Plate 146. 
HOSE, FEANCOI3 LACHAEME. 
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We have often expressed our opinion that it is impossible 
rightly to judge of the merits of new French Roses, owing to 
the manner in which the plants, when received from the Con¬ 
tinent, are cut for the purpose of obtaining stock : the flowers, 
generally speaking, being much inferior to what they after¬ 
wards prove to he. This however we may generally assume, 
that when in the first season a Rose stands out as pre-eminently 
good, it is likely to prove a valuable acquisition; and such, 
amongst others, seems to have been the case with the subject 
of our present Plate; wherever exhibited last year, it was noted 
as likely to be a desirable addition, and such, so far as the 
present season is concerned, it seems likely to prove. 
Mr. Charles Turner, of Slough, who is now taking a fore¬ 
most place as a cultivator of Roses, was kind enough to forward 
the bloom from which the admirable drawing of Mr. Andrews 
was taken, with an intimation that he regarded it as one of the 
finest of the Roses of last year; that he had then some plants 
in pots which were covered with bloom; and that the habit of 
the plant seemed to be all that could be wished; it was, in 
fact, he said, a u dark Jules MargottinP No higher praise could 
well be afforded it than that, as far as habit is concerned, al¬ 
though flowers of more perfect shape are unquestionably to be 
found; this corroborated very much the opinion given of it 
to ourselves by M. Charles Verdier, by whom it was introduced, 
and whose judgment we have rarely found to be warped by the 
fact that the flowers are his own. 
So far as the present season is concerned, we have every 
reason to anticipate a good Rose year, and to all appearance 
an early one ; and the various great exhibitions, more espe- 
