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and Souvenir d'Elise, the last still one of the best 

 of the Exhibition Teas. 



But taste, experience, and discrimination on the 

 one hand, and demand on the other, were now be- 

 ginning to tell, and in the next five years (1860-65) 

 the following wonderful additions from France were 

 made of Eoses which are still grown : — Alfred 

 Colomb, Charles Lefebvre, Dr. Andry, Duchesse de 

 Morny, Duke of Wellington, Fisher Holmes, Marie 

 Baumann, Marie Eady, Maurice Bernardin, Prince 

 Camille de Eohan, and Xavier Olibo ; and in Teas, 

 La Boule d'Or and that wonder among roses, 

 Marechal Niel. 



About this time English raisers first began to 

 come to the front with Eoses still recognised as 

 good, and Mr. W. Paul's Beauty of Waltham may 

 be considered as one of the first of these, the origin 

 of Devoniensis being a little doubtful. Messrs. Paul 

 and Son of Cheshunt, with Mr. Eivers of Sawbridge- 

 worth, Mr. Cranston of Hereford, Mr. Turner of 

 Slough, and Messrs. Keynes, Williams and Co. of 

 Salisbury followed, till Mr. Bennett of Shepperton 

 commenced by hybridising to raise what he called 

 "pedigree Eoses," and delighted the Eose world 

 with Her Majesty and Mrs. John Laing. 



Messrs. A. Dickson and Son of Newtownards, 

 Ireland, also took to hybridising with great and 

 marked success, their first three seedlings. Earl of 

 Dufferin, Lady Helen Stewart, and Ethel Brown- 

 low, being issued in 1887, and there have been few 

 years since that time when they have not sent out 

 new Eoses worthy to be reckoned among our best. 

 This mode of obtaining new varieties from seed by 

 careful interchange of pollen, instead of trusting to 



