28 Floricultural and Botanical Notices 



have a high reputation. M. Hardy of the C4arden of the 

 Luxembourg has raised a new yellow one which took the 

 Queens Prize at the exhibition last spring. As nearly all the 

 best have been now introduced into our collections, we add 

 the following brief descriptions of a few of them. Those of 

 M. Laftay are from his manuscript catalogue which he gave 

 us in Paris ; they are marked (L) : — 



Comtesse Duchatel (L.) — Flower large, double and cup- 

 ped ; petals finely imbricated, of a bright rose color. This 

 superb variety remains a much longer time expanded than 

 the Madam Laffay. 



Perpetual Ponctue (L.) — Flower medium size, double, flat, 

 of a bright rose color, spotted with lilac and pure white. 



Mistress Gripps (L.) — Flower large and double : petals 

 undulated and numerous, of a fine rose, the centre of a 

 brighter shade. 



Duchesse of Montmorency (L.) — Flower, double, large, 

 globular, and of a fine bright satiny rose color. These four 

 are all hybrid perpetuals. 



Perpetual Indigo (L.) — Flowers medium size, very double, 

 flat, and of a very dark purple. This is one of the Portland 

 or old perpetuals. 



Princesse Adelaide (L.) — Flowers large, numerous, appear- 

 ing in clusters of from 3 to 15. Color, fine satiny rose. The 

 growth of this variety is extraordinary. It is one of a new 

 tribe raised between the bourbons and the moss, and suffi- 

 ciently mossy to be classed among the latter. It is probably 

 one of the first of a class of perpetual mosses which ere 

 long will take a rank among the perpetual bloomers. 



Souvenir de la Malmaison, (Beluze.) — A superb flesh col- 

 ored rose, very double, globular and fine. 



Madam Souchet, fine rose ; Glorie de Paris, crimson mark- 

 ed with violet ; Charles Souchet, purplish crimson : Souvenir 

 de Dumont d' Urville, crimson, changing to violet; Georges 

 Cuvier, pale rose ; Princess Clementine, violet crimson ; Sou- 

 chet, purplish crimson ; Comte de Rambuteau, deep crimson, 

 and Dumont du Courset, carmine marbled, are several seed- 

 ling Bourbons of M. Souchet, which are all very fine. 



Other perpetuals and hybrid perpetuals are Coquette de 

 Bellevue; Coauette de Montmorency; Laurence de Montmo- 



