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Rose that has spent a week or more on a French railway, 

 and afterwards been tossed by sea and land. For these, 

 then, I must beg a remand. Time, which proves all things, 

 will shortly enable us to form a correct estimate of their 

 value. 



No. VII. AUTUMNAL ROSES. 



(From " The Gardeners' Chronicle? 1863,^. 461.) 



I GLADLY return to the review of Old Roses, highly 

 interesting and important as are the new. There is less 

 restraint; one breathes a freer air in company with old 

 friends whose faces, habits, and sentiments are familiar to 

 us. I always feel when talking or writing of New Roses 

 much as I do when in company of strangers that to be 

 at once truthful and polite, one must be guarded. If others- 

 experience the same feelings, I can understand the why 

 and wherefore of Mr Radclyffe's very just observation, 

 that " Rosarians keep all their knowledge to themselves," 

 But strangers should be talked to, and New Roses talked 

 of notwithstanding, and in order that the greatest amount 

 of good may be derived from it, we should exercise to the 

 utmost cur ; own good nature, and draw in return on our 

 neighbour's charity. Now to our Old Roses. < 



THE NOISETTE, as we remember it originally, is not: 

 worthy of comparison in point of size with the modern 

 kinds that have descended from it, enriched as they, have 

 been with a plentiful infusion of the blood of the Tea- 

 Scented. There are only Airnee Vibert and Miss Glegg, 

 white, and Fellenberg, crimson, of the old style of Noisettes 

 (small flowers in large clusters) that we should consider 

 worth recommending in the present state of Rose culture. 

 Amongst those mixed with .the Tea-Scented, America is 

 a first-class Rose under glass, although it seldom opens; 

 clean and perfect out of doors ; it is most beautiful -.ait? 

 this moment planted out in one of my Rose-houses, quite i 



