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the fine condition they were really in. At home our blooms were only 
in the first stage of development; at Rushton I was agreeably surprised 
to find them in full beauty and in prime order; the foliage too was in 
excellent condition, which rather astonished me, as the hurricane of the 
28th May last, which was felt so severely here, and which entirely 
stripped some of my Rose trees, appeared to have spent itself before 
reaching Dorset, for but few of the trees of my host’s exposed collection 
seemed to be the worse for the storm. 
I had arranged that, during my visit to Rushton, I should see the 
great National Show held in London, but in this I was disappointed: 
I will refer therefore to the Exhibition which took place at Salisbury, 
after describing a few Roses new, or at least so to me. Altessi Im¬ 
perial is, without doubt, a very dark fine crimson; Comtesse Cecile 
Chabrillant, a rich salmon-pink of perfect form, and decidedly the best 
of the light coloured novelties; Marie Thierry is a good Rose; Anna 
Alexieff is of good habit, honest rose colour, and an abundant bloomer; 
Beaute de Royghem exhibits fine shape, tinted with carmine, it is of 
good habit and an abundant bloomer; Beaux Arts is very dark, but not 
full enough ; De la Motte is nicely shaped and clear crimson, free from 
stain; Marie Portemner, 4 plants, rich deep crimson, is of good habit, 
and possesses lovely broad Bourbon foliage; George Peabody, from 
Baltimore, 4 plants on their own roots, is of very vigorous growth, of 
deep crimson-purple, with very thick petals, three blooms were taken 
to Salisbury, had been rained upon, more or less, for a week, and yet 
wore well, and were in the winning pan; this will be one of the 
greatest of favourites when better known; Tea Cornelia exhibited 
beautiful clean creamy buds, but had not expanded, this was a present 
from Mr. George Pentland, of Baltimore ; Beauty of Greenmoint is a 
pretty Rose for a pot, but too small for show, its colour is like Fellen- 
berg, the foliage small, thick, and of a dense green; Edith de Murat, 
strong grower, is a pretty white Bourbon ; Octavie Fontaine, pure 
white, and Celine Forestier, yellow, are strong growers, but their buds 
were not expanded—the former will be a good pole or wall Rose; 
Verschaffelt is a large Rose, of crimson-purple, but was stained by the 
weather; L’Oriflamme is a fine scarlet, an abundant bloomer, and very 
vigorous. The blooms of the General (its parent) were exceedingly 
large, and remarkably full. I never saw them so full before nor so 
large. There were two other American Seedlings, not in flower, which 
were on their own roots, viz., Midland Margaret and Dr. Kane, com¬ 
mitted to Mr. Radclyffe to introduce ; they appeared to be nice plants, 
but their buds were not sufficiently forward to judge of them, even at 
a hazard. The other novelties were on Manetti, with the exception of 
the Portemners which were on Briars. I regret that the fine buds of 
M. Vigneron, Montigny, Anna Diesbach, Armide, Ardoisee de Lyons, 
did not expand during my week’s stay, and that Lord Elgin and Beau¬ 
fort had bloomed out before my arrival. Mr. Radclyffe says in his 
letter, “ Anna Diesbach has produced two large Roses (Flanders mares 
like), but superior in quality to Angleterre, and liable to show her eye. 
M. Vigneron has proved to be a splendid show Rose, measures 4J- inches 
in diameter, circular, flat, of good substance, and calculated to satisfy 
