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flower large, good form, very fiery red, vivid, and sometimes dotted with white. 

 Baron Adolphe de Rothchilde (Guillot fils), very vig. ; large, full, good form, 

 dark red carmine, shaded with violet. Baronne de Lassus de St. Gcnies 

 (Granger), vig. ; foliage glaucous green, flowers medium or large, globed, 

 beautiful cherry red shaded with purple ; form perfect. Belle des Massifs 

 (Ducher), vig. ; medium, full, good form, vivid rose, sometimes the petals 

 more pale. Comtesse de Courcy (Leveque), very vig. ; foliage glaucous green, 

 medium, full, good form, rose shaded with red ; very abundant bloomer. 

 Comtesse de Polignac (Granger), very vig. ; foliage glaucous green, medium or 

 large, full, very brilliant velvety clear red, and shaded with fire (feu) ; colour 

 superb. Due d'Anjou (Boyau), very vig. ; foliage glaucous green ; very 

 large, full, red-crimson shaded with sombre red. Due de Bassano (Portemer 

 fils), vig. ; large, full, cupped, dark velvety crimson. Gustave Rousseau 

 (L. Fargeton), very vig. ; foliage dark green ; large, well imbricated, violet 

 red and fiery ; form perfect ; a very pretty variety. Henry IV. (Ch. Verdier 

 fils), vig. ; medium, full, vivid purple. Imperatrice Maria Alexandrina 

 (Damazin) ; medium, full, white, of a beautiful form. Jean Goujon 

 (Margottin), vig.; large, full, beautiful clear red. L'Eclatante (Guillot 

 fils), vig. ; medium or large, full, poppy red changing to violet purple red ; 

 " belle tenue " (I cannot translate this). Le Rhone (Guillot fils) vig. ; red 

 vermilion. Madame Alfred de Rougemont (Lacharme), vig. ; large, full, form of 

 the hundred leaves ; white, slightly sbaded with rose, embroidered with car- 

 mine — " lisere carmin." Madame Helye (Portemer fils), very vig. ; large, 

 full, globed, red crimson. Madame William Paul (Ch. Verdier fils). vig. ; 

 full, violet red shaded with vivid fire. Peter Lawson (Thomas), vig. ; very 

 large, full, poppy red, very vivid, shaded with carmine. President Lincoln 

 (Granger), very vig. ; dark green foliage ; very large, full, imbricated, beautiful 

 cherry red shaded with " boun superbe ; " the issue of Lord Raglan. Scenr 

 des Anges (Oyer), vig. ; large, full, tender rose, changing to white ; having some 

 resemblance to Malmaison. Triomphe d' Angers (Robert et Moreau), very 

 vig. ; large, full, good form, velvety poppy red, and shaded with carmine. 



Such are the raisers' descriptions of twenty- four of the Roses of 1863. The 

 descriptions of the Roses of 1862, as tried here, were wonderfully faithful. I 

 have the picture of Sceur des Anges ; it is a very large and very beautiful Rose, 

 and might have been raised from Paul's Victoria, or from Malmaison. The 

 portrait was taken from life, and its fidelity is guaranteed by Verschaffelt. It 

 is now placed in the office window of the Dorset County Chronicle by Mr. 

 Fyfe's kind permission. All the Dorset people are determined to have the 

 " Angels' Sister." I have ordered thirteen plants of it. 



Rushton. • W. F. Radci/yepe. 



A FEW WORDS ON BEHALF OF THE PETUNIA. 



We are often told that in the present day there is as much a fashion in the 

 cultivation of certain flowers as there is in the external adornment of mankind. 

 To a certain extent this may be admissible, but no reason can be assigned 

 why a truly good and useful flower should ever be neglected or cast aside. 

 Novelties, novelties, are the order of the day, quite as much in dress as in 

 flowers ; but unless these novelties among flowers are improvements in their 

 several classes upon older and well-known varieties, they very soon find their 

 level, and not unfrequently the ignominious corner of the rubbish-heap. No 

 flower has done more service to the floricultural world than the Petunia. It 



