TRIP TO PARIS IN SEARCH OF AUTUMNAL ROSES. 17 



bloomer; Perpetuelle Ponctuee, a bright rose with white 

 spots, is a very pretty variety. Of the four last mentioned 

 M. Laffay has, I believe, the entire stock at present, but 

 intends selling plants of them this autumn. He has also 

 a Moss Rose, Princesse Adelaide, of a pale rose colour, 

 blooming in corymbs, and said to be very handsome. 

 The habits of the plants were certainly remarkable, having 

 a degree of vigour quite foreign to the Moss tribe. Their 

 season of flowering was past, but he said the flowers were 

 like those of Ornement de Parade, a well-known Gallica 

 Rose, and other growers spoke well of it. Among others 

 noted here were Lady Alice Peel, Duchess of Sutherland, 

 Dr Marx, Coquette de Bellevue, and Coquette de Mont- 

 morency, all Hybrid Perpetuals of recent introduction, the 

 last mentioned in every respect a beautiful flower. M. 

 Laffay is an enthusiastic cultivator of. Roses, and a lover of 

 fruits also. 



To enumerate the various grounds visited would, I fear, 

 become tedious and occupy too much space, having often 

 looked through several in the course of a day. I must, 

 therefore, arrange the varieties noted down as most 

 remarkable in their respective families. 



Among the Perpetuals and Hybrid Perpetuals were 

 Laurence de Montmorency, a free flowering variety of a 

 purplish rose colour ; Lady Elphinstone, rosy crimson, also 

 a good autumn bloomer ; Baronne Prevost, pale rose, 

 sweet, and of an immense size ; Comte d'Eu, a most 

 beautiful carmine, but scarcely double enough, though 

 apparently superior to Gloire de Rosomanes ; La Bedoyere, 

 a variety of the character of Comte d'Eu, more double, and 

 quite equal in colour ; Marquisa Boccella, delicate flesh, a 

 decided acquisition among a class of Roses the prevailing 

 colours of which are purple and crimson; Prince de Galles, 

 purplish-crimson, a free grower, and seemingly well adapted 

 for a Pillar Rose. Among the Bourbons were Charles 

 Souchet, purplish-crimson, of a very pretty shape; Comte 

 de Rambuteau, of the same cast ; Delille, a dark rose, 

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