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1873, spring, gave us the rose bearing the president's name, 

 S. R. Hole ; it appears ten years after its parent, Duke of Edin- 

 burgh, thus bearing out Lacharme's dictum, that it is ten years 

 before a rose produces good progeny. Also the first Hybrid Tea, 

 Cheshunt Hybrid, a self- fertilised seedling of Madame de Tartas. 

 Of the French roses, it would be almost a void year but for 

 Captain Christy, the culminating flower of the Victor Yerdier 

 race. 



1874, but for Lacharme's Comtesse de Serenye, and the distinct 

 Tea, JeanDucher, would be an English year — John Stuart Mill, 

 Miss Hassard, Star of Waltham, and Wilson Saunders being the 

 survivors. 



1875 gave us Duchesse de Yallombrosa, Abel Carriere, Jean 

 Liabaud, and Madame Prosper Laugier ; adding in the spring of 

 1876 our own new English roses, Duke of Connaught and Sultan 

 of Zanzibar, and Mr. Turner's Mrs. Baker and Oxonian. 



1876 to 1879 were years of dearth. We note only : 1876, 

 Magna Charta and John Bright ; 1877, Emily Laxton, A. K. 

 Williams ; 1878, Laxton's Charles Darwin, Turner's Harrison 

 Weir ; 1870, Postan's Duchess of Bedford and Countess of 

 Rosebery, and Mitchell's Wm. Warden, mark it as an English 

 year. No first-class Perpetuals came from France. 



In 1880 Duke of Teck, Glory of Cheshunt, Dr. Hogg, Francois 

 Levet ; with Tea, F. Kruger. 



1881, U. Brunner, V. Bouyer, George Baker, Pride of 

 Waltham. 



1882, Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, Heinrich Schultheis, Queen 

 of Queens, Merveille de Lyon. 



1883, Alphonse Soupert, Eclair, Ella Gordon ; Teas, Sunset, 

 and Madame de Watteville. 



From 1884 to now — a semi-decade of but few Perpetuals, as 

 if about that date the limit of expansion had been obtained — 

 we note Victor Hugo, Gloire Lyonnaise, and the English Madame 

 N. Neruda, Charles Lamb, Bennett's noble Her Majesty, and 

 Madame Henry Pereire as amongst the few really good. 



Did we then about 1879, after twenty years' work, reach the 

 limits of the class of Hybrid Perpetuals? Well, I almost think 

 so on the established and laid-down lines, but if a departure in the 

 way of stronger habit, greater floriferousness, better form, and 

 active flowering qualities be sought for and found, the class may be 



