet-long shoot of true Gloire de Dijon robustness. 

 The Marquise was also highly spoken of as an improved Mdlle. Bonnaire, of 

 the same character, but larger and fuller. This was raised by Liabaud, who 

 thus describes it : " Fresh satin white, flesh-color in centre, large and fine, vig- 

 orous, seedling from Jules Margottin.'' A new and interesting feature this year 

 in the establishment was a considerable number of English seedling roses, 

 which last year's fine rose-harvest has tempted Mr. Keynes into propagating. 

 They had only been sown in moderate heat this spring, but were already, many 

 of them, of considerable size, beautiful little plants, and even some of them with 

 tiny buds, and showing that red would be the prevailing color. A greater con- 

 trast than these to the painful and tardy growth of rose-seeds in the open border, 

 and among all their various enemies, it is not easy to imagine. There seems 

 reason to hope, that, in a year or two, we shall hear, from more quarters than one, 

 of some new and good English-raised roses not unworthy rivals of Devoniensis 

 and John Hopper. In such honorable company we shall all be glad to rank a new 

 friend from Salisbury, let us say the " Wonder of Wiltshire," or a " Keynes's 

 Seedling." — A. C, in Idem. 



New Hardy Azaleas. — Hardy azaleas are amongst the sweetest and most 

 brilliant of the flowering American shrubs which render our garden scenes so 

 enchanting in the merry month of May. Forty years ago, the original species, 

 and their immediate progeny, might be seen yielding their masses of golden and 

 fiery and roseate hue, to lighten the dark masses of evergreen rhododendrons, 

 with which, then as now, they were commonly associated. After that, the Con- 

 tinental cultivators took up the improvement of the azalea ; and the Ghent vari- 

 eties of some twenty years since revived for a while its popularity. But, with the 

 onward march of fashion, it seems to have been again left in the rear, and for 

 the most part unheeded by the masses, though not uncared for by those who 

 knew its worth. Hence we were not surprised, some two or three years since, 

 on visiting the Knaphill Nurseries, one of the earlier and still one of the most 

 pleasant homes of " American plants," to find that the breeding of improved 



