NATIONAL ROSE CONFERENCE. 



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EOSES SINCE 18G0. 

 By Mr. Geo. Paul, F.E.H.S. 



The period 1860 to 1889 may be fairly called the era of the 

 Hybrid Perpetuals and Teas. 



One hundred varieties winning the most valuable first prize 

 in 1857 are thus divided— 



11 Gallicas 



9 Hybrid Chinas 

 1 Provence 

 1 Damask 

 1 Alba 



1 China, Mrs. Bosanquet 



12 Bourbons 



54 Hybrid Perpetuals 

 10 Teas 



100 



The largest proportion were Hybrid Perpetuals (H. P.), but of 

 all these kinds (referring to their names) only one would be 

 shown to-day on a prize stand, viz., General Jacqueminot. 



Jules Margottin and Laelia are still in catalogues. 



The ten Teas are still grown and shown, showing that, great 

 as has been the progress in Teas, it is in the Hybrids that the 

 greatest gains have been won. 



It was in the autumn of 1859 that the new H.P. roses, which 

 have held their own since, began to appear — some the pro- 

 dace of the free-seeding General Jacqueminot, others the first of 

 those H.P.s with distinct traces of Tea Bose blood, Senateur 

 Vaisse and Madame Crapelet representing the first, Victor 

 Verdier and Mademoiselle Bonnaire the second class. 



1861 was, as occasionally happens, a year when good roses 

 came in numbers. It was "Charles Lefebvre's " year. This 

 variety established its reputation directly — my budding note 

 being, "very good desirable colour." 



Due de Rohan is marked " good." Louise Darzens, the first 

 of the Hybrids with Noisette blood, is noted as " the advance of 

 the year." Francois Louvat, Madame Charles Wood, Olivier 



