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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



2. The General Character of the Roses of 1862.— The Roses of 1862, with 

 very rare exceptions, are good for growth and foliage. They, moreover, abound 

 in clear, rich, and dark colours ; and I doubt if any year has produced so many 

 good, and, so far as I have tried them, so few bad ones : still we must have 

 better H.P. white Roses. We are well off for yellows ; we have gone ahead 

 in dark varieties of late, and the new sorts are of good constitution. Due de 

 Gazes (good on both stocks, the best supply for Louis XIV.), Princesse 

 Mathilde, and Prince Camille de Rohan will bear me out in this observation. Add 

 the older Rose Maroc, and you have four that can be recommended to any one. 



3. Hoses that had not bloomed when I sent my last communication, and 

 which I can highly recommend. 



(1) . Madame Clemence (properly Florence) Joigneaux, is a fine red Rose, 

 lilaceous at the extremity of the petals. In the Gardener^ Chronicle I ex- 

 pressed a doubt of its being true to sort, but I have discovered it to be true. 

 Two amateurs saw it in bloom, and pronounced it to be splendid. The growth, 

 habit, and continuity of blooming are good. 



(2) . Alphonse Damazin. — This is a medium-sized, perfectly-formed, 

 scarlety red Rose ; but in the fall it is as dark and also like Marie Portemer. 

 I have three plants of it, and all did alike. It is good for growth and foliage, 

 and an abundant and continuous bloomer, both early and late. These attri- 

 butes will keep it in the catalogues. 



(3) . Archbveque de Paris. — There is nothing new here more healthy or 

 better for growth and foliage ; it will not be large, but good in every other 

 respect. Colour deep crimson purple, thick and smooth petals, good formation, 

 and an abundant and free bloomer. 



(4) . Madame C. Wood. — This is a fine deep-petalled red Rose, good in 

 its outer petals, but the centre has not filled well ; it is a fine variety, and 

 might go in the class of Anna de Diesbach. It is a good grower and abundant 

 bloomer. Madame Clemence Joigneaux and Madame C. Wood are the only 

 two that have helped me to prizes this year ; they were both at Sherborne, 

 and enabled me to run second to Mr. Keynes for the Twenty-four Open, and to 

 win the first prize for Amateurs. They were both at Blandford, and enabled 

 me to win both the prizes. I may here say that the weather has been so wet 

 that it w r ould have been folly to travel them to shows, to which else I should 

 have gone. 



(5) . Richard Smith. — This is fine as to colour — red purple, of excellent 

 growth and foliage ; but it is, and always will be, presque pleine. It will be 

 valuable as a late dark bloomer, but the Archbishop in the same line will be 

 better. 



(6) . Madame Ernest Dreole and Jean Baptiste Guillot have made good firm 

 wood for another year ; but they have made no other sign. Sometimes this 

 is the best thing a " novelty" can do. If the four first of these be added to the 

 ten mentioned in my last article, I am sure that the purchaser cannot be hurt, 

 and further, that he will be pleased. No. 5 is good, subject to " presque pleine." 



4. Hearsay. — Mr. Taylor, of Fencote, Bedale, Yorkshire, speaks in very 

 high terms of the following : — 



(1) . Wilhelm Pftzer. — Dark red and scarlet, very full and finely formed, 

 a good grower and good foliage. I feel certain another season it will be Al. 



(2) . Tursnne and Vicomte Vigier. — I cannot find his letter to give his 

 exact words ; but I remember he spoke of them as good in every respect, and 

 marked both Al. I have not the first, but the plants of these two are 

 excellent. The following are also admirable as plants, just come {all jjresents) : 

 Vulcain, La Brillante, Marechal Vaillant, Simon St. Jean, three John Hoppers, 

 wonderful for growth on the Briar, Manetti, and own roots (I never saw 



