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the coloured representation of the Yellow China Rose, which is the 

 original source of so many of the yellow-flowered varieties of the present 

 day ; this plate appears with others in the Choix des plus belles Fleurs, 

 published at Paris in 1827. 



As a further result of the stimulus given to Rose culture in France 

 by the interest taken in this flower by the Empress Josephine may 

 be mentioned the creation of several commercial establishments 

 devoted either exclusively, or principally, to the culture of the Rose 

 in its many phases, the raising of new varieties from seed being a 

 special object of attainment, so much so indeed that we are informed 

 on good authority that the 100 different kinds of Roses that were 

 estimated to exist in gardens in 1800 had risen to 250 in 1815, to 2500 

 in 1828, and to 5000 in 1845. Du Pont, Descemet, de Vilmorin, 

 Guerrapain, Laffay, Hardy, Vibert, Pre vost, and Noisette are 

 names that stand out in the history of the development of the Rose in 

 France at this period, and several of these have left behind them valuable 

 contributions to the literature of the flower in their catalogues or other 

 publications. Especial mention may be made of Guerrapain's 

 Almanack des Roses, published in 181 1 ; Vibert' s Essays and Catalogues, 

 1820 and onwards ; and Prevost's Catalogues. Vibert's Essays will 

 still well repay perusal, and, in the words of the late Lord Penzance, 

 ,£ show him to have been a man of a very intelligent and thoughtful 

 mind, and indeed of no mean literary ability. ' 1 * Certainly his prophetic 

 forecast of the lines on which to work in order to obtain the best results 

 in the raising of new varieties of Roses from seed has been amply 

 fulfilled in these later days. Some other important works that 

 appeared in France at this time are Guillemeau's Histoire Naturelle 

 de la Rose, 1800 ; the Count Lelieur's De la Culture du Rosier, 1811 ; 

 Desportes' Rosetum Gallicum, 1829 ; Boitard's Manuel Complet de 

 V Amateur de Roses, 1836 ; and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps' Recherches 

 sur l' Histoire de la Rose, 1844. Mention should also be here made of 

 two historical works which appeared, the one in France and the other 

 in England, viz. the Marquis de Chesnel's Histoire de la Rose chez 

 les peuples de I'antiquite et chez les modernes, published at Toulouse in 

 1820, and Falconer's essay on the Ancient History of the Rose, read 

 before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1838, and printed in 

 Vol. XI of Loudon's Gardeners' Magazine ; the former of these still 

 ranks as a classic on the subject of which it treats. 



To those interested in coloured representations of Roses of the period 

 the plates by Bessa illustrating the article on the Rose by Loiseleur- 

 Deslongchamps in the seventh volume of the Nouveau Duhamel 



(1819) and the beautiful miniatures in Malo's Histoire des Roses 



(1820) will prove interesting, as will also Pacquet's work, Centurie des 

 plus belles Roses (1845 and onwards), the plates of which, by Annica 

 Bricogne and others, worthily illustrate the leading garden varieties 

 in vogue at the time it was published. 



In this country, following the appearance of Andrews' Monograph, 

 • Modem Roses and Hybridisation, in Journal R.H.S., vol. xi. 



