Plate 497 . 
HYBPJD PERPETUAL ROSE— LOUIS VAN 
HOUTTE. 
It may give some idea of the difficulties attendant on the 
raisins: of new varieties of roses, to mention the fact that, al- 
though it is now some seven or eight years since Mons. 
Lacharme of Lyons raised what is to this day perhaps the best, 
and certainly, taking it all in all, the most favourite rose in 
cultivation, Charles Lefehvre , he has not since that time 
added any roses of first-rate merit to our lists. Prudence Bresson 
was a very extraordinary rose. Thori is pretty, Biford bright, 
but none of them are first-class roses. He has, however, we 
believe, in the rose we now figure, added to his well-earned 
reputation, and Louis Van Houtte is a worthy companion to 
Charles Lefehvre; and we have great pleasure in giving Mr. 
Smith’s admirable portrait of what is probably the best rose of 
the year. 
We cannot, perhaps, better describe the rose we now figure, 
than by saying that it is the old Cabbage Rose with the colour 
of Charles Lefehvre; indeed, it is said by its raiser to be of 
the same form as the rose a CenlfeuiUes, for so the old favourite 
Cabbage Rose is called by the French. It has, moreover, the 
same delicious perfume of that rose, a perfume perhaps un- 
equalled by any other in cultivation, while it fully deserves the 
name of Perpetual. We have it in our own garden, and it is now 
(Aug. 20) showing quite as numerous a crop of buds as it did 
in its first head of bloom in June, and when we add to that, 
