TRIP TO PARIS IN SEARCH OF AUTUMNAL ROSES. 19 



melting into buff. Some of these varieties I had previ- 

 ously seen in England, and in equal beauty of bloom, but 

 others I there claimed acquaintanceship with for the first 

 time. 



Roses in pots were numerous, but there were none 

 remarkable as specimens of superior cultivation ; certainly 

 none that I saw were equal to those exhibited at the 

 Horticultural Exhibitions about London, by Messrs Beck, 

 Lane, Paul, and others ; nor is it, perhaps, right to judge 

 them by such a standard, as they were not grown to show 

 what could be done with Roses in pots under good 

 management, but merely as market plants. As such, the 

 only objection to them by Englishmen would be the tall 

 stems on which they were worked, and the little attention 

 paid to their beauty. The head of the plant seemed to be 

 considered the only part worthy of notice. 



EOSA BERBERIFOLIA HAEDII. 



[From " The Gardeners' Chronicle? Sept. \^th 1845,^. 626 -] 



'"T^HIS pretty rose, mentioned in a recent number as deli- 

 JL cate and unmanageable, has grown and bloomed here 

 in great perfection, and the following account of it may per- 

 haps not be altogether devoid of interest. The Rosa Berberi- 

 folia Hardii was raised from foreign seeds by Mr Hardy of 

 the Jardin du Luxembourg at Paris, and was first imported 

 to England about nine years ago. It was generally known 

 to be a delicate plant, and various methods were taken to 

 increase it. It was a practice with some to root-graft it on 

 Berberis Aquifolium. but in this way it was not likely to 

 thrive for any length of time on account of the opposite 

 nature of the stock and scion. The former was robust and 

 liable to sucker, the latter of delicate growth ; it was also 

 budded on the Dog-rose in which way it grows vigorously, 



