THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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Here we must halt for the present, and w'e may do so witliout 
disadvantage to the subject, because the cultivation of JMarcchal 
Kiel was admirably treated by Mr. Gordon last month. Our por- 
trait of Perle de Lyon will tell its own tale ; tlie lovers of tea roses 
will know by these presents that amongst the newest of the new 
roses there is one more valuable addition to the golden teas. 
b. It. 
KOTES OX NEW EOSES. 
BY AN AMATEUR ROSARIAN. 
numbers of new roses introduced from France during 
the last two years has been very considerable, and as 
they vary in value it has occurred to me that a few notes 
on the best, as seen at the public exhibitions, in the 
leading rose nurseries, and in my own collection, would 
be of considerable value to amateur rosarians. Some of the varie- 
ties are so inferior in comparison with the best of the established 
kinds, that it is practicably impossible to make out a list of a dozen 
or so without including a few that are not worth what they cost, 
unless one has had an opportunity of not only seeing them when in 
bloom but of comparing them with others of the same class. At 
the same time it is proper to remark that roses are seldom seen iu 
their true character during the first year or two of their introduc- 
tion, and this is easily accounted for. The French raisers, when they 
have anything they think worthy of being distributed, naturally 
enough propagate as large a stock as possible in a short time, anjd 
the English nurserymen when they receive the plants push them on 
iu a high temperature for propagating purposes, and it follows that 
the plants require at least a year’s growth before they acquire 
sufficient strength for the production of their flowers iu their true 
character. Hence it is many roses that are described as thin and 
wanting in substance when they first flower on this side of the 
channel, ultimately turn out to be real acquisitions. Others again 
which are full of promise, and produce blooms which the rosarian 
is wont to think will, when the plants have acquired their full 
strength, be first-rate, turn out to be comparatively worthless. 
Allusion is made to this point to show the difficulties under which 
the rosarian labours in estimating the value of roses during the 
first year or so of their being in commerce. 
Although the French raisers are alone alluded to in the fore- 
going remarks, it must not for a moment be assumed that no good 
roses are raised in England. On the contrary, some of '(he finest 
roses we have, and especially of recent introduction, nave been 
raised in this country. We do not hear, much about Eug'ush raised 
rosea, owing to the small number sent out in any one season. The 
English raisers only send out those which are first-class, whilst a few 
of their brethren on the other side of the channel do not practise such 
June. 
