exceed it in vigour and beauty of foliage. The buds (not then 
expanded) were well up above the foliage, and the whole plant 
was a model of a vigorous Rose. In the following month 
M. Margottin, in the most courteous manner, sent us over a box 
of blooms, from one of which the drawing was made by Mr. 
Andrews; and we are enabled to second the statement made 
by M. Margottin, that no Rose of the Hybrid Perpetual section 
is more fragrant than it is, and evidently his statement is cor¬ 
rect, that while Louise Oclier is the mother plant, a dark hybrid 
perpetual has been the other parent, for, as we have before ob¬ 
served, the French raisers of seedling Roses have not hitherto 
hybridized the flowers, but have trusted the operation to bees 
and other insects. 
We have only to add that this fine Rose is quite of the shape 
of Louise Odier , that it has large and regularly-disposed petals, 
and that the colour, which is a vivid crimson, is more like that 
of the old Comice de Seine et Marne than any other Rose, though 
exceeding it in brilliancy of tint, “no rose that we know being of 
so genuine a carmine colour without approaching to scarlet.”* 
# Such is M. Margottin’s description. 
