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JOURNAL OF HOKTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAEDENER. [ January 17, 1865. 



exercise on the training of ii younfj filly), had managed 

 evei-ything so that they should make their appeai-an6e 

 under the most favourable circumstances, with all the 

 freshness and hopefulness that a hitherto untried but 

 tempting field encourages, I should probably pass a very 

 different estimate of them to that which I should do when, 

 after the fatigues, excitements, and follies of a London 

 season, they were trotted out for inspection. AVith the 

 bloom all off, the used-upedness most manifest, they would 

 seem very different creatures to those who sparkled and 

 shone with such brilliancy at then- coming out. None the 

 less different are those charming d^utantes with such liigh- 

 sounding names who cluster round the queen of flowers, 

 and every year, we are told, ai'e more beautiful, finer, 

 and more superb than any of their predecessors. I have 

 seen them in theii' native freshness, seen them as they grew 

 in the rai? ers' ground around the fan- city of Paris ; and I 

 have seen them afterwards when, forced in unnatmal atmo- 

 spheres, cut, hacked and hewn, budded, grafted, and what 

 not, they have thrown out a bloom or two as indications of 

 their beauty ; and I have involuntarily exclaimed, " What ! 

 That used-up, pale-coloured, flimsy-petalled flower, the same 

 ravishing beauty I saw before it came out ! Why ! there 

 wis that Bourbon Eose named after myself. I saw it at 

 Margottin's — a fine, well-coloured, good-looking flower. I 

 saw it several times this season, and I declare I felt Like the 

 little old woman in the nursery song whose petticoats had 

 been cut short by some malicious wag, " It surely can't 

 be I." I unhappily keep no dog, or I might have apjjlied 

 the same comical test she did. And hence one has to speak 

 very doubtfully of the new Roses. Even after one season 

 of trial we see but few of them in theii- normal condition, 

 and very few of oixr finest Roses have won a name for them- 

 -selves the fii-st season. Hence in the remarks I make on 

 those I have seen this past year I may, for all I know, be 

 very far out, but at the same time it is the only chance one 

 has of seeing them. I have already in a general way ex- 

 pressed my opinion upon them, and shall now go a little 

 more into detail. Mauy I have not seen — indeed, there are 

 many which I very much question whether they ever find 

 their way over here in any shape ; while we know of many 

 that do that their owners would heartily wish back again 

 in " their ain laud." 



Alpa'ide de Rolalier. — I have seen this but once, and then 

 I thought it would be a useful flower. The colour is a clear 

 rose with a satin-like gloss ; the shape excellent. 



Andri Leroy d' Angers. — A seedling of Trouillard's, Leroy's 

 foreman, and in the possession of Mr. Standish. It is a 

 very rich dark velvety purple. I may be too fastidious, but 

 I should say another row of petals would be a great improve- 

 ment. It will, I am sure, be a useful Eose. 



Bernard Palissy. — A very fine Rose, and, I am sure, likely 

 to prove a favourite with exhibitors. It is a seedling from 

 Jules Margottin, but not of the same shape as that flower, 

 being flatter or expanded. The colour is a bright reddish 

 carmine, and the growth all that can be desired. 



Duclicsss de Momy. — Undoubtedly one of the best Eoses 

 of the year ; the colour a fresh pale rose, reverse of petals 

 silvery. The shape is excellent, well cupped; the flowers 

 large and double, but not too much so for our climate. 



Claude Million. — I saw some good blooms of this at M. Eu- 

 gfene Verdier's in June last. It was there a well-cupped, 

 imbricated, scarlet-crimson flower, and I have heard a good 

 report of it from one or tv.o growers here. 



Kate Eaitstmrg. — I saw a, very nice bloom of this at Messrs. 

 Paul & Son's at Cheahunt in the autumn. The flower pro- 

 mised to be large, colour clear rose. The plant appeared to 

 be very vigorous. 



Eiujdne Verdier. — A deep violet-purple rose, of excellent 

 form, and likely to be an acquisition. This I also saw in 

 bloom in Paris, but it is a I>yon8 flower. 



iJadame Derreulx Douvilh-. — I see that this has not found 

 its way into some catalogues, and yet I am convinced that 

 it will be one of tlie best Rosea of the year. I saw u bunch 

 of its blooms at Leveques (who lot it out), and it was then 

 very bcantiful ; the colom- a briglit pink or tender ra.w. 



Madame Victor Verdier. — Undoubtedly one of the best of 

 the year. I have seen Bomo truly grand blooms of it. It is 

 OMe of the very deepest Roses in build, not colour, that we 

 hare; and although the colour is of that briglit cherry red 



of which we have so many, yet I believe it will be a general 



favoui-ite. 



Mardchal Forey.—One of the few indifferent Eoses that 

 Margottin has sent out, and so I told him when I saw it in 

 bloom in his gai-den. He was constrained to acknowledge 

 that it was good for effect. Alas ! effect is nothing to us 

 over here unless there be shape, or colour, or both. 



Pierre Notting. — Another Rose that will stand, I believe, 

 Al with exhibitors and growers generally. I saw it at Ches- 

 hunt and at Mr. Hedge's ; it was a fine, a very fine Rose, 

 blackish red, full, deep in build, with large petals, well 

 imbricated. 



These are all that I have seen, and, therefore, all that I 

 can speak about. I have heard others praised much, such 

 as Amiral La Peyrouse, Marechal Souchet, Souvenir de Mare- 

 chal Serrurier, Paul de la Meilleray, La Eeine de la Pape, 

 and Baron Pelletan de Kinkelin, but it is all hearsay ; and 

 I know how much individual tastes have to do with judg- 

 ments in flowers, and therefore decline to " follow my 

 leader" in this matter. All the Roses I have described 

 have one quality without which I do not think any Rose 

 ought now to stand a chance of being recognised as a desir- 

 able novelty — I mean vigour of growth. I am also inclined 

 to agree with Mr. Perry that they are more deserving the 

 name of Perpetuals than many of their predecessors ; and 

 what a pleasiu-e it is to find, as I did to-day (January 11), 

 on looking round my little plot, a really good Eose to be 

 gathered and fit to place in a vase in the drawing-room. 

 The last Rose of summer is a myth now, thanks to the 

 Hybrid Perpetuals. 



Before leaving this chat about new Roses, I may mention 

 that I received the other day two plants of a Eose which 

 will be I am sure, if true to its character elsewhere as it is 

 in Devon, a great acquisition — I mean a elimbing Devoniensis. 

 It is a sport which has been fixed by Mr. H. Curtis, of the 

 Devon Rosery, Torquay, a name dear to every lover of the 

 queen of flowers. The shoots on these plants were long 

 and vigorous; and Mr. Curtis says it is equal in vigour to 

 Gloire de Dijon. Should it be so generally, it wiU doubtless 

 prove to be the best white climbing Rose we have. — D., Deal. 



EFFECTS OF HOETICULTUEAL EXHIBITIONS. 



Now that horticultural exhibitions are over for the season 

 of 1864, it may be considered neither edifying nor interesting 

 to refer to the matter in a spirit of inquiry or discussion. 

 This may be true as regards the season that is passed, but 

 not so as respects that which is to come. The majority of 

 plants, indeed, are at rest, and the stoves and greenhouses 

 of exhibitors present an appearance that would, to the un- 

 initiated, afford no indication of the splendid productions 

 that grace the summer shows. Many people who admire 

 the products of the greenhouse, the vinery, and the stove, 

 but have no definite idea of the manner in which they are 

 brought to perfection, would, probably, be much surprised 

 could they see many of the places in which they are grown. 

 The first impresdon would doubtless bo that their care had 

 been abandoned, or, at least, that no great efforts were being 

 made for the following season. Tho majority of plants, I 

 have said, are at rest, but the jjlantsman must know no rest 

 beyond what is absolutely necessary at this or, indeed, any 

 other period of the year. There must be careful and con- 

 tinued watchfulness. Silently and surely the work is pro- 

 gressing, and by-and-by the result will be seen. It is during 

 the months of the winter and tho opening days of spring 

 that the exhibitor is earning the credit and applause which 

 in the summer, if successful, he receives. 



Now the reason many gentlemen object to their gardeners 

 exhibiting is that all the energies of the latter are directed to 

 tho production of subjects for exhibition, and that at other 

 periods of the year there are no flowers worth looking at, or 

 fruit fit for the table. In a great many cases this 1 know 

 to be true ; liut then there are some in which it is otherwise, 

 and the above objection does not hold good. In such cases 

 the energies and perseverance of the gardener are creditable, 

 tho more so, as they prove the fact that a man may be 

 allowed to exhibit as an advantage to himself, and still keep 

 in view the wishes and interests of his employer. On the 

 other hand, 1 have known gardeners who appear to have no 



