STANDARD ROSES are upon stems from 3 to 4 ft. in height. HALF-STANDARDS are upon stems from 2 to 2i ft. in height, 
BUSH or DWARF ROSES are either upon their own Roots or Budded a few inches higher. 
Where the price of a Standard is not affixed, the variety cannot be supplied as such this season. 
Varieties printed in larger type are those recently introduced ; the descriptions given are those of the raisers. 
ABBREVIATIONS. 
H.P. Hybrid Perpetual. — This is our finest family of Roses, owing its origin to the crossing and intermixing 
of Hybrid China and Hybrid Bourbon with the China, Bourbon, and Tea-Scented varieties. The Hybrid 
Perpetuals bloom freely throughout the Summer and Autumn, and all are highly fragrant as well as exquisitely 
beautiful in all colours of the rose, yellow alone excepted. 
T. Tea-Scented. — This important class of Roses, distinguished from all others by the delicious fragrance and 
delicate tints of the flowers, should be more largely grown. For producing buds for bouquets or button-holes 
they are unequalled. They succeed admirably grown in the warmest and sunniest parts in the garden and 
abundantly supplied with water during the hot months. For planting out in conservatories or for cultivation 
in pots they are particularly suitable, and when only protected with glass produce flowers in great quantities 
far into the winter months. 
The whole of our Tea-Scented and Noisette Roses are worked upon the seedling or cutting briar, 
which has been proved to be by far the best and most lasting stock for them. 
H.T. Hybrid Tea. — A recently introduced race of Roses, being seedlings from Teas, but more or less partaking 
of the Hybrid Perpetuals with which they have been hybridised ; all are very free flowering, and fine 
Autumnal Roses. 
N. Noisette. — -The Noisettes are a fine class of Roses, blooming mostly in very large clusters throughout the 
Summer and Autumn, and are generally very free bloomers. Many of them make very fine Pillar Roses. 
In pruning them the old wood should be thinned out and the new wood left nearly full length. 
B. Bourbon. — This is a charming family of Autumn-blooming Roses. They are free and continual bloomers, 
bright in colour and fine in form, with bright shining foliage. For beds they are unrivalled, for when 
established they seldom receive any injury from the winter. Require rich soil and moderately close pruning. 
THE classes and varieties of Roses have 
1 increased so much of late years that a 
Rose List arranged in the ordinary way has 
become most confusing and puzzling except to the most 
experienced Rose Grower; the amateur, who perhaps 
remembering only the name of a Rose, being unable to find it 
on account of not knowing in which section to look for it. 
With this in view we have entirely re-arranged our Rose List, putting the Hybrid Perpetuals 
Tea-Scented, Noisettes, and Bourbons in one section, and the Miscellaneous Garden and Old- 
Fashioned Roses in another, and placing all varieties in alphabetical order, but attaching to each the 
family or class to which it belongs, so that the principal feature of the old arrangement is still adhered to. 
As now compiled, an order can be made out with greater facility, and we venture to think the List 
will be found most useful to keep permanently for reference. 
From J. CLARKE, Esq., Wellington, Scalop. — 1 The Roses I had of you have been magnificent this season." 
