Plate 185. 



HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE — " HIPPOLYTE J AMAIN." 



Great attention has of late been directed towards M. Francois Lacharme?s magnificent 

 Hybrid Perpetual Rose, " Hippolyte Jamain," as grown by Mr. Henry Bennett, of the 

 Manor Farm Nursery, near Wilton, Wilts, and exhibited by him at the meetings of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, where it most deservedly received a first-class certificate 

 on the 17th of March last. "Hippolyte Jamain" is a splendid Rose of the Victor Verdier 

 type, with very large full flowers of good centifolia form, carried boldly on stiff, short- 

 jointed wood. The colour is a beautiful bright rose shaded with brilliant carmine, and 

 the individual petals are of great substance, very smooth and evenly arranged, the 

 outside petals being well reflexed and the centre thrown up to perfection. The Rose was 

 originally raised by the Prince of Rose-raisers, M. Francis Lacharme, and is doubtlessly 

 well worthy to rank with the other first-class favourites of his production, such as Charles 

 Lefebre, Victor Verdier, Alfred Colombe, Louis Van Hontte, Xavier Olibo, and others 

 of our best Roses. We have recently had our attention called to some beautifully dried 

 specimens of the Roses above mentioned, where the form (but not the delicious scent) 

 has been well preserved. We understand that these Roses, which should not be too fully 

 blown, are gathered on dry, sunny afternoons and at once plunged in a mixture of 

 sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol and water, half-a-pint of the former to nine and a half pints 

 of the latter. The cut Roses are then well shaken, so that any superabundance of the 

 mixture may be cast off, and they are then suspended from strings in a well-ventilated shed 

 and dried. As the mixture is poisonous and speedily burns holes in one's clothes, care 

 must be taken not to let it approach the dress. 



Plate 186. 



LOBELIA CLE RULE A ALBO-MARMORATA FLORE-PLENO. 



The attractive and beautiful little plant here figured we recently noted at the 

 establishment of Mr. Wm. Bull, of Chelsea, who kindly furnished us with materials for 

 the plate here given. This double-flowered variegated Lobelia is, as will be seen on 

 reference to our figure, a very distinct and effective variety. "It is," says Mr. Bull, 

 " of free growth, producing most profusely its beautiful double flowers, which are of a 

 lovely cserulean blue colour, attractively marbled and spotted with white." It will, therefore, 

 doubtlessly at once take its place with the many other varieties of Lobelia now so extensively 

 used for bedding purposes. Year after year new varieties of this plant, of more or less 

 value for the garden, are brought out, and in our Plate 80 we were the first to figure 

 the then new double-flowered blue Lobelia of Messrs. Dixon and Co., which has well 

 held its place in the garden ever since its introduction two years ago. Messrs. Dixon's 

 plant and the new one we now figure are both remarkable as improvements in form 

 and habit over the older varieties of our gardens. Good strains of the plant now before 

 us, from their dwarf growth, dense habit, and especially from the extreme beauty of their 

 coloration, ranging as it does from deep blue to pure white, are simply invaluable when 

 treated as border or bedding plants, or for window or table decoration. Some of the white 

 varieties are said to be more or less ineffective and otherwise failures in the garden, 

 but the blue forms are of the first importance in every sense, for there is no scarcity of 

 white-blossomed plants of good habit, but a good blue is such a rare colour amongst 

 flowers that all the varieties with shades of blue in them will always be held in high 

 estimation. 



