SELECTION 



Jaune Despres, Noisette. — Phoebus, what a name ! Little 

 thought poor Monsieur Desprez, when he sent out his 

 seedling in the pride of his heart, that it would associate 

 his name throughout the Rose-loving world with jaundice 

 and bilious fever. Yellow Desprez, moreover, is not yellow, 

 but buff or fawn colour, deliciously fragrant, of beautiful 

 foliage, blooms freely in autumn, and makes, with careful 

 culture, a pretty Pillar Rose. 



Jtmo, H.C., a Rose which, like the goddess, may justly complain 

 of neglect, appearing in few gardens, and well deserving 

 a place in all. I must allow that Juno is sometimes 

 ' inconstant ' ; nor does the sorrowful fact surprise us, 

 foreknowing the provocations of her husband Jupiter ; but 

 she is, generally, all that a good Rose ought to be, and 

 then most divinely fair. We have so few Roses of her 

 pale delicate complexion, that, until we are favoured with 

 more perpetuals of the Caroline de Sansales style, Juno is 

 a most valuable Rose, large and full, and, in her best 

 phase, an effective flower for exhibition. 



Mrs. John Laing — not only in vigour, constancy, and abundance, 

 but 'in form and features "Beauty's Queen'" — a Rose 

 which never disappoints. 



Jules MargotiUi bears the honoured name of one who has 

 enriched our Rose-gardens with many a precious treasure 

 — Mons. Margottin of Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris ; and 

 no column could declare his praises so suitably, or per- 

 petuate his fame so surely, as a pillar of this lovely Rose. 

 I would rather that a pyramid of its sweet bright flowers 

 bloomed above my grave, than have the fairest monument 

 which art could raise. But ' there's time enough for that,' 

 as the young lady observed to her poetical lover, when he 

 promised her a first-class epitaph. 



Madame Clemence Joigneaux. — Were I asked to point out a 

 Rose-tree which 1 considered a specimen of healthful 

 habit and good constitution, I know of none which I 



