September 22, 1887. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
247 
TEAS AND 
Position in Present 
Analysis. 
Position in 1886 
Analysis. 
Position in 1884 
Analysis. 
Name of Rose. 
I 
8 
3 
Catherine Mermet . . 
2 
2 
2 
Marechal Kiel 
3 
7 
12 
Comtesse de Nadaillac 
4 
4 
8 
Innocente Pirola 
-5 
5 
5 
Niphetos . 
1 
10 
Caroline Kuster . 
7 
6 
6 
Souvenir d’Elise Vardon 
8 
7 
1 
Souvenir d’un Ami . 
9 
16 
0 
Madame de Watteville . 
10 
8 
16 
Etoile de Lyon. 
ai 
3 
7 
Jean Ducher. 
n 
10 
26 
Madame Cusin. 
XI 
6 
4 
Marie Van Houtte . 
12 
13 
0 
Hon. E. Gifford . 
13 
11 
25 
La Boule d’Or. 
14 
17 
22 
Madame Margottin . . 
15 
9 
15 
Anna Ollivier. 
16 
12 
— 
Madame Bravy .. 
16 
13 
14 
Madame Willermoz ... 
16 
14 
0 
Princess of Wales . 
17 
15 
38 
Madame Hippolyte Jamain... 
18 
0 
0 
Madame Angele Jacquier . . . 
18 
9 
13 
Souvenir de Paul Neyron ... 
19 
18 
20 
Belle Lyonnaise . 
19 
18 
24 
Madame Welche . 
■20 
15 
9 
Devoniensis . 
-20 
20 
0 
Francisca Kruger . 
20 
19 
18 
Perle des Jardins 
21 
20 
29 
Jules Finger . 
21 
0 
0 
Moire . 
22 
0 
0 
Ho me re. 
23 
0 
0 
Marcelin Rboda . 
23 
0 
0 
Marquise de Samina. 
23 
12 
11 
Rubens.1 
NOISETTES. 
Date of Introduction. 
Raiser’s Name. 
Colour. 
1869 
J. B. Guillot fils 
Light rosy flesh 
1864 
Pradel . 
Deep golden yellow 
1871 
J. B. Guillot fils 
Rosy flesh and apricot 
1878 
Madame Ducher 
White, slightly shaded 
1844 
Bougere. 
White 
1872 
Pernet. 
Lemon vellow 
1854 
Marest. 
Yellowish rosy cream 
1846 
Belot-Defougere 
Pale rose 
1883 
Guillot. 
Pale lemon, pink margin 
1831 
Guillot. 
Bright sulphur yellow 
1874 
Madame Ducher 
Salmon yellow, shaded peach 
1881 
Guillot fils 
Violet rose 
1871 
Ducher. 
Yellowish white tinted rose 
1882 
Guillot. 
Blush white tinted pale rose 
1860 
Margottin . 
Golden yellow 
1866 
J. B. Guillot fils 
Citron yellow 
1872 
Ducher. 
Pale rosy flesh shaded buff 
1848 
Guillot pere 
White flushed pale pink 
1845 
Lacharme 
Creamy white 
1882 
Bennett . 
Pale rosy yellow 
1869 
J. B. Guillot fils 
Wh'te, shaded yellow 
1879 
J. B. Guillot fils 
Light pink, shaded yellow 
18/1 
Levet . 
Creamy white, tinted rose 
1869 
Levet . 
Deep lemon 
18 /y 
Ducher. 
Pale yellow, flushed pink 
1838 
Foster . 
Creamy white 
1879 
Nabonnand . 
Coppery yellow, shaded rose 
1874 
Levet . 
Bright st aw colour 
1879 
Madame Ducher 
Rose shaded silver 
1844 
Moire . 
Rosy fawn 
1859 
Moreau-Robdrt 
Rose edge, light base 
1872 
Ducher. 
Yellow 
1875 
Madame Ducher 
Coppery ro=e 
1859 
Robdrt. 
Creamy white 
As this is the best time of year in which to order Roses for 
planting in November, a selection of a few high-class varieties 
which can be recommended for general cultivation, will, no doubt, 
'prove acceptable to those of your readers who, although not 
exhibitors, may nevertheless wish to grow only the choicer kinds. 
Hybrid Perbetuals. — Light-coloured varieties. — Baroness 
Rothschild, Captain Christy, Her Majesty, La France, Madame 
Gabriel Luizet, Marie Finger, and Merveille de Lyon. 
Medium Reds .—Comtesse d’Oxford, Dupuy Jamain, Heinrich 
tSchultheis, Marie Yerdier, Marquise de Castellane, and Ulrich 
Brunner. 
Reds.— Alfred Colomb, A. Iv. Williams, Camille Bernardin, 
Dr. Andry, E. Y. Teas, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Marie Baumann, 
and Prince Arthur. 
Dark Varieties. —Charles Lefebvre, Duke of Wellington, Horace 
Vernet, and Louis Van Houtte. 
Teas and Noisettes. —Anna Ollivier, Caroline Kuster (n.), Hon. 
Edith Gifford, Innocente Pirola, Madame de Watteville, Madame 
Lambard, Marie Yan Houtte, Perle des Jardins, and Souvenir 
•d’un Ami. 
Bourbon .—Souvenir de la Malmaison. 
My best thanks are due to Mr. J. Burrell, Rev. F. H. Gall, 
Mr. W. J. Jefferies, Mr. G. Mount, Mr. J. Sargant, and Mr. R. E. 
West for their kind assistance in taking down the names of so 
many of the Rose3 in the winning stands ; also to Mr. T. W. 
‘GircUestone for supplying the dates and raisers’ names of those 
varieties which did not find places in either of the previous 
•analyses.—E. M., BerTchamsted. 
MELON RAISING. 
I AM heartily tired of certificated Melons, and the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s Fruit Committee have at last discovered the fact that many 
shown are not improvements on existing varieties. Had the standard 
been Egyptian for the round, and Persian-Cashmere for oval, I very 
much question if we should have been bothered with such a mass of 
Melons. They come thicker and faster every year, and get worse. If 
the Royal Horticultural Society took the matter in hand in good earnest 
we might hope for the future of the Melon. There need be no higher 
standard of excellence than Cantaloupe, Persian, and Egyptian. The 
Cahul and Cashmere are only varieties of the Persian. Those mark the 
type of Melons—ribs with a narrow suture, Cantaloupe ; ribs with a wide 
suture or flat parting between the ribs, Egyptian ; smooth, without ribs 
or suture, Persian. Netting is characteristic of the Egyptian and 
Persian, but not of the Cantaloupe, which is more inclined to wart or 
carbuncle. The other characteristics are the Egyptian and Cantaloupe 
are not keepers, but the Cantaloupe is better in that respect than 
Egyptian. The Persian is an excellent keeper, and on that account very 
desirable.. The Cantaloupe is early, Egyptian medium, and Persian late. 
Coulommier’s can hardly be considered a distinct type, but the Rock is 
decidedly so, and so also is the Winter or Valentia. The Cantaloupe is 
supposed to be the first Melon cultivated in Europe. A century back 
there were several varieties—viz., Early Cantaloupe, Carbuncled, White, 
Orange, and Rock, the Black Rock being distinguished from the other 
kinds of Cantaloupe on account probably of its dark rind and great 
size. There were also the ribbed, netted Melon, which is undoubtedly 
the type of all the embroided Melons—viz.. Egyptian ; and the smooth 
green (Persian) and green-fleshed (Italian), perhaps a cross between 
Cantaloupe and Egyptian. The yellow Ispahan Melon is of later date. 
The Persian Melon is sometimes yellow marbled w r ith dark green, which 
is manifestly a hybrid or cross breed between the green and yellow forms 
of Persian. Of the Persian type are the Cabul and Cashmere Melons, 
both with netted yellow rinds and whitish flesh. 
Of the Cantaloupe we have not any nearer forms in the present or 
even recent varieties than Cirencester Prize, a mixture of Cantaloupe 
with Black Rock and Duke of Edinburgh, a compound of Coulommiers 
—an oval Cantaloupe—with Winter or Valentia. Little Heath is un- 
mistakeaoly a cross between Cantaloupe (early) and Egyptian, the rind 
netting, and ribs being Egyptian, whilst the flesh and long-keeping pro¬ 
perties are Cantaloupe. Bromham Hall is a marked example of the 
early Cantaloupe, in which the green flesh and high quality of the Egyptian 
is implanted, and the forerunner of the Victory of Bath section, which 
attained to great perfection by judicious crossing and careful selection 
in.the skilful hands of Mr. Gilbert of Burghley Gardens. Anterior to 
this the late Mr. Bailey did much in improving the size of Egyptian. 
His Mrs. Bailey was a standard variety in my ’prentice days, and it is 
lenarltable that in his hands it (Egyptian) took the oval form. The 
Squire and Victory of Bath also became decidedly oval with Mr. Gilbert. 
All effort at size have been with round sorts subjected to high cultiva¬ 
tion in the direction of the oval form. Heckfield Hybrid and Queen 
Emma are a mixture of the oval Cantaloupe overcome by the pre¬ 
ponderance of the Persian pollen. Precisely the same occurs with 
Golden Gem, only the embroidered Egyptian is made to lose its ribs, 
skin, and flesh by the strong influence of Cashmere. Scarlet Gem is a 
