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those now given, it is not to be inferred that these methods 

 are better, as the fruit might, perhaps, have kept a little 

 longer if fairly tried in the way described. 



Before closing these remarks I may observe, that as fruit 

 ripens earlier in certain seasons than in others, and in some 

 is charged more abundantly with those juices which promote 

 decay, the keeping is not always alike, even when attempted 

 in the same way. A well-perfected fruit may be as forward 

 one season by the 1st of September, as it will be in another 

 by the end of the same month ; while it is almost needless 

 to observe, that the ripening, and, consequently, decaying 

 influence of a warm month like September tells more than 

 an equal length of time later in the year. It is not too 

 much to say, that the thirty days in September ought to 

 be accounted equal to the fifty days that next follow, taking, 

 of course, average seasons. Hence, fruit that ripens so 

 much earlier than usual has but a poor chance of keep- 

 ing well if the weather be warm. Those, therefore, that 

 want to prolong the season of any particular fruit must keep 

 it as cool as they can, and success will be in accordance with 

 the reduced temperature, all other conditions being favour- 

 able. In a general way, the place most conducive to the 

 good-keeping of fruit is similar to that which preserves milk 

 — one with a cool atmosphere and abundant ventilation, and 

 free from all vapour, bad smells, and stagnant air of all 

 kinds. In fact, a fruit-room ought to be as sweet as a dairy. 



J. Eoeson. 



THE HEW KOSES. 



Wesn one passes away from the region of what one has 

 seen in the matter of flowers to what one has heard, it is 

 very much, I fear, as great a change as from fact to fiction. 

 And certainly there have been few writers of fiction who 

 have excelled some of our French friends in their descrip- 

 tions ; for seeing their glowing accounts of their novelties 

 and seeing the novelties themselves are two very different 

 things, one being too often but the " counterfeit present- 

 ment " of the other ; and I can conceive nothing more 

 galling than for a nurseryman to be compelled to throw 

 away dozens of plants which he had propagated with so 

 much care and trouble in the belief that they would be 

 sought after. I therefore feel more than ever the difficulty of 

 forecasting as to the probable value of the eighty and odd 

 new Boses now offered. In truth it must be the merest 

 conjecture, and chiefly dependant on one's knowledge of the 

 growers and their previous exploits. We may thus speak 

 hopefully of what a Terdier, a Margottin, a Lacharme, or a 

 Guillot may produce ; while a Touvais, a Fontaine, or a 

 Moreati will not inspire us with much confidence. I shall 

 therefore simply give the names with the descriptions of the 

 French raisers, and such conjectures as may occur to me from 

 my previous acquaintance with the Eoses of former years. 



GTJIELOT ITLS. 



21. Abbe Berlese. — Full flowers, well formed. Colour 

 changing from a reddish cherry to carmine rose. 



22. Madame Bousset. — Full, beautiful tender rose ; reverse 

 of petals silvery. 



23. Souvenir de Bernardin St. Pierre. — Full flowers, well 

 formed, imbricated. Colour varying from a velvety crimson 

 rose to slaty-red violet, with the centre a shaded red. I 

 have heard a good account of this Eose from Mr. G. Paul, 

 who told me he saw it at Lyons. It is evidently much thought 

 of by the raiser; and from the description, which would 

 refer it rather to the class of such flowers as Andre Leroy 

 and Mrs. William Paul, I should be inclined to think favour- 

 ably of it. 



GOTTOD. 



24. Achille Gonod. — Full flowers, well formed. Lovely 

 carmine red. 



25. Madame Hermann Stcnrjer. — Flowers full, well formed, 

 standing well on the plant. Beautiful rose, shaded with 

 sulphur in the centre. 



26. Madame Moreau. — Flowers full, Psony-formed, and con- 

 vex ; outer petals very large. Colour clear lively red, shaded 

 with violet. 



Of these there is something novel in the description of the 

 last flower, and it may be possibly good ; but the description 

 rather inclines one to fear that coarseness may prevail in it 

 — a fatal defect to a Eose. 



POETEJEEE FILS. 



27. Charles Wood. — Flowers full, very well formed. Very 

 dark red shaded with black. 



28. Jean Bosencranis. — Flowers full, well formed. Lively 

 coral red. 



The first of these reminds one of Lord Maeaulay, a flower 

 of the same raiser's. I hope it may be worthy of the rosarian 

 whose name it bears, for it will then be what the boys call 

 a " stunner." 



TOTJVAIS. 



29. Belle Base. — Very vigorous. Flowers full, globular, 

 opening well, of irreproachable form and appearance. Clear 

 rose, very fresh ! 



30. Semiramis. — Flowers full, globular, good form and 

 appearance. Tender flesh rose. 



31. Souvenir d'une Mere. — Vigorous. Flowers full, flat, 

 large petals ; tender rose at the outside, centre lively cerise. 

 Very fragrant. 



Notwithstanding the wonderful description given of 29, 

 the former productions of Touvais have not given me much 

 confidence in looking for anything very wonderful from him, 

 for I do not know any Eose of his that is now a general 

 favourite. 



TEOTJH.LAKD. 



32. Baptiste DespoHes. — Vigorous. Flowers large, full, and 

 well formed. Lively shaded red. 



33. Constant Lussan. — Vigorous. Flowers medium full, 

 well formed. Beautiful clear red, passing into violet. 



34. L'Abbe Laury. — Vigorous. Full, well formed. Lively 

 red, shaded. 



35. Lo'ide de FaUoux. — Vigorous. Flower large, full, well 

 formed. Blush white. 



36. Madame Andre" Leroy. — Vigorous. Nearly full, well 

 formed. Salmon rose. 



M. Trouillard is the foreman of the well-known nursery- 

 man M. Andre Leroy, of Angers, and has been for many 

 years known as a Eose raiser, although his flowers have 

 generally come to us through Mr. Standish, of Ascot, who 

 has purchased generally the stock, but finding, as I believe, 

 that they were not generally up to the mark, he has given 

 this up, and hence M. Trouillard comes out on his own 

 account. Bis flowers generally want fullness of shape, and 

 of those which Mr. Standish has let out belonging to him, 

 there is hardly a flower, save Eugene Appert, that has risen 

 to the position of a general favourite, and that sadly wants 

 regularity of form, the outline being very imperfect, while 

 Andre Desportes, Eeynolds Hole, Madame Standish, Mar- 

 guerite Appert, and others, must be numbered, I fear, 

 amongst the things of the past. 



OGEE. 



37. Belle Normande. — Vigorous. Very large, globular, 

 tender rose, silver shaded. A sport o'f La Eeine. 



38. Geniral de Miandol. — Vigorous. Flowers large, full, 

 and globular. Velvety purplish red. 



39. Marie Boiss4e. — Vigorous and very free-flowering, well 

 formed. Blush rose, passing to pure white. 



DUCHEE. 



40. Marie Perraclwn. — Moderate growth. Flowers large, 

 full, imbricated. Violet shaded purple. 



41. Bosa Mundi. — Full, vigorous. Flowers very large, well 

 formed, virgin rose. 



42. Vase d'Blection. — Moderately vigorous. Flowers very 

 large, very full, cupped, well formed. Clear rose. 



MOEEATT. 



43. Adelaide de Savoie. — Flowers medium, cupped, well 

 formed. Tender satiny rose. 



44. JSdouard Ory. — Flower full, globular. Beautiful ver- 

 milion red. 



45. Prince Eugene de Beaulwjrnais. — Vigorous. Flowers 

 large, well formed. Clear red, reflexed with purple. 



46. Telemaque. — Flowers medium, flat. Velvety purple, 

 strongly shaded with red. 



FONTAINE. 



47. Madame Lionie Persin. — Very vigorous. Flowers large, 

 full, globular, well formed. Pale blush. 



48. Mons. Pierson. — Very vigorous. Flowers large, full, 

 well formed. Amaranth rose, flushed with crimson. 



