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TIIE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST 
[ January, 
1868, as to say which of the numerous high-sounding names and tempt¬ 
ingly-described novelties would prove to be the real gems of the year. 
It is amusing and instructive to meditate in one’s yearly round on the 
different treatment these novelties meet with at the hands of the raisers. 
Guided by the light of experience, they know perfectly well whether high, 
low, or moderate living is suitable to their proterjees , and most likely to 
develope the desired points of beauty to the last degree of capability. 
Here is a Rose with few or thin petals, petted and stuffed like a prize pig ; 
here another, naturally too gross and bulky, left to shift for itself, or 
treated according to Banting. One is allowed to develope every flower-bud 
that forms; another exhibits a blossom only here and there. And so 
closely and skilfully are the plants tended, that it is not always easy to 
decide whether more flower-buds have ever been formed, or whether they 
have been formed and removed in a very early stage of existence, for 
reasons best known to the grower. But let me have a Rose in my own 
hands, know the routine of cultivation, watch the various stages of pro¬ 
gress from the unfolding of the leaf to the development of the flowers, 
and I have real data on which to reason, and found an opinion. 
Strange as it may seem, it is yet true, that notwithstanding the fierce 
diatrabes that have been launched, and in some instances justly launched, 
against new Roses, then* sale continues to increase ! My own experience 
is that more new Roses were sold last year than in any previous year; 
but —and this is an important but—the sale has been confined to fewer 
sorts—sorts, the raiser’s description of which can be endorsed by a second 
and independent authority. Rose amateurs do not seek novelty less than 
formerly, but are quitting the haphazard system of taking the prettiest 
descriptions, having, no doubt, found by experience that Roses on paper, 
and Roses on the tree, are not always identical in fact, notwithstanding 
the identity of name. 
Well, then, to the New Roses of the autumn of 1866 and the spring of 
1867 I shall confine my remarks, reserving for consideration at a later date 
the novelties of November, 1867—albeit, the sw T eet music of their names 
and their descriptions is, as the most recent of incantations, still ringing 
in my ears. Having grown nearly all the New Roses sent from France in 
the autumn of 1866, I think that I may venture to select and describe 
twenty-four sorts as likely to prove worthy of being added to the most 
limited collection. 
Antoine Bucher, H. P. ; flowers bright red, very large, full, well-formed, and globular ; 
growth vigorous. A seedling from Madame Domage. 
Aspasie, II. P .; flowers clear rosy red, with deeper-coloured centre, of large size and 
full; growth vigorous. 
Black Prince, II. P .; flowers dark crimson, shaded with black, large, full, and of perfect 
form; habit hardy and vigorous; the foliage broad and handsome. 
Charles Verdier , H. P. : flowers fine rosy flesh colour, bordered with white, of fine 
