the 



ROSE ANDRE LEROY D' ANGERS. 



WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 



We are indebted to Mr. Standish, of Bag-shot and Ascot, for the figure 

 of this fine new Rose, which we are enabled to present to our subscribers. 

 We learn that it is a seedling from General Jacqueminot, and that it was raised 

 by M. Victor Trouillard, of Angers, an enthusiastic cultivator of Roses, and 

 himself at once the manager of the extensive Rose-nursery of M. Leroy, and 

 the raiser of many new and choice varieties. 



The present novelty which, as our figure shows, is a Rose of great beauty, 

 is in the hands of Mr. Standish for distribution. The habit of the plant is free 

 and vigorous. The flowers are large and cupped, well filled out with petals, 

 which are broad and remarkable for substance and smoothness of texture. The 

 colour is a very rich, deep, velvety purple crimson. Altogether, we regard 

 this namesake of M. Leroy as an acquisition of no mean importance among the 

 better class of dark Hybrid Perpetuals, combining as it does high qualities both 

 as to its growth and also as to its flowers, with a rich and most desirable 

 colour. 



There have been other Roses named in compliment to M. Leroy ; but with 

 respect to the application of his name to that now figured, we are informed— 

 (1) that M. Trouillard was desirous of naming one of his own seedlings after 

 his employer ; (2) that, from the whole series raised by his foreman, M. Leroy 

 himself selected to bear his name the subject of these remarks ; and (3) that 

 he repudiates all other varieties to which his name has been given. To avoid 

 confusion, however, M. Trouillard's Rose has been specially distinguished by 

 the name of Andre Leroy d' Angers. 



Roses like the present, of full cupped or semi-globular form, have an 

 immense superiority over the flat hard-centred varieties which once were so 

 commonly seen on our exhibition tables, and are even yet not extinct. Even 

 the more open form of sorts like General Jacqueminot we may remark, though 

 we do so with a wholesome fear of acute Rose critics before our mind's eye,°is 

 barely compensated by brilliance of colour and excellence of habit, although 

 there may be varieties of this character which, like the General himself, stand 



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