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joubnaij of hoetigdltubb and cottage gardener. 



433 







WEEKLY 



CALENDAR, 















Day 



Day 





Average Tempera- \ Rain in 



Son 



Sun 



Moon 



Moon 



Moon's 



Clock 



Day 



Month 



Week. 



DECEMBER 7-lS, 1871. 



tare near London. 43 years. 



Rises. 



Sets. 



Rises. 



Sots. 



Age. 



Sun. 



Year. 









Day. 



Nisht. 



Mean. 



Days. 



m, h. m. h. 



m. h. 



ra. h. 



Days. 



XQ. 8. 





7 



Th 



Day breaks S.iS A.M. 



43.4 



88.5 



435 



21 



63 af7 i 50 afS 



ISaf 1 



47 af 1 



25 



8 27 



841 



8 



P 





45.9 



S3 6 



40.3 



19 



64 7 50 8 



36 2 



4 2 



26 



8 1 



342 



9 



S 





46.7 



84.9 



40.8 



17 



56 7 i 50 3 



58 8 



25 2 



27 



7 34 



348 



10 



Son 



2 Shndat in Advent. 



47.0 



32.8 



39.9 



23 



57 7 



49 3 



24 6 



49 2 



28 



7 7 



344 



11 



M 





46.5 



32.6 



89.5 



17 



58 7 



49 8 53 6 



2-2 3 



29 



6 39 



345 



12 



Td 





48.0 



37.0 



42.5 



18 



59 7 



49 3 20 8 



6 4 



• 



6 11 



346 



13 



W 



Meeting of Royal Microscopical Society, 

 1. 8 P.iir. 



47.5 



86.5 



42.0 



23 



8 1 49 3 1 35 9 



6 5 



1 



5 43 



847 



From observations taken near London during fortv-three years, the average day temperature of the week is 47 3 



', and its 



night tem- 



perature 35.1°. The greatest heat was 63'^, on the 11th, 18i4 ; and the lowest cold 13', on the 8th and 9th, 1867. The greatest fall of rain | 



was 1.02 inch. 





1 



ELECTION OF THE ROSES. 



[The following report is from the returning oflicer. — Eds.] 



SEND you the promised list of Roses which 

 has been the result of the opinions of the 

 following rosarians to whom I wrote asking 

 them to send me the names of thirty- six 

 Roses, statmg out of the thirty -six which they 

 considered the best twelve : — The Rev. S. R. 

 Hole, Mr. George Paul, Mr. Benjamin Cant, 

 Mr. May, Mr. Charles Turner, the Rev. 

 H. H. Dombrain, Mr. Keynes, the Rev. 

 P. M. Smji;he, R. G. Baker, Esq., the Rev. 

 J. B. Camm, Mr. C. J. Perry, Mr. Cranston, the Rev. 

 C. H. Bulmer, the Rev. E. N. Pochia, and to this I have 

 added my own list, which I wrote out previously to receiving 

 any other, in order not to be influenced by the choice of 

 others. The result is rather extraordinary from the number 

 of Roses mentioned, especially those only mentioned once, 

 to the number of thirty-eight for the second twenty-four. 



The analysis shows there are only three Roses — Marechal 

 Niel, Baroness Rothschild, and Marie Baumann, named in 

 every case for the first twelve ; for though I stated Marie 

 Baumann was omitted once, it has since been chaiiged for 

 Ferdinand de Lesseps, which had previously been put 

 among the first twelve. Next comes Charles Lefebvre 

 fourteen times in the first twelve, and once in the second ; 

 then Alfred Colomb and La France, each mentioned thir- 

 teen times among the first twelve, and twice among the 

 second twenty-four ; next cornea John Hopper eight times 

 first and seven second. These seven Roses are the only 

 ones always mentioned by everyone. There were alto- 

 gether 46 Roses named for the first twelve, and 111 named 

 for the second twenty-four, or in all 116 Roses ; as in the 

 forty-six Roses three are not named in the twenty-four, 

 because they are always placed among the first twelve; 

 and two, Madame Furtado and Marquise de Ligneris, are 

 named once in the first twelve, and not again in the other 

 lists. It is also noteworthy that, although there are thus 

 116 Roses named, yet other writers in your Journal, when 

 naming twelve, have named other Roses not contained in 

 this list — namely, Madame Ohirard by Mr. Radclyffe, and 

 Princess Christian by Mr. W. Paul. 



I shall not add many remarlis, as the list s^Jeaks for 

 itself. The first column a contains the number of times 

 that a Rose is named among the first twelve ; the second 

 column B the number of times it is named among the second 

 twenty-four ; and the third column the total number of 

 times it ;s named for the first thirty-six. 



The new Roses most highly recommended by this list 

 are Countess of Oxford, Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier, Marquise 

 de Castellane, Edouard Morren, Emilie Hausburg, Louis 

 Van Houtte, and Dupuy Jamain. EmUie Hausburg will, 

 in my opinion, rank still higher when better known, as 

 already it has been named sis times among the first twelve, 

 no other new Rose ranking so high, and some few omitted 

 it from never having given it a trial. 



I must return thanks to those rosarians -who have so 

 kindly responded to my call, and I feel sure the result 

 No. 668.— Vol. XXI., New Sebies. 



will interest them as well as nearly all Rose-growers. It 

 shows us what a wealth of good Roses we have, as I could 

 name several more really good Roses not included in this 

 list, as Monsieur de Montigny, Le Rhone, La Brillante, 

 Lady Snffield, Duchess of Sutherland, Madame Knorr, 

 Boule de Neige, Baronne de Noirmont, Francois Lacharme, 

 Prince de Portia, and others ; so that I do not think we 

 should be wrong in saying there are at least 150 Roses 

 which ought to be grown by everyone. 



Names of Roses, A 



Marechal Niel .... 15 

 Baroness Rothschild 15 

 Marie Baumann . . 15 

 Charles Lefebvre . . 14 



Alfred Colomb 13 



La Franee 13 



John Hopper 8 



Countess of 0.^ford . 4 

 Marguerite de St. 



Amand 1 



Duke of Edinburgh. 5 

 Senateur Vaisse . . 4 

 Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier 3 



Dr. Andry 3 



Gloire de Dijon .... 6 

 Comtesse de Chabril- 



lant 



Duchesse de Caylus 

 Pierre Netting .... 

 Marquise de Castel- 

 lane 



Emilie Hausburg . . 

 Edouard Morren . . 

 Madame Victor Ver- 

 dier 



Madame Neman . . 

 Mdlle. Marie Eady . 

 Madame Vidot .... 

 Victor Verdier .... 

 Horace Vernet .... 

 Souvenir d'un Ami . 



Devoniensis 3 



Centifolia rosea .... 2 



Xavier Olibo 1 



Louise Van Houtte. 1 

 Maurice Bernardin . 



Abel Grand 1 



Madame Clemence 



Joigneanx 2 



Due de Rohan .... 1 

 Souvenir de Malmai- 



Bon 







15 



15 



15 



1 15 



2 15 



2 15 



7 15 



9 13 



12 13 



7 12 



8 12 



9 12 



9 12 



5 11 



7 10 



7 10 



7 10 



7 10 



3 9 



7 9 



8 9 



6 9 



7 9 



8 9 



7 8 



6 8 



8 8 



4 7 



5 7 



6 7 



6 7 



7 7 



5 6 



4 6 



5 6 



6 6 



Names of Roses. A 



Mrs. C. Wood 2 



Madame Caillat 1 



Duke of Wellington . . 



Dapuy Jamain 



Elio Morel 



Lord Macaulay 



Madame C. Crapelet . 



Mdlle. Therese Level . 



Exposition de Brie , . 1 



Devienne Lamy 1 



Antoine Ducher 1 



Fisher Holmes 1 



Duchesse de Morny . . 

 Princess Mary of Cam- 

 bridge 4 



Madame Willermoz , . 4 

 Prince Camille de 



Rohan 4 



Paul Neron 4 



Marquise de Morte- 



mart 2 



Souvenir d'EUse .... 2 



Felix Genero 1 



Beauty of Waltham . . 



Ferdinand de Lesseps . 



Triomphe de Rennes . 

 Mdlle. Marguerite Dom- 



brain 3 



Nardy Freres 3 



Leopold Hausburg . . 3 



Annie Wood 3 



Belle Lyonnaise .... 1 1 



Alba rosea 1 1 



Madame Boutin 2 



Camille Bernardin . . 2 



Celine Forestier .... 



Leopold Premier .... 



Madame Margottin . . 



Gloire de Vitry 



Paul Verdier 



Jules Margottin 



Catherine Mermet. .. . 



5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 



4 

 4 



4 

 4 



3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 



3 

 3 

 3 

 3 



2 

 2 

 2 



2 

 2 



2 

 2 

 2 



:2 



2 ■ 2 



The following Roses were named once among the twelves, 

 and by no one in the second twenty-four — viz., Madame 

 Furtado and Marquise de Ligneris. -M 



The following thirty-eight Roses were named once among 

 the second twenty -four, and never among the first twelve 



Henri Ledechaux 



Gloire de Santenay 



Madame Rivers 



Marechal Vaillant 



Caroline de Sansal 



General Jacquemiaot 



La Boule d'Ou 



Niphetos 



Thorin 



Mdlle. Bonuaire 



Louis Peyronny 

 Charles Lee 

 Baronne Haussman 

 Paul Ricaut 

 Madame Moreau 

 Madame Alice Durean 

 Miss Poole 

 Mo isieur Woolfield 

 Eran9ois Treyve 

 Lord Clyde 

 No. 1210.— Vol. XLYI,, Old Sekies. 



