Plate 67. 
I/ENFANT TROXJVE ROSE. 
Rosa indica , var. 
There is not probably a class of Roses which is more ad¬ 
mired, especially by the fairer portion of the community, than 
the one to which this variety belongs. Tea Roses lack the glow¬ 
ing colours of the Hybrid Perpetuals and Bourbons, but their 
continuous blooming, their delicacy of colour, and sweetness of 
perfume, make ample amends for this; and though their home 
is in the East, yet they will stand, in the southern parts of our 
island, very severe winters, succeeding best however when they 
are planted against a south wall, or taken up in the autumn to 
be again put out in the spring. 
The history of the one now figured is peculiar. It w T as exhi¬ 
bited at one of the June meetings of the Floral Committee of 
the Horticultural Society by Mr. B. F. Cant, the well-known 
rose-grower of Colchester, as Aurora , with a statement to the 
following effect, which subsequent investigation proved to be 
correct:—That he had received it nearly eleven years ago from 
a clergyman in the county, into whose possession it had come 
from Mr. Francis, of Hertford; that it had been frequently ex¬ 
hibited at the Rose Shows in that county, and had always been 
greatly admired. It had, however, gone out of cultivation, and 
Mr. Cant believed that he was the only rose-grower in the 
kingdom who possessed it. Under these circumstances, he was 
prepared, if it met the approval of the Committee, to carry out 
his determination of again distributing it to the public. The 
Committee were unanimous in their opinion of its merits, it 
being considered a magnificent flower, and from its colour very 
desirable; but, inasmuch as it was not a new Rose, and they 
were simply constituted a tribunal to judge of new flowers and 
plants, they could not give it any award. They were, however, 
