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the way of success. The grapes were only partially ripe, 

 and the absence of the superintendent prevented us from 

 learning any thing in regard to new sorts. 



In the quarter devoted to roses, we saw many of the perpet- 

 uals and tender kinds in flower ; they are mostly cultivated 

 as standards, which appear to do finely in the climate of Pa- 

 ris, attaining to a large size. M. Hardy, the director, has 

 been a successful rose-grower as the many varieties in the 

 catalogues, bearing the name of his family, attest ; he has a 

 great number of seedlings planted. His latest new rose is a 

 yellow tea, very large, double and fine, called the Princesse 

 Adelaide (of Luxembourg). It is figured in the new and 

 beautiful work of M. Audot, and the gold medal given by 

 the Queen to the Horticultural Society of Paris, was awarded 

 to M. Hardy, for this rose. It flowered for the first time in 

 1844. 



Nursery of V. Verdier^ Rue des Trois-Ormes. — Proceed- 

 ing along the Boulevard de I'Hopital, one of the broadest in 

 the city, and passing out at the Barriere d'ltalie, we found 

 the garden of M. Verdier, celebrated for its fine collection 

 of roses. The grounds are not extensive, containing two or 

 three acres, and M. Verdier devotes particular attention to the 

 rose, which occupied a greater portion of the premises. Two 

 small greenhouses, built low, as a greater part of such struc- 

 tures are, around Paris, contained a variety of new plants. 



The roses are nearly all cultivated as standards or half 

 standards, and set out in rows two or three feet apart. As a 

 greater portion of them were Bourbons and hybrid perpetuals, 

 which are now taking the place of other roses, from' their 

 perpetual blooming, the garden was almost as gay with flow- 

 ers, as it is in June. The first variety which we particularly 

 noticed, was a large specimen of Tea Safrano, two feet or 

 more high, in the open border, and covered with an abund- 

 ance of its beautiful saff'ron-colored flowers : when in bud, 

 they are darker and more beautiful than when fully expand- 

 ed. The following roses were in bloom : Hybrid perpetual, 

 Mistress Elliott, fine crimson; Julie Dupont, fine rose; Duch- 

 ess of Sutherland, large pale rose, superb; Augustin Mou- 

 chelet, deep rosy crimson, superb, in large clusters; William 

 Jesse, fine rose ; Baron Prevost, very large, beautiful deep 



