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low on stocks of the Dog Rose raised from seeds. However 
excellent the Manetti may he for strong, vigorous growing kinds, 
I think no one can say that it is equally good, especially on strong 
soils, for the more delicate constitutioned kinds ; for they, not 
having power to receive the sap, are soon overpowered, the stock 
begins to throw up suckers, and the rose languishes and dies ; while 
stocks of the Dog Rose taken from the hedges, are, on the other 
hand, generally so defective in root, that they answer badly for 
that purpose, but by sowing seed of the Dog Rose you obtain nice 
healthy stocks, with abundance of fibrous roots, not too vigorous 
in character, and giving a fine healthy start to the rose, and is also 
more permanent than it is likely to be on the Manetti: it is, at 
any rate, worthy of the consideration of rose growers, and I am 
not aware that it has yet been tried in England. 
The demand for roses in France this season has been very great, 
and, in fact, of the newer and more approved kinds, it is almost 
impossible to obtain anything; the English growers, having lost 
so many, have been compelled to buy largely in France, and as the 
frost was very severe there also, the stock has not been equal to 
the demand; they have consequently somewhat increased in price, 
so that rose amateurs must not be surprised if they find a large 
price is demanded. There is a singular difference in the estima¬ 
tion in which they are held, or rather in their character; thus 
Reine des Violettes has come well with them, while Due de Gazes 
is good for nothing, and they pronounce Triomphe d’Amiens to be 
be a veritable General Jacqueminot, but Madame Furtado and 
General Washington seem equally appreciated on both sides of the 
Channel. The same causes which affect us do not affect them, and 
as we find a difference in the value of some sorts in one season 
compared with another, so here also, in giving the names and de¬ 
scriptions of the sorts now announced, I can only say, that save in 
the case of Margottin’s, they are the owner’s own ; his three I saw 
in bloom, and the description of them is such as they appeared to 
myself to merit. The season is very late, and had it not been for 
the excessive fineness of the weather, even these would not have 
been in flower. Instead of giving an alphabetical list, I shall 
put them under the growers’ names, so that their value may be 
somewhat appreciated by that means. 
Victor Verdier, pere, et Charles Verdier, fils, announce the 
following:— 
1. Frangois Lacharme, H.P.—Vigorous, flowers medium size, full, 
globular in form ; lively carmine in opening, passes into red, 
reverse of petals lighter • said to be in the style of Senateur 
Vaisse. 
2. La Jdrilliante, H.P.—Vigorous, medium size, light transparent 
carmine, blooming in clusters; blooms well in the autumn. 
3. Olivier Delhomme^ H.P.—Vigorous, flowers nearly full, medium 
size, brilliant lively red in colours ; like Bourbon Souchet. 
4. Turenne, H.P.—Vigorous, flowers medium size, petals large 
and somewhat crumpled at the edge; brilliant red. 
