Plate 415. 
FAIRY ROSE, LITTLE WHITE PET. 
The Fairy Rose comes under the head of Rosa Laurenceana, and though grouped 
with the Chinese Roses, is supposed to be a distinct species, introduced from China in 
1810. These roses are of the dwarfest habit possible, growing only a few inches in height, 
and yet loaded with beautiful flowers of the smallest size. They may truly be called, and 
are in fact, roses in miniature. The varieties are not very numerous ; there are perhaps 
a dozen or more, but the most popular and generally cultivated of them is the Fairy, with 
its pretty deep rosy-pink flowers. 
The varieties are suitable for pot culture, and for planting as edgings or in small 
beds ; but they should have a warm, light, and dry soil. They are also grown in pots for 
market, and pretty, well-bloomed plants of the Fairy Rose command a ready sale. 
The variety now figured is a new white-flowered one, introduced by Messrs. E. G. 
Henderson and Son, of the Pine Apple Place Nursery, and was awarded a First-class 
Certificate of Merit at the meeting of the Royal Botanic Society on the 19th of May last. 
Plate 416. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM (MARGUERITE) ETOILE D’OR. 
The well-known Paris Daisy — Chrysanthemum frutescens — is a popular plant in 
our gardens, and not only is it used for bedding purposes in summer, but it is also much 
employed for culture in pots, so as to furnish a supply of pretty white flowers. We might 
say this is its chief use. As it yields seed, several seedlings have been raised from it 
immediately and more remotely. The handsome variety now figured was raised in or 
about the year 1874 by M. Desgeorges, the then gardener to M. Adam, at Cannes; it was 
obtained from seed of C. frutescens, var. Comtesse de Chambord, known in the locality as 
Anthemis a grande fleur. It appears to have been disposed of by the widow of the 
raiser to M. Nahounaud, Horticulteur, Golf Juan, Cannes, and by him named. 
It was Mr. W. Howard, of Southgate, who introduced it to English gardens, by 
exhibiting it at one of the meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society in April last, when 
it was awarded a First-class Certificate of Merit. It is a most useful plant for a gardener 
to grow, as it furnishes him with a large quantity of long-stemmed yellow flowers, most 
useful for bouquets and other purposes. 
