THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE, 
instead of attempting tlie task we have prepared a list of the finest varieties for 
exliibition purposes. It is as follows: — Seventif ttvo Jlyhr'ut Ferpetrials. — Abel 
Grand, Acbille Gonod, Alfred Colomb, Annie Wood, Antoine Dueher, Baroness 
Rothschild, Beauty of Waltham, Camille Bernardin, Caroline de Sansal, Charles 
Lefebvre, Charles Rouillard, Charles Verdier, Clothilde Rollnnd, Comtesse d’Ox- 
ford, Devienne Lamy, Dupuy Jamain, Dr. Andry, Due de Rohan, Duke of Edin- 
burgh, Edouard Morren, Elie Morel, Emilie Hausberg, Etienue Levet, E.vposition 
de Brie, Felix Geuero, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Francois Louvat, General Jacque- 
minot, Henri do Ledechaux, Henri Pages, Jean Goujon, John Hopper, Laelin, La 
Reine, La Villa do St. Denis, La France, Leopold Haushurg, Louis Van Houtte, 
Madame Alice Dureau, Madame Bontin, Madame Cleraeuce Joignenu.x, Madame 
Marie Cirodde, Madame Laeharme, Madame Thcrbse Levet, Madame Victor Verdier, 
Mdlle. Bonnairo, Mdlle. Eugene Verdier, Marguerite de St. Amand, Marie Baumann, 
Marie Rady, Marquis de Castellane, Marquise de Mortemart, Monsieur Bonceune, 
Monsieur Bonsetten, Monsieur Woolfielcl, Mrs. Charles Wood, Olivier Delhomme, 
Perfection de Lyon, Pierre Netting, President Thiers, Princess Beatrice, Prince Ca- 
mille de Rohan, Reine du Midi, Richard AVallace, Senateur Vaisse, Sophie Coquerel, 
Reynolds Hole, Thorin, Thyra Hammerich, Vicomte Vigier, Victor \erdier, 
Xavier Olibo. Thirty Tea Roses. — Adrienne Chiistophle, Alba Rosea, Belle Lyon- 
naise, Bougere, Celine Noirey, Cheshunt Hybrid, Comtesse de Naddillac, Devoniense, 
Gloire de Dijon, Homer, Le Nankin, Madame Cecile Berthod, Madame Camille, 
Madame Jules Margottin, Madame de St. Joseph, Madame Falcot, IMadame Mar- 
gottin, Madame Villermoz, Jlarie Dueher, Marie Sisley, Marie Van Houtte, Mon- 
sieur Furtado, Niphetos, Perfection de Montplaisir, President, Reine du Portugal, 
Souvenir d’Elise Vardon, Souvenir d’un Ami, Vicomtesse de Cazes. Twelve bellow 
Roses, Noisettes. — Celine Forestier, Cloth of Gold, Jane Hardy, Lam.arque Jaune, 
Marechal Niel, Nareisse, Reine d’Or, Triomphe de Rennes. Tea. — Belle Lyonnalse, 
Jaune d'Or, La Boule d’Or, Madame Cecille Berthod, Madame Faleot, Madame 
Margottin, Monsieur Furtado, Perfection de Montplaisir, Reine du Portugal, Saf- 
rano. Tour Bertrand, Vicomtesse de Cazes. We also visited several of the most 
important rose nurseries when the roses were at their best, and the undermentioned 
were selected as being especially adapted for garden decoration. The flowers, 
although not good enough in form for exhibition purposes, are very large and attrac- 
tive, and produced in wonderful profusion. The majority of those recommended for 
exhibition may also be employed as garden roses : — Anna Alexieff, Baronne Prevost, 
Charles Turner, Charles Margottin, Comtesse de Jaucouvt, Duchess of Sutherland, 
Elizabeth Vigneron, Eugene Appert, Geaut des Batailles, Gloire de Dueher. Glory 
of Waltham, La Brillante, Lord Napier, Madame Alfred de Rougemont, Madame 
Cambac^res, Madame Gustave Bonnet, Madame Hector Jacquin, Paul Neron, Pius 
IX., Souvenir de la Reine d'Angleterre, Souvenir de M. Peiteau, Thomas Methven, 
Triomphe d’Aleneon. 
TO CORRESPONDEOTS. 
Rose, Sovvexiu de da Malmaisox. — Will yon be so good as to give me, in 
the next number of the Florae World (to which I have long subscribed), your 
opinion on the following subject. I have in my garden two fine standard roses, 
Souvenir de la Malmaison, both of which are most provokingly disappointing. 
They produce large, clean, and apparently vigorous buds, but when about half-blown 
they become almost invariably mouldy and faded, and either burst at the side be- 
fore full grown or drop oflf. I am told this is the case in a garden close by also. 
At this moment one of them is in front of the w'indow laden with beautiful buds 
but also with three wretched, decayed-looking, nearly full-blown flowers, all brown 
and withered, yet of very large size. The foliage is remarkably full and handsome. 
Do you think the soil is not suitable ? — it is clay — yet Gloire de Dijon, Triomphe de 
Rennes, Celine Forestier, and several others of the same kind, flourish greatly, as 
well as many choice dark varieties, particularly Prince Camille de Rohan. I have 
had a splendid sho\t this summer. Every rose has seemed to excel itself except the 
Malmaison. I have a lai ge border of roses raised entirely from cuttings by myself, 
containing many choice sorts, as General Jacqueminot, Baroness Rothschild, SirJoseph 
August. 
