16 TRIP TO PARIS IN SEARCH OF AUTUMNAL ROSES. 



flowering Roses blooming in greater perfection. In this I 

 was not disappointed, and would here advise connoiseurs 

 of Roses, who are accustomed to visit the grounds of the 

 large growers in England, to do so twice in the year, in 

 June for summer varieties and in September for the 

 autumnal sorts. I feel assured they would be well recom- 

 pensed by, and highly delighted with a September visit. 

 The Rose gardens then assume altogether a new aspect ; 

 the Summer Roses are gone, and the Autumnal kinds 

 appear in all their richness and beauty. True, the 

 Autumnal Roses bloom in June, but they seem to require 

 the long dewy nights to bring out their flowers in trueness 

 of character, and the difference is oftentimes so great that 

 the well-known Rose of June would scarcely be recognised 

 when blooming in- September. Thinking, however, that 

 many lovers of Roses might not have leisure or inclination 

 to travel very far in search of one object, which, among 

 a multiplicity of affairs, becomes of small importance, I 

 will endeavour to give an account of what struck me as 

 most remarkable during my late trip. After having 

 visited the grounds of the Hertfordshire growers, and 

 collected the choicest of Flora's train there, I departed 

 well pleased with what I had seen, and resolving to make 

 further additions from foreign cultivators. 



Having reached the French capital, the first cultivator 

 to whom I paid a visit was M. Laffay, the raiser of 

 Madame LafTay, William Jesse, La Reine, and many other 

 of our most beautiful Roses. I there saw Hybrid Per- 

 petual La Reine in great beauty, and should pronounce it 

 one of the gems of the season ; the colour is pink with a 

 lilac hue, very glossy ; the flowers are globular in shape, 

 large, and very sweet. Another of his seedlings, Comtesse 

 Duchatel, is a Hybrid Perpetual of a superior kind, the 

 flowers are of a rose colour, with thick petals closely set ; 

 Perpetuelle Indigo is a distinct variety of a peculiar colour 

 to which its name alludes ; Hybrid Perpetual Mrs Cripps, 

 a pale rose, appears likely to become a profuse Autumn 



