October 5, 1876. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



299 



had something to do with this, as until yesterday (August 

 20th) we have not had sufficient rain here to go to the roots of 

 even Potatoes for nearly four months ; last date, April 30th." 

 When we reflect that during some portion of this time the heat 

 was unprecedented in this country it is not surprising that 

 vegetation should suffer, and yet, perhaps, to gather ideas from 

 reports of exhibitions, the queen of flowers has never been 

 exhibited in such brilliant form as during the past season. I 

 hazard the opinion that the position of some Roses in this 

 election has been materially influenced by the dryness of the 

 weather, and that the light Roses have had a favourable time, 

 and will accordingly be rather higher than heretofore ; notably 

 is this the cas6 as regards Madame Laeharme, which has been 

 exhibited at some shows in great beauty, even to forcing our 

 good friend the Rev. J. B. Camm to acknowledge its merits. 

 Yet methinks Madame, even when acclimatised, will never be 

 an " all-weather " Rose ; and it is noticeable that her position — 

 not a bad one it must be acknowledged for one who has received 

 no small share of abuse — is due rather to amateurs' than nursery- 

 men's votes ; to those in fact disposed to offer some degree of 

 protection to tender blooms. Personally I have never bloomed 

 her ladyship well out of doors ; under glass she is beautiful. 

 One thing I have remarked in this very extraordinary season — 

 that Marechal Niel, which hitherto in my experience has made 

 only an occasional effort at blooming in the autumn months, 

 has this year come out in a perfectly new character. Only yes- 

 terday, September 7th, when standing at a window round a 

 portion of which a Marechal was trained, I counted over a 

 dozen buds in variouB stages of growth. If the rest of the 

 plant was at all similarly affected there must have been more 

 than a hundred blossoms in prospect. My own trees, though 

 not approaching this, have a far larger amount of bloom than 

 I ever remember. 



I had written thus far when the number of " our Journal" 

 for September 7th came to hand, and in Rev. W. F. Radclyffe's 

 remarks on the " ninety-and-nine " I find this : — " Louis Van 

 Houtte (Laeharme). I have the other. This and Marechal 

 Niel are the two finest autumnals, but somewhat delicate." 

 Now, if our friend Mr. Radclyffe means by this that Marechal 

 is our " finest autumnal " bloomer, he must be far more fortu- 

 nate with this beautiful Rose than we are here, and it is 

 another proof of the great difficulty of saying beforehand what 

 Roses are best suited to any given locality and are most likely 

 to succeed. So far as I have seen here, where nevertheless we 

 all esteem the Marechal highly, the blooms are in autumn 

 " like angels' visits," and even, when they come, but a faint 

 echo of the former splendours. Is not this, perhaps, another 

 proof of the importance as regards the Rose, our national 

 emblem, of a general election as to merits from growers all 

 over the country ? By this test we at least learn the general 

 opinion of each Rose's merits, let their local habitation be 

 favourable or the reverse. 



I have adhered to the old plan in this election, but I have 

 been asked by one contributor to put the question in a rather 

 different form. He wishes twenty-four underlined as "best" 

 out of forty-eight, or perhaps seventy-two, as being numbers 

 suited to exhibition boxes. This idea is a useful suggestion, 

 but the election was already commenced. Taking, then, the 

 results as they appear from the returns of voting papers, I, in 

 common with all interested, regret the absence of names we 

 would gladly see still giving us the weight and influence of 

 their voice. Some there are still Bending me lists, heroes in 

 the annual Rose courts ; whilst there are new names, men of 

 might in their own localities, who perhaps have never tempted 

 fortune in distant competitions; but the whole result, though 

 perhaps not absolutely free from error, will nevertheless give 

 us, at the very lowest computation, out of the first fifty on the 

 list at least forty-five that no Rose-grower should be without 

 attempting to grow, and this is what we desire. 



The table runs as before. The first column, a number de- 

 noting the position of the Rose at the poll ; next comes the 

 name of the Rose ; then initials denoting its character ; then 

 its date of introduction ; next the raiser (two columns more or 

 less incomplete, but very useful, towards the completion of 

 which I should be glad of help) ; then come the three columns 

 of amateur votes — a denoting the number of votes the Rose 

 has received in the first class, b the number of votes in the 

 second class, c the total of amateur votes ; the same letters 

 with an asterisk denote the same votes of nurserymen. The 

 last column shows the total number of votes received by any 

 Rose. This column is the test of position. Roses receiving 



place a Rose in higher position than second class, 

 explanation the table Bpeaks for itself. 



With this 



No. Rose. 



1 Marechal Niel 



ct (Alfred Colorab 



H ( Charles Lefebvre 



4 Marie Banmann 



£ f Madame Eothschild 



H 1 La France 



7 Louis Van Houfcte 



8 Marquise de Castellane 



9 Madame Victor Verdier 



10 Etienne Levet 



11 Comtesee d'Osford 



12 Duke o( Edinburgh 



13 Francois Michelon 



14 Mdlle. Eusenie Verdier 



15 Senateur Vaisse 



16 Devoniensis 



17 Xavier Olibo 



18 John Hopper 



19 Horace Vemet 



20 Dr. Andry 



21 Pierre Notting 



22 Marie Rady 



23 Gloire de Dijon 



24 Catherine Mermet 



25 Emilie Hausberg 



26 Marguerite de St. Amand 



1864 



Camille Bernardin 

 Prince C. de F.ohan 



Dupuy-Jamain 

 su Reynolds Hole 

 £ ( Ferdinand de Lesseps 

 E3 1 Souvenir d'un Ami 



33 Edward Morren 



34 Madame Laeharme 



35 ^Capitaine Christy 

 £ f Victor Verdier 



H ( Fisher HoIroeB 



38 Souvenir d'Elise 



39 Duke of Wellington 



40 Madame C. Wood 



Maurice Bemardin 



Cha- 

 racter. Age. Raiser. 

 ( Pradel ? 

 1 E. Verdier? 

 H.P. 1865 Laeharme 

 H.p. 1861 Laeharme 

 H.P. 1863 Baumann 

 H.P. 1867 Pernet 

 h.p. 1868 Guillot, flls 

 H.p. 1869 Laeharme 

 h.p. 1869 Pemet 

 H.p. 1863 E. Verdier 

 H.p. 1871 Levet 

 H.p. 1869 Guillot, pere 

 h.p. 1868 Paul & Son 

 H.p. 1871 Levet 

 H.p. 1869 Guillot, fils 

 H.P. Guillot, pere 



t. Curtis 



H.p. 1864 Laeharme 

 H.P. 1862 Ward 

 h.p. 1866 Guillot, fils 

 H.P. 1864 E. Verdier 

 H.P. 1863 Portemer 

 H.p. 1865 Fontaine 



T. Jacotot 



T. 1869 Guillot, fils 

 H.P. 1868?Leveguo 

 h.p. 1S64 Sansal 



( Gaubreau ? 

 1 Bernardin? 

 H.P. E. Verdier 



H.p. 1868? Jamain 

 H.p. 1878 Paul & Son 

 H.p. 1869 E. Verdier 



T. Belot De- 



fougere 

 H.p. 1869 Granger 

 H.p. 1872 Laeharme 

 H.p? 1873 Laeharme 

 H.p. Laeharme 



H.p. 1865 E. Verdier 



T. 

 H.P. 1864 Granger 

 H.p. E. Verdier 



«• «« {Sffi 



h.p. 1875 



h.p. 1865 



42 Comtepse de Serenyi 



43 s i: v. de la Malmaison 



44 Marie Van Houtte 



45 Niphetos 



46 Mdlle. Marie Finger 



47 Abel Grand 



48 Madame Willermoz 



49 MdUe. Marie Cointet 



50 Mdlle. Annie Wood 



51 Hippolyte Jamain 



52 DuchesB de Caylus 



53 MonBieur Noman 

 ^, f Belle Lyonnaise 



&q 1 Panl Neron 

 ^ / Beauty of Waltham 

 H { Annie Laxton 

 58 Cheahnnt Hybrid 

 ^ f Princess Beatrice 

 H I Mdlle. Therese Levet 

 ^ /Exposition de Brie 

 H t Perle des Jardins 

 63 General Jacqueminot 



"3 J Madame C. Joigneauz 



pa [Madame C. Crapelet 

 65 Baron Banstetten 



67 Madame Vidot 



68 Thomas Mills 



69 Jules Margottin 



70 Madame G. Schwartz 



71 Due de Rohan 

 .- (Antoine Ducher 

 b J Auguste Rigotard 

 [g 1 ( PrinsB. M. of Cambridge h.p. 1866 Paul & Son 



75 Monsieur E. Y. Teas h,p. 1875 



76 Sir Garnet Wolseley h.p. 1874 Cranston ? 

 (Rev. J. B. M. Camm h.p. 1874? Turner* 



g J Mad. Hippolyte Jamain h.p. 1871 Garcon 

 oi 1 Lord Macanlay h.p. 1863 "W. Paul 



" (.Comtesse de Chabrillant h.p. Marest 



t. 1871 Ducher 



T. 



h.p. 1873 



h.p. 1865 Damaizin 



t. Laeharme 



h.p. 1872 Bennett* 

 H.P. 1866 E. Verdier 

 h.p. 1874 Faudon 

 h.p. 1864 C. Verdier 

 h.p. 1866 Guillot, pere 



t. 1869 Levet 

 h.p. 1869 Levet 

 h.p. W. Paul 



h.p. 1871 Laston 

 h.t. 1872 Paul & Son 

 h.p. 1871 W. Paul 

 h.p. Levet 



h.p. 1865 Granger 



t. 1874 

 h.p. Roupelefc 



f Gonod ? 

 1 Liabaud ? 

 Fontaine 

 1871 Liabaud 



H.P. 



H.P. 

 H.P. 

 H.P. 



h.p. 187S E. Verdier ? 

 h.p. Margottin 



h.p. 1871 Liabaud 

 H.P. Leveqoe 



h.p. 1866 Ducher 

 1871 Schwartz 



81 



Madame Bravy 

 r Richard Wallace 

 Star of Waltham 



t Marechal Vaillant 



iV 



^Celine Forestier 

 86 Mies Hassard 



Guillot, pere 

 H.p. 1871 Leveque 

 h.p. 1874 W. Paul 



f H. Jamain 

 1 Lecomte 

 N. AndreLeroy 



h.p. 1874? Turner* 



H.p. 



ABC 

 29 29 



2 29 



29 

 2 29 

 2 29 



1 29 

 7 29 

 4 29 



15 11 26 



19 6 25 



20 8 28 



16 10 26 

 18 7 25 

 14 11 25 



14 12 26 

 8 15 23 

 8 15 23 



15 11 26 

 6 17 23 



14 10 24 



15 9 24 

 12 11 23 

 10 11 21 



8 13 21 



10 10 20 



5 IS 18 



5 15 20 



4 16 20 



5 17 22 



8 11 19 



6 11 17 



9 13 22 

 5 13 18 



2 18 20 

 4 10 14 



3 15 18 

 2 13 15 



4 12 16 

 2 16 18 

 2 18 15 



16 16 



4 5 9 



1 9 10 

 4 6 10 

 3 8 11 



17 8 



2 18 15 

 1 11 12 



1 10 11 



18 13 

 8 4 7 



2 9 11 



3 6 8 



1 10 11 



18 9 

 1 10 11 

 18 9 



6 

 3 

 7 

 5 

 3 



8 10 

 1 10 11 



17 1 18 



18 



2 18 



1 18 



2 18 



3 18 

 1 18 

 8 18 

 6 18 



3 18 

 8 15 

 8 17 



4 17 



6 13 



7 12 

 7 8 15 



2 13 15 



5 6 11 



7 7 14 



6 6 12 



3 9 12 



8 10 13 



7 6 13 



8 5 13 



8 13 

 8 15 



9 13 



9 12 

 9 9 

 8 11 

 6 12 



3 4 7 



3 8 11 

 18 9 

 5 9 14 



8 8 



1 10 11 



4 5 9 



5 7 



6 8 



16 7 



8 12 



6 II) 



7 9 

 4 7 

 7 10 

 2 



Oil 



3 2 



4 4 



2 

 5 



29 

 29 

 29 

 28 

 26 

 26 

 25 

 25 

 23 



23 



21 

 20 

 19 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 17 

 17 

 16 

 16 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 14 

 14 

 13 

 IS 

 IS 

 12 

 12 

 12 



12 



12 

 11 

 11 

 10 

 10 

 10 



9 



9 



9 



9 



Forty-seven electors prove to be so diverse in taste as to the 

 necessary good qualities in a Rose, and what should entitle any 



These Koses were, I believe, brought out by those whose names are 



- attached to them, but I am not certain that the honour of raising them is 

 equal votes are bracketed together, but first-class votes of course also theirs. 



