daily those held in honour of the Queen of Flowers, will show 
how great has been the increase of her admirers during the 
past few years. 
Besides the subject of our present Plate, we have seen among 
the Boses of last season some others which promise to be decided 
acquisitions, amongst them Robert Fortune , a peculiar, very beau¬ 
tiful flower; La Brillante , very bright, rosy-crimson, and free- 
flowering ; Charles Lefebvre , a rich velvety scarlet, with smooth 
and thick petals; Olivier Delhomme , a brilliant rosy-carmine, 
well-formed flower, of good depth and outline. Frangois 
Lacharme is thus described by one of our most successful 
growers, Mr. Cranston, of Hereford:—“ Brilliant rosy-carmine, 
suffused with rich purple, petals shell-shaped and most beauti¬ 
fully formed, flowers quite globular, when expanded they have 
a high centre; altogether a most exquisite Bose, perhaps the 
best flower of the season,”—a description we think warranted 
by the exquisite figure of Mr. Andrews. John Hopper, too, has 
already been exhibited in good condition; and we know no 
greater proof of the extent to which rose-growing is carried 
amongst us than the fact that Mr. Ward, the raiser, had sold, 
up to the 1st of January, 2500 plants of it. We hope, however, 
that the success which has attended the introduction of this 
fine Bose may not induce persons to suppose that because a 
flower is of English origin it must therefore be good; we men¬ 
tion this because there seems to be already a tendency in that 
direction. English-raised Boses will receive no favour simply 
because they are English, they will be compared with the best 
of the foreign-raised flowers, and, if the comparison is favour¬ 
able, will doubtless be bought with greater pleasure because 
they are from our own country; although no sentiment of this 
kind will permit a poor and imperfect flower from being palmed 
off on the floral world. But we see no reason why careful hybri¬ 
dizing and judicious treatment should not bring us many more 
valuable additions to our Bose gardens from our own land. 
