18 THE FLORIST AND 
other delicate Koses, and numbers of the plants. The dry weather in 
March and April, destroyed from half to two-thirds of the stocks planted 
in December; and the frost on the 25th of April so injured the young and 
tender shoots, which were soon after smothered with aphides, that scarcely 
any Roses bloomed at their usual season in June and July. It was not till 
August, that the Hybrid Perpetuals showed themselves in character, and 
after that they flowered satisfactorily. As usual with a favored class of 
Roses like the above, we are inundated with so-called novelties from France, 
plenty of variety in names, lacking, however, difference in character ; but 
there are some few really good and distinct, and quite worthy of a few 
words of praise, and so I will endeavor to describe them. Hybrid Per- 
petuals are the Roses of the day ; they seem destined to supply all our 
out-door wants at least, and one is never tired of their varied beauties. 
There were forty or more Roses of this class alone, with new names intro- 
duced last winter and spring, most of them of the same unvarying tints of 
"rose," "pale rose," and so on; many of them really good, but not differ- 
ing enough from well-established varieties, to make them acceptable to the 
amateur. There are, however, a few and very few, distinct, good, and 
acceptable to all lovers of Roses ; and who is not ? Holding a first rank 
among the few is Jules Margottin, which is quite worthy of its descriptive 
English name, Perpetual Brennus; its very vigorous habit, and large finely- 
shaped light vivid crimson flowers, remind us much of that very fine old 
Hybrid China Rose, Brennus. For growing on its own roots, and pegging 
down, for a pillar Rose, and as a standard, it is equally well adapted, and 
will soon be in every Rose garden. Sir John Franklin and Gloire de la 
France are of the race of the G-eant des Batailles, and two fine robust 
growing Roses ; the former bright red, the latter more approaching to deep 
crimson ; they are two fine varieties. General Jaqueminot is, like the 
above, one of our new Roses, and most striking, from the size of its 
flowers, which are of rich shaded crimson. It has, however, two faults ; its 
flowers are not sufficiently double, and its habit of growth is rather slender 
and delicate. We now require Roses perfect in all points ; large and double 
flowers, opening freely, fine healthy foliage, and a vigorous hardy habit. 
Duchess of Norfolk will probably form a nice pillar Rose. Now we come 
to a host of new names applied to Ptoses, with shades of rose color and 
pink, such as Alphonse de Lamartine, Colonel de Rougemont, Madame 
Domage (both varieties of the race of Baronne Prevost,) Ceres, Gloire de 
Parthenay, La Ville de St. Denis, Lady Milsom, Madame Hector Jacquin, 
a large and vigorous growing Rose. Madame Harriet Stowe, Aline Gilbon, 
