Plate 503 . 
HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE— MADE- 
MOISELLE EUGENIE VERDIER. 
We have already figured two of the Lyons roses of last 
season, one raised by Mons. Lacharme, and the other hy Mons. 
Bucher. We now add a third, raised by Mons. Guiliot fils, 
to whom we are already indebted for some of our very choicest 
roses, especially in the Tea-scented section. 
Amidst the many horrors connected with the war now raging 
in Prance, we as horticulturists are likely to feel its effects in a 
lesser degree; already we have heard of the destruction of the esta- 
blishments of some of our best known continental florists, and 
we are now reminded how utterly hopeless it will be to expect 
any new roses, as yet at any rate, from France. We have 
oftentimes complained of the number of so-called novelties ; 
this year we shall have to depiore that no novelties at all reach 
us, and shall have to content ourselves with the roses we already 
possess. 
Mons. Guiliot fils sent out last autumn the following 
roses : Madame Hippolite Jamain, tea-scented ; this is a large and 
well-formed rose, pure white, and the centre petals coppery- 
yellow, edged with rose ; Catharine Mermet, a well-formed rose, 
holding itself well (and, indeed, in this respect most of the new 
tea-scented roses have an advantage over the older varieties), a 
very light flesh-colour, and good in form ; Unique, a very 
