Plate 110 . 
“JOHN HOPPER” ROSE. 
Rosa Tiylrida , vars. 
A few weeks ago we received from Mr. Ward, of the Rosary, 
Ipswich, a box containing some truly grand blooms of a new 
Rose, which he stated that he had succeeded in raising, and 
which he purposed, if it were thought a desirable variety, to 
send out this autumn. Our recommendation was to send a box 
of blooms of it to the Rose Show of the Horticultural Society, 
where most of the growers and admirers of the Rose would be 
present, and to receive the decision of the Sub-Committee of 
the Floral Committee upon it. We believed that there could be 
but one opinion as to its merits, in which we were fully confirmed 
by its not only receiving a first-class certificate, but by the una¬ 
nimous verdict of every one who could obtain a view of it on 
that occasion. 
A new era is thus, we believe, commencing in the history of 
the Rose. Hitherto we have been contented to receive all our 
Roses from France, under the persuasion that we could not seed 
Roses here, and were contented with the honour of Devoniensis 
as our sole English Rose. Now, this season, we have had some 
first-class Roses brought before us, Mr. Wm. Pauls Beauty of 
Waltham , Mr. A Yard’s John Hopper, and Messrs. Paul and Sons’ 
Lords Clyde and Canning, —an instalment, we firmly hope and 
believe, of other beauties yet to follow; and thus the laurels 
will, we hope, be snatched from our French neighbours, for, 
if we can raise flowers as good as theirs, we shall most pro¬ 
bably have plants better constitutioned, and more capable of 
enduring the vicissitudes of our climate, than many of the Con¬ 
tinental ones are. 
We are informed by Mr. Ward that “ John Hopper was 
raised from Jules Margottin, hybridized with pollen of Madame 
