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Madame Victor Verdier and Victor Verdier. H.P.s. 

 There are also two Madame Hippolyte Jamains. H.P. 

 and Tea., besides Hippolyte Jamain, H.P. In addition 

 to the well-known La France, there is also a Rose called 

 La France de '89. a name which really shows some 

 poverty of invention on the part of the raiser. 



A remonstrance might not be well received : for the 

 Rev. H. H. D'Ombrain. Hon. Sec. of the National Rose 

 Society, tells an amusing story of the French raiser of 

 Duke of Wellington H.P. complaining that English 

 growers would not call his Rose aright, for it should 

 be Due de "Wellington. This seems to me really 

 comic, if meant seriously. 



Still, as I have said, though so many of our best Roses 

 owe their parentage to France, they are nowhere better 

 cultivated than in the British Isles, there being a con- 

 siderable export trade to America, the Colonies. Spain, 

 and elsewhere : and nowhere are there such famous 

 growers, both professional and amateur, who have made 

 the Rose their special, and in some cases their sole, 

 study. In mentioning the names of famous British 

 growers, it is interesting to compare the list, given by 

 Dean Hole in his charming book, of winners at the first 

 National Rose Show in 1858 with those who are well 

 known now in 1894. Of nurserymen. Messrs Paul of 

 Cheshunt. Cranston of Hereford. Cant of Colchester, and 

 Turner of Slough are still well-known names : but in 

 the dozen or so of amateurs mentioned. "" Fellowes "' 

 is the only name with which I am familiar as still 

 growing and exhibiting well. Norfolk has not Avanted 

 a good florist or two of the name of Fellowes for many 

 yeans. 



In the very first rank at the present day among 

 professional exhibitors are : — at Colchester the separate 



