Plate 137. 
COMTESSE OUVAROEF, TEA-SCENTED ROSE. 
When visiting the well-known establishment of M. Margottin, 
at Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris, the autumn before last, we were 
particularly struck with a new Tea-Rose, which he said was to 
be sent out in the following month; its bold and vigorous 
growth, and the erect manner in which it bore its flowers up, 
augured well for its future popularity. It was the flower we 
now figure, and although it has not, like all new Roses, had 
much opportunity of being seen, yet it has received the appro¬ 
bation of most Rose-growers in this country. 
We need not say how much valued Tea-scented Roses are by 
not only those w T ho grow collections of the Queen of Flowers, 
but by every one for whom flowers have any charm. There is 
so much delicacy of colour and such exquisite fragrance in them, 
that this is not to be wondered at. To our mind, there is 
hardly anything in the wide range of Flora’s dominion more 
lovely than an opening bud of Devoniensis: its shelly wax-like 
petals, and the beautiful tinge—sometimes of blush, at others 
of delicate yellow—in its centre, combined with its beautiful 
form, tend to make it, what it is indeed, a perfect gem. There 
are others, such as Eliza Sauvage , Madame William , and EEn¬ 
fant Trouve , whose beautiful tints of yellow are unequalled, 
save in that most capricious (but when obtainable) grand Rose, 
Cloth of Gold. We have not, it is true, obtained bright colours 
amongst them as yet, but amongst the dreams of the future we 
may anticipate a Tea-Rose with the form and fragrance of 
Devoniensis combined with the colour of Geant des Batailles or 
Eugenie Apjgert. It would wellnigh make the fortune of the 
raiser. 
The first Rose of this group was introduced, we believe, from 
