ROSE CATALOGUES. 



attaining accuracy in description is to take down the 

 colours on the spot during the season of bloom. This, 

 doubtless, is done although requiring a sacrifice of time 

 and labour from the principals, which an extensive Nursery 

 business will scarcely admit of. But, again, the whole 

 varieties cannot be found in bloom at any one time, and 

 the collection would require a second, third, or even fourth 

 looking through, which might be incompatible with other 

 duties. The probable consequence is, some few are de- 

 scribed from memory. Now, although such descriptions 

 may not be perfectly correct, may they not be considered 

 sufficiently so to guide purchasers in selecting, which is 

 the only purpose for which Nurserymen's Catalogues are 

 published ? 



TRIP TO PARIS IN SEARCH OF AUTUMNAL 

 ROSES. 



[From " The Gardeners' Chronicle" Oct. \<}th, 1844, p. 700.] 



OF the various floral improvements of modern times, 

 nothing has probably produced such a beautiful 

 change in the appearance of our gardens in autumn, or has 

 been introduced with more striking effect, than the per- 

 petual flowering Roses. What can be more cheering at 

 this season of the year than to behold the vivid colours of 

 many of the Bourbon and Hybrid Perpetual Roses, con- 

 trasted with the more delicate tints of the Tea-Scented, 

 set off by their dark green foliage, now that autumn has 

 set its seal on many of nature's earlier productions ? I am 

 an ardent admirer of the Rose, and my enthusiasm has 

 ere now carried me to the continent in the sultry month 

 of June in search of new varieties. Having this year 

 caught the autumnal mania, I resolved to delay my visit 

 till September in expectation of finding the perpetual 



