Plate 69. 
HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE— MONS. CLAUDE LEVEL 
The new roses which have been sent over to us from France, as the productions of last 
season, ai’e beginning to be brought before the public bj those enterprising nurserymen who, 
regardless of the risk, undeterred by the many failures of past years, and perfectly aware 
that many highly lauded novelties will prove worthless, yet venture upon giving the eighty 
or ninety new varieties a trial. It is doubtless a most annoying thing to have propagated at 
considerable trouble and expense a rose which ultimately has to be thrown away ; but this is 
the fortune of war and the disapjDointment has to be borne. 
Amongst those which have already been exhibited, that which we now figure. Mom. 
Claude Level, will, we think, take the very foremost place. Mr. George Paul, by whom it 
was exhibited and to whose courtesy we owe the opportunity of figuring it, considers it the 
very best rose of the season, and we know of no one whose judgment we would prefer to his. 
It was raised by Levet of Lyons, who has already given us some fine roses ; the habit is 
very good, and promises to place it amongst those varieties which are not only beautiful but 
easily propagated ; the colour is a very rich purplish red, and the back of the petals crimson; 
the form is good, sufficiently full, but likely to open well. 
The rose about which so much has been said, ]\fadame Lacharme, has not hitherto been 
shown so as to deserve the high encomiums which have been bestowed upon it. It is not 
white, as it was said to be, and it does not seem as if it merited the character of Hybrid 
Perpetual. 
We should add that Mom. Claude Levet has obtained a first class certificate from the 
Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
Plate 70. 
L^LIA HARPOPHYLLA. 
Very distinct and beautiful is the Orchid which has been so long known as Cinnaharina, 
a native of Brazil, compact in growth, with reddish-orange flowers, which are produced in 
upright spikes ; and as it blooms in March, April, and May, and as, moreover, the flowers 
are very durable, lasting for many weeks in beauty, it is especially valuable for winter 
blooming. 
In the month of April Messrs. Veitch and Sons of Chelsea exhibited an Orchid under 
the above name of Cinnabarina, but which in some points seemed to be distinct from it ; and 
it has since been proved to be another species. As it promises to be a useful variety we 
have given a figure of it. 
The genus is one which contains many glorious Orchids. What can be more delicately 
lovely than the lilac flowers of Lcelia grandis, or the snowy whiteness of Lcelia pierpurata 
with its dark crimson-purple lip, or the grand spike of Lalia superbens with its deep rosy 
flowers ? while none are more useful than Lcelia autumnalis or chinabarina. They will vary as 
to their method of culture, although as most of them come from either Mexico or Brazil they 
require about the same temperature; some grow best on blocks of wood with moss, others 
thrive w’ell in pots with peat and good drainage ; if grown on blocks they should be placed 
in the Cattleya house, with which genus they have an affinity, and require to be treated 
very much in the same manner. Those thus grown require more water than when grown 
in pots. 
