

THE ROSE. 49 

It was about 1789 that the Bengal and Tea 
Roses became well known. The Banksian climb- 
ing Rose was only brought from China in 1807, 
The Bourbon Rose appeared somewhat later; the 
Noisette had then already arrived from America. 
Let us not be ungrateful to our old roses ; at the 
very moment when an unknown field was opened 
up to us in the East, the Portland, cultivated by 
Mons. Telieur, of Ville-sur-Ars, or perhaps by 
Mons, Souchet, gave us that admirable Rose du 
Roi, so vigorous, so hardy, so well formed, so 
delicious in color and perfume. 
The free-flowering Rose of China bloomed for 
the first time in France in 1812; the English 
knew it before that date; how many names and 
dates should we have to inscribe, to perpetuate 
the memory of the conquests of the Rosary 
during the last fifty or sixty years! 
Many exquisite beauties have been brought by 
the art of man from beneath the veil which 
nature had thrown over them; but the most 
splendid remains yet to be discovered, and the 
victory is not hopeless; this is not the Blue Rose 


