474 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



10. LA EEINE. An old Eose in the country, but still one of 

 the most beautiful, producing large, deep rose-coloured, cup- 

 formed flowers. Young plants, Mr. Errington tells me, do not 

 blossom till two or three years old. 



11. POPE Pius IX. A plant of vigorous growth, but very 

 shy of blooming ; puts forth towards the close of the Eains one 

 or two of its rather small very double flowers. 



12. MADAME MASSON. A beautiful Eose, of moderate size ; 

 flowers deep crimson, changing to violet ; thrives and blossoms 

 well in the Agri-Horticultural Society's Garden. 



13. BARONNE HALLEZ. A beautiful, dark-red Eose, now 

 long in the country. 



The above, together with Madame Laflay, Jules Margottin, 

 Baronne Prevost, Souvenir de la Eeine d'Angleterre, and a few 

 others, have been long established in India ; but those that have 

 been introduced since are so many, that it would be vain for me 

 to attempt to describe or even name them. About four years 

 ago there was issued a notice of as many as seventy kinds, 

 distributed by the Agri-Horticultural Society : out of these I 

 find about twenty-eight, though once in high esteem, and good 

 Eoses withal, displaced in the English nurseryman's lists by 

 others of superior merit. These lists are very extensive. It is 

 well, however, not to be led away by them to a craving for too 

 many, but to be satisfied with securing a few of the best. And 

 hereupon I quote, as most deserving of consideration, what has 

 been said by so eminent an authority as Mr. Eivers : " The 

 New Hybrid Perpetual Eoses annually sent out by the French 

 florists make up a long list of names ; out of these, as a rule, but 

 very few prove worthy of attention ; the greater portion are 

 different shades of crimson seedlings raised from General 

 Jacqueminot and fatiguing from their sameness of colour : 

 among them all there is not one equal to Charles Lefebvre. 

 Owing to this large annual introduction of quasi-new kinds, Eose 

 catalogues have become burdened with an array of names 

 tedious to read, and irksome to those who wish to select a few 

 really good Eoses." 



I now give a list of the chief best kinds in cultivation, arranged 

 according to their colours. I attempt no description ; as, where 

 all are beautiful, it were impossible to convey in few words any 

 idea of the respective merits of each. Those who desire a more 



