154 DE. MASTERS ON A PINK GLOIRE DE DIJON ROSE. 
well again to cite Mr. Fish, the more so as, before he had seen the 
variety himself, he 'appeared to consider it as an instance of 
heightened colouring only. At page 1296 of the volume already 
cited, however, Mr. Pish, having then had the opportunity of 
examining specimens for himself, states that it is wholly 
different from any of those suffused with pink before adverted to 
by me. It is so good a pink as to be a wholly new and distinct 
variety. We have no rose of the same shade that I am aware of. 
It is more pink than Za France, or Bougere, or Adam, and not so 
deep pink as Baron Gonella (Bourbon). Perhaps the nearest 
approach to the colour of the pink Gloire de Dijon would be arrived 
at by blending the Baron Gonella and La France. The kind is a 
fine dark pink, as much so as Coupe d'Hebe ; in leaf and strength of 
growth it retains the true character of Gloire de Dijon. The colour 
is not successfully rendered by the artist in the accompanying plate. 
(PI. XI,) I^'othing need be added in recommendation. A delicate 
pink Gloire de Dijon will at once take its place in the first rank 
of the best Roses everywhere." This estimate of the value of this 
new variety, from the florist's point of view, was endorsed at the 
time in a letter to the writer of this note by the Eev. S. E. Hole. 
The history of this Rose during the present season, as told by 
Mr. Pish (Gard. Chron. 1873, 1180), presents some further 
points of interest from a physiological point of view. Mr. 
Pish, it appears, inserted a bud from Mr. Kemp's plant into a 
briar stock late in September, 1872. The briar was growing on 
clay soil in a damp place. The bud "took," remained dormant 
during the winter, and broke into a strong shoot in the spring. This 
shoot ultimately divided into three sub-divisions, one of which pro- 
duced a truss of flower-buds, all of which were removed but two, 
which were allowed to flower, and produced pink roses of about 
the shade of Baron Gonella^ Mr. Pish, in recording these facts, con- 
siders that the conditions under which these flowers were produced 
were such as might have been expected to wash out the pink 
colour, had it had but a slight hold on the variety, by the mere 
flush of sap, but nothing of the kind has happened." 
We may now allude to a second specimen of pink Gloire de Dijon 
which was sent to us in September of the present year by Mr. A. 
Ingram, of Hardwicke Grange, Shrewsbury (see Gard. Chron. 1873, 
1210, 1243). The history of Mr. Ingram's Rose differs somewhat 
from that of Mr. Kemp's. While the latter was grown on its own 
roots, Mr. Ingram's was budded on the Manetti stock. It grew in 
a border among other roses, and produced in 1872 a large number 
